List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy
Patricia Kraus
Patricia Kraus is a Spanish singer, best known for her participation in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest.
Quirino Cristiani
Quirino Cristiani was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire. He is also the first person to create animation solely using cardboard cutouts.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus, called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was an Italian classical pianist. He is considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.
Davide Ballerini
Davide Ballerini is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Deceuninck–Quick-Step. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
Paola Ferrari
Paola Francesca Ferrari is an Italian journalist, television presenter, and politician. She has been active on RAI since the 1990s, hosting its main sports programs such as La Domenica Sportiva and 90º minuto.
Armando Cossutta
Armando Cossutta was an Italian communist politician.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
Lucien Murat
Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon, Prince Français, Prince of Naples, 2nd Prince de Pontecorvo, 3rd Prince Murat was a French politician, and the sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo between 1812 and May 1815.
Pietro Locatelli
Pietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.