List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy
Alberto Arbasino
Nino Alberto Arbasino was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.
Fabrizio Pirovano
Fabrizio Pirovano was an Italian professional motorcycle road racer from Biassono.
Rose Repetto
Rose Repetto was an Italian-born French business owner. She established the Repetto ballet shoe company.
Angelo Branduardi
Angelo Branduardi is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece.
Umberto Pelizzari
Umberto Pelizzari is an Italian freediver, widely considered among the best of all times. Of his era, he is the sole person to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving.
Nino Rota
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one of the greatest European cinematic provocateurs of his time and had a constant presence in prestigious festival circuit - including eight films in competition in Cannes film festival and a Golden bear win in 1991 Berlin film festival. Three of his films are among 100 films selected for preservation for significant contribution to Italian cinema.
Simone Moro
Simone Moro is an Italian alpinist known for having made first winter ascents of four of the fourteen eight-thousanders: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011, and Nanga Parbat in 2016. He has also summited Everest four times, in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2010.
Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, also spelled Lodovico was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478.
Danilo Mainardi
Danilo Mainardi was an Italian ethologist, scholar, and writer.