List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy

Fabio Lanzoni

First Name Fabio
Last Name Lanzoni
Born on March 15, 1959 (age 67)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Fabio Lanzoni, known mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian-American actor, fashion model and spokesman noted for a wide-ranging career including appearances as spokesman for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and the American Cancer Society; acting and television roles; and prominently as a romance novel cover model throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

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Gian Maria Volonté

First Name Gian
Born on April 9, 1933
Died on December 6, 1994 (aged 61)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor, remembered for his versatility as an interpreter, his outspoken left-wing leanings and fiery temper on and off-screen. He is perhaps most famous outside Italy for his roles in four Spaghetti Western films: Ramón Rojo and El Indio in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965), El Chuncho Munoz in Damiano Damiani's A Bullet for the General (1966) and Professor Brad Fletcher in Sergio Sollima's Face to Face (1967).

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Matteo Salvini

First Name Matteo
Last Name Salvini
Born on March 9, 1973 (age 53)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. He has also been Federal Secretary of the Northern League since December 2013. He has been a Senator in the Italian Senate since March 2018. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the constituency of North-West Italy from 2004 to 2018.

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Giovanni Antonio Grassi

First Name Giovanni
Last Name Grassi
Born on September 10, 1775
Died on December 12, 1849 (aged 74)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Giovanni Antonio Grassi was an Italian Catholic priest and Jesuit who led many academic and religious institutions in Europe and the United States, including Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. as well as the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide in Rome.

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Carlo Maria Viganò

First Name Carlo
Last Name Viganò
Born on January 16, 1941 (age 85)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Carlo Maria Viganò is an archbishop of the Catholic Church who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 19 October 2011 to 12 April 2016. He previously served as Secretary-General of the Governorate of Vatican City State from 16 July 2009 to 3 September 2011. He is best known for having exposed two major Vatican scandals. These were the Vatican leaks scandal of 2012, in which he revealed financial corruption in the Vatican, and a 2018 letter in which he accused Pope Francis and other Church leaders of covering up sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

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Paolo Vanoli

First Name Paolo
Last Name Vanoli
Born on August 12, 1972 (age 53)
Born in Italy, Lombardy
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Paolo Vanoli is an Italian professional football coach and a former player who played as a left back or left midfielder. He is the manager of the Russian club Spartak Moscow.

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Virgil

Died on September 21, -0019
Born in Italy, Lombardy
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him as well.

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Franco Cerri

First Name Franco
Last Name Cerri
Born on January 29, 1926
Died on October 18, 2021 (aged 95)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Franco Cerri was an Italian guitarist and double bassist.

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Sergio Scariolo

First Name Sergio
Last Name Scariolo
Born on April 1, 1961 (age 65)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Sergio Scariolo is an Italian professional basketball coach who is an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the head coach of the senior Spain national team.

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Michele Alboreto

First Name Michele
Last Name Alboreto
Born on December 23, 1956
Died on April 25, 2001 (aged 44)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Michele Alboreto was an Italian racing driver. He was runner up to Alain Prost in the 1985 Formula One World Championship, as well as winning the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2001 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races. Alboreto competed in Formula One from 1981 until 1994, racing for a number of teams, including five seasons (1984–88) for Ferrari.

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