List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy
Bassano Staffieri
Nino Staffieri was an Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato.
Gianluca Brambilla
Gianluca Brambilla is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo. He started his professional career in 2010 with Colnago–CSF Inox.
Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director. Soldini has received 17 awards in his career and 32 nominations as of November 2015. His 2007 film Days and Clouds was selected for the main competition on the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
Raffaele Cadorna
Count Raffaele Cadorna was an Italian general who served as one of the major Piedmontese leaders responsible for the unification of Italy during the mid-19th century.
Adriano Baffi
Adriano Baffi is a former Italian bicycle road racer. After his career as a rider, he became a team director. He is the son of Italian bicycle racer Pierino Baffi.
Alberto Lionello
Alberto Lionello was an Italian film actor, voice actor, singer and presenter.
Rembrandt Bugatti
Rembrandt Bugatti was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects. During World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at a military hospital in Antwerp, an experience that triggered in Bugatti the onset of depression, aggravated by financial problems, which eventually caused him to commit suicide on 8 January 1916 in Paris, France. He was 31 years old.
Carlo Imbonati
Carlo Imbonati was an Italian nobleman and highbrow. He is known above all for the several poems which were dedicated to him by the famous literates Giuseppe Parini and, particularly, Alessandro Manzoni. Born in a prestigious and wealthy family from the Milanese nobility, from 1763 he was instructed by Parini, who dedicated to him the ode L'Educazione in occasion of his eleventh birthday. In 1792 Imbonati began a relationship with Giulia Beccaria, mother of the young Alessandro Manzoni. After his death, the poet will write for him the juvenile work In morte di Carlo Imbonati, which will be published in 1806.
Sergio Bonelli
Sergio Bonelli was an Italian comic book writer and publisher. He is best known as creator of Zagor (1961) and Mister No (1975), as well as a comics publisher through the publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore.
Gina Lombroso
Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso was an Italian physician, writer, psychiatrist, and criminologist, best remembered for her uncredited writings on the subjects of criminology and psychiatry co-authored with her father Cesare Lombroso, her individual writings on the female condition and industrialisation. She was the wife of Italian historian and writer Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) and hence adopted the surname Ferrero-Lombroso. Their son Leo Ferrero (1903-1933), a writer and playwright, died in a car accident in Santa Fe (USA). All three are buried at the Cimetière des Rois in Geneva, Switzerland.