List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy
Arianna Fontana
Arianna Fontana OMRI is an Italian short track speed skater, who has won eight Olympic medals, among these a gold in the 500m short track at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Her medal haul following the 2018 Games made her the female short track skater with the most Olympic medals, and tied her with male skaters Apolo Ohno and Viktor An. It also made her the Italian sportswoman with the second highest number of Winter Olympic medals, behind Stefania Belmondo. She specialises in the 500 m event.
Gian Giacomo Teodoro Trivulzio
Giovanni (Gian) Giacomo Teodoro Trivulzio was an Italian Cardinal who held several high functions in service of the Spanish Crown.
Roberto Vecchioni
Roberto Vecchioni is an Italian singer-songwriter, singer-lyricist, lyricist and writer.
Roberto Abbado
Roberto Abbado is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor. Currently he is Artistic Partner of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In 2015 he has been appointed Music Director of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. From 2018 he's Music Director of the Festival Verdi in Parma. Previously he held the position of Chief Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester.
Giuditta Grisi
Giuditta Grisi was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano, sister of soprano Giulia Grisi and cousin of ballerina Carlotta Grisi.
Gisella Donadoni
Bobo Craxi
Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi, is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.
Leonardo Bonzi
Leonardo Bonzi was an Italian bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1924 Winter Olympics.
Paolo Nespoli
Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.