List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy
Onorio Longhi
Onorio Longhi (1568–1619) was an Italian architect, the father of Martino Longhi the Younger and the son of Martino Longhi the Elder.
Mario Luraschi
Gian-Carlo Rota
Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.
Gianni Danzi
Gianni Danzi was an Italian Catholic Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto. He was born in Viggiù, Varese province, Italy. Danzi died in October 2007 at the age of 67 at his parents' house in Barasso after a long fight with cancer.
Maria De Filippi
Maria De Filippi is an Italian television host, owner of the television production company, Fascino PGT. She is one of the most popular Italian presenters in Italian television.
Leonida Bissolati
Leonida Bissolati was a leading exponent of the Italian socialist movement at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Ambrogio Morelli
Ambrogio Morelli was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.
Gian Vincenzo Moreni
Gian Vincenzo Moreni was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was made an archbishop in 1982 and served as Apostolic Nuncio from 1982 to 1999.
Renata Mauro
Renata Mauro was a popular Italian television presenter for RAI. Born in Milan, she became known to international audiences for hosting game show Jeux Sans Frontieres and also the Eurovision Song Contest when it was staged in Italy in the Italian city of Naples in 1965.