The son of Juho Kekkonen and Emilia Pylvänäinen, Kekkonen was born in Pielavesi, in the Savo region of Finland and spent his childhood in Kainuu.

Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was born in Livorno, Tuscany, the second son of Domenico and Emilia Mascagni.

Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy.

Antonio Allegri was born in Correggio, Italy, a small town near Reggio Emilia.

Spallanzani was born in Scandiano in the modern province of Reggio Emilia and died in Pavia, Italy.

Born the son of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory and his wife Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory, and grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Butler was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.

* May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist ( born 1851 )

Prodi was born in Scandiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia ( Emilia-Romagna ).

** Emilia Tennyson, sister of Alfred Tennyson and fiancée of Arthur Hallam ( born 1811 )

Papandreou also had with Swedish actress and TV presenter Ragna Nyblom a daughter out of wedlock, Emilia Nyblom, who was born in 1969 in Sweden.

He is married to Emilia Hermaszewska and has two children, Miroslaw ( born 1966 ) and Emilia ( born 1974 ).

Meanwhile, his family, consisting of his wife, Maria, born Popasu and his two children, Emilia and Titu, travelled to Bucharest, Braşov, Sibiu and Blaj, staying in Braşov for a long while and there, the future critic attended grade fifth at the Romanian gymnasium.

A strong local tradition has it that this dish was born in Castelfranco Emilia ( province of Modena ).

Amorth was born in Modena, Emilia.

Panizzi was born in Brescello in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, and obtained a degree in law from the University of Parma in 1818.

Darré was born in Belgrano, a Buenos Aires neighbourhood, in Argentina to Richard Oscar Darré, a German with Huguenot ancestry, ( born 10 March 1854, Berlin ; died 20 February 1929, Wiesbaden ) and the half-Swedish / half-German Emilia Berta Eleonore, née Lagergren ( born 23 July 1872, Buenos Aires ; died 20 July 1936, Bad Pyrmont ).

José Dennis Martínez Emilia ( born May 14, 1955 in Granada, Nicaragua ), nicknamed " El Presidente " ( The President ), is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

He was born in Reggio Emilia, where he studied at the Jesuit gymnasium.

He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight.

Tournaments he has won or shared first include the 1969 Swedish Chess Championship, Göteborg 1971, Dortmund 1973, Camagüez 1974, Cienfuegos 1975, Belgrade 1977, Buenos Aires 1978, Hastings 1978 – 79, Phillips & Drew 1980, Johannesburg 1981, Phillips & Drew 1982, Turin 1982, Wijk aan Zee 1983, Reggio Emilia 1985, Rome 1985, and Rome 1986.

Razuvaev's tournament wins included Dubna 1978, Polanica-Zdrój 1979, London 1983, Dortmund 1985, Jūrmala 1987, Pula 1988, Protvino 1988, Reykjavik 1990, Leningrad 1992, Tiraspol 1994, Reggio Emilia 1996 and San Sebastian 1996.

On 16 May 1983, he was named auxiliary bishop of Reggio Emilia and titular bishop of Nepte, and was consecrated a bishop by Bishop Gilberto Baroni the following 29 June.

The song is a lively mazurka with lyrics penned by Józef Wybicki in Reggio nell ' Emilia, Cisalpine Republic ( now in Italy ), around 16 July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the once vast country from the map.

Desdemona is the only named character in Cinthio's tale, with his few other characters identified only as " the Moor " ( Othello ), " the squadron leader " ( Cassio ), " the ensign " ( Iago ), and " the ensign's wife " ( Emilia ).

# Caroline Emilia Mary Herschel ( 31 March 1830 – 29 Jan 1909 ), who married Alexander Hamilton-Gordon

Parma Football Club ( formerly Parma Associazione Calcio ), commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia – Romagna that will compete in Serie A in the 2012 – 13 season, having finished in eighth position last season.

He played Iago in Margaret Webster's Broadway production of Othello ( 1943 ), which starred Paul Robeson in the title role, Webster as Emilia, and Ferrer's wife, Uta Hagen, as Desdemona.

There is also a road named for him in Vezia ( canton Ticino, near Lugano ), where his embalmed heart rested for some decades following his death, Kościuszko having in his will left it to Emilia Morosini, née Zeltner-Peri.

A new character, Dr Nikki Alexander ( Emilia Fox ), was introduced to the team in the eighth series in 2004.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666 ), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.

Emilia – Romagna is also a cultural and tourist centre, being the home of Bologna university, one of the first universities in the world, containing Romanesque and Renaissance cities ( such as Modena, Parma and Ferrara ), being a centre for food and automobile production ( home of automotive companies such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, De Tomaso and Ducati ) and having lively coastal resorts such as Rimini and Riccione.

The region of Emilia – Romagna consists of nine provinces and covers an area of 22, 446 km2 ( 8, 666 sq mi ), ranking 6th in Italy.

Aided by the ' Ensamble de Cámara / Acción ' ( Adrian Terrazas-bass clarinet, Daniel Zlotnik-clarinet / flute, María Emilia Martínez-flute, Luca Ortega-flute / piano, Carlos Maldonado-upright, Jose María Arreola-drums / percussion ), which consists of members from The Mars Volta, Los Dorados, San Pascualito Rey, Klezmerson and LabA

In 1986 she received the honourary citizenship of Reggio nell ′ Emilia ( Italy ), the first world's town that assigned this important award to Albertina Sisulu.

Although the precise location is not known for certain it is generally accepted as being visible from the Via Emilia, now paralleled by highway A21 / E70 and a railroad trunk line, all of which come from Piacenza, a contemporaneously placed Roman colony ( though perhaps on an existing settlement ), and cross the river north of where the Romans did in the battle.

Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ), which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick (" Braunschweig " in German ).

The first official tricolore italiano, or Italian tricolour, was adopted on 7 January 1797, when the XIVth Parliament of the Cispadane Republic, on the proposal of deputy Giuseppe Compagnoni of Lugo, decreed " to make universal the ... standard or flag of three colours, green, white, and red ..." This was probably because the Legione Lombarda had carried banners of red, white ( from the flag of Milan ), and green ( from the uniform of the civic guard ), and the same colours were later adopted in the banners of the Legione Italiana, which was formed by soldiers coming from Emilia and Romagna.

Parmigiano-Reggiano (), also known in English as Parmesan ( or ), is a hard, granular cheese, cooked but not pressed, named after the producing areas near Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, and Bologna ( all in Emilia-Romagna ), and Mantova ( in Lombardia ), Italy.

Emilia Tennyson ( 1811 – 1887 ), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A. H. H., was written.

New departments joined the eleven original ones and Valtelline in the following months: Benaco ( Desenzano ) on 11 Ventose ( 1 March 1798 ), Mella ( Brescia ) on 13 Floreal ( 2 May ), Mincio ( Mantua ) on 7 Prairial ( 26 May ), and five departments of Emilia.

* Morgause, played by Emilia Fox, is one of the main antagonists in the BBC television series Merlin.