Born in Milan, Italy, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartholomew Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna.

Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome.

Born in Ferrara, for 21 years he was professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna, and in 1500 he also lectured in mathematics at Rome.

Born in Chitré, Spadafora was a doctor, graduated from the University of Bologna, in Italy.

Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his theological studies before he had reached the minimum age for ordination as a priest ; he was ordained in 1797.

Born near Płock, after studying at Kraków's Jagiellonian University and at Padua and Bologna, he entered the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in Turin, Italy, she studied in Bologna under Teresa Bertinotti, debuting as Lucia in Macerata in 1842.

Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de ’ Pozzi.

Born in Bologna, he trained under Giulio Romano in Mantua and became a pupil of Innocenzo da Imola, executing decorations at the Palazzo Te before securing a position in the court of Francis I of France in 1532.

Before Artemisia, between the end of the 1500 and the beginning of 1600 other female painters had successful careers, including Sofonisba Anguissola ( Born in Cremona around 1530 – Palermo around 1625 ), was called into Spain by King Philip II and Lavinia Fontana ( Bologna, 1552 – Rome 1614 ) departed for Rome by invitation of Pope Clement VIII.

Born in Bologna, Serlio went to Rome in 1514, and worked in the atelier of Baldassare Peruzzi, where he stayed until the Sack of Rome in 1527 put all architectural projects on hold for a time.

Born at Bologna, she was named Trebisonda-a very unusual name for the country-after the Turkish town of Trabzon ( Trebisonda in Italian ), which her father considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Born Laura Trombetti in Bologna, this blonde and flamboyant actress started her career as jazz singer.

Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade ; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he met Guido Reni.

Born at Mordano, province of Bologna, Grandi was a graduate in law and economics at the University of Bologna in 1919 ( after serving in World War I ), Grandi started a career as a lawyer in Imola.

Born in Euratsfeld, Lower Austria, to August and Mathilde Mock, he studied law at the University of Vienna and later international law in Bologna and Brussels.

Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Mannucci relocated to Milan at a young age.

Born in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna to a family of music lovers, he gained a diploma in piano at the Bologna conservatory, going on to Rome where he studied composition at the Santa Cecilia Academy.

Born in Bologna, Italy, he was the son of Amédée Gordini, owner of the French sports car manufacturer Gordini.

Born in Horn, Austria, he worked on many old Bologna lutes that inspired his later work in his manufacture of lutes, violins and violoncellos in Nuremberg, Germany between 1746 and 1776.

Born circa 1150 in Bologna, Azo studied under Joannes Bassianus and became professor of civil law at Bologna.

Born in Bologna into a wealthy family with a lawyer as a father, she was privately educated and tutored for seven years in her teens by Gaetano Tacconi, a University teacher of Biology, Natural History and Medicine.

Born between 720 and 735 in Friuli in Italy to this possibly noble Lombard family, Paul received an exceptionally good education, probably at the court of the Lombard king Ratchis in Pavia, learning from a teacher named Flavian the rudiments of Greek.

Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902,

Born in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a swindler in North America for his money making scheme.

Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England.

Born in Modena, Italy, Ferrari grew up with little formal education but a strong desire to race cars.

Born at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

Born in Palermo, Italy, he and his family immigrated to Chicago when he was seven.

Born in Italy, she was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia.

Born in Iesi, near Ancona, Italy, Frederick was the son of the emperor Henry VI.

Born in Florence, Italy at the Palazzo Pitti on 26 April 1575, Marie was the sixth daughter of Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna, Archduchess of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Born in Genoa, Italy, Giacconi received his Laurea from the University of Milan before moving to the US to pursue a career in astrophysics research.

Giovanni Turini, a sculptor from Italy, who was born in 1841 and died in 1899, made the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a man he served in the fighting surrounding the unification of Italy, in Washington Square, and also the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in Central Park ; Actress Anne Bancroft ( Brooks ) ( Born: September 17, 1931 – Died: June 6, 2005 ).

Born in Alba Pompeia in Italy, the son of freedman Helvius Successus, originally Pertinax made his way as a grammaticus ( teacher of grammar ), but he eventually decided to find a more rewarding line of work and through the help of patronage he was commissioned an officer in a cohort.

Born in Stignano ( in the county of Stilo ) in the province of Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy, Campanella was a child prodigy.

Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker in Naples, Italy, Vico attended a series of grammar schools, but ill-health and dissatisfaction with Jesuit scholasticism led to home schooling.

Born to a very wealthy family, Meyerbeer began his musical career as a pianist, but soon decided to devote himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing.

Born in Cassino, Italy and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager.

Born in Turin, Italy, Michelotti worked for a number of design houses, notably Vignale, before opening his own design studio in Italy.

Born in southern Italy in 1882, Torrio emigrated to the United States with his mother after his father's death, happened when he was 2.

Born in Hamburg, he studied at several universities and travelled in England, France and Italy.