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Bologna (ita)

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Bologna ranks 93rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Seattle, Baghdad, and Kyoto. Memorable people born in Bologna include Pope Gregory XIII, Guglielmo Marconi, and Pope Benedict XIV. Memorable people who died in Bologna include Lucy Salani, Farinelli, and Pietro Genovesi. Bologna has been the birth place of many painters, and soccer players and the death place of many painters, and religious figures. Bologna is located in Italy.

Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, with 390,734 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan province is home to more than 1 million people as of 2025. Bologna is most famous for being the home to the oldest university in continuous operation, the University of Bologna, established in AD 1088. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 115 BC and 2002, Bologna was the birth place of 115 globally memorable people, including Pope Gregory XIII, Guglielmo Marconi, and Pope Benedict XIV. Additionaly, 88 globally memorable people have passed away in Bologna including Lucy Salani, Farinelli, and Pietro Genovesi.

People Born in Bologna

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People Deceased in Bologna

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Bologna were painters (17), soccer players (10), religious figures (9), composers (9), and writers (9),  while most who died were painters (13), religious figures (9), mathematicians (8), composers (8), and physicians (6).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Bologna, including Christian Vieri, Gianluca Pagliuca, and Luca Bucci. Whereas, throughout history, painters have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Bologna, including Guido Reni, Annibale Carracci, and Lavinia Fontana.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Bologna since 1700.