Notable Alumni of Polytechnic University of Milan [Sorted List]

1. Antonio Perazzi

1969-. (aged 57)

journalist

Antonio Perazzi is an Italian garden designer, landscape architect, botanist, writer and journalist. He is an expert in naturalistic and ecological garden.

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2. Luciano Baldessari

1896-1982 (aged 86)

scenographer designer watercolorist architect

Luciano Baldessari was an Italian artist, architect, and designer. Baldessari was born on December 10, 1896, in Rovereto, Italy.

3. Emilio Gola

1851-1923 (aged 72)

painter pastellist watercolorist

Emilio Gola was an Italian Impressionist painter.

4. Livio Castiglioni

1911-1979 (aged 68)

industrial designer designer architect urban planner lighting designer

Livio Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer. He made a significant contribution to twentieth-century Italian lighting design and was an early proponent of the practice of industrial design in Italy.

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5. Andrea C. Ferrari

1972-. (aged 54)

researcher

Andrea Carlo Ferrari is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge. Ferrari is a researcher in graphene and related materials.

6. Claudio Costa

1942-1995 (aged 53)

ceramicist painter sculptor

Claudio Costa was a Contemporary Artist from the 1970s avant-garde movement.

7. Ernesto Belloni

1883-1938 (aged 55)

university teacher businessperson politician

Ernesto Belloni was an Italian businessman, academic and politician who served as the first podestà of Milan from 1926 to 1928. In 1929 he was accused of corruption and condemned to leave his party and then to a 5-years confino. Under Belloni, the public debt of the city of Milan raised from 60 to 185 million Lire between 1926 and...

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8. Luigi Amerio

1912-2004 (aged 92)

mathematician electrical engineer

Luigi Amerio, was an Italian electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.

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9. Aldo Andreani

1887-1971 (aged 84)

architect sculptor

Aldo Andreani was an Italian architect and sculptor.

10. Riccardo Sarfatti

1940-2010 (aged 70)

architect entrepreneur politician

Riccardo Sarfatti was an Italian architect, entrepreneur and politician.

11. Giovanni Lurani

1905-1995 (aged 90)

racing automobile driver racing driver journalist

Giovanni “Johnny” Lurani Cernuschi, VIII Count of Calvenzano was an Italian automobile engineer, racing car driver and journalist.

12. Luigi Conconi

1852-1917 (aged 65)

painter graphic artist illustrator architect

Luigi Conconi was an Italian painter, printmaker, illustrator and architect. He is considered a leading figure of the Scapigliatura movement.

13. Joseph di Pasquale

1968-. (aged 58)

architect

Joseph Di Pasquale is an Italian architect.

14. Luigi Negri

1956-. (aged 70)

architect collector politician

Luigi Negri, is an Italian architect and politician, an exponent of the Lombard League and the Northern League. He served as a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 2001. His passion for the history of art led him to deepen, above all, the study of porcelain and to collect it.

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15. Paolo Vietti-Violi

1882-1965 (aged 83)

architect

Paolo Vietti-Violi was an Italian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

16. Giulio Cederna

1876-1939 (aged 63)

association football player

Giulio Cederna was an Italian sports manager, business manager and footballer who played as a goalkeeper or midfielder in the late 1890s and early 1900s. He was the son of Antonio Cederna, a Garibaldi and mountaineer from Valtellina who settled in Milan to become a textile industrialist, founding a cotton mill in the district of Gratosoglio. He later opened two...

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17. Guido Podestà

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

Guido Podestà is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He was elected president of the province of Milan on 2009/06/22, replacing the centre-left candidate Filippo Penati, whom he beat in...

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18. Stelio Frati

1919-2010 (aged 91)

engineer military flight engineer

Stelio Frati was an Italian mechanical engineer and aeroplane designer. He graduated from the Politecnico di Milano as a mechanical engineer in 1943, participating in the design of the Aeronautica Lombarda AR (Assalto Radioguidato - RC attack) radio-controlled wooden cantilever monoplane, powered by a single radial engine - a flying bomb/drone, flown for the first time the same year. After...

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19. Antonio Lago

1893-1960 (aged 67)

businessperson engineer

Antonio Franco Lago was an Italian engineer and motor-industry entrepreneur. In 1936 he bought Automobiles Talbot S.A. from his employers, the collapsed Anglo-French S.T.D. Motors combine, and founded the motor-racing marque Talbot-Lago.

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20. Giuseppe Belluzzo

1876-1952 (aged 76)

engineer inventor university teacher politician

Giuseppe Belluzzo was an Italian mechanical engineer, scholar and politician. He was a member of the Italian Parliament and of the Italian Senate. He served as the minister of national economy and minister of public education in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini.

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21. Stefano Siragusa

1976-. (aged 50)

businessperson

Stefano Siragusa is an Italian executive. He was deputy general manager of TIM.

22. Franca Helg

1920-1989 (aged 69)

university teacher designer architect

Franca Helg was an Italian designer and architect. She also had a career teaching at Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia and the Polytechnic of Milan. She collaborated with Franco Albini from 1945 through 1977.

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23. Adam Tihany

1948-. (aged 78)

interior designer architect

Adam D. Tihany is a hospitality designer based in New York. He founded the multidisciplinary design firm Tihany Design in 1978, and is considered the origin of the title "restaurant designer". His firm has designed hotel and dining properties at many notable properties around the world. Tihany was named one of the greatest American interior architects by The New York...

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24. Aldo Buzzi

1910-2009 (aged 99)

screenwriter architect writer film screenwriter assistant director

Aldo Buzzi was an author and architect.

25. Giovanni Azzone

1962-. (aged 64)

engineer

Giovanni Azzone is an Italian engineer and academic, rector of the Polytechnic University of Milan between 2010 and 2016.

26. Marco Reguzzoni

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Marco Giovanni Reguzzoni is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He was President of Varese Province from 2002 to 2008. He was a member of the Italian Parliament as congressman and president of the Northern League group since 2013 and now he is the President of Volandia, the largest museum of flight in Europe.

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27. Edo Ronchi

1950-. (aged 76)

politician sociologist

Edo Ronchi is an Italian engineer and politician. He served as Minister of Environment and protection of land and sea from 1996 to 2000 in three different cabinets. He was the first Green politician to hold a cabinet post in Italy.

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28. Pier Luigi Romita

1924-2003 (aged 79)

engineer politician

Pier Luigi Romita was an Italian politician who was several times a minister of the Italian Republic.

29. Marco Dorigo

1961-. (aged 65)

computer scientist

Marco Dorigo is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He received a PhD in System and Information Engineering in 1992 from the Polytechnic University of Milan with a thesis titled Optimization, learning, and natural algorithms. He is the leading proponent of...

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30. Massimo Iosa Ghini

1959-. (aged 67)

designer architect businessperson

Massimo Iosa Ghini is an Italian architect, designer, and professor, known for his contributions to the Bolidist Movement and his work with Memphis Group architects such as Ettore Sottsass and Michael Graves. His career spans decades and includes projects in Italy, the United States, and Russia. He owns a substantial collection of furniture, reflecting his futuristic design style. In 1990,...

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31. Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

1913-1968 (aged 55)

designer architect industrial designer

Pier Giacomo Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer.

32. Lorenzo Mongiardino

1916-1998 (aged 82)

architect production designer

Lorenzo "Renzo" Mongiardino was an Italian architect, interior designer, and production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

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33. Paolo Baratta

1939-. (aged 87)

politician economist

Paolo Baratta OMRI is an Italian economist and ex-minister. From 2008 to 2020 he was the President of the Venice Biennale.

34. Pier Luigi Pizzi

1930-. (aged 96)

costume designer scenographer theatrical director theatre designer

Pier Luigi Pizzi is an Italian opera director, set and costume designer.

35. Aldo Pontremoli

1896-1928 (aged 32)

physicist explorer

Aldo Pontremoli was an Italian physicist who held a chair of theoretical physics at the physics department of the University of Milan from 1926 and who founded and directed the Institute of Advanced Physics at the University of Milan from 1924 until his disappearance and presumed death in May 1928. Pontremoli was one of the six men who disappeared with...

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36. Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

1886-1960 (aged 74)

military flight engineer inventor aircraft pilot aircraft designer

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca was an Italian-American aviation pioneer, airplane designer and builder, who is credited with many design firsts and whose aircraft broke many aviation records. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973. The Bellanca C.F., one of the world's first enclosed-cabin monoplanes, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Bellanca was...

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37. Italo Rota

1953-2024 (aged 71)

university teacher politician designer scenographer architect

Italo Rota was an Italian architect.

38. Angelo Mangiarotti

1921-2012 (aged 91)

designer urban designer architect urban planner

Angelo Mangiarotti was an Italian architect and industrial designer. His designs were mostly for industrial buildings and railway stations. In 1994, he received the Compasso d'Oro award of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale for his lifetime of achievement.

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39. Eugenio Curiel

1912-1945 (aged 33)

partisan physicist journalist

Eugenio Curiel was an Italian physicist, a prominent figure of the Italian resistance movement. He was awarded a gold medal (posthumously) for military valour.

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40. Ezio Frigerio

1930-2022 (aged 92)

art director scenographer production designer costume designer

Ezio Frigerio was an Italian costume designer and art director.

41. Raffaele Rossetti

1881-1951 (aged 70)

engineer inventor military officer politician

Raffaele Rossetti was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the once main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Party.

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42. Bernardino Nogara

1870-1958 (aged 88)

economist engineer banker politician

Bernardino Nogara was the financial advisor to the Vatican between 1929 and 1954, appointed by Pope Pius XI and retained by Pope Pius XII as the first Director of the Special Administration of the Holy See. According to historian John F. Pollard, Nogara laid "the foundations" for "one of the biggest pillars for the Vatican's post-Second World War financial strength."

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43. Giulio Alfieri

1924-2002 (aged 78)

engineer

Giulio Alfieri was an Italian automobile engineer, affiliated with Maserati in Modena, Italy since 1953, where he was central to the development of racing and production cars in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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44. Domenico Corcione

1929-2020 (aged 91)

politician military officer

Domenico Corcione was an Italian general who served as defence minister of Italy between 1995 and 1996.

45. Mario Palanti

1885-1979 (aged 94)

architect

Mario Palanti was an Italian architect who designed important buildings in the capital cities of both Argentina and Uruguay.

46. Chiara Braga

1979-. (aged 47)

politician

Chiara Braga is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party who has served in the Chamber of Deputies since 2008. She was first elected in the 2008 general election, and was re-elected in 2013, 2018 and 2022. Since 2023, she has served as group leader of the Democratic Party in the chamber.

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47. Maurizio Margaglio

1974-. (aged 52)

figure skating choreographer figure skating coach ice dancer

Maurizio Margaglio is an Italian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With partner Barbara Fusar-Poli, he is the 2001 World champion, 2001 European champion, and 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. They won nine Italian titles and competed at three Olympics.

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48. Giorgio Grassi

1935-. (aged 91)

architect

Giorgio Grassi is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as La Tendenza, associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerged in Italy in the 1960s. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, Grassi's architecture is the most severely rational of the group: his...

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49. Paolo Caccia Dominioni

1896-1992 (aged 96)

writer partisan engineer architect

Paolo Caccia Dominioni, 14th Baron of Sillavengo was an Italian soldier, officer in the Alpini mountain Infantry Corps, engineer and writer, most noted for his leadership in the North Africa Campaign in World War II.

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50. Marco Zanuso

1916-2001 (aged 85)

designer architect industrial designer

Marco Zanuso was an Italian architect and designer associated with modernism.

51. Luigi Caccia Dominioni

1913-2016 (aged 103)

architect designer

Luigi Caccia Dominioni was an Italian architect and furniture designer.

52. Paola Antonelli

1963-. (aged 63)

curator university teacher writer art historian architect

Paola Antonelli is an Italian author, critic, and curator. She heads the architecture and design department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she is also the founding Director of Research and Development. Antonelli has been described as "one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries in the world" by TIME magazine. She has said that all...

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53. Fabio Novembre

1966-. (aged 60)

designer graphic designer architect

Fabio Novembre is an Italian architect and designer.

54. Riccardo Lombardi

1901-1984 (aged 83)

journalist politician

Riccardo Lombardi was an Italian politician.

55. Giuseppe Busso

1913-2006 (aged 93)

engineer

Giuseppe Busso was an Italian mechanical and engine designer mostly known for his tenure at Alfa Romeo and Ferrari.

56. Renato Castellani

1913-1985 (aged 72)

screenwriter director film director

Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

57. Agostino Rocca

1895-1978 (aged 83)

engineer businessperson entrepreneur politician

Agostino Rocca was an Italo-Argentine businessman.

58. Piero Portaluppi

1888-1967 (aged 79)

industrial designer architect urban planner cartoonist visual artist

Piero Portaluppi was an Italian architect. He is known for his prolific output, having designed over 100 buildings in Milan.

59. Giampaolo Dallara

1936-. (aged 90)

entrepreneur engineer

Giampaolo Dallara is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer. He is the owner of Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars.

60. Eleonora Evi

1983-. (aged 43)

politician

Eleonora Evi is an Italian politician. Between July 2021 and November 2023, Evi was the spokesperson of Green Europe, sharing the leadership of the party with Angelo Bonelli.

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61. Ernesto Nathan Rogers

1909-1969 (aged 60)

architect writer editing staff university teacher designer

Ernesto Nathan Rogers was an Italian architect, writer and educator.

62. Vico Magistretti

1920-2006 (aged 86)

designer architect university teacher urban planner

Vico Magistretti was an Italian architect, who was also active as an industrial designer, furniture designer, and academic. As a collaborator of humanist architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers, one of Magistretti's first projects was the "poetic" round church in the experimental Milan neighborhood of QT8. He later designed mass-produced appliances and furniture for companies such as Cassina S.p.A., Artemide, and Oluce....

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63. Roberto Castelli

1946-. (aged 80)

engineer politician

Roberto Castelli is an Italian politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the second and third governments of Silvio Berlusconi. He has been one of the main representatives of Lega Nord.

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64. Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirelli

1848-1932 (aged 84)

politician statesperson mathematician engineer businessperson

Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirelli was an Italian entrepreneur, engineer and politician, and the founder of the Pirelli company in Milan. In 1919 he was the president of Confindustria.

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65. Mario Bellini

1935-. (aged 91)

architect designer

Mario Bellini is an Italian architect and designer. After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1959, he pursued a career in architecture, exhibition design, product design, and furniture design during the Italian economic boom in the late 20th century. He has worked with companies such as B&B Italia, Brionvega, Cassina, Heller, Flou, Yamaha, Olivetti, Renault, Rosenthal, Tecno, Riva...

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66. Cini Boeri

1924-2020 (aged 96)

architect designer

Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, known as Cini Boeri, was an Italian architect and designer. She was considered "one of the great pioneering women in Italian design and architecture", who was described by Paola Antonelli as a "formidable architect and designer paragon of Milanese elegance and verve."

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67. Franco Albini

1905-1977 (aged 72)

furniture designer university teacher designer architect urban planner

Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.

68. Enrico Forlanini

1848-1930 (aged 82)

military flight engineer inventor businessperson aircraft pilot

Enrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aeroplanes, hydrofoils and dirigibles. He was born in Milan. His older brother Carlo Forlanini was a physician.

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69. Guido Crepax

1933-2003 (aged 70)

graphic artist comics artist illustrator caricaturist

Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of eroticism. His work was often politically motivated too,...

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70. Vittorio Gregotti

1927-2020 (aged 93)

university teacher architect editor-in-chief

Vittorio Gregotti was an Italian architect, born in Novara. He was seen as both a member of the Neo-Avant Garde and a key figure in 1970s Postmodernism.

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71. Emanuele Fiano

1963-. (aged 63)

architect politician

Emanuele "Lele" Fiano is an Italian politician and former member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies for the centre-left Democratic Party. A prominent figure in the Italian Jewish community, Fiano is a past president of the Jewish Community of Milan and former director of the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy.

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72. Achille Castiglioni

1918-2002 (aged 84)

designer industrial designer university teacher architect

Achille Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer. He is known for his furniture, lighting, radiograms and other objects, many of which are considered icons of post-war Italian design. As a professor of design, he advised his students "If you are not curious, forget it. If you are not interested in others, what they do and how they act, then...

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73. Alessandro Mendini

1931-2019 (aged 88)

editing staff designer architect visual artist photographer

Alessandro Mendini was an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and Radical design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines.

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74. Leonardo Fioravanti

1938-. (aged 88)

designer engineer entrepreneur

Leonardo Fioravanti is an Italian automobile designer and CEO of Fioravanti Srl.

75. Joe Colombo

1930-1971 (aged 41)

graphic designer architect sculptor designer furniture designer

Cesare Colombo, known as Joe Colombo, was an Italian industrial designer.

76. Robert Ludvigovich Bartini

1897-1974 (aged 77)

military flight engineer inventor physicist aircraft pilot

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini was a Hungarian-born Soviet aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground-effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union, nicknamed Barone Rosso (Red Baron) because of his noble descent.

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77. Stefano Boeri

1956-. (aged 70)

university teacher politician writer architect urban planner

Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urban planner, and a founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. Among his most known projects are the Vertical Forest in Milan, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille, and the House of the Sea of La Maddalena. He is the professor of urban planning at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

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78. Amalia Ercoli-Finzi

1937-. (aged 89)

astrophysicist engineer military flight engineer

Amalia Ercoli Finzi is an Italian engineer and academic, Principal Investigator of the SD2 drill aboard the Philae spacecraft.

79. Saul Steinberg

1914-1999 (aged 85)

photographer designer caricaturist painter architect

Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".

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80. Maurizio Nichetti

1948-. (aged 78)

screenwriter director film director film producer actor

Maurizio Nichetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.

81. Gae Aulenti

1927-2012 (aged 85)

architect scenographer interior designer designer costume designer

Gaetana "Gae" Emilia Aulenti was an Italian architect and designer. Aulenti began her career in the early 1950s, establishing herself as one of the few prominent female architects in post-war Italy.

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82. Carlo Emilio Gadda

1893-1973 (aged 80)

politician prose writer writer engineer poet

Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers who played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.

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83. Demetrio Stratos

1945-1979 (aged 34)

ethnomusicologist composer singer-songwriter recording artist musicologist

Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock band Area – International POPular Group.

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84. Gio Ponti

1891-1979 (aged 88)

scenographer university teacher architect writer painter

Giovanni "Gio" Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.

85. Giulio Natta

1903-1979 (aged 76)

university teacher chemist inventor

Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high density polymers. He also received a Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1969.

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86. Paola Marella

1963-2024 (aged 61)

television presenter real-estate agent designer architect interior designer

Paola Maria Marella was an Italian architect, designer and television presenter.

87. Stefania Casini

1948-. (aged 78)

actor screenwriter film actor film director journalist

Stefania Casini is an Italian actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. She appeared alongside Robert De Niro and Gérard Depardieu in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976) and received two David di Donatello Award nominations for her work in the 1983 film Lontano da dove. In recent years she was also the visual inspiration for the comics version of Frank Wedekind's LULU adapted...

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88. Elio

1961-. (aged 65)

singer radio personality composer singer-songwriter engineer

Stefano Belisari, nicknamed Elio, is an Italian singer, comedian, actor and musician. He is a founding member of the Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese.

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89. Stefano Pessina

1941-. (aged 85)

engineer businessperson entrepreneur chief executive officer

Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman; he is the executive chairman and large investor in The Boots Group

90. Luigi Comencini

1916-2007 (aged 91)

screenwriter director film director

Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre.

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91. Aldo Rossi

1931-1997 (aged 66)

graphic artist philosopher university teacher architect painter

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.

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92. Giorgio Gori

1960-. (aged 66)

politician entrepreneur journalist

Giorgio Gori is an Italian entrepreneur, journalist, and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former mayor of Bergamo.

93. Renzo Piano

1937-. (aged 89)

architect politician

Renzo Piano OMRI is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022), Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016) and...

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94. Giovanni Muzio

1893-1982 (aged 89)

university teacher architect

Giovanni Muzio was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan. He was closely associated with the Novecento Italiano artists group.

95. Ettore Sottsass

1917-2007 (aged 90)

photographer designer jewelry designer industrial designer painter

Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and product designer. He was known for his designs of furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, homeware and office supplies. He also worked on numerous buildings and interiors, often defined by bold colours.

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96. Piero Pirelli

1881-1956 (aged 75)

entrepreneur politician

Piero Pirelli, born Piero Carlo Pirelli,, was an Italian entrepreneur and the son of Giovanni Battista Pirelli, the founder of Pirelli.

97. Flavio Cattaneo

1963-. (aged 63)

businessperson manager

Flavio Cattaneo is an Italian manager and entrepreneur. Since 2023, he has been CEO and General Manager of Enel and vice chair of Endesa. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Assicurazioni Generali.

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98. Giancarlo De Carlo

1919-2005 (aged 86)

urban planner architect

Giancarlo De Carlo was an Italian architect. He was a member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and became closely linked to Urbino as its town planner and creator of its master plan. Throughout his architecture career, he advocated for the consideration of human, physical, cultural, and historical forces in design.

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99. Massimo Vignelli

1931-2014 (aged 83)

graphic designer architect interior designer university teacher designer

Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer active in graphic design, industrial design, furniture, and architecture. He worked within the modernist tradition, emphasizing simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms. With his wife Lella, Vignelli helped establish the New York office of Unimark International and Vignelli Associates.

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100. Sara Sabry

1993-. (aged 33)

astronaut engineer

Sara Sabry is an Egyptian engineer, citizen astronaut, and entrepreneur. In 2022, as part of the Blue Origin NS-22 mission, she became the first Egyptian to travel into space, as well as the first African and Arab woman. She is also the founder and CEO of the Deep Space Initiative, a non-profit organization.

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