Notable Alumni of University of Florence [Sorted List]

1. Marta Dassù

1955-. (aged 71)

tennis player essayist politician historian political scientist

Marta Dassù is an Italian politician who served as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in the government led by Mario Monti from 2011 to 2013 and as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Enrico Letta from 2013 to 2014. She serves as Senior Director of European Affairs at the Aspen Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Aspen Institute Italia's journal,...

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2. Konstantinos Tsaldaris

1884-1970 (aged 86)

lawyer politician

Konstantinos Tsaldaris was a Greek politician and twice Prime Minister of Greece.

3. Giani Stuparich

1891-1961 (aged 70)

partisan novelist writer journalist pedagogue

Giani Stuparich was an Italian writer. He was born in Trieste, then in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "La Grotta" ("The Cave").

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4. Patricio Fernández

1969-. (aged 57)

political analyst writer journalist

Patricio Fernández Chadwick is a Chilean writer, journalist, and independent politician. He was the founder of The Clinic newspaper.

5. François Antommarchi

1789-1838 (aged 49)

physician botanist university teacher surgeon

François Carlo Antommarchi was Napoleon's physician from 1819 to his death in 1821.

6. Philip Mazzei

1730-1816 (aged 86)

writer diplomat philosopher physician

Philip Mazzei, originally Filippo Mazzei ( Italian pronunciation: [fiˈlippo matˈtsɛi]), and sometimes erroneously cited as Philip Mazzie, was an Italian physician, philosopher, diplomat, winemaker, merchant, and author. A neighbor of Thomas Jefferson, he was a supporter of the American Revolution and the American colonies' war for independence from Britain.

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7. Scipio Slataper

1888-1915 (aged 27)

writer

Scipio Slataper was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste.

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8. Fiamma Nirenstein

1945-. (aged 81)

politician writer historian journalist blogger

Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and politician. In 2008 she was elected to the Italian Parliament for Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party and she served as Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies for the length of the legislature, ending in March 2013. On 26 May 2013 she made Aliyah...

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9. Massimo Bray

1959-. (aged 67)

historian publisher politician

Massimo Bray is an Italian publisher, politician, and historian. He served as the minister of cultural heritage and tourism in the Letta government from 28 April 2013 to 22 February 2014. He is currently the general manager of the Treccani Institute.

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10. Giuseppe Occhialini

1907-1993 (aged 86)

physicist

Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo " Occhialini was an Italian experimental physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Powell, the latter winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. At the time of this discovery, they were all working in the H. H. Wills Laboratory at the University...

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11. David Ermini

1959-. (aged 67)

politician

David Ermini is an Italian lawyer and politician, vice president of the High Council of the Judiciary from 2018 to 2023.

12. Marco Tarchi

1952-. (aged 74)

political scientist

Marco Tarchi is an Italian political scientist. He is currently full professor of Political Science, Political Theory and Political Communication at the Cesare Alfieri School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence. His research is focused primarily on populism, democracy, political organization, and the extreme right.

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13. Franco Scaglione

1916-1993 (aged 77)

designer

Franco Scaglione was an Italian automobile coachwork designer. He is best known for his work as the chief designer at Carrozzeria Bertone from 1951 to 1959.

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14. Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle

1920-1984 (aged 64)

politician partisan

Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle was an Italian anti-fascist communist partisan and practicing lawyer, notable for capturing Benito Mussolini at Dongo in April 1945, where he used the nom de guerre of Pedro.

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15. Benedetto Castelli

1578-1643 (aged 65)

astronomer university teacher physicist monk mathematician

Benedetto Castelli O.S.B., born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his religious name that he adopted when he entered the Benedictine Order in 1595.

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16. Francesco Carofiglio

1964-. (aged 62)

writer architect

Francesco Carofiglio is an Italian architect, writer and director. Son of writer Enza Buono and brother of writer and member of the Italian Senate Gianrico Carofiglio.

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17. Giuseppe Ferrara

1932-2016 (aged 84)

film screenwriter film producer film director film critic actor

Giuseppe Ferrara was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

18. Umberto Cassuto

1883-1951 (aged 68)

historian rabbi university teacher

Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto, was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature, in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 anti-Semitic Italian racial laws forced him from this position, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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19. Monica Frassoni

1963-. (aged 63)

politician

Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and as co-chair of the European Green Party from 2009 to 2019. In 2018, she was elected at the local Council of Ixelles in the Brussels Region, representing the Ecolo party.

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20. Elisabetta Gualmini

1968-. (aged 58)

politician political scientist

Elisabetta Gualmini is an Italian politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

21. Evan Jenkins

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer businessperson instructor politician

Evan Hollin Jenkins is an American politician and judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, joining the Court in 2018 and serving as chief justice in 2021. He resigned from the court on February 4, 2022. He served as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia from 2015 to 2018. He is a...

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22. Carlo Bo

1911-2001 (aged 90)

university teacher literary critic politician

Carlo Bo was an Italian poet, literary critic, distinguished humanist, professor and senator for life from 1984.

23. Deborah Bergamini

1967-. (aged 59)

journalist politician

Deborah Bergamini is an Italian politician, manager and journalist currently member of the Italian Parliament.

24. Eugenio Pio Zolli

1881-1956 (aged 75)

rabbi

Eugenio Maria Zolli, born Israel Anton Zoller, was an Austrian by birth, and an Italian doctorate professor of philosophy and author. Until his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism in February 1945, Zolli was the chief rabbi in Rome's Jewish community from 1940 to 1945. After the war, he taught philosophy at a number of institutions throughout Rome including the Sapienza...

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25. Gianfranco Pasquino

1942-. (aged 84)

university teacher political scientist politician

Gianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist.

26. Mario Occhiuto

1964-. (aged 62)

architect politician

Mario Occhiuto, is an Italian politician and architect.

27. Elena Linari

1994-. (aged 32)

association football player

Elena Linari is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Women's Super League (WSL) club London City Lionesses and the Italy women's national team. She has also played for Girondins de Bordeaux, Atlético Madrid, Fiorentina, Brescia and Roma, and she has won four league titles, four cups and two supercups. She has represented Italy internationally since...

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28. Michele De Lucchi

1951-. (aged 75)

university teacher designer architect

Michele de Lucchi is an Italian architect and designer.

29. Gabriele Veneziano

1942-. (aged 84)

physicist university teacher

Gabriele Veneziano is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris from 2004 to 2013, until the age of retirement there.

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30. Giovanni della Casa

1503-1556 (aged 53)

Catholic priest poet diplomat writer

Giovanni della Casa was an Italian poet, diplomat, clergyman and inquisitor, and writer on etiquette and society. He is celebrated for his famous treatise on polite behavior, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi (1558). From the time of its publication, this courtesy book has enjoyed enormous success and influence. In the eighteenth century, influential critic Giuseppe Baretti wrote in The Italian...

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31. Ettore Bernabei

1921-2016 (aged 95)

journalist

Ettore Bernabei was an Italian television director and producer.

32. Carla Lonzi

1931-1982 (aged 51)

opinion journalist art critic writer activist women's rights activist

Carla Lonzi was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.

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33. Riccardo Nencini

1959-. (aged 67)

writer politician

Riccardo Nencini is an Italian politician.

34. Teresa Mattei

1921-2013 (aged 92)

politician partisan activist resistance fighter women's rights activist

Teresa Mattei, also known as Teresita, was an Italian partisan and politician.

35. Franco Fortini

1917-1994 (aged 77)

university teacher writer screenwriter linguist essayist

Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.

36. Carla Voltolina

1921-2005 (aged 84)

partisan psychologist journalist

Carla Voltolina, also known as Carla Pertini since marriage, was an Italian journalist, partisan and psychotherapist. She undertook investigations into prostitution in Italy and provided therapy at hospitals and addiction-treatment clinics across Italy.

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37. Stefano Mancuso

1965-. (aged 61)

botanist biologist neurobiologist non-fiction writer university teacher

Stefano Mancuso is an Italian botanist and writer, best known for his research on plant intelligence. He is professor of the Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry department at his alma mater, the University of Florence. He is the director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, steering committee member of the Society of Plant Signaling and Behavior, editor-in-chief of the...

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38. Luca Lotti

1982-. (aged 44)

politician

Luca Lotti is an Italian politician who served as the Minister for Sport from 2016 to 2018 in the Gentiloni Cabinet.

39. Mario Praz

1896-1982 (aged 86)

university teacher journalist literary critic translator art collector

Mario Praz was an Italian critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, The Romantic Agony (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent, erotic and morbid themes that characterised European authors of the late 18th and 19th centuries (see Femme fatale for a reference of one of his chapters). The book was written...

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40. Daniele Piombi

1933-2017 (aged 84)

radio personality television presenter

Daniele Piombi was an Italian television and radio presenter and television writer.

41. Roberto Assagioli

1888-1974 (aged 86)

author psychiatrist psychologist

Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Assagioli founded the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis, which is still being developed today by therapists and psychologists who practice the psychological methods and techniques he developed.

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42. Giovanni Amendola

1882-1926 (aged 44)

philosopher politician journalist

Giovanni Amendola was an Italian journalist, professor, and politician. He is noted as an opponent of Italian fascism.

43. Mario Luzi

1914-2005 (aged 91)

writer playwright poet politician

Mario Luzi was an Italian poet.

44. Ardito Desio

1897-2001 (aged 104)

mountaineer explorer cartographer geologist

Count Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.

45. Tommaso Landolfi

1908-1979 (aged 71)

novelist linguist critic science fiction writer poet

Tommaso Landolfi was an Italian writer, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism, place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers. He won a number of awards, including the prestigious Strega Prize.

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46. Paolo Hendel

1952-. (aged 74)

actor comedian television actor

Paolo Hendel is an Italian actor, playwright and comedian.

47. Vasco Pratolini

1913-1991 (aged 78)

writer partisan journalist screenwriter

Vasco Pratolini was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

48. Beppe Bigazzi

1932-2019 (aged 87)

journalist

Giuseppe Bigazzi was an Italian executive, journalist, television presenter and writer. He was a television presenter for the RAI show La prova del cuoco.

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49. Paolo Poli

1929-2016 (aged 87)

singer stage actor television actor screenwriter film actor

Paolo Poli was an Italian theatre actor. He has also acted in films and on television.

50. Flavio Manzoni

1965-. (aged 61)

architect car designer

Flavio Manzoni is an Italian architect and automobile designer. He has held the position of Chief Design Officer at Ferrari since January 2010, leading the development of many Ferrari models, including the LaFerrari.

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51. Irene Vallejo

1979-. (aged 47)

writer philologist

Irene Vallejo Moreu, born in Zaragoza in 1979, is a Spanish philologist, historian, and writer.

52. Mauro Bolognini

1922-2001 (aged 79)

theatrical director screenwriter film director

Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film and stage director.

53. Fosco Maraini

1912-2004 (aged 92)

documentarian scientist writer poet teacher

Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.

54. Eugenio Giani

1959-. (aged 67)

essayist writer politician

Eugenio Giani is an Italian politician who is serving as the president of Tuscany since 8 October 2020.

55. Agnolo Poliziano

1454-1494 (aged 40)

humanist poet writer university teacher philologist

Agnolo Ambrogini ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈaɲɲolo ambroˈdʒiːni]; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano ( Italian: [ˈandʒelo politˈtsjaːno]) or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology....

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56. Giorgio Albertazzi

1923-2016 (aged 93)

stage actor film director director actor film actor

Giorgio Albertazzi was an Italian actor and film director.

57. Sandro Veronesi

1959-. (aged 67)

screenwriter poet architect writer children's writer

Sandro Veronesi is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing....

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58. Gaetano Salvemini

1873-1957 (aged 84)

historian historian of Modern Age university teacher politician

Gaetano Salvemini was an Italian socialist and anti-fascist politician, historian, and writer. Born into a family of modest means, he became a historian of note whose work drew attention in Italy and abroad, particularly in the United States, after he was forced into exile by Benito Mussolini's Italian fascist regime.

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59. Dario Nardella

1975-. (aged 51)

politician

Dario Nardella is an Italian politician who was the Mayor of Florence from 26 May 2014 to 26 June 2024 and the first Metropolitan Mayor of Florence. He is the first mayor of Florence who has been elected twice in the first term. He was also a deputy for the Democratic Party in the 17th legislature until his election as...

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60. Elizabeth Bentley

1908-1963 (aged 55)

double agent spy

Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States Federal Government and the Office of Strategic Services from 1938 to 1945. She defected by contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and...

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61. Marco Columbro

1950-. (aged 76)

television presenter actor stage actor

Marco Columbro is an Italian actor and television host.

62. Alfonso Bonafede

1976-. (aged 50)

lawyer politician

Alfonso Bonafede is an Italian lawyer and politician who has served as the Italian Minister of Justice since 1 June 2018. A lawyer by profession, Bonafede has also served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 15 March 2013 until 12 October 2022.

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63. Denis Verdini

1951-. (aged 75)

banker economist politician

Denis Verdini is an Italian politician and banker.

64. Giovanni Spadolini

1925-1994 (aged 69)

historian politician journalist

Giovanni Spadolini was an Italian politician and statesman, who served as the 44th prime minister of Italy. He had been a leading figure in the Republican Party and the first head of a government to not be a member of Christian Democrats since 1945. He was also a newspaper editor, journalist and historian. He is considered a highly respected intellectual...

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65. Paolo Nespoli

1957-. (aged 69)

engineer astronaut amateur radio operator paratrooper

Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz...

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66. Lamberto Dini

1931-. (aged 95)

economist banker diplomat politician

Lamberto Dini is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st prime minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996, and Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2001. At 94 years old, he is the oldest living prime minister of Italy.

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67. Antonino Caponnetto

1920-2002 (aged 82)

magistrate judge

Antonino Caponnetto was an Italian Antimafia magistrate.

68. Stefano Massini

1975-. (aged 51)

television presenter theatrical director playwright

Stefano Massini is an Italian writer, essayist and playwright.

69. Prince Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta

1943-2021 (aged 78)

entrepreneur

Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, 5th Duke of Aosta was a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, the family which ruled Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until 7 July 2006, Amedeo was styled Duke of Aosta; on that date he declared himself Duke of Savoy, a title that was disputed between him and his third cousin, Vittorio Emanuele,...

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70. Marsilio Ficino

1433-1499 (aged 66)

cleric poet astrologer philosopher translator

Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy,...

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71. Pupi Avati

1938-. (aged 88)

film producer screenwriter director writer jazz musician

Giuseppe "Pupi" Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo movies The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Zeder (1983).

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72. Bradford Bishop

1936-. (aged 90)

diplomat fugitive

William Bradford Bishop Jr. is a former United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive from justice since killing his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 27, 2018, Bishop, who at the time would...

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73. Dolcenera

1977-. (aged 49)

singer composer singer-songwriter film actor recording artist

Emanuela Trane, known by her stage name Dolcenera ( Italian pronunciation: [ˌdoltʃeˈneːra], lit. 'Sweet Black'), is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy only in 2005, when she won the music-based reality show Music Farm and she released her...

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74. Nicola Rizzoli

1971-. (aged 55)

architect association football referee

Nicola Rizzoli is an Italian former football referee who refereed in the Italian Serie A from 2002 to 2017 and was a FIFA-listed referee from 2007 to 2017. He refereed the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final between Germany and Argentina on 13 July at the Estádio do Maracanã and the 2013 Champions League Final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich...

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75. Margherita Hack

1922-2013 (aged 91)

secularist non-fiction writer university teacher astrophysicist athletics competitor

Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist and science communicator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.

76. Maria Elena Boschi

1981-. (aged 45)

jurist lawyer politician

Maria Elena Boschi, is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013.

77. Giovanni Gentile

1875-1944 (aged 69)

literary critic university teacher politician philosopher pedagogue

Giovanni Gentile was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician.

78. Chiara Francini

1976-. (aged 50)

actor singer

Chiara Francini is an Italian actress, comedian and author.

79. Roscoe Lee Browne

1925-2007 (aged 82)

athletics competitor stage actor television actor voice actor film actor

Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his many guest appearances on TV series from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as movies like The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne, and The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) with John Amos and Jan-Michael Vincent, but his biggest roles were as narrator in Babe and...

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80. Renzo Montagnani

1930-1997 (aged 67)

television actor stage actor film actor dub actor

Renzo Montagnani was an Italian actor and voice actor.

81. Oriana Fallaci

1929-2006 (aged 77)

partisan politician writer journalist war correspondent

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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82. Franco Zeffirelli

1923-2019 (aged 96)

film director opera director film producer actor screenwriter

Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same.

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83. Nadia Toffa

1979-2019 (aged 40)

journalist television presenter

Nadia Toffa was an Italian journalist and television presenter for satirical current affairs programme Le Iene who gained attention in 2017 for a series of stories about the environmental impacts of alleged nuclear testing at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.

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84. David Sassoli

1956-2022 (aged 66)

news presenter politician journalist

David Maria Sassoli was an Italian politician and journalist who served as the president of the European Parliament from 3 July 2019 until his death. Sassoli was first elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009.

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85. Donatella Versace

1955-. (aged 71)

fashion designer designer businessperson

Donatella Francesca Versace, is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace, with whom she worked closely on the development of the brand and in particular its combining of Italian luxury with pop culture and celebrity.

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86. Matteo Renzi

1975-. (aged 51)

politician

Matteo Renzi OMRI is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018, with a brief interruption in 2017.

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87. Italo Calvino

1923-1985 (aged 62)

screenwriter essayist novelist writer journalist

Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).

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88. Michelangelo

1475-1564 (aged 89)

architect engineer architectural draftsperson writer visual artist

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and...

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89. Niccolò Machiavelli

1469-1527 (aged 58)

historian diplomat philosopher playwright translator

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

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90. Lia Quartapelle

1982-. (aged 44)

researcher economist politician

Lia Quartapelle is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD).

91. Alexander Langer

1946-1995 (aged 49)

journalist ecologist writer translator musical instrument maker

Alexander Langer was an Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher. After taking part in the Protests of 1968 and garnering regional attention during the 1970s as a peace and environmental activist, in 1978 he became the first New Left candidate to be elected in South Tyrol. During the 1980s, Langer became a national figure as a member of...

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92. Michaëlle Jean

1957-. (aged 69)

news presenter politician journalist

Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and Black person to hold this office.

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93. Francesco Bonifazi

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

Francesco Bonifazi is an Italian politician, senator elected with the Democratic Party in the 2018 general elections, before moving on to Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva in 2019.

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94. Carlo Rosselli

1899-1937 (aged 38)

politician writer journalist philosopher resistance fighter

Carlo Alberto Rosselli was an Italian socialist political leader and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy and then abroad. He was also a journalist, historian, and philosopher who developed a theory of reformist non-Marxist socialism inspired by the British labour movement that he described as "liberal socialism". Rosselli founded the anti-fascist militant movement Giustizia e Libertà. Rosselli personally took part in...

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95. Giorgio La Pira

1904-1977 (aged 73)

lawyer politician

Giorgio La Pira, TOSD was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the mayor of Florence. He also served as a deputy for Christian Democracy (DC), the ruling party of post-war Italy, and participated in the assembly that wrote the Italian Constitution following World War II. In his public and private life he was a tireless champion of peace and...

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96. Francesco Milleri

1959-. (aged 67)

business executive

Francesco Milleri is an Italian businessman who has been the CEO of EssilorLuxottica since June 2022. He is also the father of Italian-American DJ and record producer Matteo Milleri.

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97. Christian Wolff

1934-. (aged 92)

composer classical scholar teacher university teacher pianist

Christian Wolff was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method, which some deem the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany.

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98. Jerónimo Saavedra

1936-2023 (aged 87)

academic lawyer politician trade unionist

Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo was a Spanish politician and academic. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice, from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993.

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99. Roger Willemsen

1955-2016 (aged 61)

news presenter journalist television presenter linguist writer

Roger Willemsen was a German author, essayist and TV presenter.

100. Ivan Illich

1926-2002 (aged 76)

sociologist historian theologian pedagogue writer

Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, argues that industrialised society widely impairs quality...

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