42 Notable alumni of University of Parma

Antonio Francesco Sanvitale was made a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church from 1709.

Giovanni Passerini was an Italian botanist and entomologist, born on June 16, 1816, in Pieve di Guastalla. He died on April 17, 1893, in Parma.

Gerardo Bianchi, also known as Gerardo da Parma or Gerard of Parma, was an Italian churchman and papal diplomat, an important figure of the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga was an Italian author and patriot.

Prospero Colonna di Sciarra was an Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano. He was the brother of cardinal Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra.

Davide Levi was an Italian poet, patriot and politician.

Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno was an Italian cardinal, brother of cardinal Nicola Guidi di Bagno and nephew of cardinal Girolamo Colonna.

Camillo Rondani was an Italian entomologist noted for his studies of Diptera.

Fabio Fabbri was an Italian politician and lawyer.

Gloria Saccani Jotti is an Italian politician and professor of clinical pathology. She was elected to be a deputy to the Parliament of Italy in the 2018 Italian general election for the Legislature XVIII of Italy.

Marco Osnato is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was first elected in the 2018 general election, and was re-elected in 2022. Since 2022, he has chaired the Finance Committee.

Niccolò Cabeo, SJ was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician.

Alberto Broggi is General Manager at VisLab srl and a professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy.

Alfio Piva Mesén is a Costa Rican politician, veterinarian, scientist and environmentalist. He was the First Vice President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. The Second Vice President during that interval was Luis Liberman.

Luciano Fadiga is a neurophysiologist at the Human Physiology Section of the University of Ferrara and a Senior Researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia of Genoa, Italy.

Roberto Savio is a journalist, communication expert, political commentator, activist for social and climate justice and advocate of global governance. He has spent most of his career with Inter Press Service (IPS), the news agency which he founded in 1964 along with Argentine journalist Pablo Piacentini.

Chiara Moroni is an Italian politician, daughter of Sergio Moroni, a Socialist politician who killed himself during Tangentopoli.

Carlo Masci is an Italian politician.

Vittorio Gallese is professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy, and was professor in Experimental Aesthetics at the University of London, UK. He is an expert in neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, social neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Gallese is one of the discoverers of mirror neurons. His research attempts to elucidate the functional organization of brain mechanisms underlying social...

Francesco Rucco is an Italian politician and lawyer.

Corrado Clini is an Italian politician who served as the Italian minister of environment, land and sea (IMELS) in the Monti cabinet from November 2011 to April 2013.

Patrizia Barbieri is an Italian politician.

Michele Guerra is an Italian academic and politician, Mayor of Parma since 2022.

Giovanni Battista Riccioli SJ was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. He is also widely known for discovering the...

Valerio Varesi is an Italian author of crime novels. So far six of his novels have been published in English, the first two of which were shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger. His novels have all been bestsellers in the original Italian. He is a journalist with La Repubblica.

Gerardo Bianco was an Italian politician.

Gian Domenico Romagnosi was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist.

Ugo Betti was an Italian judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello.

Giovanni Prodi was an Italian mathematician, also known for many activities concerning the teaching of mathematics.

Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi, better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth, and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian, becoming the Principal Librarian (i.e. head) of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866.

Bernardino Ramazzini was an Italian physician.

Edmondo Cirielli is an Italian politician. He is a deputy of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2001, and has previously served as President of the Province of Salerno from 2009 to 2012.

Leonardo Ortolani, better known as Leo, is an Italian comics author, creator of the comic book series Rat-Man.

Attilio Bertolucci was an Italian poet and writer. He was the father of film directors Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci.

Romolo Valli was an Italian actor.

Bruno Tabacci is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is the president of the Democratic Centre. In the past, he was a member of Christian Democracy and served as the president of Lombardy from 1987 to 1989.

Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.

Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, songwriter and lawyer, known for his distinctly grainy, resonant voice. His compositions fuse Italian and Mediterranean sounds with jazz, boogie and elements of the French chanson and Latin-American rhythms.

Pope Innocent IV, born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254.

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.

Eugenio Ghiozzi, best known by his stage name Gene Gnocchi ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛːne ɲˈɲɔkki]), is an Italian television presenter, comedian and former footballer.