Famous Citizens
- Marcus Nonius Macrinus, Roman general and consul to Emperor Marcus Aurelius
- Rothari or Rotari, King of the Lombards
- Rodoald or Rodoaldo, King of the Lombards
- Desiderius, King of the Lombards
- Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Frankish emperor and King of Italy
- Arnold of Brescia, a dissident monk who lived in the 12th century
- Albertanus of Brescia, 13th century Latin author
- Veronica Gambara (1485–1550), poet and stateswoman.
- Giovanni Paoli (Juan Pablos), who brought the printing press to the new world in Mexico City under the viceroyalty of Antonio de Mendoza from Spain in 1535
- Saint Angela Merici, who founded the Order of Ursulines in Brescia in 1535
- Gasparo da Salò, b. 1540, d. 1609 - pioneer of violin making
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, mathematician in the 16th century
- Giulio Alenio, (Brescia 1582-Yanping 1649) Jesuit missionary called the "Confucius from the West"
- Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631–1687), aeronautics and braille pioneer
- Benedetto Castelli, mathematician and expert in hydraulics in the early 17th century
- Paris Francesco Alghisi (1666–1733), composer
- Pietro Gnocchi 1689–1775, eccentric polymath and composer
- Bartolomeo Beretta, gunsmith and founder of the Beretta firearm company
- Giuseppe Zanardelli, b. 1826, d. 1903 - jurisconsult, politician, prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy (February 15, 1901 – November 3, 1903)
- Saint Maria Crocifissa di Rosa, who founded the Handmaids of Charity order of nuns in Brescia in 1840
- Camillo Golgi experimental pathologist, b. 1843, d. 1926, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 for his studies of the structure of the nervous system
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, a pianist of the 20th century
- Servant of God Pope Paul VI, born nearby in Concesio as Giovanni Battista Montini (1897–1978).
- Blessed Giovanni Battista Piamarta, who will be canonized a Saint by Pope Benedict XVI with some others on 10/21/12
- Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914–1990), art collector and artist
- Andrea Pirlo, football player
- Mario Balotelli, football player
- Manuel Belleri, football player
- Giacomo Agostini b. 1942, world-famous Grand Prix motorcycle racer and World Champion 1964–1977
- Marco Cassetti, football player
- Sergio Scariolo, basketball coach
- L'Aura, b.1984 - singer-songwriter
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or citizens:
““Why visit the playhouse to see the famous Parisian models, ... when one can see the French damsels, Norma and Diana? Their names have been known on both continents, because everything goes as it will, and those that cannot be satisfied with these must surely be of a queer nature.””
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down—not by solving the problem, but by deciding it’s their own damn fault.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)