Notable Natives
In addition to the aforementioned Bernardo Clesio and Cristoforo Madruzzo, Giacomo Aconzio was born in Trento. Kurt von Schuschnigg was born in Riva del Garda, in the Trentino region. Other notable natives of Trento include:
- Beniamino Andreatta, politician.
- Lorenzo Bernardi, volleyball player for the Italian national team who was declared "Player of the century" by an international jury.
- Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer.
- Gianni Caproni, aeronautical engineer, born in Massone d'Arco 1886. Trento's airport is dedicated to him.
- Eusebio Chini, Jesuit Priest, missionary and explorer.
- Fortunato Depero, futurist artist and one of the founders of the futurist movement in Italy, was born in Fondo in 1892, close to Trento. He was later "adopted" by the city of Rovereto.
- Alcide De Gasperi, politician in Austria-Hungary, political leader and post-war premier in Italy and one of the founding fathers of the European Union, was born in Pieve Tesino, in Trentino.
- Felice Fontana, scientist.
- Gregorio Fontana, mathematician.
- Ernst von Koerber, prominent politician of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement.
- Gianfrancesco Malfatti, mathematician.
- Martino Martini, geographer, historian, missionary.
- Luigi Negrelli, engineer.
- Paolo Oss Mazzurana, Trento's most notable mayor. His tenure is characterized by progressive economic policies that impacted Trento's commercial sector and its eventual independence.
- Francesco Moser, cyclist
- Antonio Pedrotti, conductor and composer
- Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit Brother, baroque painter and architect.
- Giovanni Prati, poet and politician.
- Antonio Rosmini, priest, philosopher, born in Rovereto, 1797.
- Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, naturalist and physician, born in Cavalese.
- Giovanni Segantini, Italian Art Nouveau painter, was born in Arco in 1858.
- Alessandro Vittoria, mannerist sculptor.
- Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer.
- Francesca Neri, Award Winning Actress.
- Hermann Zingerle, neuropathologist
- Blessed Stephen Bellesini, Italian priest
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