Turin - Notable Natives

Notable Natives

See also: Category:People from Turin
  • Luisa Accati (born 1942), historian and social anthropologist.
  • Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), founder of FIAT.
  • Edoardo Agnelli (1892–1935) industrialist, director of FIAT and former Juventus president.
  • Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003), influential chairman, director of FIAT and former Juventus F.C. president.
  • Umberto Agnelli (1934–2004) industrialist, director of FIAT and former Juventus F.C. president.
  • Giuliano Amato (born 1938), politician, former Prime Minister of Italy.
  • Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), physicist.
  • Alessandro Baricco (born 1958), writer.
  • Fred Buscaglione (1921–1960), singer and songwriter.
  • Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719–1789), critic.
  • Camillo Benso, count of Cavour, politician (Italian unification).
  • Roberto Bettega, former footballer.
  • Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004), historian and philosopher.
  • Giampiero Boniperti, former footballer and Juventus honourary president.
  • Gian Vittorio Bourlot, co-founder of the A.L.A.I. (Associazione Librai Antiquari d'Italia)
  • Gianpiero Combi (1902–1956), former footballer and 1934 World Cup winner.
  • Arturo Brachetti (born 1957), quick-change artist.
  • Carla Bruni (born 1967), singer, model and wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
  • Pierre Paul Caffarel (1795–1850), founder of the first chocolate factory in the world.
  • Giorgio Cagnotto, silver medalist Olympic diver
  • Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), inventor of vermouth and apéritif.
  • Giorgio Ceragioli (1930–2008), engineer and gandhian activist.
  • Leo Chiosso (1920–2006), lyricist, songwriter with Fred Buscaglione.
  • Robert Fano (1917–2004), engineer.
  • Galileo Ferraris (1847–1897), physicist and electrical engineer.
  • Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951), composer
  • Massimiliano Frezzato (1967), comic writer
  • Piero Gobetti (1901–1926), intellectual.
  • Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), mathematician.
  • Vincenzo Lancia (1881–1937), sportsman and businessman, founder of Lancia.
  • Luigi Lavazza (1859–1949), inventor and coffee businessman.
  • Carlo Levi (1902–1975), painter and writer.
  • Primo Levi (1919–1987), chemist, philosopher, Holocaust survivor and writer.
  • Salvador Edward Luria (1912–1991), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012), Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Milan and biblical exegete.
  • Alessandro Martini (1812–1905), vermouth businessman.
  • Mau Mau (formed 1991), rock band.
  • Davide Rossi (1970) violinist, composer, string arranger (Goldfrapp, Coldplay, The Verve).
  • Carlo Mollino (1905–1973), architect and designer.
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Adriano Olivetti (1901–1960), businessman.
  • Raffaele Palma (1953), writer, disegner, humorist, satirist.
  • Carlo Parola (1921–2000), former footballer. He's considered to be one of the inventors of the bicycle kick in Italy.
  • Rita Pavone (1945), singer
  • Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), mathematician.
  • Aurelio Peccei (1908–1984), founder of the Club of Rome.
  • Gigi D'Agostino, composer, singer, DJ & public icon for "Lento Violento".
  • Gabry Ponte, DJ member of Eiffel 65.
  • Vittorio Pozzo (1886–1968), former Italian national football team coach, 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cup winner.
  • Tullio Regge (born 1931), physicist
  • Nina Ricci (1883–1970), fashion designer
  • Sofia Scalchi (1850–1922), opera mezzo-soprano
  • Domenico Scappino (1897), fashion designer
  • Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), economist.
  • Subsonica (formed 1996), rock band.
  • Francesco Tamagno (1850–1905), opera tenor.
  • Massimo Taparelli, marquis d'Azeglio (1798–1866), statesman, novelist and painter.
  • Umberto Tozzi (1952), singer.
  • Gianni Vattimo (1936), philosopher.
  • Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820–1878), King of Piedmont and the first King of united Italy.
  • Marco Travaglio (1964), journalist, writer.
  • Marco Maccarini (1976), TV presenter, actor.

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