Notable People
- Fashion designer Valentino Garavani, best known simply as Valentino.
- Mauro Nespoli, archer of the Italian National Team.
- Futurist painter Ambrogio Casati.
- Italian boxer world and Olimpyc champion Giovanni Parisi
- Computer art pioneer Aldo Giorgini.
- The housewife from Voghera (Italian: casalinga di Voghera) is a stereotypical figure representing the average housewife.
- Writers Alberto Arbasino, Carolina Invernizio, and Alessandro Maragliano.
- Watchmaker Giovanni Sordi
- The Maserati Brothers, automobile engineers
- Sandro Bolchi, cinema director
- Giovanni Plana, astronomer
- Armando Sgarella, boxer and naif painter (1921-1991)
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