Turin - Notable Natives

Notable Natives

• 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.