Florence - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

• Sir Harold Acton, author and aesthete.
• Leone Battista Alberti, polymath.
• Dante Alighieri, poet.
• Giovanni Boccaccio, poet.
• Baldassarre Bonaiuti, 14th century chronicler
• Sandro Botticelli, painter.
• Aureliano Brandolini, agronomist and development cooperation scholar.
• Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 19th century English poets.
• Filippo Brunelleschi, architect.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, author of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and David.
• Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer.
• Enrico Coveri, fashion designer.
• Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione. Early photographic artist, Secret agent and Courtesan.
• Leonardo da Vinci, polymath
• Giotto di Bondone, early 14th century painter, sculptor and architect.
• Donatello, sculptor.
• Oriana Fallaci, journalist and author.
• Salvatore Ferragamo, fashion designer and shoemaker.
• Frescobaldi Family, notable bankers and wine producers.
• Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher.
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor.
• Guccio Gucci, founder of the Gucci label.
• Pietro Pacciani, farmer, starring of the case of the Monster of Florence.
• Robert Lowell, poet.
• Niccolò Machiavelli, poet, philosopher and political thinker, author of The Prince and The Discourses.
• Masaccio, painter.
• Medici family.
• Antonio Meucci, inventor of the telephone.
• Florence Nightingale, pioneer of modern nursing, and a statistician.
• Mike Francis (musician) born Francesco Puccioni, singer and composer
• Raphael, painter.
• Girolamo Savonarola
• Giorgio Vasari, painter, architect, and historian.
• Amerigo Vespucci, explorer and cartographer, namesake of the Americas.