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Notable Residents

  • John Charles Beckwith (army officer)
  • Nicklas Bendtner (born 1988), footballer.
  • Edmondo de Amicis (1846–1908), novelist, journalist, and short-story writer.
  • Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994), artist.
  • St. Giovanni Bosco (1815–1888), Catholic priest, educator and recognised pedagogue.
  • Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825–1888), mathematician and priest.
  • Italo Calvino (1923–1985), journalist and writer.
  • Gaspare Campari (1828–1882), drink maker.
  • Felice Casorati (1883–1963), painter.
  • Francesco Cirio (1836–1900), businessman.
  • Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974), footballer.
  • Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012), won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Umberto Eco (born 1932), medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist.
  • Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955), contemporary classical music composer and pianist.
  • Giulio Einaudi (1912–1999), publisher.
  • Luigi Einaudi (1874–1961), politician and economist.
  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466/1469-1536), Dutch humanist and theologian.
  • Michele Ferrero (born 1925), founder of Ferrero and richest man in Italy (November 2009)
  • Paolo Fossati (1938–1998), art historian, editor, writer, journalist, teacher,.
  • Guido Fubini (1879–1942), mathematician.
  • Leone Ginzburg (1909–1944), editor, writer, journalist, teacher, anti-fascist.
  • Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991), writer.
  • Guido Gozzano (1883–1916), writer and poet.
  • Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), writer, politician and political theorist, founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy.
  • Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894), Hungarian lawyer, journalist, freedom fighter and Regent-President of Hungary in 1849
  • Giuseppe Levi (1872-1965) anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy. He pioneered the use laboratory techniques to culture human cells, and tutored three students (Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco, and Rita Levi-Montalcini) who won three Nobel Prize Awards. Also the father of writer Natalia Ginzburg.
  • Primo Levi (1919–1987), chemist, philosopher, Holocaust survivor and writer.
  • Cesare Lombroso (1836–1909), criminologist and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology.
  • Franco Lucentini (1920–2002), writer.
  • Claudio Magris (born 1939) scholar, translator, writer and Italian senator.
  • Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), French-speaking Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher.
  • Francesco Menzio (1899–1979), painter.
  • Mario Merz (1925–2003), artist.
  • Giulio Natta (1903–1979), chemist, won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
  • Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), French-Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher.
  • Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.
  • Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933–present), artist, associated with Arte Povera.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), French philosopher.
  • Emilio Salgari (1862–1911), writer.
  • Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) notable Italian astronomer
  • Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), chemist.
  • Germain Sommeiller (1815–1871), civil engineer.
  • Gianni Vattimo (born 1936), author, philosopher, and politician.
  • Elio Vittorini (1908–1966), writer and novelist.

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