List of University of Bologna people explained

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with University of Bologna.

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Notable alumni

Academics

• Umberto Eco, Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer

Clergy and Biblical scholars

• Archbishop Thomas Becket;^[1]
• Cardinal Alberto Bolognetti
• Cardinal Paolo Burali d'Arezzo;^[2]
• Pope Alexander VI^[3]
• Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni)
• Pope Gregory XV
• Pope Innocent IX
• Gabriele Paleotti
• Saint Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan
• Henry of Susa (Hostiensis)

Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government

• Adone Zoli, former Prime Minister of Italy.
• Álvaro de Figueroa, former Prime Minister of Spain.
• Joaquín Chapaprieta, former Prime Minister of Spain.

Cabinet members

• Patrizio Bianchi, Minister of Public Education in the Draghi Cabinet
• Remo Gaspari, Minister of Relationships with the Parliament and Minister of Public Function in the Bettino Craxi and Giulio Andreotti Cabinet.
• Piero Gnudi, Minister of Tourism and Sports in the Monti cabinet.
• Juan Fernando López Aguilar, former Minister of Justice – Spain.
• Fawziya Abikar Nur, Minister for Health and Social Care – Somalia.

Senators, Representatives, and other politicians

• Brando Benifei, Italian politician
• Anna Maria Bernini, Italian politician and lawyer
• Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
• , Italian politician and lawyer
• Lanfranco De Franco, Italian politician and lawyer^[4]
• Maurizio Fugatti, Italian politician
• Edoardo Gaffeo, Italian politician
• Gian Luca Galletti, Italian politician
• Andrea Gnassi, Italian politician
• Sandro Gozi, Italian politician
• Matteo Lepore, Italian politician & mayor of Bologna
• Giacomo Matteotti
• , Italian politician
• , Italian politician
• Elly Schlein, Italian politician
• Sandra Zampa, Italian politician
• Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spain politician
• Pier Ferdinando Casini, Italian politician
• Gianni Cuperlo, Italian politician
• Virginio Merola, Italian politician & former mayor of Bologna
• Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, President of Atomium - European Institute for Science, Media and Democracy.

Lawyers and judges

• Daria de Pretis, Italian jurist, Constitutional Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy.
• Manuel Olivencia, lawyer and academic;^[5]
• Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian law professor and one of the most prominent continental jurists of Medieval Roman Law.

Businessman & Economist

• Corrado Gini, Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient/ratio.
• Diego Della Valle, chairman of the Italian leather goods company Tod's
• Stefano Domenicali, CEO of Formula One Group and former CEO of Italian sports car manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
• Raul Gardini, Italian agri-business and chemicals tycoon.
• Mauro Moretti, former CEO and general manager of Leonardo S.p.A.
• Elena Panaritis, Economist.
• Alberto Giovannini, Italian Macroeconomist and Financial Economist
• Fabrizio Zilibotti, Italian economist and Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University

Nobel Prize winners

• Guglielmo Marconi, 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics and the inventor of radio.

Astronauts and Astronomer

• Andrea Boattini, Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.
• Isabella M. Gioia, Italian astrophysicist.

Engineers, inventors, and scientists

• Mauro Forghieri, Formula One racing car designer.
• Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian Structural engineer and architect.
• Ulisse Aldrovandi;^{[6] [7]}
• Laura Bassi, the world's first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies
• Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Greek-Italian chemist
• Nicolaus Copernicus, formulator of the heliocentric universal model;^{[8] [9]}
• Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur
• Luigi Galvani;^{[10] [11] [12]}
• Guglielmo Marconi,^{[13] [14]} Italian inventor and radio pioneer
• Pietro Mengoli;^[15]
• Paracelsus, founder of the discipline of toxicology;^[16]
• Maria Matilde Principi, Entomology department chair for 30 years^[17]
• Augusto Righi, pioneer in the study of electromagnetism^[18]
• Carlo Rovelli, Italian theoretical physicist
• Carlo Severini, Italian mathematician^[19]
• Lazzaro Spallanzani,^[20] Italian priest, biologist and physiologist
• Luca Benini, computer scientist and educator^[21]
• Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician and the inventor of tensor calculus.
• Cristina Roccati, Italian physicist.
• Bruno Rossi, Italian experimental physicist.
• Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist.
• Enrico Marconi, Italian-Polish architect.
• Adamo Boari, Italian Art Nouveau and Art Deco civil engineer and architect.
• Cesare Emiliani, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and paleoceanography.

Physicians

• Julius Caesar Aranzi, the pioneer human anatomists and surgeons.
• Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist.
• Marcello Malpighi;^{[22] [23]}
• Gasparo Tagliacozzi, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery
• Giovanni Aldini, Italian physician.
• Turisanus, physician.
• Taddeo Alderotti, Italian doctor and professor of medicine.
• Ismail Boçari, Albanian professor of medicine.
• Maria Dalle Donne, Italian physician and a former director at the University of Bologna.
• Giovanni Gasbarrini, physician, gastroenterology researcher and medical academic
• Hugo Spadafora, Italian and Panamanian physician.
• Justus Velsius, Dutch physician, and mathematician.

Entertainers

• Michelangelo Antonioni;^{[24] [25] [26]}
• Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright
• Emilio Solfrizzi, Italian actor and comedian.

Authors and artists

• Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, writer and philosopher
• Leon Battista Alberti;^[27]
• Silvia Balducci, Italian journalist at RAI^[28]
• Pico della Mirandola;^[29]
• Maria Cristina Didero, Italian curator, historian, and author
• Albrecht Dürer, German painter, printmaker and theorist^[30]
• Erasmus of Rotterdam^[31]
• Milena Gabanelli, Italian journalist and television host
• , Italian journalist
• Carlo Lucarelli
• Giovanni Pascoli
• Pier Paolo Pasolini;^{[32] [33]}
• Petrarch;^[34]
• Pupi Avati, Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
• Carlo Mazzacurati, Italian film director and screenwriter
• , Italian journalist
• Torquato Tasso;^[35]
• Silvia Avallone, Italian novelist and poet.
• Chiara Gamberale, Italian writer, television and radio presenter.
• Vittorio Sgarbi, Italian art critic, art historian and writer.
• Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist and painter.

Other notables

• Anna M. Borghi, Italian cognitive psychologist
• Irnerius, founder of the School of Glossators
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist.
• Veronica Yoko Plebani, Italian Paralympic athlete.
• Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the FIFA referees committee

Philosopher

• Francesco Algarotti, Italian Philosopher, poet, art critic and art collector.
• Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher and writer.

Notable faculty

• Maria Gaetana Agnesi
• Leon Battista Alberti
• Ulisse Aldrovandi
• Camillo Baldi
• Augusto Barbera
• Hamida Barmaki
• Laura Bassi
• Pier Cesare Bori
• Bulgarus
• Gualtiero Calboli
• Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume
• Girolamo Cardano
• Giosuè Carducci
• Giovanni Cassini
• Manuel Chrysoloras
• Giacomo Ciamician
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Ignazio Danti
• Lippo Bartolomeo Dardi
• Giovanni Della Casa
• Giovanni de' Marignolli
• Ivano Dionigi
• Yuriy Drohobych (also known as Georgius de Drohobycz)
• Albrecht Dürer
• Umberto Eco
• Luigi Galvani
• Carlo Goldoni
• Bettisia Gozzadini
• Sylvester Gozzolini
• Gratian
• Guido Guinizelli
• Henry of Susa (Hostiensis)
• Irnerius
• Beppo Levi
• Girolamo Maggi
• Giovanni Antonio Magini
• Marcello Malpighi
• Virgilio Malvezzi
• Martinus Gosia
• Pietro Mengoli
• Niall Ó Glacáin
• Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem
• Paracelsus
• Giovanni Pascoli
• Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Paul, Dominican martyr
• Francesco Petrarca (also known as Petrarch)
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• Romano Prodi
• Augusto Righi
• Pellegrino Rossi
• William of Saliceto
• Coluccio Salutati
• Benvenutus Scotivoli
• Francesco Selmi
• William of Tyre
• Özalp Babaoğlu

Notes and References

1. Web site: Saint Thomas Becket Biography, Death, & Significance. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
2. Web site: Comune di Itri – Sito comunale. 2019-04-26. www.comune.itri.lt.it.
3. Web site: Alexander VI Biography, Legacy, & Facts. 2021-04-19. Encyclopedia Britannica. en.
4. Web site: Comune di Reggio Emilia.
5. Web site: Manuel Olivencia receives Premio Pelayo para Juristas de Reconocido Prestigio award. 2019-04-26. Cuatrecasas.
6. Web site: Ulisse Aldrovandi – University of Bologna. 2019-04-26. www.unibo.it.
7. Web site: Ulisse Aldrovandi Italian naturalist. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
8. Rutkowski. Boleslaw. Muszytowski. Marek. Ostrowski. Janusz. May 2011. Nicolaus Copernicus: not only a great astronomer but also a physician. Journal of Nephrology. 24. Suppl 17 . S25–32. 10.5301/JN.2011.6490. 1724-6059. 21614776.
9. Web site: Studying at University of Bologna. 2019-04-26. Plone site.
10. Web site: Luigi Galvani – University of Bologna. 2019-04-26. www.unibo.it.
11. Web site: Luigi Galvani Encyclopedia.com. 2019-04-26. www.encyclopedia.com.
12. Web site: Luigi Galvani. 2019-04-26. grants.hhp.coe.uh.edu.
13. Web site: Marconi itinerary in Bologna and surroundings. 2019-04-26. Bologna Welcome.
14. Web site: Guglielmo Marconi Italian physicist. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
15. Web site: Pietro Mengoli (1626–1686). 2019-04-26. www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk.
16. Web site: Famous people, guests and illustrious students – University of Bologna. 2019-04-26. www.unibo.it.
17. Web site: biographies . 2024-04-01 . sdei.senckenberg.de.
18. Web site: Augusto Righi. 2021-04-19. www.fgm.it.
19. Book: Marchisotto. Elena Anne. The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic. Smith. James T.. 2007-12-05. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-8176-4603-5. en.
20. Web site: Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. 2019-04-26. embryo.asu.edu.
21. Web site: Comment . Sebastian Moss . E4, Università di Bologna, and CINECA deploy RISC-V HPC system, with open source software . 2022-03-30 . www.datacenterdynamics.com . en.
22. Web site: Marcello Malpighi – University of Bologna. 2019-04-26. www.unibo.it.
23. Web site: Marcello Malpighi Italian scientist. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
24. Web site: Michelangelo Antonioni Italian director. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
25. Web site: 2018-03-30. Spotlight: Michelangelo Antonioni . 2019-04-26. www.ecufilmfestival.com.
26. Web site: Michelangelo Antonioni Encyclopedia.com. 2019-04-26. www.encyclopedia.com.
27. Web site: Leon Battista Alberti Italian architect and author. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
28. Web site: Linkedin.
29. Web site: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, count di Concordia Italian scholar. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
30. Web site: Albrecht Durer Biography, Prints, Paintings, Woodcuts, Adam and Eve, & Facts. 2021-04-19. Encyclopedia Britannica. en.
31. Web site: Erasmus Biography, Beliefs, Works, Books, & Facts. 2021-04-19. Encyclopedia Britannica. en.
32. Web site: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 2019-04-26. Bologna Welcome.
33. Web site: Pier Paolo Pasolini Italian author and director. 2019-04-26. Encyclopedia Britannica.
34. Web site: 2019-04-25. Petrarch. 2019-04-26. Poetry Foundation.
35. Web site: Torquato Tasso Encyclopedia.com. 2019-04-26. www.encyclopedia.com.