List of personalities from Castagnola-Cassarate-Ruvigliana
This list contains personalities born in Castagnola-Cassarate-Ruvigliana and those who had their sphere of activity in Castagnola-Cassarate-Ruvigliana without being born there. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities
Carlo Cattaneos statue by Ettore Ferrari
- Giovanni Battista Discepoli called lo Zoppo (* around 1590 in Castagnola –1660), painter
- Pietro Beltramello (* around 1660 in Castagnola, † after 1698 in Arbedo ), altar builder and stucco sculptor
- Carlo Cattaneo (1801–1869), economist, patriot, writer and philosopher
- Karl Schnyder von Wartensee (* 1839 in Lucerne , † 1894 in Castagnola), Swiss entrepreneur
- Carlo Cafiero (1846–1892) Italian anarchist and revolutionary
- Luigi Rossi (born March 10, 1853 in Cassarate (Lugano) , † August 6, 1923 in Tesserete ), painter, draftsman, illustrator
- Francesco Anastasi (* 1856 in Ruvigliana; † December 9, 1925 there), lecturer in Italian literature
- Friedrich Klose (1862–1942), German composer, music teacher
- Rainis (Jānis Pliekšāns) (1865–1929) poet from Latvia
- Aspazija (Elza Rozenberga) (1865–1943), Latvian poet
- Alonso Cordelas (* 1865 in Madrid ? † 1933 in Cassarate), pianist, conductor
- Francesco Chiesa (1871–1973), lawyer, writer, poet,
- Otto zu Windisch-Graetz (1873–1952), prince, military, benefactor
- Heinrich Thyssen , (1875-1947), Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector
- Ruggero Dollfus (1876–1948), politician and military
- József Birò (born March 16, 1887 in Pókakeresztúr ( Păcureni ), † January 13, 1975 in Castagnola), painter
- Giuseppe Foglia (born April 3, 1888 in Lugano; † December 16, 1950), painter
- Hans Morgenthaler (1890–1928), writer, narrator, poet
- Ben Nicholson (1894–1982), painter and object artist
- Douglas Sirk (1897–1987), film and stage director
- Gian Lorenzo Seger (born September 6, 1900 in Trier , † September 19, 1958 in Lugano), cellist and composer
- Imre Reiner (1900–1987), Hungarian-Swiss painter, graphic artist and important type designer
- Rudolf Caracciola (1901–1959), German racing driver
- Elmo Patocchi (born April 8, 1906 (Guglielmo) in Basel , † December 20, 1980 in Agra (today the municipality of Collina d'Oro ), from Peccia (today the municipality of Lavizzara )), politician, councilor in Castagnola (today the municipality of Lugano ) and in Bellinzona , Ticino councilor, founder and president of the Lega dei comuni rurali e montani (Federation of rural and mountain communities)
- Michele Corbellini (born December 9, 1909 in Cassarate, † September 9, 1974 in Viganello ), violinist
- Eugénie Mousny (born July 23, 1911 in Alexandria ; † June 8, 2011 in Castagnola), first speaker for Radio Monte Ceneri, the youngest radio voice in Europe, wife of Rino Tami
- Edmondo Dobrzanski (born August 2, 1914 in Zug (city) , † August 23, 1997 in Lugano), from Fischenthal , Swiss painter
- Pino Gobbi (born January 6, 1915 in Castagnola), guitarist
- Jürgen Thorwald (1915-2006), writer
- Fernando Corena (1916–1984), opera singer
- Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (1921–2002) entrepreneur and art collector
- Giorgio Strehler (1921–1997), Italian theater director
- Nice Monico (born January 4, 1922 in Castagnola; † June 5, 1981, ibid), secretary of the Unione Donne Socialiste Ticinesi (UDST), politician
- Walter Giller (1927–2011) actor
- Éva Saáry , (* 1929 in Balatonkenese ), painter, illustrator, writer, photographer
- Nadja Tiller (* 1929), actress
- Tito Tettamanti (* 1930), politician, entrepreneur and financier
- Jon Lord (1941–2012), British musician
- Megan Gale (born August 7, 1975 in Perth ), actress, model, fashion design
Individual evidence
- ^ Celestino Trezzini : Giovanni Battista Discepoli. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz p. 726 (PDF digital copy , accessed 23 August 2019)
- ^ Federica Bianchi: Giovanni Battista Discepoli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 22, 2006 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
- ^ Pietro Beltramello. In: Sikart
- ^ Karl Schnyder von Wartensee (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on September 29, 2016)
- ↑ Tapan Bharracharya: Luigi Rossi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 5, 2012 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Francesco Anastasi In Historisches-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Volume 8, P. 6 (PDF digitized version ), accessed on October 18, 2017
- ↑ Alonso Cordelas (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed November 8, 2017.)
- ↑ Jozeph Birò. In: Sikart
- ^ Simona Martinoli: Giuseppe Foglia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 14, 2005 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Gian Lorenzo Seger (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed December 9, 2017.)
- ↑ Pasquale Genasci: Elmo Patocchi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 21, 2008 , accessed April 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Michele Corbellini (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed November 8, 2017.)
- ↑ Theo Mäusli: Eugénie Mousny. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 27, 2011 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
- ^ Matteo Bianchi: Edmondo Dobrzanski. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 27, 2004 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Pino Gobbi (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on November 25, 2017.)
- ↑ Nice Monico (Italian) on archividonneticino.ch
- ↑ Éva Saáry in portal.dnb.de (accessed on June 14, 2016.)
- ↑ Megan Gale (Italian) on oltreconfiniti / volti-e-testimonianze / le-celebrita-internazionali-in-ticino