List of personalities of the city of Florence

This list contains personalities born in Florence and those who worked in Florence but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Florence

Dante Alighieri

Donatello

Cosimo de 'Medici

Filippo Lippi

Lorenzo il Magnifico

Amerigo Vespucci

Pope Leo X.

Benvenuto Cellini

Philipp Neri

Caterina de 'Medici

Cosimo I de 'Medici

Pope Leo XI.

Pope Urban VIII

Vincenzo Viviani

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Pope Clement XII.

Luigi Cherubini

Emperor Franz II

Carlo Collodi

Grand Duke Ferdinand IV.

Johann Salvator of Austria-Tuscany

John Singer Sargent

Luisa Tetrazzini

Aldo Palazzeschi

Giulio Racah

Margherita Hack

Franco Zeffirelli

Giovanni Spadolini (2nd from right)

Oriana Fallaci (r.)

Lamberto Dini

Franco Pacini

Roberto Cavalli

Roberto Calasso

Franco Ballerini

Irene Grandi

Francesco Casagrande

Matteo Renzi

Rose McGowan

Martina Stella

12th to 14th centuries

David von Himmerod (around 1100 - 1179), Italian-German monk and mystic
Taddeo Alderotti (around 1219 - around 1299), doctor
Brunetto Latini (around 1220 - 1294), statesman, scholar and writer
Philipp Benizi (1233–1285), Superior General of the Servites
Ricoldo da Monte di Croce (around 1243 - 1320), Orient missionary
Dino Compagni (1246 / 47–1324), businessman, politician and chronicler
Guido Cavalcanti (around 1255-1300), poet
Gaddo Gaddi (1260–1332), painter
Buonamico Buffalmacco (around 1262 - around 1340), painter
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), poet and philosopher
Juliana von Falconieri (around 1270-1341), saint
Dino Frescobaldi (1271-1316), poet
Giovanni Villani (around 1276 - 1348), historian
Pacino di Buonaguida (around 1280-1339 ), painter

Dino del Garbo (around 1280-1327), doctor and philosopher

Taddeo Gaddi (1290-1366), painter

Bernardo Daddi (around 1295-1350), painter

Angelo Acciaiuoli (1298-1357), bishop

Tommaso del Garbo (around 1305-1370), professor

Antonio Pucci (around 1310-1388), poet

Angelo Acciaioli (1340–1408), bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church

Michele di Lando (1343–1401), cloth worker

Agnolo Gaddi (around 1350-1396), painter

Lorenzo di Bicci (around 1350-1427), painter

Giovanni Dominici (around 1356 - 1419), Dominican, religious reformer, cardinal

Niccolò da Uzzano (1359–1431), politician

Alamanno Adimari (1362–1422), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Niccolò Niccoli (1365–1437), humanist and pioneer of handwriting

Rinaldo degli Albizzi (1370–1442), member of the Albizzi patrician family

Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452), painter

Palla Strozzi (around 1373–1462), merchant and humanist

Giovanni di Francesco Toscani (around 1375-1430), painter

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446), architect and sculptor

Nanni di Banco (around 1384-1421), sculptor

Gherardo Bueri (around 1386 - 1449), merchant and banker

Donatello (around 1386 - 1466), sculptor

Antoninus of Florence (1389–1459), saint, Archbishop of Florence

Cosimo de 'Medici (1389–1464), founder of the Medici

Giovanni Benci (1394–1455), General Manager of the Bank Medici

Michelozzo di Bartolommeo (1396–1472), sculptor and architect

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482), doctor, mathematician, astronomer and cartographer

Paolo Uccello (1397–1475), painter and mosaic artist

Luca della Robbia (around 1400 - 1481), sculptor

15th century

Filippo Lippi (around 1406 - 1469), painter

Matteo Palmieri (1406-1475), humanist

Piero di Cosimo de 'Medici (1416–1469), politician

Antonio Squarcialupi (1416–1480), organist and composer

Neri di Bicci (1418–1492), painter

Agostino di Duccio (1418 - around 1481), sculptor

Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli (1420–1479), banker and assassin

Benozzo Gozzoli (around 1420-1497), painter

Tommaso Ghirlandaio (* 1424), leather and silk dealer, money broker and wreath seller

Alesso Baldovinetti (1425–1499), painter

Maso Finiguerra (1426–1464), goldsmith

Donato Acciaiuoli (1428-1478), scholar

Filippo Strozzi the Elder (1428–1491), merchant

Pierfrancesco de 'Medici the Elder (1430–1476), member of the Florentine Medici family

Antonio Pollaiuolo (around 1432 - 1498), sculptor, engraver and painter

Andrea Della Robbia (1435–1525), member of the Della Robbia family of sculptors

Andrea del Verrocchio (1435 / 36–1488), artist

Luca Landucci (1436–1516), trader and chronicler

Bertoldo di Giovanni (around 1438 - 1491), sculptor

Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507), painter

Piero del Pollaiuolo (1443–1496), painter

Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), painter and draftsman

Francesco Rosselli (1445–?), Miniature painter and engraver

Giuliano da Sangallo (around 1445 - 1516), architect and sculptor

Pier Capponi (1446–1496), businessman, diplomat, politician and general

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448–1494), painter

Lorenzo il Magnifico (1449–1492), politician and city lord of Florence

Bernardo Ruccellai (1449–1514), scholar

Baccio Pontelli (around 1450 - 1492), architect

Piero Soderini (1452–1522), statesman

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian polymath and artist

Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Italian Dominican and penitential preacher

Amerigo Vespucci (around 1452–1512), merchant, navigator, navigator and explorer

Girolamo Benivieni (1453–1542), poet

Pietro Accolti (1455–1532), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (around 1455–1534), architect and fortress builder

Simone del Pollaiuolo (1457–1508), architect

Lorenzo di Credi (around 1459–1537), painter, goldsmith and sculptor

Jacopo Saltarelli (around 1459–?), Painter's model

Benedetto Buglioni (around 1460 - 1521), sculptor and terracotta artist

Zanobi Acciaioli (1461-1519), Dominican monk

Piero di Cosimo (around 1462 - around 1521), painter and draftsman

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de 'Medici (1463–1503), son of the elder Pierfrancesco de' Medici

Roberto Pucci (1464–1547), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de 'Medici (1467–1498), member of the younger line of the Medici

Marco Della Robbia (1468–?), Sculptor and Dominican monk

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), politician, diplomat, philosopher, historian and poet

Lucrezia di Lorenzo de 'Medici (1470–?), Daughter of Lorenzo il Magnifico

Fra Bartolommeo (1472–1517), painter

Piero di Lorenzo de 'Medici (1472–1503), son of Lorenzo il Magnifico

Pietro Torrigiano (1472–1528), Renaissance sculptor

Maddalena de 'Medici (1473–1519), daughter of Lorenzo il Magnifico

Mariotto Albertinelli (1474–1515), painter

Giovanni Francesco Rustici (1474–1554), sculptor and painter

Luigi de 'Rossi (1474–1519), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Francesco Vettori (1474–1539), statesman

Leo X (1475–1521), Pope

Giovanni Ruccellai (1475–1525), poet

Jacopo Nardi (1476–1563), historian

Clement VII (1478–1534), Pope from the Medici family

Lisa del Giocondo (1479–1542), merchant's wife

Pietro Aron (around 1480 -?), Music theorist and composer

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483–1561), painter

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), politician and historian

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484–1546), architect

Antonio Pucci (1485–1544), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570), sculptor and architect

Pierfrancesco de 'Medici the Younger (1487–1525), grandson of the older Pierfrancesco

Girolamo Della Robbia (1488–1566), sculptor and architect

Francesco Ferrucci (1489–1530), military leader

Baccio Bandinelli (around 1490-1560), sculptor

Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553), cardinal

Innocenzo Cibo (1491-1550), cardinal

Donato Giannotti (1492–1573), philosopher

Lorenzo di Piero de 'Medici (1492–1519), member of the Medici family

Agnolo Firenzuola (1493–1543), poet

Clarice Strozzi (1493–1528), member of the older Medici line

Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), poet and humanist

Rosso Fiorentino (1495–1540), painter

Pierfrancesco Giambullari (1495–1555), writer

Giovan Battista Gelli (1498–1563), humanist, writer, translator, philologist and academic

Maria Salviati (1499–1543), member of the patriciate of Florence

Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562), Reformed theologian

Piero Vettori (1499–1585), humanist and philosopher

Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), goldsmith and sculptor

Niccolò Tribolo (around 1500 - 1550), sculptor, architect and garden designer

16th Century

Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–1550), cardinal

Perino del Vaga (1501–1547), painter and plasterer

Francesco Corteccia (1502–1571), organist, conductor and composer

Niccolò Ardinghelli (1503–1547), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Antonio Francesco Grazzini (1504–1584), poet

Bernardo Segni (1504–1558), historian

Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli (around 1507 - 1563), sculptor and architect

Pietro Carnesecchi (1508–1567), martyr

Bernardo Salviati (1508–1568), cardinal of the Catholic Church

Gabriele Simeoni (1509–1575), humanist, poet, translator, military theorist and astrologer

Francesco Salviati (1510–1563), painter

Piero Strozzi (1510–1558), member of the Strozzi patrician family

Nanni di Baccio Bigio (around 1511–1568), sculptor and architect

Antonio Doni (1513–1574), writer, editor and musician

Giovanni Animuccia (around 1514 - 1571), church music composer

Lorenzino de 'Medici (1514–1548), son of Pierfrancesco de' Medici

Vincenzo Borghini (1515–1580), actor

Philipp Neri (1515–1595), figure of the Catholic Reform in Rome in the 16th century

Caterina de 'Medici (1519–1589), Princess of Urbino and member of the Medici family

Cosimo I de 'Medici (1519–1574), member of the Medici family

Girolamo Mei (1519–1594), historian and humanist

Taddeo Gaddi (1520–1561), cardinal

Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589), merchant, cartographer, humanist, geographer, politician and writer

Albert de Gondi, duc de Retz (1522–1602), French military leader

Caterina de 'Ricci (1522–1590), Dominican and mystic

Petruccio Ubaldini (1524–?), Painter and scholar

Bernardo Buontalenti (1531–1608), painter, architect and theater machinist

Clemente Bandinelli (1534–1555), sculptor

Giovanni de 'Bardi (1534–1612), soldier, composer and poet

Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), painter

Leo XI. (1535-1605), Pope

Girolamo Macchietti (1535–1592), painter

Antonmaria Salviati (1537–1602), cardinal

Filippo Sassetti (1540–1588), merchant

Francesco I de 'Medici (1541–1587), member of the Medici family

Jacopo Zucchi (1541–1589 / 90), painter

Isabella de 'Medici (1542–1576), daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici

Girolamo Bardi (1544-1594), author

Lucrezia di Cosimo de 'Medici (1545–1562), daughter of Grand Duke Cosimo I.

Bernardino Poccetti (1548–1612), painter

Ferdinando I de 'Medici (1549–1609), cardinal and grand duke

Prospero Frescobaldi (around 1550 -?), Painter, musician and architect

Michelangelo Naccherino (1550–1622), sculptor

Luca Bati (around 1550 - 1608), composer and music teacher

Eleonora of Toledo (1553–1576), daughter of Garcia of Toledo

Antonio Tempesta (around 1555 - 1630), painter, draftsman and etcher

Ottavio Bandini (1558–1629), cardinal and archbishop

Bartolomé Carducho (around 1560-1608), painter

Giovanni Garzia Millini (1562–1629), bishop and cardinal

Ludovico delle Colombe (1565–?), Philosopher

Maria Magdalena von Pazzi (1566–1607), nun

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1568–1646), poet and writer

Leonora Galigaï (1568–1617), foster sister and lady-in-waiting Maria de Medicis

Urban VIII. (1568–1644), Pope of the Catholic Church

Antonio Marcello Barberini (1569-1646), cardinal

Thomas Francine (1571–1651), fountain master

Tiberio Tito (1573–1627), painter

Pietro Lappi (around 1575 - around 1630), composer

Maria de 'Medici (1575–1642), wife of the French King Henry IV.

Vicente Carducho (1576 / 78–1638), court painter

Concino Concini (around 1576 - 1617), businessman

Cristofano Allori (1577–1621), painter

Matteo Rosselli (1578–1650), painter

Roberto Ubaldini (1581–1635), Bishop of Montepulciano and cardinal

Filippo Salviati (1583–1614), scientist and friend of Galileo Galilei

Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643), composer

Lelio Falconieri (1585–1648), Cardinal of the Curia

Francesca Caccini (1587–1640), singer and composer

Giovanni Battista Ciampoli (1589–1643), clergyman and friend of Galileo Galilei

Cosimo II. De 'Medici (1590–1621), member of the Medici family

Carlo di Ferdinando de 'Medici (1595–1666), cardinal and bishop

Ascanio II. Piccolomini (1596–1671), Archbishop of Siena

Ferdinando Ughelli (1596–1670), Cistercian and church historian

Francesco Barberini (1597–1679), cardinal, antiquarian and patron

Octavio Piccolomini (1599–1656), General Wallensteins

17th century

Claudia de 'Medici (1604–1648), Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Tyrol
Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (1606–1649), playwright and librettist
Lorenzo Lippi (1606–1665), painter and poet
Stefano della Bella (1610–1664), draftsman and etcher
Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (1615/18 - after 1669), painter and etcher
Carlo Dolci (1616–1686), painter
Leopoldo de 'Medici (1617–1675), son of the Tuscan Grand Duke Cosimo II.
Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703), mathematician and physicist
Bandino Panciatichi (1629-1718), cardinal
Niccolò Acciaiuoli (1630–1719), bishop and cardinal to the Curia
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), composer
Domenico Maria Corsi (1633–1697), Bishop of Rimini and cardinal
Antonio Magliabechi (1633–1714), scholar, bibliophile and librarian
Pietro Sanmartini (1636–1700), composer and organist
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638–1692), composer and violinist
Cosimo III. de 'Medici (1642–1723), member of the Medici family
Lorenzo Bellini (1643-1704), anatomist
Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648–1729), painter
Clement XII. (1652-1740), Pope
Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652–1725), sculptor and architect
Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1652–1726), painter and fresco artist
Antonio Maria Salvini (1653–1729), philologist
Alessandro Gherardini (1655–1726), painter
Antonio Veracini (1659–1733), violinist and composer
Francesco Maria de 'Medici (1660–1711), cardinal and patron
Ferdinando de 'Medici (1663–1713), Hereditary Prince of Tuscany
Antonius Baldinucci (1665–1717), people's missionary
Benedetto Luti (1666–1724), painter
Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici (1667–1743), representative of the Medici family
Raniero d'Elci (1670–1761), cardinal
Vittoria Tarquini (approx. 1670–1746), opera singer (soprano)
Giovanni Antonio Guadagni (1674–1759), cardinal
Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737), botanist
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681–1732), lute player and composer
Neri Maria Corsini (1685-1770), cardinal
Ferdinando Ruggieri (1687–1741), architect
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768), violinist and composer
Alessandro Galilei (1691–1737), architect
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692–1768), painter
Luigi Maria Torrigiani (1697–1777), cardinal
Ferdinando Fuga (1699–1782), architect

18th century

Vittoria Tesi , called “la Fiorentina” (1701–1775), famous opera singer

Carlo Ginori (1702–1757), politician and entrepreneur

Lorenzo Ricci (1703–1775), 18th general of the Societas Jesu

Niccolò Arrighetti (1709–1767), Jesuit scholar

Giuseppe Zocchi (1711–1767), painter and draftsman

Domenico Augusto Bracci (1717–1795), antiquarian and gemologist

Therese Vestris (1726–1808), dancer

Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815), engraver, draftsman and publisher

Cosimo Alessandro Collini (1727–1806), Voltaire's secretary

Gaetano Vestris (1729–1808), dancer and choreographer

Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786), composer

Angiolo Vestris (1730–1809), dancer and actor

Gasparo Angiolini (1731–1803), dancer, choreographer and theorist

George Colman the Elder (1732–1794), English writer

Andrea Corsini (1735–1795), cardinal

Pietro Rossi (1738–1804), natural scientist and entomologist

Lorenzo & Tomaso Carcassi (mid-18th century), musical instrument makers

Domenico Sestini (1750–1832), numismatist and archaeologist

Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), composer

Maria Cosway (1760–1838), English-Italian painter, etcher and teacher

Maria Theresa of Austria (1767–1827), Archduchess of Austria

Franz II. (1768–1835), last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

Ferdinand III. (1769–1824), elector

Giovanni Salucci (1769–1845), architect

Giuseppe Raddi (1770–1829), botanist

Karl von Österreich-Teschen (1771–1847), Austrian general

Alexander Leopold of Austria (1772–1795), Austrian Archduke and Palatine of Hungary

Peter von Goëss (1774–1846), Austrian nobleman, lawyer and civil servant

Joseph Anton Johann von Austria (1776–1847), member of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen

Anton Viktor of Austria (1779–1835), Archduke of Austria

Johann von Österreich (1782–1859), Austrian field marshal and German imperial administrator

Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784–1855), history and portrait painter

Ludwig of Austria (1784–1864), Austrian archduke, general and politician

Rudolf of Austria (1788–1831), Archduke, Archbishop and Cardinal

Gino Capponi (1792–1876), politician, historian and poet

Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853), guitarist and composer

Leopold II (1797–1870), Grand Duke of Tuscany and Archduke of Austria

19th century

1801 to 1850

Aristodemo Costoli (1803–1871), sculptor and painter
Guglielmo Libri (1803–1869), Italian-French mathematician and bibliophile
Carlo Reishammer (1806–1883), architect
Bettino Ricasoli (1809–1880), statesman
Eugenia Tadolini (1809–1872), opera singer
Giuseppe Poggi (1811–1901), architect and town planner
Enrico Poggi (1812–1890), politician
Jules Petiet (1813–1871), French mechanical engineer
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), medical and health reformer
Ferdinand Maria von Savoyen-Carignan (1822–1855), nobleman
Stefano Ussi (1822–1901), painter
Charles III (1823-1854), Duke of Parma
Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (1825–1864), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany
Carlo Collodi (1826–1890), writer and journalist
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), British diplomat and statesman
Marc Monnier (1827–1885), Swiss writer
Juan Mochi (1831-1892), painter
Maria Isabella of Austria-Tuscany (1834–1901), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany
Adolfo Baci (1834-1918), composer
Eugenio Cecconi (1834–1888), church historian and Archbishop of Florence
Ferdinand IV. (1835–1908), Archduke of Austria
Michele Gordigiani (1835–1909), painter
Carlotta Patti (1835–1889), soprano
Enrico Nencioni (1837–1896), poet and literary critic
Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899), courtesan and mistress of Napoléon III.
Constance Wachtmeister (1838–1910), French-English theosophist
Karl Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (1839-1892), Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Arcangeli (1840–1921), botanist
Odoardo Beccari (1843–1920), traveler and botanist
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1844–1900), Scottish nobleman
Giuseppe Buonamici (1846–1914), pianist, music teacher and composer
Federico Andreotti (1847–1930), painter and illustrator
Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (1847–1915), Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany
Robert I (1848–1907), Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla
Ida Baccini (1850–1911), writer and journalist
Pompeo Massani (1850–1920), painter

1851 to 1900

Adolfo Bartoli (1851-1896), physicist
Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925), Austrian Catholic, religious author, theologian and Christian apologist
Johann Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (1852–?), Austrian Archduke
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi (1856–1941), Marshal and Senator
Raffaello Romanelli (1856–1928), sculptor
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American portrait painter
Mario Nunes Vais (1856–1932), photographer
Adolfo Cipriani (1857–1941), sculptor
Stella von Hohenfels-Berger (1857–1920), Austrian actress
Agostino Zampini (1858–1937), sacristan of the Apostolic Palace and Vicar General of the Pope for Vatican City
Medea Figner (1859–1952), Russian opera singer
Natalija Keško (1859–1941), Princess and Queen of Serbia
Guido Mazzoni (1859–1943), poet and literary scholar
Lazzaro Uzielli (1861–1943), pianist and music teacher
Carlo Chiostri (1863–1939), artist and illustrator
Bernardo Hay (1864–?), British painter
Gino Coppedè (1866–1927), furniture designer and architect
Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1867–1924), painter, travel writer and researcher
Albert Roberval (1869–1941), Canadian singer, conductor, theater director and music teacher
Ugo Afferni (1871–1931), conductor and composer
Ulisse Stacchini (1871–1947), architect
Luisa Tetrazzini (1871–1940), opera singer
Carlo Dani (1873–1944), opera singer and racing cyclist
Aldo Castellani (1874–1971), pathologist and bacteriologist
Alfredo Cecchi (1875 - after 1920), opera singer
Heinrich Leporini (1875–1964), art historian
Ludwig Merzbacher (1875–1942), German psychiatrist
Luigi Pontecchi (1876–1921), track cyclist
Carl Sattler (1877–1966), German architect and university professor
Mario Paci (1878–1946), pianist and conductor
Bruno Cicognani (1879–1971), writer
Maria Carmi (1880–1957), actress
Irene Georgii-Hildebrand (1880–1961), German sculptor
Guccio Gucci (1881–1953), entrepreneur
Kurt Hildebrandt (1881–1966), German psychiatrist and philosopher
Otho Orlando Kurz (1881–1933), German architect
Giovanni Papini (1881–1956), writer
Enrico Toselli (1883–1926), composer and pianist
Emilio Cecchi (1884–1966), writer, literary critic, art critic, screenwriter and film producer
Giorgio Mannini (1884–1953), film director
Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1974), writer, poet and intellectual
Luigi Ferraris (1887-1915), football player
Alberto Magnelli (1888–1971), artist and self-taught
Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977), Catholic philosopher and author
Ildebrando Vannucci (1890–1955), Benedictine and Abbot Bishop
Dino Borgioli (1891–1960), opera singer
Francesca Bertini (1892–1985), actress
Silpa Bhirasri (1892–1962), father of modern art in Thailand
Anna Banti (1895–1985), writer
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), composer and pianist
Giorgio Piccardi (1895–1972), chemist
Ottone Rosai (1895–1957), painter
Ines Alfani-Tellini (1896–1985), singer (soprano) and music teacher
Rodolfo Terlizzi (1896–1971), fencer
Hermann Fischer (1896–1922), German mechanical engineer and assassin
Pietro Linari (1896–1972), racing cyclist
RAM (d. I. Ruggero Alfredo Michahelles ) (1898–1976), artist
Roberto Ridolfi (1899–1991), historian
Nello Carrara (1900-1993), physicist
Carlo Maria Pintacuda (1900–1971), racing car driver

20th century

1901 to 1925

Alberto Doria (1901–1944), screenwriter and film director
Carlo Buti (1902–1963), singer
Franz Gottwalt Fischer (1902–1960), German chemist
Gherardo Bosio (1903–1941), architect
Orsola Nemi (1903–1985), writer
Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945), politician, journalist and book author
Harold Acton (1904-1994) British author
Riccardo Reuven Pacifici (1904–1943), rabbi
Ugo Procacci (1905–1991), art historian, restorer and university professor
Renato Cenni (1906–1977), painter, caricaturist and documentary film director
Pietro Tordi (1906–1990), actor
Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984), Swiss Sufi researcher
Ugo Pignotti (1908–1989), fencer
Mario Luigi Ciappi (1909–1996), Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Mario Chiari (1909–1989), production designer and film director
Ulf Jantzen (1909–2000), German classical archaeologist
Giulio Racah (1909–1965), Israeli-Italian mathematician and physicist
Piero Scotti (1909–1976), racing car driver
Gianni Franciolini (1910–1960), film director
Giovanni Nencioni (1911–2008), linguist and Romanist
Folco Lulli (1912-1970), actor
Fosco Maraini (1912–2004), anthropologist, ethnologist, writer and photographer
Gino Bechi (1913–1993), singer and actor
Giorgio Bocchino (1913-1995), fencer
Cesar Bresgen (1913–1988), Austrian composer
Vasco Pratolini (1913–1991), writer and screenwriter
Federigo Melis (1914–1973), economic historian
Mario del Monaco (1915–1982), opera singer
Valentino Bucchi (1916–1976), composer, music critic and teacher
Paolo Cavallina (1916–1986), journalist, writer and film director
Andrea Checchi (1916–1974), actor
Franco Scaglione (1916–1993), aircraft engineer and automobile designer
Gigi Ballista (1918–1980), actor
Giovanni Bianchi (1918–2003), Roman Catholic bishop
Carlo Piccardi (1919–1971), football player
Franco Rossi (1919–2000), film director, screenwriter and film producer
Tristano Manacorda (1920–2008), physicist and university professor
Artemio Franchi (1922–1983), football official
Margherita Hack (1922–2013), astrophysicist and science journalist
Lorenzo Natali (1922–1989), politician
Menotti Avanzolini (1923-2007), football player
Adriano Barlotti (1923-2008), mathematician
Galeazzo Benti (1923–1993), actor
Piero Lulli (1923–1991), actor
Flavio Testi (1923–2014), composer and musicologist
Franco Zeffirelli (1923–2019), film, theater and opera director
Aldo Andreotti (1924–1980), mathematician
Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017), political scientist and philosopher
Carlo Caracciolo (1925–2008), media entrepreneur
Nedo Fiano (* 1925), concentration camp survivor
Eugenio Miccini (1925–2007), poet, artist and essayist
Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994), journalist, historian and politician

1926 to 1950

Aldo Bassan (1926–1990), documentary filmmaker
Katie Boyle (1926-2018), British actress and television presenter
Mario Piccioli (1926-2010), concentration camp survivor
Enzo Sacchi (1926–1988), racing cyclist
Piero Umiliani (1926–2001), film music composer
Giacomo Becattini (1927-2017), economist
Italo Alfaro (1928–1979), director and screenwriter
Vittorio de 'Frescobaldi (* 1928), entrepreneur
Luc Ciompi (* 1929), professor of psychiatry
Riccardo Ehrman (* 1929), journalist
Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006), journalist and writer
Sylvano Bussotti (* 1931), composer and artist
Nicola Caracciolo (1931-2020), journalist and documentary filmmaker
Giuliano Cenci (1931–2018), animator
Lamberto Dini (* 1931), politician
Massimo Sarchielli (1931–2010), film actor, film director and artist
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (* 1932), physicist
Maurizio Lucidi (1932–2005), film director and film editor
Marina Malfatti (1933–2016), actress
Richard Rogers (* 1933), British architect
Raffaele Maiello (1934-2013), director
Ilaria Occhini (1934–2019), actress
Carlo Casini (1935-2020), politician
Luigi Naviglio (1936-2001), science fiction writer
Dianora Niccolini (* 1936), Italian-American photographer
Gian Pietro Calasso (* 1937), theater and television director and screenwriter
Michelangelo Riccardo Maria Tiribilli (* 1937), retired abbot
Piero Antinori (* 1938), wine patron
Nino Filastò (* 1938), writer and lawyer
Gianni Lonzi (* 1938), water polo player
Marcelo Angiolo Melani (* 1938), religious priest and Roman Catholic bishop
Tiziano Terzani (1938–2004), journalist and writer
Maurizio Nannucci (* 1939), artist
Franco Pacini (1939–2012), astrophysicist
Giancarlo Bigazzi (1940–2012), song composer and author
Franco Cardini (* 1940), historian
Roberto Cavalli (* 1940), fashion creator and designer
Lorella De Luca (1940-2014), actress
Enrico Giusti (* 1940), mathematician
Roberto Innocenti (* 1940), illustrator and author
Roberto Calasso (* 1941), essayist
George Pan Cosmatos (1941-2005), Greek film director
Roberto Poggiali (* 1941), racing cyclist
Vittorio Cecchi Gori (* 1942), film producer
Gabriele Veneziano (* 1942), physicist
Donatella Mazzoleni (* 1943), architect, architectural theorist, author and university professor
Amadeus of Savoy (* 1943), entrepreneur
Andrea Bellosi (* 1944), industrial designer and restorer
Andrea Frazzi (1944–2006), theater, television and film director
Antonio Frazzi (* 1944), theater, television and film director
Guido Bastianini (* 1945), papyrologist and classical philologist
Sandro Chia (* 1946), Italian-American artist
Riccardo Francovich (1946–2007), medieval archaeologist
Sergio Mariotti (* 1946), chess player
Paolo Bizzeti SJ (* 1947), Catholic bishop
Angiola Janigro (* 1947), theater and film director and screenwriter
Andrea Milani Comparetti (1948–2018), mathematician and astronomer
Daniel Vogelmann (* 1948), publisher and poet
Marco Colli (* 1950), film and television director and screenwriter
Luca Giuliani (* 1950), Italian-German classical archaeologist
Anna Sarfatti (* 1950), teacher and children's book author and translator

1951 to 1975

Ugo Bardi (* 1952), chemist
Baldovino Dassu (* 1952), professional golfer
Michele Sarfatti (* 1952), historian
Barbara Casini (* 1954), jazz musician
Cinzia Th. Torrini (* 1954), director and screenwriter
Francesco Bonami (* 1955), art critic and curator
Leonardo Domenici (* 1955), politician
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (* 1956), economist
Piergiuseppe Perazzini (* 1956), racing car driver
Camilla Brunelli (* 1957), historian and Germanist
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014), American writer and film actress
Ernesto De Pascale (1958–2011), music journalist, blues rock musician and music producer
Antonio Di Gennaro (* 1958), football player and coach
Alessandro Andrei (* 1959), shot putter
Stefano Manetti (* 1959), bishop
Claudio Maniago (* 1959), bishop
Angelo Scuri (* 1959), fencer
Sandro Veronesi (* 1959), writer
Andrea Bellandi (* 1960), Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno
Carlo Conti (* 1961), moderator
Mike Francis (1961–2009), singer and composer
Domenico Costanzo (* 1962), film director and maker
Franco Ballerini (1964-2010), racing cyclist
Marco Masini (* 1964), musician
Gregorio Nardi (* 1964), pianist and musicologist
Paolo Vallesi (* 1964), singer and songwriter
Giacomo Di Benedetto (* 1966), jazz and pop singer
Daniele Balli (* 1967), soccer goalkeeper
Alessandro Gramigni (* 1968), motorcycle racer
Gloria Marconi (* 1968), long-distance runner
Irene Grandi (* 1969), singer, composer and film actress
Francesco Casagrande (* 1970), racing cyclist
Paul Seidel (* 1970), mathematician
Benedetta Ciardi (* 1971), scientist
Luigi Falorni (* 1971), film director, author, cameraman and producer
Alessandra Ammara (* 1972), pianist
Filippo Casagrande (* 1973), racing cyclist
Roberto Guerra (* 1973), actor
Rose McGowan (born 1973), American actress
Gianluca Rocchi (* 1973), football referee
Maurizio Checcucci (* 1974), sprinter
Francesco Flachi (* 1975), soccer player
Nico Gori (* 1975), jazz musician
Matteo Renzi (* 1975), politician
Leonardo Scarselli (* 1975), racing cyclist

1976 to 2000

Lorenzo Stovini (* 1976), football player
Luca Tognozzi (* 1977), football player
Alba Rohrwacher (* 1979), actress
Filippo Carlà-Uhink (* 1980), ancient historian
Vittoria Puccini (* 1981), actress
Tommaso Berni (* 1983), soccer goalkeeper
Emma Marrone (* 1984), pop singer
Martina Stella (* 1984), film actress and photo model
Diana Winter (* 1985), Austrian-Italian musician
Chiara Chiti (* 1987), actress
Andrea Lalli (* 1987), long-distance runner
Matteo Trevisan (* 1989), tennis player
Rachele Bruni (* 1990), swimmer
Lorenzo Tonelli (* 1990), football player
Giorgio Cantarini (* 1992), actor
Cristiano Piccini (* 1992), football player
Desiree Di Benedetto (* 2000), chess player

Well-known residents of Florence

Galileo Galilei

Arnold Böcklin

Luigi Capuana

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Masaccio (1401–1428), painter
Giuliano Dati (around 1445–1524), theologian and poet
Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), painter
Michelangelo (1475–1564), painter, sculptor, architect and poet
Niccolò Soggi (around 1480–?), Painter
Peter Candid (around 1548–1628), Flemish painter and printmaker
Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), composer
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Francesco Carletti (1573–1636), merchant, traveler and chronicler
Valentino Siani (1595–1672), violin maker
Luca Giordano (1634–1705), painter and etcher
Pietro Guerrini (1651–1716), draftsman, technician and spy
Horace Mann, 1st Baronet (1706–1786), Ambassador of Great Britain in Florence
Johann Zoffany (1733-1810), British painter
Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801), composer
Nikolai Nikititsch Demidow (1773–1828), Russian industrialist
Maximilian Josef Leidesdorf (1787–1840), Austrian composer and music publisher
Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros (1803–1866), Cuban entrepreneur and author
Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), English writer
Cristoforo Negri (1809-1896), politician, diplomat and geographer
Anatole Demidoff di San Donato (1813–1870), Russian industrialist
Oswald von Fabrice (1820–1898), Saxon state official
Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor
Charles Edward Mansfield (1828–1907), British diplomat
Launt Thompson (1833-1894), British-American sculptor
Hugo Schiff (1834–1915), German chemist
Alessandro D'Ancona (1835–1914), literary historian
Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1835-1910), American sculptor
Luigi Capuana (1839-1915), writer
Salvatore Albano (1841-1893), sculptor
Karl Hilgers (1844–1925), German sculptor
Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935), Scottish composer and conductor
Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926), sculptor
Blandine Gravina (1863–1941), daughter of Cosima Wagner and Hans von Bülow and granddaughter of Franz Liszt
Irene Forbes-Mosse (1864–1946), German writer
Charles Loeser (1864–1928), American art historian and collector
Wilhelm Hummel (1872–1939), Swiss painter, draftsman and graphic artist
Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944), philosopher and fascist politician
Otto Hettner (1875–1931), German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and professor
Arnold Rechberg (1879–1947), German entrepreneur, sculptor and political publicist
Giovanni Amendola (1882–1926), journalist and politician
Hermann von Boetticher (1887–1941), German writer and dramaturge
Max Krell (1887–1962), German author and editor
Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), British writer
Gerhard Wolf (1896–1971), consul
Carlo Rosselli (1899–1937), politician, historian and publicist
Kressmann Taylor (1903-1996), American writer
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), neurologist, neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner
David Diamond (1915-2005), American composer
Paul Mersmann the Younger (1929–2017), German sculptor, painter and writer
Sandro Del-Prête (* 1937), Swiss painter
Birgit Pausch (* 1942), painter
Magdalen Nabb (1947–2007), British crime writer
Tristan Honsinger (* 1949), American free jazz cellist
András Schiff (* 1953), Hungarian pianist and conductor
Silvio Bandinelli (* 1954), film director
Bettina Hoffmann (* 1959), German viol player, baroque cellist and musicologist
Daniela Trixl (* 1974), German artist
Verena Stenke (* 1981), performance and video artist

Individual evidence

^ Jean-François Bergier: Giovanni Benci. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 29, 2002 , accessed March 10, 2020 .

[1] Jean-François Bergier: Giovanni Benci. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 29, 2002 , accessed March 10, 2020 .