List of personalities of the city of Padua
This list contains personalities born in Padua as well as those who worked in Padua but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Padua
Until 1800
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD) Roman historian
- Luke of Padua (around 1200 - 1285), pupil of St. Francis of Assisi
- Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), early humanist, poet and historian
- Marsilius of Padua (1275 / 90–1342 / 43), state theorist and politician
- Bonaventura Badoardo de Peraga (1332-1389), cardinal
- Francesco Squarcione (around 1397 - around 1468), painter
- Bernhardus Trevisanus (1406-1490), alchemist
- Bartolomeo Bellano (around 1435 - around 1497), sculptor and architect
- Giovanni Maria Padovano (1493–1574), Italian-Polish sculptor and stonemason of the Renaissance
- Girolamo Muzio (1496–1576), writer
- Giovanni Cavino (1500–1570), die cutter
- Sperone Speroni (1500–1588), humanist and author
- Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), architect
- Giacomo Antonio Cortusi (1513-1603), botanist
- Annibale Padovano (1527–1575), organist and composer
- Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589), philosopher
- Giulio Cesare Barbetta (1540–1603), lutenist and composer
- Saul Wahl (1541–1617), customs and salt tenant
- Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555–1617), astronomer and mathematician
- Tiziano Aspetti (around 1559 - 1606), sculptor
- Giulio Cesare Lagalla (1576–1624), professor of philosophy
- Alessandro Varotari (1588–1649), painter
- Giovanni Battista Seni (around 1600 - 1656), astrologer and personal physician
- Pietro Liberi (1605–1687), painter
- Giovanni Battista Bassani (around 1647-1716), violinist and composer
- Girolamo Frigimelica (1653–1732), architect, poet and librettist
- Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), musical instrument maker
- Stefano Pallavicini (1672–1742), court poet, dramaturge and director
- Adam Horatio Casparini (1676–1745), German organ builder
- Domenico Dall'Oglio (around 1700 - 1764), violinist and composer
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746), philosopher and Kabbalist
- Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli (1710−?), Singer and composer
- Melchiorre Cesarotti (1730–1808), poet, translator and scholar
- Alberto Fortis (1741–1803), clergyman, natural philosopher and universal scholar
- Franz Aglietti (1757–1836), doctor
- Ludwig Arduino (1759–1833), farmer and university professor
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), adventurer, engineer, weightlifter and acrobat
1801 to 1900
- Joseph Almanzi (1801-1860), author
- Giuseppe Meneghini (1811–1889), geologist, paleontologist, surgeon, ophthalmologist and author
- Joseph von Scheda (1815–1888), Austrian major general, geographer and cartographer
- Ippolito Nievo (1831–1861), writer
- Ferdinand Franz Lippich (1838–1913), physicist
- Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), writer, librettist and composer
- Friedrich von Hellwald (1842–1892), Austrian cultural historian
- Riccardo Drigo (1846–1930), conductor and ballet composer
- János von Pallavicini (1848–1941), diplomat of Austria-Hungary
- Cesare Pollini (1858–1912), pianist, composer, conductor, music teacher and concert organizer
- Franz Joseph von Battenberg (1861–1924), member of the Battenberg family
- Antonio Berlese (1863–1927), entomologist
- Luca Ermenegildo Pasetto OFMCap (1871–1954), religious, archbishop of the curia
- Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), mathematician
- Guido Alberto Fano (1875–1961), composer, conductor and pianist
- Gino Luzzatto (1878–1964), economic historian
- Giorgio Abetti (1882–1982), astronomer
- Angelo Gardellin (1884–1963), racing cyclist
- Giuseppe Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto (1885–1967), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Osservatore Romano
- Alberto da Zara (1889–1951), Admiral
1901 to 1950
- Gino Cappello (1920–1990), football player
- Jacopo Comin (1901–1973), film producer and journalist
- Emilio Baldanello (1902–1952), actor
- Piero Pastore (1903–1968), football player and actor
- Guglielmo Segato (1906–1979), racing cyclist
- Paolo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto (1910–1993), Italian art historian and director general of the Vatican Museums, as well as city councilor and deputy mayor of the city of Rome
- Rate Furlan (1911–1989), film director and actor
- Mario Perazzolo (1911–2001), football player and coach
- Luigi Gui (1914-2010), politician
- Mario Ricci (1914–2005), racing cyclist
- Giuseppe Colombo (1920–1984), engineer and mathematician7
- Silvano Zorzi (1921–1994), civil engineer and bridge builder
- Giovanni Santinello (1922–2003), philosopher and university professor
- Omero Tognon (1924–1990), football player and coach
- Giorgio Torraca (1927–2010), chemist and conservator
- Pino Ferrara (1929–2011), actor and voice actor
- Mario Ravagnan (1930-2006), fencer
- Carlo Reali (* 1930), actor, film editor and voice actor
- Egidio Caporello (* 1931), Bishop of Mantua
- Walter Santesso (1931–2008), actor, director and screenwriter
- Brunella Bovo (1932-2017), actress
- Leandro Faggin (1933-1970), racing car driver
- Antonio Negri (* 1933), political scientist
- Paolo Mietto (1934–2020), Roman Catholic priest and superior general
- Claudio Scimone (1934–2018), conductor
- Antonia Arslan (* 1938), archaeologist
- Franco Carraro (* 1939), sports official and politician
- Bruno Nicolè (1940–2019), football player
- Giampaolo Capovilla (1945–1997), painter, actor and film director
- Ana Chumachenco (* 1945), violinist
- Lucia Valentini Terrani (1946–1998), opera singer
- Alberto Bigon (* 1947), football player and coach
- Giorgio Morbiato (* 1948), racing cyclist
- Franco Ongarato (* 1949), racing cyclist
From 1951
- Mara Zampieri (* 1951), opera and concert singer
- Novella Calligaris (born 1954), swimmer
- Riccardo Patrese (* 1954), racing car driver
- Alessandro Barchiesi (* 1955), classical philologist
- Pier Francesco Boscaro degli Ambrosi (* 1955), film director and screenwriter
- Massimo Carlotto (* 1956), author
- Giancarlo Galan (* 1956), politician
- Carlo Mazzacurati (1956-2014), film director
- Gianfranco Dalla Barba (* 1957), fencer
- Renzo Pegoraro (* 1959), Roman Catholic clergyman and bioethicist
- Maurizio Cattelan (* 1960), artist
- Paolo Rondo-Brovetto (* 1961), economist
- Marco Marin (* 1963), saber fencer
- Silvio Martinello (* 1963), racing cyclist
- Grazia Toderi (* 1963), video artist
- Nicola Grigolo (* 1967), beach volleyball player
- Francesca Bortolozzi (* 1968), foil fencer
- Alexandra von Teuffenbach (* 1971), Catholic theologian
- Francesco Toldo (* 1971), football player
- Rossano Galtarossa (* 1972), rower
- Massimiliano Alajmo (* 1974), cook
- Mario Benetton (* 1974), racing cyclist
- Alberto Ongarato (* 1975), racing cyclist
- Stefano Galvani (* 1977), tennis player
- Mauro Bergamasco (* 1979), rugby union player
- Giorgio Pantano (* 1979), automobile racing driver
- Mirco Bergamasco (born 1983), rugby union player
- Marco Galiazzo (* 1983), archer
- Elisa Camporese (* 1984), soccer player
- Luca Rossettini (* 1985), football player
- Lech Antonio Uszynski (* 1986), Polish-Italian-Swiss violist
- Cristian Pasquato (* 1989), football player
- Michael Dalle Stelle (* 1990), racing car driver
- Leonora Armellini (* 1992), pianist
- Riccardo Agostini (* 1994), automobile racing driver
Well-known Padua residents
- Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), Portuguese-Italian Franciscan, theologian and preacher
- Palla Strozzi (around 1373 - 1462), merchant and humanist
- Elijah Levita (1469–1549), poet, humanist and philologist
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), canon, lawyer, administrator and doctor
- Damião de Góis (1502–1574), diplomat and historian
- Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), Flemish anatomist
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- Francis de Sales (1567–1622), Prince-Bishop of Geneva
- Otto von Preen (1579–1634), German lawyer and court official
- Stefano Landi (1587–1639), alto music composer from Rome
- Sergio Pola (1674–1748), titular bishop of Famagusta
- Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), writer, adventurer and libertine
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), German composer, conductor and Kapellmeister
- Leopold Mandić (1866–1942), Croatian Capuchin, saint