List of personalities of the city of Venice
This list includes people born in Venice as well as people who worked in Venice but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Venice
Until 1500
- Gerhard von Csanád (980-1046), Bishop of Csanád
- Orso Orseolo (around 988-1049), member of the Orseolo patrician family
- Michele Morosini (around 1308-1382), Doge of Venice
- Gregory XII. (around 1335 - 1417), Pope
- Angelo Barbarigo (around 1350-1418), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Christine de Pizan (1365–?), French writer
- Antonio Correr (1369-1445), cardinal
- Pietro Loredan (1372-1438), Admiral
- Francesco Foscari (1373–1457), Doge of Venice
- Eugene IV (1383–1447), Pope
- Lorenzo Giustiniani (1383-1456), Patriarch
- Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454), humanist and diplomat
- Francesco Condulmer (around 1390–1453), cardinal
- Cristoforo Moro (1390–1471), Doge of Venice
- Michele Giambono (around 1400 - 1462), painter
- Maffeo Gherardi (1406–1492), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Domenico Veneziano (around 1410 - around 1461), painter
- Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494), merchant and traveler
- Paul II (1417–1471), Pope
- Marco Barbo (1420–1491), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Gentile Bellini (around 1429 - 1507), painter and medalist
- Alvise Cadamosto (around 1432 - 1482), navigator and explorer
- Carlo Crivelli (around 1432 -?), Painter
- Francesco Colonna (1433 / 34–1527), writer
- Thomas Donatus (1434–1504), Patriarch of Venice
- Giovanni Bellini (around 1437-1516), painter
- Jacopo de 'Barbari (around 1440 -?), Painter and engraver
- Vittore Crivelli (around 1440 - around 1501), painter
- Giorgio Spavento (around 1440 - around 1509), architect and engineer
- Francesco Argentino (around 1450-1511), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Girolamo Balbi (around 1450-1535), humanist and bishop
- Antonio Contarini (1450–1524), Patriarch of Venice
- Hermolaus Barbarus (1454-1493), humanist
- Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus
- Tullio Lombardo (around 1455 - 1532), sculptor
- Antonio Lombardo (around 1458 - 1516), sculptor
- Domenico Grimani (1461–1523), patron and art collector
- Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), humanist
- Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti (around 1465 - 1527), painter
- Alessandro Leopardi (around 1466 - 1523), architect, sculptor, engineer and goldsmith
- Marino Sanudo (1466–1536), historian, writer and diary writer
- Luigi Cornaro (1467-1565), humanist
- Gerolamo Querini (1468–1554), Patriarch of Venice
- Marco Basaiti (around 1470 - around 1530), painter
- Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), scholar and cardinal
- Sebastiano Caboto (1472–1557), explorer
- Lorenzo Lotto (1480–1557), painter
- Cristoforo Marcello (around 1480 - 1527), Roman Catholic theologian and humanist
- Marco Cornaro (1482-1524), cardinal
- Pietro Loredan (around 1482–1570), Doge of Venice
- Gasparo Contarini (1483–1542), diplomat and cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Andrea Navagero (1483–1529), humanist and poet
- Sebastiano del Piombo (around 1485 - 1547), painter
- Hieronymus Ämiliani (1486–1537), founder of the Somaskan order and the patron saint of orphans
- Niccolò Massa (1489–1569), doctor and anatomist
- Francesco Venier (1489–1556), Doge of Venice
- Giovanni Marinoni (1490–1562), member of the Catholic male order of the Theatines
- Marco Grimani (around 1494 - 1544), patriarch and diplomat
- Vettor Grimani (around 1496 - 1558), procurator and patron
- Vincenzo Diedo (1499–1559), Patriarch of Venice
16th Century
1501 to 1550
- Pietro Francesco Contarini (1502–1555), Patriarch of Venice
- Bartolomeo Fonzi (around 1502 - 1562), Franciscan and Protestant martyr
- Cosimo Bartoli (1503–1572), humanist, translator, art theorist and diplomat
- Giovanni Trevisan (1503–1590), Patriarch of Venice
- Marcantonio Amulio (1506–1572), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Bernardo Navagero (1507–1565), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Lodovico Dolce (1508–1568), humanist, poet, writer, translator and art theorist
- Andrea Calmo (1510–1571), actor and playwright
- Andrea Gabrieli (around 1510 - 1586), organist and composer
- Marco Barbaro (1511–1570), genealogist
- Andrea Cornaro (1511–1551), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Daniele Barbaro (1513–1570), scientist and politician
- Giovanni Andrea della Croce (1514–1575), surgeon and pioneer in neurosurgery
- Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594), painter
- Livio Sanuto (around 1520 - 1576), cosmographer and mathematician
- Luigi Pisani (1522–1570), Bishop of Padua, cardinal
- Marcantonio Bragadin (1523–1571), officer
- Zaccaria Dolfin (1527–1583), cardinal and apostolic nuncio
- Giovanni Battista Benedetti (1530–1590), mathematician, physicist, astronomer, architect and philosopher
- Celio Malespini (1531 - around 1609), adventurer and writer
- Agostino Valier (1531–1606), Bishop of Verona, cardinal
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589), French poet
- Bartholomäus Viatis (1538–1624), Nuremberg merchant
- Paolo Paruta (1540–1598), historian, political theorist and statesman
- Giulio Sanuto (1540–1588), draftsman and engraver
- Simone Gatto (around 1545-1595), Kapellmeister and composer
- Veronica Franco (1546–1591), poet
- Aldus Manutius the Younger (1547–1597), son of the famous family of printers
- Bianca Cappello (1548–1587), mistress and Renaissance princess
- Jacopo Palma the Younger (around 1548 - 1628), painter and etcher
- Francesco Maria Bourbon Del Monte (1549–1627), Roman Catholic cardinal
1551 to 1600
- Nicolò Contarini (1552–1631), Doge of Venice
- Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), religious and historian
- Marietta Robusti (around 1554 - 1590), painter
- Francesco Vendramin (1555–1619), Patriarch of Venice
- Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612), composer
- Andrea Morosini (1558–1618), historian
- Domenico Tintoretto (1560–1635), painter
- Marco Tintoretto (around 1560 -?), Painter
- Alberto Valier (1561–1630), Bishop of Verona
- Antonio Foscarini (1570–1622), ambassador
- Giovanni Battista Grillo (around 1570 - 1622), organist and composer
- Carlo Saraceni (1570–1620), painter
- Giovanni Tiepolo (1570–1631), Patriarch of Venice
- Leone da Modena (1571–1648), author, poet, teacher and preacher
- Pietro Valier (1574–1629), Archbishop of Crete, Bishop of Ceneda and Padua, Cardinal
- Carlo Contarini (1580–1656), Doge of Venice
- Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (around 1580 - 1651), lutenist and composer
- Giovanni Valentini (1582 / 1583–1649), organist and composer
- Dario Castello (around 1590 - 1658), composer
- Sarah Copia Sullam (1592–1641), poet and salonnière
- Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598–1659), lawyer, librettist and poet
17th century
1601 to 1650
- Lorenzo Marcello (1603-1656), Admiral
- Natale Monferrato (around 1603 - 1685), organist, composer and conductor
- Vincenzo Fini (1606-1660), lawyer
- Alexander VIII (1610-1691), Pope
- Giulio Carpioni (1613–1678), painter and etcher
- Giovanni Faustini (1615–1651), opera librettist and opera impresario
- Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616–1684), organist and composer
- Francesco Morosini (1618–1694), Doge of Venice
- Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677), composer
- Antonio Sartorio (1620–1691), composer
- Giovanni Battista Volpe (around 1620 - 1691), composer
- Lazzaro Mocenigo (1624-1657), admiral
- Gregorio Barbarigo (1625–1697), cardinal and saint
- Niccolò Manucci (1638–1717), adventurer, author
- Antonia Bembo (around 1640 - around 1720), composer and singer
- Matteo Noris (1640–1714), poet and opera librettist
- Cristofaro Caresana (around 1640-1709), composer
- Giuseppe Sala (around 1643 - 1727), music publisher, printer and bookseller
- Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), philosopher and scholar
- Matteo Alberti (around 1647 - 1735), architect and engineer
- Giovanni II. Cornaro (1647–1722), Doge of Venice
- Giovanni Alberto Badoer (1649–1714), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650–1718), cartographer, cosmographer and manufacturer of globes
1651 to 1700
- Marc René d'Argenson (1652–1721), French statesman
- Carlo Ruzzini (1653–1735), Doge of Venice
- Marc'Antonio Ziani (around 1653-1715), composer
- Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1654–1714), composer and conductor
- David Nieto (1654–1728), physician, philosopher and rabbi
- Gregorio Lazzarini (1655–1730), painter
- Antonio Molinari (1655–1704), painter
- Andrea Tirali (1657–1737), engineer and architect
- Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo (1658–1730), cardinal
- Francesco Silvani (around 1660 -?), Librettist
- Elisabetta Lazzarini (1662–1729), painter
- Giovanni Giuliani (1664–1744), Italian-Austrian plasterer and sculptor
- Alvise Pisani (1664–1741), Doge of Venice
- Antonio Biffi (1666–?), Composer
- Antonio Lotti (around 1667-1740), composer
- Pietro Ottoboni (1667–1740), cardinal, patron and librettist
- Gedeon Romandon (1667–1697), painter
- Giorgio Gentili (around 1669 -?), Composer and violinist
- Angelo Trevisani (1669–?), Painter and engraver
- Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), cellist and composer
- Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751), composer and violinist
- Alessandro Marcello (1673–1747), poet, composer and philosopher
- Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757), pastel painter
- Scipione Maffei (1675–1755), poet and scholar
- Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741), painter
- Giacomo Facco (1676–1753), violinist, conductor and composer
- Jacopo Riccati (1676–1754), mathematician
- Pietro Grimani (1677–1752), Doge of Venice
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), composer and violinist
- Angelo Maria Quirini (1680–1755), Benedictine and cardinal
- Giovanni Battista Grone (1682–1748), theater painter, set designer and architect
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682–1754), painter and etcher
- Giovanni Poleni (1683–1761), mathematician and astronomer
- Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746), architect
- Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739), composer
- Giorgio Massari (1687–1766), architect
- Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687–1767), painter and draftsman
- Antonio Visentini (1688–1782), architect, painter and professor
- Jacob Faber (around 1690 - 1761), master builder and theater painter
- Diana Vico (around 1690–1732), opera singer (alto)
- Clement XIII. (1693–1769), Pope
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), painter
- Anna da Violin (1696–1782), violinist
- Faustina Bordoni (1697–1781), famous mezzo-soprano
- Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697–1768), vedute and landscape painter
- Antonio Bioni (1698–1739), singer and composer
- Francesco Robba (1698–1757), sculptor
- Giovanni Maria Morlaiter (1699–1780), sculptor
- Giuseppe Nogari (1699–1766), painter
- Francesco Corradini (around 1700-1769), composer
18th century
1701 to 1750
- Luisa Bergalli (1703–1779), poet and librettist
- Giovanni Pescetti (around 1704 - 1766), composer
- Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), comedy poet and librettist
- Pietro Rotari (1707–1762), painter
- Domenico Alberti (around 1710-1746), singer and composer
- Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (around 1710 - 1791), pre-classical composer
- Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), writer, art critic and art dealer
- Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), vedute and landscape painter
- Girolamo Francesco Zanetti (1713–1782), classical scholar, philologist, numismatist and historian
- Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714–1795), Jesuit, theologian, church historian, literary historian and Romanist
- David ben Jakob Pardo (1719–1792), scholar
- Giovanni Cornaro (1720–1789), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806), theater poet
- Bernardo Bellotto (1721 / 22–1780), painter
- Angelo Quirini (1721–1796), politician, freemason, enlightener and art collector
- Carlo Rezzonico the Younger (1724–1799), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), writer, adventurer and libertine
- Giacomo Nani (1725–1797), admiral and politician
- Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795), painter
- Francesco Casanova (1727–1803), painter
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804), painter
- Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730–1795), painter and draftsman
- Angelo Emo (1731–1792), Grand Admiral
- Alessandro Longhi (1733–1813), painter
- Agostino Poli (1739–1819), composer and conductor in Stuttgart
- Giovanni Battista Rezzonico (1740–1783), cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Carlo Canobbio (1741–1822), violinist and composer
- Iacopo Morelli (1745–1819), librarian, director of the Biblioteca Marciana
- Maddalena Sirmen (1745–1818), violinist, singer and composer
- Teodoro Correr (1750–1830), collector of art objects and books
1751 to 1800
- Gian Antonio Selva (1751-1819), architect
- Francesco Apostoli (1755-1816), writer
- Giuseppe Fossati (1759–1810), lawyer and translator
- Giuseppe Maria Foppa (1760-1845), librettist
- Vittorio Trento (1761–1833), composer
- Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846), double bass player and composer
- Salvatore Dal Negro (1768–1839), clergyman and physicist
- Daniele Renier (1768–1851), Mayor of Venice
- Antonio de Pian (1784–1851), Austrian painter and engraver
- Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna (1789–1868), chronicler
- Francesco Hayez (1791–1882), painter, history painter, lithographer and engraver
- Pasquale Revoltella (1795–1869), banker and entrepreneur
19th century
1801 to 1850
- Carl von Ghega (1802–1860), Austrian engineer
- Daniele Manin (1804–1857), participant in the revolution of 1848
- Cajetan von Bissingen-Nippenburg (1806–1890), Austrian governor
- Joseph von Doblhoff-Dier (1806–1856), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Luigi Ferrari (1810-1894), sculptor
- Francesco Maria Piave (1810–1876), librettist and director
- Giobatta Giustinian (1816–1888), Mayor of Venice
- Johann Anton von Goëss (1816–1887), Austrian officer, landowner and politician
- Attilio Bandiera (1818–1844), freedom fighter
- Emilio Bandiera (1819–1844), freedom fighter
- Pierluigi Bembo (1823–1882), Mayor of Venice
- Giovanni Bizio (1823-1891), chemist
- Giuseppe Giovanelli (1824–1886), Mayor of Venice
- Antonio Fornoni (1825-1897), entrepreneur
- Felix Karrer (1825–1903), Austrian geologist
- Emilio Teza (1831–1912), Romanist, Indo-Europeanist, Orientalist, philologist, linguist, literary scholar and translator
- Felice Beato (1832–1909), photographer
- Josef Marastani (1834–1895), Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer
- Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (1834–1912), genre painter, fresco artist and art educator
- Bartolomeo Cecchetti (1838–1889), Director of the State Archives in Venice
- Giuseppe Callegari (1841–1906), Bishop of Padua
- Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), economist, financier and politician
- Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917), painter
- Antonio Dal Zotto (1841–1918), sculptor
- Alberto Errera (1842–1894), political economist
- Friedrich Paul Nerly (1842–1919), German-Italian painter
- Giovanni Stucky (1843–1910), entrepreneur
- Lorenzo Tiepolo (1845–1913), Mayor of Venice
- August von Loehr (1847–1917), Austrian railway engineer and collector of minerals and coins
- Anton Lux (1847–1908), Austrian artillery lieutenant and traveler to Africa
- Elia Millosevich (1848-1919), astronomer
- Carlo Salvioli (1848–1930), chess player and endgame theorist
- Riccardo Selvatico (1849–1901), Mayor of Venice
- Filippo Grimani (1850–1921), Mayor of Venice
1851 to 1900
- Antonio Fradeletto (1858–1930), literary scholar, speaker and politician
- Angelo Pavia (1858–1933), lawyer, politician and diplomat
- Giacomo Boni (1859–1925), classical archaeologist and architect
- Maurizio Ferrante Gonzaga (1861–1938), general and senator
- Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), German physicist and chemist
- Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952), mathematician
- Giuseppe Carboni (1866–1934), Canadian singing teacher, conductor and composer
- Georg Karo (1872–1963), German classical archaeologist
- Rosina Storchio (1872–1945), opera singer
- Ferruccio Scattola (1873–1950), painter
- Giulio Bas (1874–1929), composer and organist
- Pier Silverio Leicht (1874–1956), lawyer, historian and librarian
- Giovanni Jeremich (1875–1948), auxiliary bishop in Venice
- Giovanni Giuriati (1876–1970), politician
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948), German-Italian composer
- Giuseppe Volpi (1877–1947), entrepreneur
- Guido Fubini (1879–1943), mathematician
- Enrico Bruna (1880–1921), rower
- Margherita Sarfatti (1880–1961), writer and one of Mussolini's lovers
- Giancarlo Stucky (1881–1941), entrepreneur
- Alessandro Levi (1881–1953), professor of Italian civil law
- Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973), composer and musicologist
- Ercole Olgeni (1883-1947), rower
- Virgilio Ranzato (1883–1937), composer
- Marie Antoinette zu Mecklenburg (1884–1944), noblewoman from the Mecklenburg-Schwerin family
- Maria Assunta Arbesser von Rastburg (1884–1971), Austrian painter and wood sculptor
- Leonardo Dudreville (1885–1975), painter
- Riccardo Malipiero (1886–1975), cellist and music teacher
- Erminio Dones (1887–1945), rower
- Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974), pioneer of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy
- Giorgio Cesana (1892–1967), oarsman
- Giovanni Scatturin (1893–1951), rower
- Giovanni Ponti (1896–1961), resistance fighter, teacher, university professor and mayor of Venice
- Giorgio Parodi (1897–1955), co-founder of the Moto Guzzi motorcycle company
- Andrea Di Robilant (1899–1977), screenwriter and film producer
- Ruggero Gerlin (1899–1983), harpsichordist and music teacher
- Ernesta Oltremonti (1899–1982), painter
- Flavio Poli (1900–1984), glass blower
- Giovanni Urbani (1900–1969), Archbishop and Patriarch of Venice
20th century
1901 to 1925
- Guido Cominotto (1901–1967), sprinter and middle-distance runner
- Guido De Filip (1904–1968), rower
- Adriano Foscari (1904–1980), officer
- Giovanni Korompay (1904–1988), painter
- Elissa Landi (1904–1948), Austrian-American actress and writer
- Annunzio Mantovani (1905–1980), orchestra conductor
- Giuseppe Olivotti (1905–1974), auxiliary bishop in Venice
- Bruno Rossi (1905–1993), astrophysicist and elementary particle physicist
- Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978), architect
- Pietro Serantoni (1906–1964), football player and coach
- Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), painter
- Rinaldo Dal Fabbro (1909–1977), documentary filmmaker and screenwriter
- Mario Mirabella Roberti (1909–2002), Classical and Christian archaeologist
- Alessandro Maria Gottardi (1912-2001), Archbishop
- Gino Sarfatti (1912–1984), industrial designer
- Pierluigi Sartorelli (1912–1996), archbishop and diplomat
- Lamberto Gardelli (1915–1998), conductor
- Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), painter
- Bruno Maderna (1920–1973), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Umberto Bonsignori (1921–2008), filmmaker
- Alvise Zorzi (1922–2016), historian, television journalist and author
- Dino Battaglia (1923–1983), cartoonist
- Federico Caldura (born 1923), director
- Livio Maitan (1923-2004), Trotskyite
- Luigi Nono (1924–1990), composer
- Franco Basaglia (1924–1980), psychiatrist
- Alberto Ongaro (1925–2018), journalist, writer and comic book author
- Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa (1925–2018), former bishop of Ndalatando
- Maria Francesca Tiepolo (1925–2020), paleographer, director of the Venice State Archives
1926 to 1950
- Renato de Grandis (1927–2008), musicologist and composer
- Lauretta Masiero (1927-2010), actress
- Romano Scarpa (1927–2005), draftsman
- Enzo Della Santa (born 1928), documentary filmmaker
- Mino Giarda (* 1928), screenwriter
- Sergio Asteriti (* 1930), comic artist
- Leone Frollo (1931–2018), comic book artist and author
- Giorgio Stivanello (1932-2010), football player
- Silvio Panciera (1933–2016), ancient historian and epigraphist
- Luciano Capitanio (1934–1969), cartoonist
- Luciano Gatto (* 1934), comic artist
- Tobia Scarpa (* 1935), architect and designer
- Mario Ambrosino (* 1936), actor, stage and costume designer
- Maria Grazia Spina (* 1936), actress
- Franco De Piccoli (born 1937), boxer
- Filippo De Luigi (* 1938), film and television maker
- Giovanni Volpi (* 1938), founder of the Scuderia Serenissima
- Silvano Carroli (1939-2020), opera singer (baritone)
- Claudio Fasoli (* 1939), jazz saxophonist and composer
- Terence Hill (* 1939), actor, film producer, screenwriter and director
- Giorgio Mariuzzo (* 1939), screenwriter and film director
- Gianni De Michelis (1940–2019), politician
- Umberto Grano (* 1940), automobile racing driver
- Susanna Mildonian (* 1940), harpist
- Antonella Ragno-Lonzi (* 1940), foil fencer
- Paolo Zolli (1941–1989), Romance scholar, linguist, dialectologist and lexicographer
- Mario Brenta (* 1942), film director and screenwriter
- Nereo Laroni (1942–2019), Mayor of Venice and Member of the European Parliament
- Kirk Morris (born 1942), bodybuilder and actor
- Paolo Costa (* 1943), economist and politician
- Gianni Da Campo (1943–2014), author, film director and translator
- Giancarlo del Monaco (* 1943), opera director
- Antonio Spandri (1943–2011), Roman Catholic theologian
- Massimo Cacciari (* 1944), philosopher
- Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri (* 1944), comic book author
- Ezio Toffolutti (* 1944), set designer, costume designer, director and painter
- Gian Franco Bottazzo (1946-2017), physician
- Silvia Monti (* 1946), actress
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946–2001), conductor, psychiatrist, composer and archaeologist
- Giuseppe Valotto (* 1946), General
- Giorgio Cavazzano (* 1947), comic artist
- Alessandro Lucidi (* 1947), film editor and film director
- Claudio Ambrosini (* 1948), composer
- Patty Pravo (born 1948), pop singer
- Giuseppe Dalla Santa (1950–2011), comic artist
- Malisa Longo (born 1950), actress
1951 to 1970
- Francesco Baldassarri (* 1951), mathematician
- Ivano Bordon (born 1951), football player
- Marcello Brusegan (1954–2016), art historian
- Massimo Guglielmi (* 1954), film director and screenwriter
- Andrea Rinaldo (* 1954), engineer and hydrologist
- Carlo Rizzo (* 1955), percussionist
- Alberto Bressan (* 1956), mathematician
- Lucio Quarantotto (1957-2012), Cantautore
- Roberto Ravaglia (* 1957), racing car driver
- Valerio Held (* 1958), comic artist
- Roberto Ferrucci (* 1960), writer
- Luisa Iovane (* 1960), climber
- Ennio Marchetto (* 1960), comedian and quick-change artist
- Andrea Borella (* 1961), fencer
- Sara Mingardo (* 1961), opera singer
- Mauro Numa (* 1961), fencer
- Andrea Pagnes (* 1962), writer, painter, curator, glass sculptor and artistic director
- Alberto Pinton (* 1962), jazz musician
- Roberto Succo (1962–1988), violent criminal and serial killer
- Andrea Cipressa (* 1963), fencer
- Luigino Pagotto (* 1963), racing car driver
- Leo Colovini (* 1964), game designer
- Carolina Morace (* 1964), soccer player and coach
- Anna Negri (* 1964), film and television director
- Monica Bonvicini (* 1965), artist
- Giuseppe Cipriani (* 1965), automobile racing driver and entrepreneur
- Karina Wisniewska (* 1966), pianist and painter
- Brenno Ambrosini (* 1967), pianist and music teacher
- Lorenzo Boni (* 1967), artist
- Pietro De Maria (* 1967), pianist
- Marisa Rosato (* 1967), German photographer
- Massimiliano Frani (* 1967), pianist and composer
- Debora Caprioglio (* 1968), actress
- Marco Mariani (* 1968), curler
- Lucio Cecchinello (* 1969), motorcycle racer
- Valentina Gardellin (* 1970), basketball player
- Michele Serena (* 1970), soccer player and coach
1971 to 2000
- Stefano Massignan (* 1972), western rider
- Marco Panascia (* 1972), jazz musician
- Massimo Cigana (* 1974), cyclist, duathlete and triathlete
- Claudia Zuriato (* 1974), artist
- Damiano Michieletto (* 1975), theater and opera director
- Cristiano Spiller (* 1975), DJ and music producer
- Matteo Zennaro (* 1976), fencer
- Tathiana Garbin (* 1977), tennis player
- Tommaso Rocchi (* 1977), football player
- Moony (* 1980), musician
- Alberto Casadei (* 1985), triathlete
- Matteo Viola (* 1987), tennis player
- Andrea Migliorini (* 1988), football player
- Mirko Giacomo Nenzi (* 1989), speed skater
- Laura Partenio (* 1991), volleyball player
- Ilaria Zane (* 1992), triathlete
- Martina Favaretto (* 1995), track and field athlete
Well known residents of Venice
- Jacob of Venice (before 1125 - after 1147), cleric, canon lawyer, translator
- Bartolomeo Buon (around 1405 -?), Member of the builder and sculptor family Buon
- Nicolas Jenson (1420–1480), French printer
- Peter Ugelheimer (approx. 1445 / 1450–1488), German patron of the arts, bookseller and publisher
- Aldus Manutius , Italian Aldo Pio Manuzio (1449–1515), printer and publisher
- Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528), German printer and publisher
- Isaak Abrabanel (1437–1508), politician and financier
- Giovanni Caboto (around 1450 - 1498), navigator
- Ottaviano dei Petrucci (1466–1539), printer
- Giorgione (1478 - before 1510), painter
- Titian (around 1489 - 1576), painter
- Jacopo Gastaldi (around 1500 - 1566), publisher and cartographer
- Gracia Nasi (1510–1569), banker, publisher, patron
- Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), banker, diplomat
- Michael Damaskenos (1530–1593), Greek icon painter
- Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck (1639–1688), general, military leader and statesman
- Hannibal von Degenfeld (1648–1691), Swabian military leader
- Antonio Corradini (1688–1752), sculptor
- Benedict von Herman (1689–1782), long-distance trader
- Anna Karolina Orzelska (1707–1769), Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Pietro Chiari (1712–1785), poet and novelist
- Franz Anton Zeiller (1716–1794), Austrian painter
- Giuseppe Scolari (around 1720 – around 1774), composer
- Lord Byron (1788-1824), British poet
- Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer
- Jakob August Lorent (1813–1884), German-American scientist, world traveler and pioneer of architectural photography
- Pius X. (1835-1914), Pope
- Elisabeth zu Carolath-Beuthen (1839–1914), life partner of Herbert von Bismarck
- Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949), painter, architect, designer
- John XXIII (1881–1963), Pope
- Massimo Campigli (1895–1971), German-Italian journalist, painter and graphic artist
- Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979), patron, gallery owner
- Leone Minassian (1905–1978), painter
- John Paul I (1912–1978), Pope
- Herrad Prete (* 1933), painter
- Donna Leon (* 1942), American writer
- Ulrich Tukur (* 1957), German actor, lives partly on the island of Giudecca in the Dorsoduro district
- Petra Reski (* 1958), German journalist and writer
See also
- List of the Doges of Venice
- List of the Patriarchs of Venice
- FBC Unione Venice: Former players and coaches
Individual evidence
- ^ Mauro Cerutti: Alessandro Levi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 22, 2006 , accessed March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Valentina Gardellin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Mirko Nenzi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Partenio Laura , legavolleyfemminile.it