- William Harvey
William Harvey was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. This developed the ideas of René Descartes who in his "Description of the Human Body" said that the arteries and veins were pipes which carried nourishment around the body. - Realdo Colombo
Matteo Realdo Colombo or Renaldus Columbus (c. 1516 - 1559) was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559. - Guidobaldo del Monte
Guidobaldo del Monte (11 January 1545 - 6 January 1607, var. Guidobaldi or Guido Baldi), Marquis del Monte, was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer of the 16th century. - Benedetto Castelli
Benedetto Castelli, born Antonio Castelli (1578 - April 9 1643) was an Italian mathematician. He took the name "Benedetto" upon entering the Benedictine Order in 1595. Born in Brescia, he studied at the University of Padua and later became an abbot at the Benedictine monastery in Monte Cassino. He was a long-time friend and supporter of his teacher, Galileo Galilei. - Janus Pannonius
Janus Pannonius (Latin: "Janus Pannonius", Hungarian: "János Csezmicei" or "Kesencei", Croatian: "Ivan Česmički"; 1434 - 1472) was a Croatian-Hungarian humanist, latinist poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the only truly significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of Humanist poetry in Europe. He was born in a small village near the Drava river in a corner of Slavonia. - Lawrence Of Brindisi
Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (July 22, 1559, Brindisi, Puglia - July 22, 1619), born "Giulio Cesare Russo", was a Roman Catholic friar, a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was beatified in 1783 by Pope Pius VI, canonized in 1881 by Pope Leo XIII, and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope John XXIII in 1959. His feast day is July 21. Julio was born in Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples, to a family of Venetian merchants. - Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo (February 6, 1778 - September 10, 1827), Greek-Italian writer, was born at Zakynthos in the Ionian Isles in 1778. On the death of his father, a physician in Split, Croatia, the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school. - Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini (April 8, 1692 - February 26, 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist. - Gabriele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppio (1523- October 9, 1562), often known by his Latin name Fallopius, was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century. He was born at Modena and died at Padua. His family was noble but very poor and it was only by a hard struggle he succeeded in obtaining an education. Financial difficulties led him to join the clergy, and in 1542, he became a canon at Modena's cathedral. - Giuseppe Colombo
Giuseppe Colombo (October 2, 1920 - February 20, 1984), better known by his nickname Bepi Colombo, was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy. - Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin (born December 1 1941) is a venetian-born physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the 4004 (MCS-4) project to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing. He also designed/led the design and was the vital force during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. He continued to play a pacesetting role as founder and CEO of Zilog, … - Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius was an Italian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist. Born of an ancient family in Verona, and educated at Padua where at 19 he was appointed professor at the University. On account of his eminence in the practice of medicine, he was elected physician of the Council of Trent. A bronze statue was erected in his honor by the citizens of Padua, … - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas Smith (December 23, 1513-August 12, 1577), was an English scholar and diplomat. He was born at Saffron Walden in Essex. He became a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1530, and in 1533 was appointed a public reader or professor. He lectured in the schools on natural philosophy, and on Greek in his own rooms. In 1540 Smith went abroad, and, after studying in France and Italy and taking a degree of law at the University of Padua, … - Jacopo Zabarella
Jacopo Zabarella (or Giacomo Zabarella was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician. He was born and died in Padua. From 1564 to 1589, he held a chair of natural philosophy and a chair of logic at the University of Padua (his successor was Cesare Cremonini). He signed his Latin texts Jacobus Zabarella. He was accused of atheism for the notable chapter "De inventione æterni motoris" in his "De rebus naturalibus libri XXX". - Giuseppe Moletti
Giuseppe Moletti (1531-1588) was an Italian mathematician best known for his "Dialogo intorno alla Meccanica" (Dialogue on Mechanics). Though an obscure figure today, he was a renowned mathematician during his life-time, and was even consulted by Pope Gregory XIII on his new calendar.<sup></sup> He held the mathematics chair at the University of Padua, preceding Galileo, who had sent him his theorems on the centre of gravity. - Vittorino da Feltre
Vittorino da Feltre (1378 - 1446) was an Italian humanist and teacher, born in Feltre (province of Belluno). His real name was Vittorino Ramboldini. He studied at Padua under Gasparino da Barzizza and later taught there, but after a few years he was invited by the marquis of Mantua to educate his children. At Mantua, Vittorino set up a school at which he taught the marquis's children and the children of other prominent families, … - Daniele Barbaro
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro (also Barbarus) (February 8, 1514-1570) was an Italian translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius. He was born in Venice, the son of Francesco di Daniele Barbaro and Elena Pisani, daughter of the banker Alvise Pisani and Cecilia Giustinian. Barbaro studied philosophy, mathematics, and optics at the University of Padua. His brother was Marcantonio Barbaro. Together they built the Villa Barbaro. - Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (Matthiolus) (23 March 1501-1577) was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena. He received his MD at the University of Padua in 1523, and subsequently practiced the profession in Siena, Rome, Trento and Gorizia, becoming personal doctor of Ferdinand and Maximilian II. A careful student of botany, … - Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (June 5 1646 - July 26 1684) was an Italian mathematician of noble descent, and the first woman to receive a doctor of philosophy degree. She was born at Venice. Her father was Giovanni Battista Cornaro, a Procurator of St. Mark's. At the age of seven she began the study of Latin and Greek under distinguished instructors, and soon became proficient in these languages. She also mastered Hebrew, Spanish, French and Arabic, … - Bernardino Ramazzini
Bernardino Ramazzini (November 3, 1633, Carpi - November 5, 1714, Padua) was an Italian physician. Ramazzini was an early proponent of the use of cinchona bark (from which quinine is derived) in the treatment of Malaria. His most important contribution to medicine was his work on occupational diseases called "De Morbis Artificum Diatriba" ("Diseases of Workers") which outlined the health hazards of chemicals, dust, metals, … - Marcus Musurus
Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar, was born at Rethymno, Crete. At an early age he became a pupil of John Lascaris at Venice. In 1505, Musurus was made professor of Greek language at the University of Padua. But when the university was closed in 1509 during the War of the League of Cambrai, he returned to Venice where he filled a similar post. In 1516, Musurus was summoned to Rome by Pope Leo X, who appointed him archbishop of Monemvasia (Malvasia) in the Peloponnese, … - Bruno Rossi
Bruno B. Rossi (April 13, 1905 - November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics in the 1960s. Rossi was born in Venice. After receiving the doctorate degree from the University of Bologna, … - Francesco Barbaro
Francesco Barbaro was an important humanist in Venice of the noble Barbaro family. He was the son of Candiano Barbaro. He was a student at the University of Padua. Early in his career, he translated Greek texts into Latin. He was elected to the Venetian Senate in 1419. He wrote "De re uxoria," inspired by ancient Latin and Greek sources. In 1432 he was made "Grand Prince of the Order of the Dragon" by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. - Hubert Languet
Hubert Languet (Vitteaux (21 miles west of Dijon) 1518-Antwerp September 30 1581) was a French diplomat and reformer. He entered the University of Poitiers in order to study law but he was interested also in theology, history, and science and political science. He visited the universities of Padua and Bologna, and traveled in Italy and Spain. He was greatly influenced by Melanchthon's "Loci theologici," which put an end to his doubts. - Francesco Zantedeschi
Francesco Zantedeschi was an Italian priest and physicist. For some time Abée Zantedeschi was professor of physics and philosophy in the Liceo of Venice. Later he accepted the chair of physics in the University of Padua, which he held until 1853 being then obliged to resign on account of failing sight. He was an ardent worker and prolific writer, … - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397 - May 10, 1482) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. He was born at Florence, the son of the physician Dominic Toscanelli. Educated in mathematics at the University of Padua, he left in 1424 with the title of a doctor of medicine. Toscanelli is noted for his observations of comets and the painstaking calculation of their orbits. Among these was Halley's comet in 1456. - Massimo Marchiori
Massimo Marchiori is without doubt the Italian scientist who most contributed to the development of the World Wide Web. In July, 2004, he was given the prize TR100 by the Technology Review (the best 100 researchers in the world). He works nowadays in the University of Venice, Italy and in the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also famous for HyperSearch, a search engine where the results were based not only on single pages ranks, … - Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos
Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos (born February 11, 1791, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now İstanbul, Turkey) – died August 18, 1865, Aegina) was a Greek statesman and member of the Mavrocordatos family of Phanariotes. In 1812, he went to the court of his uncle Ioannes Caradja, Hospodar of Wallachia, with whom he passed into exile in Russia and Italy (1817), where he studied at the University of Padua. - Francesco Barozzi
Francesco Barozzi (in Latin, "Franciscus Barocius") (August 9, 1537-November 23, 1604) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. - Richard Mead
Richard Mead (11 August 1673 - 16 February 1754) was an English physician. - John Of Nepomuk
John of Nepomuk or John Nepomucene is a national saint of Bohemia. In his fully developed legend he was the confessor of the Queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional. He has been made into the first martyr of the Seal of the Confessional, a patron against calumnies and, because of the manner of his death, a protector from floods. The historical starting-point of the Nepomuk legend is the person of John of Pomuk (Jan z Pomuk), … - Marco Antonio de Dominis
Marco Antonio de Dominis (Croatian Markantun de Dominis) Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science, was born on the island of Arbe, off the coast of Dalmatia, in 1566; d. in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, Rome, September, 1624. Educated at the Illyrian College at Loreto and at the University of Padua, he entered the Society of Jesus and taught mathematics, logic, and rhetoric at Padua and Brescia. - Francysk Skaryna
Francišak Skaryna was a Belarusian famous for as the printer of the first book in an Eastern Slavic language. He was born in the historical Belarusian city of Połacak. The exact dates of birth and death are unknown; the two most probable estimates are 1485 - 1540 and 1490 - 1551. Skaryna graduated from the arts faculty at University of Kraków in 1504 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1512 he received doctorate in medicine at University of Padua in Italy. - Richard Blackmore
Sir Richard Blackmore, (January 22 1654 - October 9, 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet. He was, however, a respected physician and religious writer. He was born at Corsham, in Wiltshire, the son of a wealthy attorney. He was educated at Westminster School very briefly, and he entered St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1669. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1674 and his MA in 1676. - John Argyropoulos
John Argyropoulos was a Byzantine lecturer, philosopher and humanist during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Born in 1415 in Constantinople. He translated Greek philosophical and theological works into Latin besides producing rhetorical and theological works in his own. He divided his time between Italy and Constantinople. When Constantinople fell in 1453 he left it for the Peloponnesus and in 1456 took refuge in Italy. - Cesare de Michelis
Cesare De Michelis (born in 1943) is a professor of Italian literature at the University of Padua, Italy. He is frequently confused with his omonimous cousin Cesare G. De Michelis, professor of Russian literature at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". - Demetrius Chalcondyles
Demetrius Chalcocondyles or Demetrios Chalcocondylis or Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (1424-1511), born in Athens, was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West. He contributed also to Italian Renaissance literature. He was associated with Marsilius Ficinus, Angelus Politianus, and Theodorus Gaza in the revival of letters in the Western world. One of his pupils at Florence was the famous Johann Reuchlin. - Ulisse Munari
Ulisse Munari is an Italian astronomer. He is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Padua, and works at the Asiago Observatory. He is a member of the "RAdial Velocity Experiment" (RAVE) team, an all-sky survey using the UK's 1.2m Schmidt telescope in Australia, as well as working with the planned GAIA mission. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. - José Gabriel Funes
Fr. José Gabriel Funes, S.J., an Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer, is the current director of the Vatican Observatory. He has a master's degree in Astronomy from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina and a doctorate from the University of Padua in Italy. He has also a bachelor's degree in philosophy from University del Salvador in Argentina and a bachelor's degree in theology from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. - Boncompagno da Signa
Boncompagno da Signa (also "Boncompagnus" or "Boncompagni"; circa 1170 - after 1240) was an Italian scholar, grammarian, historian, and philosopher. Born in Signa, near Florence, between 1165 and 1175, he was a professor of rhetoric ("ars dictaminis") at the University of Bologna and then the University of Padua. In the early thirteenth century, he was one of the first Western European authors to write in the vernacular, in his case Italian.
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