Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

male, deceased (1642)
physics, scientific revolution, physicist, From Tuscany, Italian, Astronomer…fromPisa, from the Province of Pisa
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher closely associated with...
Giovanni Pisano

Giovanni Pisano

male, deceased (1314)
Gothic sculptor, sculptor, Italian, perugia, siena, pistoia…fromPisa
Giovanni Pisano (c. 1250 -c. 1315) was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect. Son of the famous sculptor Nicola Pisano, he received his...
Ugolino della Gherardesca

Ugolino della Gherardesca

male, deceased (1289)
death by starvation, Ruggieri degli Ubaldini, Archbishop of Pisa, Gherardesca, Archbishop Ruggieri, Fictional cannibals…fromPisa, pisa
Ugolino della Gherardesca (c. 1220 - March 1289), count of Donoratico, was an Italian noble and naval commander, head of the powerful family of...
Fibonacci

Fibonacci

male, deceased (1250)
mathematician, sequence, Italian, leonardo pisano, Egyptian fraction, leonardo fibonacci…Leonardo of Pisa, fromPisa
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo Fibonacci, or, most commonly, simply Fibonacci, was an Italian...
Titta Ruffo

Titta Ruffo

male, deceased (1953)
from the Province of Pisa, lohengrin, Italian, verdi, baritone, pisa…fromPisa
Titta Ruffo, Italian opera singer (Pisa, June 9, 1877 - Florence, July 5, 1953), was generally regarded as the greatest baritone of his generation....
Antonio Pacinotti

Antonio Pacinotti

male, deceased (1912)
electricity, electric motor, Italian, university of pisa, dynamo, physics…pisa, fromPisa
Antonio Pacinotti (June 7 1841 - May 22 1912) was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa. Pacinotti was born...
Nino Pisano

Nino Pisano

male
sculptor, Italian, santa maria novella, pisa, santa caterina, death…fromPisa, Santa Caterina, Pisa, Pisa Cathedral
Nino Pisano (fl. 1349-1368) was an Italian sculptor, the son of Andrea Pisano. He collaborated with his father in sculptures for the churches of...
Bruno Pontecorvo

Bruno Pontecorvo

male, deceased (1993)
Soviet physicist, Jewish person, Italian, Jewish, scientist, ussr…fromPisa
Bruno Pontecorvo (August 22, 1913 - September 24, 1993) was an Italian-born atomic physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the...
Orazio Gentileschi

Orazio Gentileschi

male, deceased (1639)
painter, Baroque painter, Italian, Caravaggisti, fromPisa, Orazio Lomi Gentileschi
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563 - 1639) was an Italian Baroque painter, one of more important painters influenced by Caravaggio (the so-called...
Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo

male, deceased (2006)
death from cardiovascular disease, World War II, La battaglia di Algeri, film director, The Battle of Algiers, Italian…fromPisa, died from heart failure, born in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker, best known for "La battaglia di Algeri" ("The Battle of Algiers") although he directed several movies...