- Bolognese School
The Bolognese School or the "School of Bologna" of painting flourished in Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. Its most important representatives include the Carrracci family, including Ludovico and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino and Annibale. Later it included other prominent Baroque painters: Domenichino and Lanfranco, …
- Guido Reni
Guido Reni (November 4, 1575 - August 18, 1642) was a prominent Italian painter of high-Baroque style.
- Christian Vieri
Christian "Bobo" Vieri (born July 12, 1973 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian football striker. He is currently unattached, having left Atalanta at the end of June 2007.
- Alex Zanardi
Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi, (born October 23, 1966), is an Italian racing driver. He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late 1990s. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver. More recently he has attracted widespread praise for his racing comeback in the aftermath of a crash in 2001 which resulted in him losing both legs. As of 2007 he competes in the World Touring Car Championship.
- Enzo Biagi
Enzo Biagi (born August 9, 1920) is a renowned Italian journalist.
- Giovanni Andrea Donducci
Giovanni Andrea Donducci also known as Mastelletta (1575-1655), was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School (painting). His father was a maker of vats ("mastelli"). Born in Bologna, he trained in the Carracci "Academy degli Incamminati" at about the time when Domenichino, Lucio Massari, and perhaps Albani were there.
- Francesco Gessi
Francesco Gessi (1558 - 1649) was a Bolognese painter of the Baroque, who initially trained with Guido Reni.
- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (born August 31, 1947) is an Italian businessman with an estimated net worth of 400 million dollars, president of Ferrari and chairman of FIAT; he is also president of Italian Confindustria and of FIEG. His name is derived from the family's former title "Marchese di Montezemolo." He is related to Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, who became a cardinal in 2006.
- Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti was an Italian Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot. Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his theological studies before he had reached the minimum age for ordination as a priest; he was ordained in 1797. In the same year, he became professor of Arabic at the University of Bologna. He later lost this position for refusing to take the oath of allegiance required by the Cisalpine Republic, which governed Bologna at the time.
- Loris Capirossi
Loris Capirossi (born April 4 1973) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who currently rides for the factory Ducati MotoGP team. He is a former 250cc World Champion for Aprilia.
- Saint Petronius
Saint Petronius (Italian: San Petronio) (died ca. 450 AD) was bishop of Bologna during the fifth century. He is a patron saint of the city. Born of a noble Roman family, he became a convert to Christianity and subsequently a priest. As bishop of Bologna, he built the Church of Santo Stefano.
- Sebastiano Serlio
Sebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise, "I sette libri dell'architettura" (aka "Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospettiva").
- Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 - Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist and violinist. He is best known for his "Roman trilogy" and the three suites of "Ancient Airs and Dances".
- Marcantonio Raimondi
Marcantonio Raimondi, also simply Marcantonio, (c. 1480 - c. 1534) was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists mainly of prints copying paintings. He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the reproductive print. He also systematized a technique of engraving that became dominant in Italy and elsewhere.
- Marcantonio Franceschini
Marcantonio Franceschini (1648 - 1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Bologna.
- Angelo Schiavio
Angelo Schiavio (15 October, 1905 - 17 April, 1990) was an Italian football player. Schiavio spent his entire career with Bologna FC, the club situated in the town where he was born and died. He won the 1934 FIFA World Cup with Italy. His height was 178 cm and he weighed 69 kg, he made his name as a striker who often used physical force to score goals.
- Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana (August 24 1552-August 11 1614) was an Italian painter.
- Giacomo Antonio Perti
Giacomo Antonio Perti (June 6, 1661 - April 10, 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was "Maestro di Cappella" for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Battista Martini.
- Pupi Avati
Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born November 2, 1938), is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.
- Cassian Of Imola
Cassian, or Saint Cassian of Imola was a Christian saint of the 4th century. He was the Bishop of Brescia. Little is known about his life, although the traditional accounts converge on some of the details of his martyrdom. He was a schoolmaster at Imola, but rather than sacrifice to the Roman gods, as so ordered by the current emperor, Julian the Apostate, …
- Giacomo Bulgarelli
Giacomo Bulgarelli (born October 24, 1940) was a former italian footballer and TV commentator. Bulgarelli was born in Portonovo di Medicina, province of Bologna. His career (1959-1975) was entirely spent playing for Bologna, then a major team in the italian Serie A. He was a regular in the starting line-up of the last "bolognese" team to win a title ("Scudetto") in 1964. He's still considered a football legend in Bologna, …
- Guido Guinizelli
Guido Guinizzelli was an Italian poet and 'founder' of the Dolce Stil Novo. He was the first to write in this new style of poetry writing, and thus is held to be the "ipso facto" founder. At first Guinizzelli followed Guittone's style, and later the Sicilian School. Later however, he thought of these as being too 'cold' to justly express his emotions.
- Imelda Lambertini
Imelda Lambertini (1322 Bologna- May 13 1333), known to Roman Catholics as Blessed Imelda, is the patronness of First Holy Communicants.
- Lorenzo Sabbatini
Lorenzo Sabbatini (1530 - 1577) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
- Vitale da Bologna
Vitale da Bologna (flourished in 1330, died 1361), also known as Vitale di Almo de' Cavalli or Vitale degli Equi, was an Italian painter, of the Early Renaissance. He is a representant of the 14th century school of painting in Bologna, where he was most active and painted the polyptych in the church of San Salvatore and frescoes in Santa Maria dei Servi. He was also active in Pomposa and Udine. His masterwork is the panel with "St.
- Ludovico di Varthema
Ludovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus (c. 1470-1517) was an Italian traveller and writer. He was the first European non-Muslim known to have entered Mecca as a pilgrim.
- Achille Marozzo
Achille Marozzo (1484 - 1553) was an Italian fencing master teaching in the Dardi or Bolognese tradition. He was probably born in Bologna. His text "Opera Nova dell'Arte delle Armi" (roughly equivalent to "The New Text on the Art of Arms") was published in 1536 in Modena, dedicated to Count Rangoni, then reprinted several times all the way into the next century. It is considered one of the most important works about fencing in the 16th century.
- Giulietta Masina
Giulia Anna (Giulietta) Masina (22 February 1921 - 23 March 1994) was an Italian film actress, and the wife of film director Federico Fellini. Born in San Giorgio di Piano, her parents were Gaetano Masina, a violinist, and Anna Flavia Pasqualin, a schoolteacher. She had three elder siblings: Eugenia, and the twins Mario and Maria. Masina initially studied literature, but later turned to acting; while attending university in Rome, …
- Mariele Ventre
Maria Rachele Ventre (July 16, 1939 - December 16 1995) was an Italian musician and singer, the founder and director of Italian children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano.
- Innocenzo Di Pietro Francucci da Imola
Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola was an Italian painter active in Bologna. <br>
- Serena Grandi
Serena Grandi (born on March 23, 1958) is an Italian actress.
- Luca Bucci
Luca Bucci (born March 13, 1969 in Bologna) is a football goalkeeper for Parma F.C.. After a few years in some minor leagues, such as Serie C1 and Serie B, Bucci made his Serie A debut, playing for Parma in a league match against Udinese on 29 August 1993. The next year, he was first capped for the Italy national football team, and he was part of the "azzurri" as third goalkeeper for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.
- Pope Honorius Honorius II
Pope Honorius II (died February 13, 1130), born Lamberto Scannabecchi (from 1117 Cardinal Lambert of Ostia), was Pope from December 21, 1124 to February 13, 1130. Lamberto came from a simple rural background at Fiagnano Castle, near Imola in present day Italy. In the 12th century, such a successful career from humble beginnings is a mark of outstanding abilities. His learning recommended him to Pope Paschal II (1099-1118), …
- Alessandro Gavazzi
Alessandro Gavazzi (March 21, 1809-1889) was an Italian preacher and patriot. He at first became a monk (1825), and attached himself to the Barnabites at Naples, where he afterwards (1829) acted as professor of rhetoric. In 1840, having already expressed liberal views, he was removed to Rome to fill a subordinate position. Leaving his own country after the capture of Rome by the French, he carried on a vigorous campaign against priests and Jesuits in England, …
- Ottaviano Nonni
Ottaviano Nonni, called Il Mascherino (1536 - August 6, 1606) was an Italian architect, sculptor and painter, born in Bologna and dead in Rome. Apprentice of Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, he was active in Emilia and in Rome, where he has been living in the rione of Borgo, in the road still bearing his name ("Via del Mascherino").
- Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola
Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, or simply Benvenuto da Imola (1320? - 1388) was a lecturer at the University of Bologna best-known for his commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy. Born in Imola, he knew Boccaccio and followed his lectures on Dante at Florence. Charles Eliot Norton considered that Benvenuto's commentary on Dante had "a value beyond that of any of the other fourteenth-century commentators".
- Stefano Benni
Stefano Benni (August 12, 1947, Bologna) is an Italian satirical writer and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored a notable commercial success. He sold 2,5 million copies of his books in Italy.
- Roberto Mirri
Roberto Mirri (born 21 August, 1978 in Imola) is an Italian football player. he currently plays for Mons
- Aldo Donati
Aldo Donati (September 29, 1910 -) was an Italian football (soccer) midfielder. Born in Bologna, he played in the 1930s for Bologna and Roma. He played 201 matches in Serie A and scored 4 goals. He debuted in Serie A at 19 years of age and played for eight seasons for Bologna winning the scudetto in 1936 and 1937. The following year he was acquired by Roma where he played seven seasons. In 1942 he won his third scudetto (Roma's first) before retiring.
- Orazio Sammachini
Orazio Samacchini was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist style, active in Rome, Parma, and his native city. He was born and died in Bologna. A close friend of Lorenzo Sabatini, Samacchini traveled to Rome where he participated in 1563 in the decoration of the Vatican Belvedere and of the Sala Regia of Pius IV, along with Taddeo Zuccari and his brother. He returned to Bologna, where he was influenced by Pellegrino Tibaldi.