- Stefano Modena
Stefano Modena (born May 12, 1963 in Modena) is a former Formula One driver from Italy. He participated in 81 grands prix, debuting on November 15, 1987. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 17 championship points. Modena first came to attention in 1986, ranking 4th in the Italian Formula Three series with milanese Euroteam. The following season he moved up to Formula 3000, winning the championship for Onyx, … - Mary Of Modena
Mary of Modena (5 October 1658 - 7 May 1718) was the queen consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland. Daughter of Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena and Laura Martinozzi (niece of Jules Cardinal Mazarin), she was born in Modena and christened Maria Beatrice Eleanor Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este. She had a strict Roman Catholic upbringing, and thought briefly of becoming an abbess in an order of nuns founded by her mother. - Isabella Of Modena
Isabella d'Este (Modena, October 3 1635 - Colorno, August 21 1666), was Duchess of Parma, and second wife of Duke Ranuccio II Farnese. Isabella was a daughter of the Duke of Modena Francesco I d'Este and Maria Caterina Farnese, daughter of Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma. After the death of his first wife Marguerite of Savoy, Ranuccio II married in 1663 his niece Isabella. But the couple only met on February 18 1664, when Isabella arrived in Parma. - Leon Of Modena
Leon de Modena or Yehudah Aryeh de Modena (1571-1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice of a notable French family which had migrated to Italy after the expulsion of the Jews from France. He was a precocious child, and grew up to be a respected Rabbi in Venice. However, his enduring reputation within traditional Judaism suffered due to a number of factors including an unyielding criticism of emerging sects within Judaism, … - William Of Modena
William of Modena, also known as "William of Sabina", "Guglielmo de Chartreaux", "Guglielmo de Savoy", "Guillelmus" (c. 1184 - March 31 1251), was an Italian clergyman and papal diplomat. He was frequently appointed a legate, or papal ambassador by the popes Honorius III and Gregory IX, especially in Livonia in the 1220s and in the Prussian questions of the 1240s. Eventually he resigned his see to devote himself to these diplomatic issues. - Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 - September 9, 2007) was an Italian spinto tenor; one of the best known vocal performers in contemporary times, in the world of opera and across multiple musical genres. He was born in Modena (Emilia-Romagna), in northern Italy. - Francesco Guccini
Francesco Guccini (born June 14, 1940 in Modena) is a very popular Italian singer-songwriter and author. His songs are renowned for their poetic and literary value, and in 1990 he won the Premio Eugenio Montale for verses in music. - Luca Toni
Luca Toni, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI (born May 26, 1977 in Pavullo nel Frignano, Modena) is an Italian football striker who plays for FC Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga. Something of a late bloomer who played for almost ten clubs before finally settling, Toni was also a part of the Italian winning team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. - Alberto Braglia
Alberto Braglia (Campogalliano (Modena), 23 March 1883 - 5 February 1954) was an Italian gymnast. He won gold overall at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, 3 olympic gold medals throughout his career. - Eric van de Poele
Eric van de Poele (born 30 September 1961 in Verviers) is a Belgian racing driver and former Formula One driver. He participated in 29 Grands Prix, debuting on March 10, 1991. He scored no championship points. After a difficult 1984 season in French Formula 3, van de Poele then won the Belgian and Benelux Formula Ford titles, also racing in the Belgian Touring Cars Championship. In the next three years he raced in both the British and German Touring Cars Championships, … - Delia Scala
Delia Scala, born September 25, 1929 - died January 15, 2004, was an Italian ballerina and actress. Born Odette Bedogni in Bracciano, Lazio, Italy, as a young girl the family moved to Milan where she studied ballet at La Scala Ballet School for seven years. She performed in numerous ballets until World War II, after which she began appearing in motion pictures using the stage name, Delia Scala. In 1956, she began a career in television, … - Paolo Ferrari
Paolo Ferrari (1822-1889), Italian dramatist, was born at Modena. His numerous works, chiefly comedies, and all marked by a fresh and piquant style, are the finest product of the modern Italian drama. After producing some minor pieces, in 1852 he made his reputation as a playwright with "Goldoni e le sue Sedici Commedie". Among numerous later plays his comedy "Parini e la Satira" (1857) had considerable success. - Paolo Ruffini
Paolo Ruffini was an Italian mathematician and philosopher. Among his work was an incomplete proof that quintic (and higher-order) equations cannot be solved by radicals and Ruffini's rule, a quick method for polynomial division. Born in Valentano, he practiced as both a professor of mathematics and a doctor. He died at Modena. - Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (Carpi (Modena), 1933) is an Italian director and screenwriter, best known for her 1974 feature film "Il portiere di notte" ("The Night Porter") which launched actress Charlotte Rampling to international stardom. - Marco Rossi
Marco Rossi (born 30 September, 1987 in Parma) is an Italian footballer who plays for Modena F.C., on loan from Parma F.C., in the role of a defender. - Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa (born December 29, 1970 in Genoa) is an Italian football (soccer) striker, who currently plays for Siena in the Serie A. - Ignazio Abate
Ignazio Abate (born 12 November 1986 in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Province of Benevento) is an Italian football left midfielder who currently played in Serie A with Empoli F.C.. - John Mensah
John 'Rock Of Gibraltar' Mensah (born November 29, 1982 in Obuasi, Ghana) is a Ghanaian International football player who plays for Rennes of French Ligue 1. - Alejandro de Tomaso
Alejandro de Tomaso (born in Buenos Aires, July 10, 1928 - died in Modena, Italy, May 21, 2003) was a racing driver and industrialist from Argentina. His name is sometimes seen in an Italianised form as "Alessandro de Tomaso". He participated in two Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1957. He scored no championship points. - Diomansy Kamara
Diomansy Kamara (born November 8, 1980 in Paris, France) is a Senegalese footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League club Fulham as a striker. - Eugenio Castellotti
Eugenio Castellotti (born in Lodi, October 10, 1930 - died in Modena, March 14, 1957) was a Formula One driver from Italy. - Piero Calamandrei
Piero Calamandrei (1889-1956) was an Italian jurist, soldier and politician. He was one of Italy's leading authorities on the law of civil procedure. After studies in Pisa and Rome, Calamandrei assumed a professorship in Messina in 1915. He fought as a volunteer in World War I, leaving the army as a colonel after the war to resume teaching at Modena. His notable works include "La cassazione civile" (1920) and "Studi sul processo civile" (1930). - Salvatore Bruno
Salvatore Bruno (born 9 November 1979 in Naples) is an Italian football striker. As of 2006 plays for Modena F.C.. Bruno start his career at Serie A team Napoli, but most of his career spent on lower division. On January 2007, after a few appearances, he left Serie A team Chievo and move to Modena. - Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Ludovico Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books. Born at Vignola, near Modena and ordained a priest, he spent much of his career as archivist and librarian at the ducal library in Modena, where he died. He edited the "Rerum Italicarum scriptores" (28 vol., 1723 – 1751) and "Antiquitates Italicae medii aevii" (6 vol., … - Cristian Zaccardo
Cristian Zaccardo, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born December 21, 1981 in Formigine, Modena) is a world cup-winning Italian footballer who plays for Serie A team US Palermo and the Italy national football team. One of the best products of the Bologna youth system, Zaccardo debuted in the first team in 2001, under the direction of coach Francesco Guidolin, immediately becoming a regular for the "rossoblu" and Italy's "Under 21" national team. - 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. - Nicolai Ghiaurov
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or "Nikolai Gjaurov",) (September 13, 1929 - June 2 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi. Ghiaurov was married to the Italian soprano Mirella Freni, with whom he frequently performed. The two singers lived in Modena. - Stefano Mauri
Stefano Mauri (born 8 January, 1980 in Monza) is an Italian football (soccer) player, plays midfielder role for S.S. Lazio. Stefano Mauri is regarded as one of the best wingers' in Serie A, adding skill, technique, and a self-less teamplay ethic he has boosted Lazio and made an astonishing contribution even after Lazio were deducted a mass of points due to match fixing. Mauri is two footed and can operate down either wing. - Mauro Baldi
Mauro Baldi (born January 31, 1954 in Reggio Emilia, Italy) is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Arrows, Alfa Romeo and Spirit teams. He started his career in rallying in 1972 and turned to circuit racing in 1975 with the Italian Renault 5 Cup. By 1980 he had become a top Formula 3 driver, winning the Monaco F3 Grand Prix and the 1981 European Formula 3 Championship with eight victories. In 1982 he signed to drive for Arrows before moving to Alfa Romeo in 1983, … - Guarino Guarini
Camillo-Guarino Guarini (Modena, 7 January 1624 - Milan, 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active not only in Turin but also in other European sites including Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was also a Theatine priest, mathematician, writer and architect. Guarini was accepted as a Theatine novice in 1639, spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, and returned to Modena in 1647, … - Francesco III d'Este
Francesco III d'Este was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1737 until his death. He was the son of Rinaldo III, Duke of Modena, and Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Francesco was born in Modena. During is reign, the duchy exhausted by the Wars of Spanish, Polish and Austria Successions, Francesco was forced to sell the most precious works of the Estense Gallery. - Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. Borgnine is the son of Carlo Borgnino and Anna Boselli, who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his mother went to live in Italy, but five years later they returned to Hamden, Connecticut, where he attended public schools. - Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo (June 5, 1896 - June 28, 1940) was an Italian blackshirt leader, aviator, governor of Libya, and heir apparent of Mussolini. - Matteo Maria Boiardo
Matteo Maria Boiardo (c. 1434 - December 20, 1494), was an Italian Renaissance poet. Boiardo was born at, or near, Scandiano (today's province of Reggio Emilia), the son of Giovanni di Feltrino and Lucia Strossi, he was of noble lineage, ranking as Count of Scandiano, with seignorial power over Arceto, Casalgrande, Gesso, and Torricella. Boiardo was an ideal example of a gifted and accomplished courtier possessing at the same time a manly heart and deep humanistic learning. - Giulio Cabianca
Giulio Cabianca (February 19, 1923 - June 15, 1961) was a Formula One driver from Italy. Cabianca was born in Verona, northern Italy. He participated in 4 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on May 18, 1958. He scored a total of 3 championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race. Cabianca's death resulted from a bizarre incident at the Modena Autodrome test track in Italy. - Nicola Campedelli
Nicola Campedelli (born February 7, 1979 in Cesena) is an Italian football midfielder who currently plays in Serie B with Modena. - Raffaele Longo
Raffaele Longo (born 6 September, 1977 in Naples) is an Italian football (soccer) defender. He currently plays for Modena F.C., on loan from Genoa C.F.C.. He won the 1997 Mediterranean Games - Vittorio Messori
Vittorio Messori (b. 1941) is an Italian journalist and writer. He was born in Sassuolo near Modena in Italy. According to Sandro Magister, a Vaticanista, he is the "most translated Catholic writer in the world." He graduated on the recognized lycee of Azeglio in Turin. He became a doctor of political sciences by his thesis on the radicals in the 19th century. At first, Messori was the editor and then the leader of the press office of a large publishing house. - Nicola Fabrizi
Nicola Fabrizi (4 April 1804 - 31 March 1885) was an Italian patriot Fabrizi was born at Modena. He took part in the Modena insurrection of 1831, and attempted to succour Ancona, but was arrested at sea and taken to Toulon, whence he proceeded to Marseilles. Afterwards he organized with Mazzini the ill-fated Savoy expedition. Taking refuge in Spain, he fought against the Carlists, and was decorated for valour on the battlefield (18 July 1837). - Armando Perna
Armando Perna is an Italian football (soccer) central defender. He currently plays for Parma F.C.. He started his career at Serie C1 team U.S. Città di Palermo. He loan to Serie A Udinese Calcio youth team at 2000. In 2001 he loaned to A.S. Livorno Calcio, another Serie C1 team, played 10 games. After Livorno won promotion, the team signed him in permanent basis. He found difficult to won regular place, which he just played Serie B 12 games in his first Serie B season.
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