Florence has produced a number of well-known political leaders, actresses, empresses & queens, philosophers, poets and several other personalities from other spheres. Our list of famous people from Florence includes Lorenzo de' Medici, Rose McGowan, Catherine de' Medici, Niccolò Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri, and many others.

Famous People Born In Florence

Rose McGowan

05 September 1973, Italian, American

Actress

Lorenzo de' Medici

01 January 1449, Italian

Leader

Niccolò Machiavelli

03 May 1469, Italian

Political Philosopher

Catherine de' Medici

13 April 1519, Italian

Queen of France

Amerigo Vespucci

09 March 1454, Italian

Discoverer of South America

Dante Alighieri

30 April 1265, Italian

Poet

Sandro Botticelli

1445 AD, Italian

Painter

Pope Leo X

11 December 1475, Italian

Pope

John Singer Sargent

12 January 1856, Italian, American

Artist

Donatello

1386 AD, Italian

Sculptor

Guccio Gucci

26 March 1881, Italian, British

Italian Businessman

Franco Zeffirelli

12 February 1923, Italian

Film Director

Antonio Meucci

13 April 1808, Italian, American

Inventor of voice-communication apparatus

Matteo Renzi

11 January 1975, Italian

Prime Minister of Italy

Jean-Baptiste Lully

28 November 1632, French, Italian

Composer

Francesca Caccini

18 September 1587, Italian

Composer & Singer

Lisa del Giocondo

15 June 1479, Italian

Model

Piero the Unfortunate

15 February 1472, Italian

Politician

Piero di Cosimo de' Medici

19 September 1416, Italian

Ruler

Maurizio Gucci

26 September 1948, Italian

Businessman

Giotto

1267 AD, Italian

Painter

Beatrice Portinari

1265 AD, Italian

Noblewoman

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione

22 March 1837, Italian

Countess

Roberto Cavalli

15 November 1940, Italian

Fashion designer

Oriana Fallaci

29 June 1929, Italian

War correspondent, Politician, Writer, Journalist,

Benvenuto Cellini

03 November 1500, Italian

Sculptor, Writer, Medallist, Painter,

Carlo Collodi

24 November 1826, Italian

Writer

Marella Agnelli

04 May 1927, Italian

Art collector, Autobiographer, Photographer,

Richard Rogers

23 July 1933, Italian, British

Architect, Politician

George P. Cosmatos

04 January 1941, Greek, Italian

Film director, Screenwriter

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen

05 September 1771, Austrian, Italian

Military personnel

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Philip Neri

21 July 1515, Italian

Saint

Andrea del Verrocchio

1435 AD, Italian

Artist

Filippo Lippi

1406 AD, Italian

Painter

Pope Urban VIII

05 April 1568, Italian

Pope

Bronzino

17 November 1503, Italian

Painter

Cimabue

1240 AD, Italian

Artist

Domenico Ghirlandaio

02 June 1448, Italian

painter

Daria Nicolodi

19 June 1950, Italian

Actor, Screenwriter

Pope Leo XI

02 June 1535, Italian

Pope

Paolo Uccello

15 June 1397, Italian

painter

Emiliano Viviano

01 December 1984, Italian

association football player

Emma Marrone

25 May 1984, Italian

Singer

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

21 June 1826, Italian

British diplomat

Piero di Cosimo

02 January 1462, Italian

Painter

Harold Acton

05 July 1904, British

Writer

Luigi Cherubini

14 September 1760, French, Italian

Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,

Brunetto Latini

1220 AD, Italian

writer, politician, philosopher, poet, diplomat

Andrea del Sarto

16 July 1486, Italian

Painter

Francesco Guicciardini

06 March 1483, Italian

Historian, Politician, Writer, Diplomat

Roberto Calasso

30 May 1941, Italian

Writer

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

03 April 1895, Italian, American

Composer, Pianist, Film score composer

Benozzo Gozzoli

1420 AD, Italian

painter

Pope Clement XII

07 April 1652, Italian

Pope

Giovanni Papini

09 January 1881, Italian

Journalist

Giovanni Villani

Italian

Michelozzo

1396 AD, Italian

Architect

Margherita Hack

12 June 1922, Italian

Astrophysicist

Luca della Robbia

1400 AD, Italian

Sculptor

Guido Cavalcanti

1255 AD, Italian

Poet

Lamberto Dini

01 March 1931, Italian

Politician, Prime Minister

Peter Martyr Vermigli

08 September 1499, Italian

Theologian

Pietro Torrigiano

24 November 1472, Italian

Sculptor

Rosso Fiorentino

08 March 1494, Italian

Painter, Printmaker

Andrea del Castagno

1423 AD, Italian

painter

Friedrich von Hügel

05 May 1852, Austrian

Writer

Piero Pelù

10 February 1962, Italian

Singer-songwriter

Luisa Tetrazzini

29 June 1871, Italian

Soprano Singer

Farinata degli Uberti

1212 AD, Italian

Noble

Jacopo Sansovino

02 July 1486, Italian

Sculptor

Filarete

31 October 1400, Italian

Architect

Giovanni Spadolini

21 June 1925, Italian

Politician, Prime Minister

Bernardo Buontalenti

15 December 1531, Italian

Designer

Carlo Dolci

25 May 1616, Italian

Painter

Piero Tosi

10 April 1927, Italian

Costume designer, Artist

Antoninus of Florence

01 March 1389, Italian

Saint

Taddeo Gaddi

1290 AD, Italian

Painter

Ottavio Piccolomini

11 November 1599, Italian

Austrian general

Catherine of Ricci

23 April 1522, Italian

Italian Dominican mystic

Andrea della Robbia

24 October 1435, Italian

Sculptor

Francesco Bartolozzi

21 September 1727, Italian

Engraver

Piero del Pollaiolo

1443 AD, Italian

Artist

Pietro Carnesecchi

24 December 1508, Italian

Humanist

Antonio Sacchini

14 June 1730, Italian

Composer

Gaétan Vestris

18 April 1729, French

Ballet Dancer

Carlo Caracciolo

23 October 1925, Italian

Publisher

Francesco Ferruccio

14 August 1489, Italian

Captain

Bernardo Daddi

1280 AD, Italian

Painter

Filippo Baldinucci

03 June 1625, Italian

Art historian

Emilio Cecchi

14 July 1884, Italian

Literary Critic

Alesso Baldovinetti

14 October 1425, Italian

Painter

Agnolo Gaddi

1350 AD, Italian

Artist

Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze

29 February 1343, Italian

Italian painter

Antonio del Pollaiolo

17 January 1429, Italian

painter, sculptor, engraver, graphic artist