Bologna

:For the food product, see Bologna sausage.

Famous residents

• Pupi Avati (director)
• Adriano Banchieri (composer)
• Il Guercino (painter)
• Stefano Benni (writer)
• Annibale Carracci (painter)
• Lodovico Carracci (painter)
• Agostino Carracci (painter)
• Pierluigi Collina (football referee)
• Scipione dal Ferro (mathematician who found the method to solve the cubic equation)
• Lucio Dalla (singer)
• Umberto Eco (writer and professor)
• Francesco Guccini (singer)
• Guglielmo Marconi (inventor and Nobel prize winner)
• Giorgio Morandi (artist)
• Gianni Morandi (singer)
• Pier Paolo Pasolini (writer, poet, director)
• Romano Prodi (politician and professor)
• Guido Reni (painter)
• Ottorino Respighi (composer)
• Alberto Tomba (skier)
• Ondina Valla (first Italian woman olympic gold medal)
• Mariele Ventre (teacher and educator, founder of Piccolo Coro dell' Antoniano choir)
• Alex Zanardi (car driver)