Florence Nightingale
1820 - 1910
HPI 83.23119 languages
Florence Nightingale is most famous for being a nurse during the Crimean War. She was also instrumental in the development of modern nursing.
The Most Famous
Physicians from Italy
40 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Italians Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 749 Physicians, 39 of which were born in Italy. This makes Italy the birth place of the 5th most number of Physicians behind United Kingdom and France.
Top 10 Italian Physicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Italian Physicians of all time. This list of famous Italian Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Italian Physicians.
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Cesare Lombroso
1835 - 1909
HPI 77.3547 languagesCesare Lombroso is most famous for his theory of the "born criminal." He believed that criminals were born with certain physical traits, such as a long, thin head, large jaw, and sloping forehead.
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Camillo Golgi
1843 - 1926
HPI 75.9176 languagesCamillo Golgi is most famous for his discovery of the Golgi apparatus. The Golgi apparatus is a part of the cell that sorts and packages proteins and other molecules.
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Marcello Malpighi
1628 - 1694
HPI 74.9353 languagesMarcello Malpighi was an Italian scientist who is most famous for his contributions to the field of microscopy. He is credited with being the first person to describe the capillary system in plants and animals.
#5 
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909 - 2012
HPI 74.8987 languagesRita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate. She is most famous for her discovery of nerve growth factor, which led to a better understanding of how the nervous system develops.
#6 
Peter Damian
1007 - 1072
HPI 74.5339 languagesPeter Damian was a medieval Catholic saint and hermit, who is most famous for his denunciation of the worldliness of the clergy of his day.
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Francesco Redi
1626 - 1697
HPI 73.6645 languagesFrancesco Redi is most famous for his work in disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
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Bernardino of Siena
1380 - 1444
HPI 71.9631 languagesBernardino of Siena was a Franciscan preacher who was famous for his preaching in the Italian city of Siena.
#9 
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
1723 - 1788
HPI 71.6740 languagesGiovanni Antonio Scopoli is most famous for his work in the field of zoology. He was born in Italy and became a professor of natural history at the University of Padua in 1772. He is most known for his work on the flora and fauna of the Alps.
#10 
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
1608 - 1679
HPI 70.6038 languagesGiovanni Alfonso Borelli is most famous for his work on the anatomy of the human body. He was the first to describe the structure of the spinal cord, which he called the medulla oblongata.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Physicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 19 most globally memorable Physicians since 1700.
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