Editing Pavia (section)

== People ==
{{see also|Category:People from Pavia}}

[[File:Aula magna-University-Pavia-Italy.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Pavia]]'s Aula Magna]]

People born in Pavia include:
* {{ill|Honorata of Pavia|pl|Honorata z Pawii}} (?-500), italian saint
* [[Giovanni Antonio Amadeo]] (1447–1522), sculptor, engineer and architect
* [[Caterina Assandra]] ({{Circa|1590}} – after 1618), composer and Benedictine nun
* [[Bernardus Papiensis]] (pre-1150 – 18 September 1213), canonist and bishop
* [[Donato de' Bardi|Donato Conte de' Bardi]] (active 1426 – died 1450/1451), painter
* [[Belbello da Pavia]] (died {{Circa|1470}}), painter
* [[Monica Boggioni]] (born 5 August 1998), Paralympic swimmer 
* [[Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli]] (1761–1818), chemist
* [[Federico Burdisso]] (born 20 September 2001), swimmer
* [[Gerolamo Cardano]] (1501–1576), scientist
* [[Ines Castellani Fantoni Benaglio]], also known by the pseudonym of Memini (1849–1897), writer
* [[Benedetto Cairoli]] (1825–1889), twice head of the government
* [[Alberto Carpani]] (23 April 1956 – 11 May 2020), singer
* [[Carlo M. Cipolla]] (1922–2000), economic historian
* [[Francesco Corbetta]] (1615–1681), guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer
* [[Luigi Cremona|Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona]] (7 December 1830 – 10 June 1903),  mathematician
* [[Tranquillo Cremona]] (1837–1878), painter
* [[Pietro Candido Decembrio]] (in Latin, Petrus Candidus Decembrius) (1399–1477), humanist 
* [[Vincenzo degli Azani]] (died 16 July 1557), painter
* [[Aimone Duce]] (15th century), painter
* [[Epiphanias]], 6th century saint
* [[Lorenzo Fasolo]] (1463–1518), painter
* [[Frederick V, Duke of Swabia|Frederick V of Hohenstaufen]] (1164 – around 1170), [[duke of Swabia]] 
* [[Gaetano Fraschini]] (1816– 1887), tenor
* [[Virginia Giorgi]] (1914–1991), gymnast
* [[Paolo Gorini]] (1813–1881), mathematician, professor, scientist and politician
* [[Carlo Alessandro Guidi]] (1650–1712), lyric poet
* [[Pope John XIV]] (Latin: Ioannes XIV; died 20 August 984), born Pietro Canepanova, bishop of Rome
* [[Lanfranc]] (c. 1005–1089), abbot and Archbishop of Canterbury
* [[Liutpert]] (or Liutbert) (died 702), Lombard king of Italy 
* [[Liutprand of Cremona]] (c. 920–972), historian, diplomat and Bishop of Cremona
* [[Gina Lombroso|Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso]] (1872–1944), physician, writer, psychiatrist and criminologist
* [[Bernardino Lunati]] (1452–1497), Roman Catholic cardinal
* [[Ambrogio Maestri]] (born 1970), operatic baritone
* [[Germana Malabarba]] (1913–2002), gymnast
* [[Enrica Malcovati]] (1894–1990), Classical philologist
* [[Cristoforo Mantegazza]] (c. 1430–1482), sculptor 
* [[Carla Marangoni]] (1915–2018), gymnast
* [[Carlo Marangoni|Carlo Giuseppe Matteo Marangoni]] (1840–1925), physicist
* [[Pasquale Massacra]] (1819–1849), painter
* [[Mino Milani]] (1928–2022), writer, cartoonist, journalist and historian
* [[Mattia Moreni|Mattia Bruno Moreni]] (1920–1999), sculptor and painter
* [[Cesare Mori]] (1871–1942), prefect
* [[Andrea Moro|Andrea Carlo Moro]] (born July 24, 1962), linguist, neuroscientist and novelist
* [[Claudia Muzio]] (1889–1936), opera singer
* [[Tiziana Nisini]] (born 18 October 1975), politician 
* [[Mario Pascal]] (1896–1949), applied mathematician, specializing in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics
* [[Pietro Pavesi]] (1844–1907), professor of zoology
* [[Max Pezzali]] (1967), singer-songwriter
* [[Pietro Romualdo Pirotta]] (1853–1936), professor of botany
* [[Maria Poiani Panigati]] (born 17 March 1982), Paralympic swimmer
* [[Luigi Porta]] (1800–1875), surgeon and professor 
* [[Giovanni Marchese di Provera]], or Johann Provera (1736–1804). He served in the Habsburg army.
* [[Andrea Re]] (born 15 November 1963), lightweight rower
* [[Arturo Riccardi]] (1878–1966), admiral
* [[Manfredi Rizza]] (born 26 April 1991), canoeist
* [[Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti]] (1855–1926), explorer, geographer, cartographer and naturalist
* [[Andrea Rocchelli]] (1983–2014), freelance photojournalist
* [[Alessandro Rolla]] (1757 –1841), viola and violin virtuoso, and composer
* [[Rotruda of Pavia]] (died after March 945), noblewoman
* [[Mauro Ruscóni]] (1776–1849), physician and zoologist
* [[Pier Francesco Sacchi]] (known active 1512–1520), painter 
* [[Bianca Maria Sforza]] (1472–1510), Queen of Germany and Italy, and empress of the Holy Roman Empire
* [[Francesco Sforza (il Duchetto)|Francesco Maria Sforza]] (30 January 1491 – 1512), nobleman
* [[Ippolita Maria Sforza (1493–1501)|Ippolita Maria Sforza]] (26 January 1493 – 1501), noblewoman 
* [[Giuseppe Simoni]] (1944), biologist and scientist
* [[Giovanni Spertini]] (1821–1895), sculptor
* [[Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa]] (1470–1530), lutenist and singer
* [[Giovanni Battista Traverso]] (1878–1955), mycologist and plant pathologis
* [[Carolina Tronconi]] (1913–2008), gymnast 
* [[Ines Vercesi]] (1916–1997), gymnast
* [[Gian Galeazzo Visconti]] (1351–1402), first duke of Milan
* [[Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans|Valentina Visconti]] (1371–1408), countess of Vertus, and duchess consort of Orléans
* [[Violante Visconti]] (1354–1386), noblewoman
* [[Franco Vittadini]] (1884–1948), composer and conductor
* [[Rita Vittadini]] (1914–2000), gymnast
* [[Camillo Zemi]] (1898–1959), discus thrower and hammer thrower 
* [[Ambrogio Maestri]] (* 1970), Bariton

People who have lived in Pavia include:

* St. [[Alexander Sauli]] (1591–1592), Bishop of Pavia
* [[Alessandro Volta]] (1745–1827), scientist and inventor of the [[Electric battery|battery]]
* [[Simion Bărnuțiu]] (1808–1864), philosopher and politician
* [[Giacomo Trécourt]] (1812–1882), Italian painter
* [[Camillo Golgi]] (1843–1926), biologist and Nobel laureate
* Giovanni de Ventura (fl. 1479), [[plague doctor]]
* [[Richard Pampuri|Riccardo Pampuri]] (1897–1930), saint and medical doctor
* [[Ugo Foscolo]] (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
* [[Dionysios Solomos]] (1798–1857), national poet of Greece
* [[Zaira Ollano]] (1904–1997), physicist
* [[Dante Troisi]] (1920–1989), writer and judge

Among the illustrious scholars who studied or taught at the University of Pavia, the following are at least worth remembering: playwright and librettist [[Carlo Goldoni]] (1707–1793), [[Gerolamo Cardano]], mathematician [[Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri|Gerolamo Saccheri]] (1667–1733), [[Ugo Foscolo]], [[Alessandro Volta]] the inventor of the [[Electric battery|battery]], biologist and physiologist [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]] (1729–1799), anatomist [[Antonio Scarpa]] (1752–1832), physician [[Carlo Forlanini]] (1847–1918), the Nobel laureate biologist [[Camillo Golgi]], the Nobel laureate chemist [[Giulio Natta]] (1903–1979) and [[Emanuele Severino]] (1929–2020), one of the most important contemporary Italian philosophers.