Florence (Firenze) is a city in Italy
Population: 370,702
Coordinates: 43°47′N 11°15′E
Famous from Firenze:
- Sir Harold Acton (Author and aesthete)
- Leone Battista Alberti (Polymath)
- Dante Alighieri (Poet)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (Poet)
- Baldassarre Bonaiuti (Chronicler)
- Sandro Botticelli (Painter)
- Aureliano Brandolini (Agronomist and Scoolar)
- Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English poets)
- Filippo Brunelleschi (architect)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (Sculptor, painter, author)
- Roberto Cavalli (Fashion designer)
- Enrico Coveri (Fashion designer)
- Virginia Oldoini (Countess of Castiglione)
- Leonardo da Vinci (Polymath)
- Giotto di Bondone (Painter, sculptor and architect)
- Donatello (Sculptor)
- Oriana Fallaci (Journalist and author)
- Salvatore Ferragamo (Fashion designer and shoemake)
- Frescobaldi Family (Bankers and wine producers)
- Galileo Galilei (Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher)
- Lorenzo Ghiberti (Sculptor)
- Guccio Gucci (Founder of the Gucci label)
- Pietro Pacciani (Farmer)
- Robert Lowell (Poet)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (Poet, philosopher and political thinker)
- Masaccio (Painter)
- Antonio Meucci (Inventor of the telephone)
- Florence Nightingale (Modern nursing, and a statistician)
- Mike Francis born Francesco Puccioni (Singer and composer Raphael, painter)
- Girolamo Savonarola Giorgio Vasari (Painter, architect, and historian)
- Amerigo Vespucci (Explorer and cartographer, namesake of the Americas)