Famous People from Florence, Italy

• Collodi, Carol

  The creator of Pinocchio

• Dante

  The author of The Divine Comedy

• Donatello

  Early Renaissance sculptor of the bronze David

• Machiavelli, Niccolo

  Author of The Prince

• McGowan, Rose

  Co-star of Charmed and Grindhouse

• Mona Lisa

  Famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

• Nightingale, Florence

  British nursing hero of the Crimean War

• Pope Leo X

  The Medici pope when the Reformation started

• Pope Urban VIII

  The pope who named Galileo a heretic

• Vespucci, Amerigo

  The explorer after whom the Americas are named

See also: Born in Italy