guglielmo marconi alumni adone zoli, former prime minister of italy. cardinal alberto bolognetti pope alexander vi álvaro de figueroa, former prime minister of spain. anna m. borghi, italian cognitive psychologist augusto righi, pioneer in the study of electromagnetism carlo goldoni, italian playwright carlo rovelli, italian theoretical physicist carlo severini saint charles borromeo, archbishop of milan corrado gini, italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the gini coefficient/ratio. dante alighieri, italian poet, writer and philosopher daria de pretis, italian jurist, constitutional judge of the constitutional court of italy. diego della valle, chairman of the italian leather goods company tod's enzo ferrari, italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur erasmus of rotterdam fabrizio zilibotti, italian economist and professor of international and development economics at yale university. fawziya abikar nur, minister for health and social care - somalia. gabriele paleotti gasparo tagliacozzi, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery giacomo matteotti giovanni pascoli pope gregory xiii (ugo boncompagni); pope gregory xv gregorio ricci-curbastro, italian mathematician and the inventor of tensor calculus. guglielmo marconi, italian inventor and radio pioneer henry of susa (hostiensis); pope innocent ix irnerius, founder of the school of glossators joaquín chapaprieta, former prime minister of spain. juan fernando lópez aguilar, former minister of justice - spain. julius caesar aranzi, the pioneer human anatomists and surgeons. laura bassi, the world's first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies lazzaro spallanzani, italian priest, biologist and physiologist leon battista alberti; luigi galvani; manuel olivencia, lawyer and academic; mauro moretti, former ceo and general manager of leonardo s.p.a. marcello malpighi; michelangelo antonioni; nicolaus copernicus, formulator of the heliocentric universal model; cardinal paolo burali d'arezzo; paracelsus, founder of the discipline of toxicology; patrizio bianchi, minister of public education in the draghi cabinet petrarch; pico della mirandola; pier luigi nervi, italian structural engineer and architect of unesco headquarters paris (1950). pier paolo pasolini; pierluigi collina, chairman of the fifa referees committee piero gnudi, minister of tourism and sports in the monti cabinet. pietro mengoli; remo gaspari, minister of relationships with the parliament and minister of public function in the bettino craxi and giulio andreotti cabinet. stefano domenicali, ceo of formula one group, former ceo of italian sports car manufacturer automobili lamborghini s.p.a. and team principal of formula one team scuderia ferrari. archbishop thomas becket; tommaso perelli, italian astronomer torquato tasso; ulisse aldrovandi; umberto eco, italian semiotician, philosopher and writer mihalj šilobod bolšić (1724–1787), roman catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first croatian arithmetic textbook arithmatika horvatzka (published in zagreb, 1758) faculty and staff notable former faculty include: 11th century irnerius 12th century bulgarus gratian martinus gosia patriarch heraclius of jerusalem william of tyre 13th century benvenutus scotivoli bettisia gozzadini guido guinizelli henry of susa (hostiensis) paul, dominican martyr sylvester gozzolini william of saliceto 14th century manuel chrysoloras giovanni de' marignolli francesco petrarca (also known as petrarch) coluccio salutati 15th century leon battista alberti nicolaus copernicus lippo bartolomeo dardi yuriy drohobych (also known as georgius de drohobycz) giovanni pico della mirandola 16th century ulisse aldrovandi giovanni antonio magini camillo baldi girolamo cardano ignazio danti giovanni della casa girolamo maggi virgilio malvezzi paracelsus 17th century giovanni cassini niall ó glacáin marcello malpighi pietro mengoli 18th century laura bassi luigi galvani maria gaetana agnesi carlo goldoni 19th century augusto righi giacomo ciamician giosuè carducci giovanni pascoli pellegrino rossi francesco selmi 20th century umberto eco beppo levi guglielmo marconi pier paolo pasolini romano prodi 21st century hamida barmaki özalp babaoğlu gabriella campadelli-fiume pier cesare bori augusto barbera gualtiero calboli ivano dionigi luciano floridi rankings and reputation university rankingsglobal – overallarwu world201-300 (2020)cwur world182 (2020-2021)cwts world119 (2020)qs world166 (2022)the world=167 (2021)usnwr global112 (2021) the 2022 qs world university rankings ranked the university of bologna 166th in the world and 71st (first in italy) with reference to academic reputation. in another measurement by the same company, it was positioned among the world's top 100 universities for graduate employability (84th). in the 2021 times higher education world university rankings, it claimed the 167th place globally. in the the impact rankings of the same year, measuring the universities' commitment to sustainable development in compliance with the un 2030 agenda, bologna took first place in europe and sixth in the world. nationally, in 2020 bologna topped italy's main ranking of large public universities (> 40,000 students) for the eleventh year in a row, produced by the italian center for social investment studies. points of interest orto botanico dell'università di bologna l'orto agrario "filippo re" (in italian) (translate to english: google, bing, yandex)