Gargnano

History

Notable residents

• Giovanni Beatrice, called Zanzanù, and Eliseo Baruffaldo, brigands of the 17th century
• Pietro Bellotto, Baroque painter
• Lorenzo Fiorini, Domenico Pattuccelli and Tommaso Chiaromonte, volunteers in the southern army of Giuseppe Garibaldi during the military campaign of 1860
• Alexander Bettoni Cazzago, soldier, partisan and horseman. Won the Siena Square dressage competition in 1942. As colonel of the Third Regiment of the Savoy Cavalry in 1942 he led charges in the Russian campaign that are among the last uses of cavalry in modern warfare.
• Erika Blanc, actress
• Cesare Lievi, theatre director, poet and dramatist
• Benito Mussolini, during the Italian Social Republic lived in the Villa delle Orsoline
• D. H. Lawrence, novelist lived in Gargnano from 18 September 1912 to 30 March 1913 with Frieda Weekley von Richthofen
• Uto Ughi, violinist
• Oscar Ghiglia, guitarist
• Giuseppe Maria Bernini, Capuchin friar and missionary