Eminent Faculty and Alumni
- Demetrios Chalkokondyles, professor of Greek
- Giovanni Pico, humanist
- Marcus Musurus
- Jozefina Topalli
- Pomponio Algerio, student of civil law (1550s) executed under the Roman Catholic Inquisition
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer
- Mikołaj Kiczka, Polish noble, diplomat and priest.
- Pietro Bembo, poet and cardinal
- Sperone Speroni
- Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, kabbalist and playwright, founder of Hebrew literature
- Reginald Pole, cardinal
- Andreas Vesalius, anatomist
- Gabriele Falloppio, anatomist
- Daniele Barbaro, translator of Vitruvius
- Ermolao Barbaro, appointed professor of philosophy in 1477
- Francesco Barbaro, humanist
- Marcantonio Barbaro, administrator who established an inclusive admission policy
- Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente
- Torquato Tasso, poet
- Boris Pahor, writer
- Sir Francis Walsingham
- Pietro Pomponazzi held the chair of natural philosophy from 1495 to 1509
- Jacopo Zabarella held the chairs of logic, and philosophy, from 1564 to 1589
- Guido Panciroli, doctorate 1547; law professor 1547-1570, 1582–1599; first chair of Roman Law in 1554-1570, "afternoon chair" of Civil Law 1556-1570
- François de Sales, doctorate in civil and canon law, summa cum laude et honore plurimo, in 1591, Bishop of Geneva in 1602, canonized 1665
- Cesare Cremonini held the chairs of natural philosophy, and medicine, between 1591 and 1631
- Galileo Galilei held the chair of mathematics between 1592 and 1610
- William Harvey, anatomist
- Thomas Browne, writer and physician
- Antonio Vallisneri held the chairs of practical medicine, and theoretical medicine, between 1700 and 1730
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni
- Ugo Foscolo
- Francesco Zantedeschi
- Paolo Padovani, astronomer; graduated in 1989
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman to receive a doctor of philosophy degree
- Giuseppe Tartini, musician and composer
- Giacomo Casanova, traveller, author and seducer.
- Federico Faggin, inventor of modern CPU
- Francysk Skaryna, the printer of the first book in an Eastern Slavic language
- Leonik Tomeu, (1456–1531) the first professor to teach Aristotle in original language.
- Massimo Marchiori, the inventor of Hypersearch and father of modern search engines.
- John Ruthven, (1594-1597) alchemist and religious reformer.
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