Famous personalities connected with Florence
Dante Alighieri (poet, 1265-1321)
Donatello (sculptor, 1386 - 1466)
Sandro Botticeli (painter, 1444 - 1510)
Amerigo Vespucci (traveler and explorer, 1454 - 1512)
Michelangelo (sculptor, 1475 + 1564)
Leonardo da Vinci (painter, 1452 - 1519)
Raphael Santi (painter and architect, 1483 - 1520)
Guccio Gucci (merchant and designer, 1881 - 1953)
Roberto Cavalli (designer , 1940 - )

Florence is the home city of the football club ACF Fiorentina.