Famous People with Name Colombo

Virginio Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Virginio Colombo: was a prolific architect who completed close to 50 works in Buenos Aires in just 21 years before his premature death at the age of 42. Born in 1885 in Milan, Italy, he studied architecture in the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Sommaruga, the city's leading exponent of the Art Nouveau style. A fellow student, Antonio Sant'Elia, later became the number one advocate of Futurism in Italian architecture. During the early part of the 20th century there were many immigrant Italian architects working in Buenos Aires including Francesco Tamburini, who designed the Teatro Colón, Vittorio Meano, who designed the Argentine National Congress, Mario Palanti, who designed the Palacio Barolo, Francisco Gianotti who designed the Confitería El Molino, and Juan Antonio Buschiazzo who made alterations to the Centro Cultural Recoleta and designed the Italian Hospital. Of these architects, Colombo was one of the most active and creative.

Jürgen Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jürgen Colombo: is a retired track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Günter Haritz, and Udo Hempel.

Gabriele Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Gabriele Colombo: is an Italian road bicycle racer. He won the Milan-Sanremo in 1996.

Fernando Carreño Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Fernando Carreño Colombo: is an Italian-Uruguayan footballer who currently plays as defender for SCR Altach in the Austrian Bundesliga.

Alain Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Alain Colombo: is a former professional footballer. He played as a centre-half and played for Metz in the Coupe de France Final 1984.