Notable People
Many personalities stayed for some periods in Santa Margherita Ligure: Francesco Petrarca, famous poet of 14th century, the admiral Andrea Doria, in 16th century, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the painter Vasilij Kandinsky, the inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the politician Evita Perón, some famous actors like Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. In S. Margherita Ligure the poet Camillo Sbarbaro, the writer and journalist Vittorio Giovanni Rossi and the contemporary photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin were born.