Artists
Architects
- Leon Battista Alberti, architect, humanist author, and polymath
- Carlo Barabino, architect
- Lorenzo Mongiardino, architect, interior designer
- Renzo Piano, architect
- Renzo Picasso, architect and urban planner
Musicians
- Carlo Abbate, music theorist and composer
- Pippo Barzizza, composer, arranger, conductor and music director
- Umberto Bindi, singer-songwriter
- Angelo Branduardi, folk singer, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Andrea Emanuele Brasi, known as Bresh, singer-songwriter and rapper
- Bonifaci Calvo, Genoese troubadour
- Lanfranc Cigala, Genoese troubadour, man of letters
- Fabrizio De André, singer-songwriter
- Perceval Doria, Genoese troubadour
- Simon Doria, Genoese troubadour
- Ivano Fossati, singer-songwriter
- Dany Franchi, blues guitarist, singer-songwriter [5]
- Beppe Gambetta, guitarist, singer-songwriter
- Luchetto Gattilusio, Genoese troubadour
- Sandro Giacobbe, singer-songwriter
- Jacme Grils, Genoese troubadour
- Luca Grimaldi, Genoese troubadour
- Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, composer
- Matia Bazar, musical group
- Mario Molinari, known as Tedua, singer-songwriter and rapper
- Simone Molinaro, composer
- Federico Olivieri, known as Olly, singer-songwriter
- Natalino Otto, singer
- Niccolò Paganini, violinist and musical genius
- Calega Panzan, Genoese troubadour
- Gino Paoli, singer-songwriter, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Gian Franco Reverberi, composer and musician
- Gian Piero Reverberi, pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and entrepreneur
- Ricchi e Poveri, musical group
- Luigi Tenco, singer-songwriter, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Adam Sayf Viacava, known as Sayf, rapper and singer-songwriter
Painters
- Enrico Accatino, painter, sculptor, designer
- Luca Cambiaso, painter
- Fra Simone da Carnuli, painter
- Valerio Castello, painter
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, painter
- Edoardo Chiossone, engraver and painter
- Giuseppe Fraschieri, painter
- Giovanni Battista Gaulli, painter
- James Charles Harris, painter
- Alessandro Magnasco, painter
- Giovanni Stefano Maia, painter
- Domenico Piola, painter
- Ernesto Rayper, painter and engraver
- Emilio Scanavino, painter
- Bernardo Strozzi, painter
Sculptors
- Anton Maria Maragliano, sculptor
- Filippo Parodi, sculptor
- Giovanni Battista Tassara, sculptor
Writers
- Dino Campana, poet, Genoa is a recurring theme of the Dino Campana's poetry
- Giorgio Caproni, poet, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Piero Jahier, poet, translator, journalist
- Eugenio Montale, poet, Nobel Prize winner
- Fernanda Pivano, writer, translator and critic
- Felice Romani, poet, wrote many librettos for the Opera
- Edoardo Sanguineti, poet
Other
- Giovan Battista Carpi, comics artist
- Felice delle Piane, art historian
- Alberto Terrile, photographer
- Antoinette Van Leer Polk, Baroness
- Girolamo Vassallo, engraver and coin-maker
