The following is a list of notable people who were born in Como, Italy. * Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus; 23–79 CE), author, natural philosopher and naval and military commander known for the Naturalis Historia * Caecilius (c. 59 CE), a poet, the subject of Catullus's Carmina 35, who had a girlfriend more learned than the Sapphic Muse * Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus; 63–c.113 CE), lawyer, an author and a natural philosopher of Ancient Rome * Agostina Camozzi (1435–1458), Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Saint Augustine beatified by Pope Gregory XVI on 19 September 1834 * Paolo Giovio (1483–1552), physician, historian and biographer remembered as a chronicler of the Italian Wars * Benedetto Odescalchi (1611–1689), Pope Innocent XI fro