Ferdinando Bocconi
Ferdinando Bocconi was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. He is mostly known for being the founder of Bocconi University in Milan in 1902.
Bocconi was born and died in Milan. He and his brother Luigi became rich founding the Aux villes d'Italie, a great department store that became later the current La Rinascente.
The university was named after his son, Luigi Bocconi, who died in the Battle of Adwa during the First Italo-Ethiopian War.