Ferruccio Lamborghini
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Ferruccio Lamborghini
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April 28, 1916 Cento, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Died | February 20, 1993 (aged 76) Perugia, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
| Alma mater | Istituto Fratelli Taddia, |
| Occupation | Mechanic; winemaker; industrialist; entrepreneur |
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| Spouse(s) | 1st wife: Clelia Monti (d. 1947), mother of Tonino 2nd wife: Annita Borgatti (divorced) 3rd wife: Maria Theresa Cane, mother of Patrizia |
| Children | Tonino Lamborghini, Patrizia Lamborghini |
Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini (Italian pronunciation: [fɛrˈruttʃo lambɔrˈgini]; April 28, 1916 – February 20, 1993) was an Italian industrialist. Born to grape farmers from the comune of Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy's post-WWII economic boom. In 1959, he opened an oil heater factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing air conditioning equipment. In 1963, he most famously created Automobili Lamborghini, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese. Lamborghini founded a fourth company, Lamborghini Oleodinamica in 1969. Lamborghini sold off many of his interests by the late 1970s and retired to an estate in Umbria, where he pursued winemaking.
Ferruccio Lamborghini was born on April 28, 1916, to viticulturists Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini, in house number 22 in Renazzo di Cento, in the Province of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. According to his baptismal certificate, Ferruccio was baptised as a Roman Catholic four days later, on May 2. As a young man, Lamborghini was drawn more to farming machinery rather than the farming lifestyle itself. Following his interest in mechanics, Lamborghini studied at the Fratelli Taddia technical institute near Bologna. In 1940 he was drafted into the Italian Royal Air Force, where he served as a mechanic at the Italian garrison on the island of Rhodes (territory of the Kingdom of Italy since 1911, after the Italo-Turkish War), becoming the supervisor of the vehicle maintenance unit. Lamborghini was taken as prisoner when the island fell to the British at the end of the war in 1945, and was not able to return home until the next year. He married, but his wife died in 1947 while giving birth to his first child, a boy named Tonino.
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