| Umberto Eco  Born: 5-Jan-1932
Birthplace: Alessandria, Italy
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Scholar, Philosopher Nationality: Italy
Executive summary: Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose Father: Giulio Eco (accountant)
Mother: Giovanna Bisio
Wife: Renate Ramge (m. 1962)
University: University of Turin
Professor: Professor of Semiotics, University of Bologna
La Repubblica Columnist 1962-
International Academy of Humanism Laureate
American Academy of Arts and Letters honorary member 1998
Prix Médicis étranger 1982 for The Name of the Rose
French Legion of Honor 1993
Converted to Atheism from Catholicism
Italian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
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