List of people from Calabria
List of people from the region of Calabria:
Notable Calabrians
- Achille Falcone (16th-century composer)
- Acrion (Pythagorean philosopher)
- Ada Dondini (actress)
- Adele Cambria (actress, journalist and writer)
- Agostino Li Vecchi (Member of Italian Basketball Team at 2000 Olympics)
- Alcmaeon of Croton (ancient philosopher/medical theorist who pioneered anatomical dissection)
- Alessandro De Rose (Champion Italian Cliff Diver)
- Alessandro Longo (19th-century composer and musicologist)
- Alexis (ancient comic poet)
- Alfonso Rendano (19th-century pianist and composer who invented the "third pedal")
- Alfredo Costanzo (Australian motor racing driver born in Calabria)
- Aloysius Lilius (16th-century astronomer who created the Gregorian Calendar)
- Amyris of Sybaris (consulted the Delphic oracle)
- Annalisa Insarda (Italian film, television, theatre and voice actress)
- Andy Varipapa (professional bowler called "the greatest one-man bowling show on Earth")
- Angelo Arciglione (international prize-winning pianist)
- Angelo Maria Mazzia (19th-century artist and Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy)
- Anna Maria Maiolino (Italian-Brazilian artist)
- Anselmo Lorecchio (lawyer, journalist, politician, poet, writer & newspaper founder)
- Antonio Cantafora (film and television actor)
- Antonio Diego Voci (figurative artist and sculptor)
- Antonio D'Oppido (Champion Swimmer)
- Antonio Fava (actor/director, comedian, musician & Maestro of Commedia dell'arte)
- Antonio Fuoco (motor racing driver)
- Antonio Maria Magro (actor, director & screenwriter)
- Antonio Porchia (poet)
- Antonio Pujía (Italian-Argentine artist and sculptor)
- Antonio Rodotà (former Director General of the European Space Agency)
- Antonio Serra (late 16th-century philosopher and economist)
- Antonio Siciliano (film editor)
- Antonio Strati (Italian organizational theorist & artist)
- Antonio Tallura (Actor and Writer)
- Antony Carbone (film and television actor)
- Arignote (pythagorean philosopher)
- Aristomachus of Croton (ancient party leader of Croton during the Hannibalian war)
- Aroldo Tieri (actor)
- Astylos of Croton (ancient olympic athlete)
- Autoleon (ancient war hero)
- Baldassarre Squitti (teacher of law and politician)
- Barlaam of Seminara (14th-century humanist Greek teacher to Petrarch and Boccaccio)
- Benito Carbone (football manager)
- Bernardino Telesio (16th-century philosopher and first of the modern scientists)
- Blessed Camillus Costanzo (16th-century Jesuit missionary & Roman Catholic martyr)
- Blessed Elena Aiello (founder of "Sister Minims of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ")
- Blessed Francesco Maria Greco (co-founder of "Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts")
- Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist (Discalced Carmelite nun and mystic)
- Bohemond I of Antioch (Prince of Taranto and Antioch)
- Bruno Chimirri (Equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games)
- Brunori Sas (Singer/Songwriter)
- Calliphon of Croton (pythagorean physician)
- Carlo Carlei (Italian film director)
- Carmelo Zito (journalist & newspaper editor)
- Carmine Abate (writer and novelist)
- Cassiodorus (founder of the Vivarium Monastery who put together the first western bible)
- Cesare Lanza (Italian journalist & author)
- Charles Atlas (bodybuilder)
- Cicco Simonetta (Renaissance statesman who composed a treatise on cryptography)
- Clearchus of Rhegium (ancient sculptor)
- Clinomachus (Megarian philosopher)
- Corrado Alvaro (writer and journalist)
- Cylon of Croton (led a revolt against the Pythagoreans)
- Damo (Pythagorean philosopher)
- Democedes (ancient physician that Herodotus called "the most skillful physician of his time")
- Dick Danello (Singer & Composer)
- Diego Carpitella (Professor of ethnomusicology)
- Diognetus of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Domenico Berardi (Youngest footballer to score 4 goals in a "Serie A" match since 1931)
- Domenico Caruso (writer, poet and scholar of Calabrian dialects)
- Domenico Siciliani (Italian General and Deputy Governor of Cyrenaica)
- Domenico Spanò Bolani (Historian and Writer)
- Domingo F. Periconi (20th-century artist)
- Donatella Versace (Vice-President and Chief Designer of Versace Group)
- El Presidente (Musician/Singer/Record Producer)
- Eleuterio Francesco Fortino (Awarded Catholic priest who improved relations between the Catholic & Orthodox churches during his service)
- Elisabetta Gregoraci (model and television personality)
- Emilio Bulgarelli (won gold team medal in water polo at the 1948 London Olympics)
- Enrico Salfi (19th-century painter of biblical/Roman subjects)
- Enzo Mirigliani (patron of Miss Italy beauty contest)
- Eratosthenes of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Erminio Blotta (sculptor)
- Eugene De Rosa (20th-century Italian-American architect)
- Eugene Gaudio (cinematographer for 1916 version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea")
- Eugenio Tano (19th-century painter)
- Fabrizio Ruffo (Italian cardinal and politician who led the Sanfedismo movement)
- Fausto Torrefranca (Italian musicologist & critic)
- Ferdinando di Diano (mathematician, abbot, philosopher & theologist)
- Ferruccio Baffa Trasci (17th-century bishop, theologian and philosopher)
- Filippo De Nobili (writer and poet)
- Flavia Fortunato (singer, actress & television presenter)
- Florestano Pepe (19th-century Italian patriot)
- Fortunato Arena (actor & stuntman)
- Francesco Acri (19th-century philosopher and historian of philosophy)
- Francesco Amico (Roman Catholic theologian, professor & chancellor)
- Francesco Anile (opera tenor)
- Francesco Antonio Santori (19th-century writer, poet and playwright)
- Francesco Cilea (19th-century opera composer)
- Francesco Colelli (baroque painter)
- Francesco Cozza (17th-century Baroque artist)
- Francesco Domenico Chiarello (Knight of Vittorio Veneto who saw action in both World Wars)
- Francesco Fiorentino (philosopher and historiographer)
- Francesco Florimo (19th-century archivist, musicologist, music historian and composer)
- Francesco Jacomoni (20th-century Italian diplomat and governor of Albania)
- Francesco Jerace (sculptor)
- Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (professional cyclist)
- Francesco Leonetti (poet, novelist & art critic)
- Francesco Mottola (venerated priest)
- Francesco Panetta (champion long-distance runner)
- Francesco Pianeta (heavyweight boxer)
- Francesco Pignata (Italian champion javelin thrower)
- Francesco Raffaello Santoro (painter)
- Francesco Reda (professional road bicycle racer)
- Francesco Repaci (politician, socialist & anti-fascist)
- Francesco Sambiasi (16th-century Catholic missionary to China)
- Francesco Saverio Mergalo (18th-century painter)
- Francesco Saverio Salfi (writer, politician & librettist)
- Francesco Smalto (Italian fashion designer)
- Fran Hauser (Venture Capitalist, Digital Media Executive & Philanthropist)
- Gaetana Tolomeo (Venerated Catholic)
- Gaetano Scorza (mathematician who inspired the theory of "Scorza varieties")
- Gennaro Gattuso (footballer)
- Giandomenico Martoretta (16th-century Baroque composer)
- Gianna Maria Canale (model and actress)
- Gianni Amelio (Italian film director)
- Gianni De Luca (comic book artist, illustrator, painter and etcher)
- Gianni Versace (fashion designer and founder of Versace Group)
- Gigi Peronace (football agent)
- Gioachino Greco (17th-century champion chess player)
- Giacomo Marramao (Italian philosopher and teacher)
- Giorgio Campanella (Professional Boxer)
- Giorgio Miceli (opera composer)
- Giovanni Andrea Serrao (intellectual who supported the Parthenopaean Republic of 1799)
- Giovanni Angelo Criscuolo (16th-century Renaissance painter)
- Giovanni Battista Palatino (16th-century Renaissance master calligrapher whose name was given to the Palatino typeface)
- Giovanni Battista Zupi (16th-century astronomer who discovered that the planet Mercury had orbital phases)
- Giovanni De Gennaro (Police Officer & Chairman of Defense Group Leonardo)
- Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (17th-century Italian adventurer and traveler)
- Giovanni Francesco Mormando (15th-century Italian architect)
- Giovanni Leonardo di Bona (first international chess tournament winner)
- Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania (16th-century geographer and theologian)
- Giovanni Luca Conforti (16th-century composer & prominent falsetto singer)
- Giovanni Nicotera (19th-century Italian patriot and politician)
- Giovanni Parisi (gold medal winning boxer at the 1988 Seoul Olympics)
- Giovanni Tocci (professional diver)
- Giovanni Valentino Gentile (16th-century humanist and non-Trinitarian)
- Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (17th-century author, academic and jurist)
- Girolamo de Rada (19th-century writer of Italo-Albanian literature)
- Giulio Variboba (18th-century poet and priest)
- Giuseppe Albanese (classical pianist)
- Giuseppe Antonio Sorbilli (sculptor)
- Giuseppe Bardari (Italian writer)
- Giuseppe Ciro (racing driver)
- Giuseppe Coniglio (poet)
- Giuseppe Faraca (won young rider classification in the 1981 Giro d'Italia)
- Giuseppe Filianoti (lyric tenor)
- Giuseppe Leuzzi (journalist, essayist, writer & author)
- Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (visual artist)
- Giuseppe Musolino (outlaw/folk hero)
- Giuseppe Novelli (Geneticist)
- Giuseppe Petitto (award-winning film director)
- Giuseppe Sensi (Cardinal & Vatican diplomat)
- Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio (anatomist whose name is associated with lacrimal glands called "Ciaccio's glands")
- Giuseppina Macrì (won bronze medal at the 2001 World Judo Championships in Munich)
- Giusy Versace (Paralympic athelete and television presenter)
- Glycon of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Goffredo Zehender (Racing Driver)
- Gregorio Carafa (Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta)
- Gregorio Preti (17th-century Baroque artist and brother of Mattia Preti)
- Guglielmo Pepe (19th-century Italian general and patriot)
- Gugliemo Sirleto (16th-century cardinal and scholar)
- Guido Daniele (internationally renowned body painting artist)
- Henry Aristippus (Religious Scholar and writer in Norman Kingdom of Sicily)
- Hippostratus of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Ibycus (ancient lyric poet)
- Isabela de Rosis (religious sister and congregation founder)
- Isomachus of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Janus Parrhasius (16th-century humanist who founded the Cosentian Academy in 1511)
- Jimi Bertucci (singer, songwriter, musician and composer)
- Joachim of Fiore (12th-century mystic and theologian)
- John Italus (11th-century Byzantine philosopher)
- John XVI (10th-century antipope)
- Jone Salinas (Film actress)
- Karmel Kandreva (writer & poet)
- Leonardo Vinci (18th-century composer)
- Leonida Rèpaci (writer, poet, playwright and political activist)
- Leonzio Pilato (14th-century humanist and Western Europe's first Professor of Greek)
- Leopoldo Trieste (actor, film director and script writer)
- Linda Lanzillotta (Vice-President of Italian Senate)
- Loredana Bertè (singer)
- Louiselle (singer)
- Luciano Rispoli (television/radio writer & presenter)
- Lucio Parrillo (fantasy artist)
- Luigi Miceli (19th-century Italian patriot, politician and military figure)
- Luigi Ruffo-Scilla (Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Naples)
- Luigi Tripepi (Catholic Cardinal and poet)
- Lycinus of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Marcello Fonte (actor)
- Marcello Guido (deconstructivist architect)
- Marco Aurelio Severino (Italian surgeon, anatomist & author)
- Marco Cardisco (16th-century Renaissance artist)
- Maria Antonia Braile (writer who was the first Albanian woman to ever publish literature in Albanian language)
- Maria Latella (multimedia journalist, columnist, TV anchor woman & interviewer)
- Maria Perrotta (classical pianist)
- Maria Perrusi (Miss Italia 2009)
- Mariangela Perrupato (synchronized swimmer)
- Mariantonia Samà (Venerated Catholic)
- Marina Ripa di Meana (Actress, director, writer, stylist, activist & TV personality)
- Mario Alicata (Italian Partisan, literary critic & politician)
- Mario Tricoci (hairstylist-entrepreneur)
- Marion A. Trozzolo (inventor of the Teflon coated frying pan)
- Matilde Ciccia (actress and professional ice dancer)
- Mattia Preti (17th-century Baroque artist)
- Mauro Fiore (Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Avatar")
- Melinno (Ancient Lyric Poet)
- Mia Martini (singer)
- Michelangelo Falvetti (17th-century Baroque composer)
- Michele D’Oppido (Professional Swimmer)
- Michele Pane (19th–20th-century symbolist poet and journalist)
- Michéal Castaldo (classical crossover tenor, music producer and composer)
- Milo of Croton (ancient olympic athlete)
- Mimmo Calopresti (Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor)
- Mimmo Rotella (20th-century poet and contemporary artist who invented the Decollage)
- Mino Reitano (singer-songwriter and actor)
- Natuzza Evolo (Catholic mystic)
- Niccolò Lapiccola (18th-century artist)
- Nicholas Musuraca (Cinematographer & pioneer of film noir)
- Nicholas of Crotone (13th-century bilingual bishop known for his role in the reconciliation of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches)
- Nick Mancuso (actor of stage and screen)
- Nick Nostro (Italian film director)
- Nicola Antonio Manfroce (19th-century composer)
- Nicola Calipari (military intelligence officer)
- Nicola Squitti (Italian senator and diplomat)
- Nik Spatari (painter, sculptor & architect)
- Ninetto Davoli (actor)
- Nossis (ancient epigrammist and poet)
- Nuccio Schepis (artist, sculptor & art restorer)
- Occhiali (16th-century Ottoman admiral)
- Ofelia Giudicissi Curci (poet and archeologist)
- Oreste Moricca (gold medal winning fencer at the 1924 Paris Olympics)
- Otello Profazio (folk singer-songwriter & author)
- Paolo Antonio Foscarini (16th-century scientist who wrote about the mobility of the earth)
- Paolo Serrao (teacher of musical theory and composition)
- Pasquale Anselmo (Italian actor and voice actor)
- Pasquale Carpino (celebrity chef)
- Pasquale Galluppi (19th-century philosopher)
- Paul Néri (professional cyclist)
- Peppino Mazzotta (actor)
- Peter Carravetta (philosopher, poet, literary theorist and translator)
- Phayllos of Croton (ancient athlete who outfitted and commanded a ship at the Battle of Salamis)
- Philippus of Croton (ancient olympic athlete and war hero)
- Philistion of Locri (ancient physician and writer on medicine)
- Philolaus (pythagorean and presocratic philosopher)
- Phintys (Pythagorean philosopher)
- Pier Francesco Pingitore (director, screenwriter, playwright & author)
- Pierpaolo Parisio (Cardinal who was one of the Presidents of the Council of Trent at its first session in 1542)
- Pietro Negroni (16th-century Renaissance artist)
- Pino Arlacchi (sociologist & politician)
- Polissena Ruffo (Princess and first wife to Francesco Sforza)
- Pope Anterus (3rd-century pope & saint)
- Pope John VII (8th-century pope)
- Pope Telesphorus (2nd-century pope & saint)
- Pope Zachary (8th-century pope & saint)
- Pope Zosimus (5th-century pope & saint)
- Proclus of Rhegium (ancient physician)
- Quinzio Bongiovanni (scholar of philosophy)
- Raf Vallone (actor and international film star)
- Raffaele Conflenti (Italian aeronautical engineer & aircraft designer)
- Raffaele Piria (19th-century chemist who discovered the major component of Aspirin)
- Regina Catrambone (philanthropist & co-founder of Migrant Offshore Aid Station)
- Renato Dulbecco (Nobel Prize winning virologist)
- Renato Turano (politician/businessman and founder of Turano Baking Company)
- Rhys Coiro (film, television and stage actor)
- Rino Barillari (King of Paparazzi)
- Rino Gaetano (singer-songwriter)
- Roberto Sgambelluri (Italian former professional racing cyclist)
- Rocco B. Commisso (founder of Mediacom Communications Corporation)
- Rocco Granata (singer-songwriter who wrote the hit song "Marina")
- Rocky Gattellari (professional boxer & businessman)
- Roger II of Sicily (Duke of Apulia and Calabria and 1st King of Sicily)
- Rosalba Forciniti (won bronze medal in Judo at the 2012 London Olympics)
- Rosario Rubbettino (founded publishing house Rubbettino Editore)
- Rosella Postorino (Award winning author)
- Rubens Santoro (painter)
- Saint Alexander of Constantinople (Bishop of Byzantium and 1st Archbishop of Constantinople)
- Saint Bartholomew the Younger (970–1055, abbot of Grottaferrata)
- Saint Fantinus (927–1000)
- Saint Francis of Paola (1416–1507, patron saint of Calabria)
- Saint Gaetano Catanoso (1879–1963)
- Saint Gregor von Burtscheid (940–999)
- Saint Himerius of Cremona (Italian Bishop – died 560)
- Saint Humilis of Bisignano (1582–1637)
- Saint Luca Antonio Falcone (1669–1739)
- Saint Nicodemus of Mammola (900–990)
- Saint Nicola Saggio (born 1650 Longobardi – died 1709 Rome)
- Saint Nilo of Rossano (910–1005, founded the monastery of Grottaferrata)
- Salvatore Albano (sculptor)
- Salvatore Petruolo (painter)
- Salvatore Pisani (sculptor)
- Sandra Savaglio (Award-winning astrophysicist & author)
- Santi Paladino (journalist, politician & writer)
- Santo Versace (President and Co-CEO of Versace Group)
- Scilla Sclanizza (actress of stage and screen)
- Sergio Cammariere (jazz singer-songwriter)
- Sergio Laganà (professional road cyclist)
- Silvio Vigliaturo (glassfusion maestro)
- Simone Borrelli (actor, director, singer-songwriter & musician)
- Simone Rosalba (volleyball player and member of the 1998 World Championship Gold Medal Team)
- Stefano Rodotà (jurist, politician, academic & author)
- Stesichorus (ancient poet)
- Steve Conte (actor)
- Tatiana Trouvé (contemporary visual artist & sculptor)
- Teresa Macrì (art critic, curator & writer)
- Theagenes of Rhegium (ancient literary critic)
- Timaeus of Locri (pythagorean philosopher)
- Tisicrates of Croton (ancient athlete)
- Tito Minniti (Italian Royal Air Force Hero of World War 2)
- Tobia Giuseppe Loriga (Italian & IBF International Light Middleweight Boxing Champion)
- Tommaso Campanella (16th-century Renaissance philosopher, theologian, astrologer & poet)
- Tommaso Martini (late-Baroque painter)
- Tony Gaudio (Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Anthony Adverse")
- Tony Nardi (actor, playwright, director and producer)
- Tony Parisi (former WWWF & WWF wrestling champion)
- Umberto Boccioni (20th-century futurist, painter and sculptor)
- Vincent Canadé (20th-century artist)
- Vincenzo Caglioti (Chemist and academician)
- Vincenzo Chimirri (Equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games)
- Vincenzo Di Benedetto (classical philologist)
- Vincenzo Dorsa (Arbëresh scholar, writer and translator)
- Vincenzo Fondacaro (sailor, navy captain & merchant officer)
- Vincenzo Iaquinta (footballer)
- Vincenzo Lauro (Italian Papal diplomat, Bishop & Cardinal)
- Vincenzo Milione (painter)
- Vincenzo Musolino (actor, director, producer & screenwriter)
- Vincenzo Scaramuzza (international pianist and music teacher)
- Vincenzo Talarico (screenwriter and film actor)
- Vincenzo Valente (composer and writer)
- Vittoria Belvedere (Italian film and television actress)
- Zaleucus (devised the western world's first code of law)
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