List of people from Calabria

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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 & writer)
  • Agostino Li Vecchi (member of Italian basketball team at 2000 Olympics)
  • Alba Florio (poetess)
  • Alcmaeon of Croton (ancient philosopher/medical theorist who pioneered anatomical dissection)
  • Alessandro De Rose (champion cliff diver)
  • Alessandro Longo (19th-century composer & musicologist)
  • Alexis (ancient comic poet)
  • Alfonso Rendano (19th-century pianist & 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 (film, television, theatre & 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 & Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy)
  • Anna Barbaro (paralympic triathlete who won silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics)
  • Anna Maria Maiolino (artist)
  • Anselmo Lorecchio (lawyer, journalist, politician, poet, writer & newspaper founder)
  • Antonella Della Porta (film actress)
  • Antonio Aiello (singer/songwriter)
  • Antonio Cantafora (film & television actor)
  • Antonio Diego Voci (figurative artist & 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 (artist & sculptor)
  • Antonio Rodotà (former Director General of the European Space Agency)
  • Antonio Serra (late 16th-century philosopher & economist)
  • Antonio Siciliano (film editor)
  • Antonio Strati (organizational theorist & artist)
  • Antonio Tallura (actor & writer)
  • Antony Carbone (film & 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 & politician)
  • Barlaam of Seminara (14th-century humanist Greek teacher to Petrarch & Boccaccio)
  • Benito Carbone (football manager)
  • Bernardino Telesio (16th-century philosopher & 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 Francesco Mottola (founder of the "Secular Institute of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart")
  • Blessed Gaetana Tolomeo (venerable, Servant of God & religious radio host of "Radio Maria")
  • Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist (Discalced Carmelite nun & mystic)
  • Blessed Mariantonia Samà (known as the "Little Sister of Saint Bruno")
  • Bohemond I of Antioch (Prince of Taranto & Antioch)
  • Bruno Amantea (physician & surgeon)
  • Bruno Chimirri (equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games)
  • Brunori Sas (singer/songwriter)
  • Calliphon of Croton (pythagorean physician)
  • Carlo Carlei (film director)
  • Carmelo Zito (journalist & newspaper editor)
  • Carmine Abate (writer & novelist)
  • Cassiodorus (founder of the Vivarium Monastery who put together the first western bible)
  • Cesare Lanza (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 & journalist)
  • Cosimo Schepis (artist, sculptor & art restorer)
  • Cylon of Croton (led a revolt against the Pythagoreans)
  • Damo (Pythagorean philosopher)
  • Daniele Lavia (member of Italian men's national volleyball team)
  • 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 & scholar of Calabrian dialects)
  • Domenico Siciliani (General & Deputy Governor of Cyrenaica)
  • Domenico Spanò Bolani (historian & writer)
  • Domingo F. Periconi (20th-century artist)
  • Donatella Versace (Vice-President & 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)
  • Elio Veltri (journalist & politician)
  • Elisabetta Gregoraci (model & television personality)
  • Elsa Serrano (fashion designer)
  • 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 architect)
  • Eugene Gaudio (cinematographer for 1916 version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea")
  • Eugenio Tano (19th-century painter)
  • Fabrizio Ruffo (cardinal & politician who led the Sanfedismo movement)
  • Fausto Torrefranca (musicologist & critic)
  • Ferdinando di Diano (mathematician, abbot, philosopher & theologist)
  • Ferruccio Baffa Trasci (17th-century bishop, theologian & philosopher)
  • Filippo De Nobili (writer & poet)
  • Flavia Fortunato (singer, actress & television presenter)
  • Florestano Pepe (19th-century Italian patriot)
  • Fortunato Arena (actor & stuntman)
  • Francesco Acri (19th-century philosopher & historian of philosophy)
  • Francesco Altimari (scholar in the field of Albanology)
  • Francesco Amico (Roman Catholic theologian, professor & chancellor)
  • Francesco Anile (opera tenor)
  • Francesco Antonio Santori (19th-century writer, poet & 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 & historiographer)
  • Francesco Florimo (19th-century archivist, musicologist, music historian & composer)
  • Francesco Jacomoni (20th-century diplomat & governor of Albania)
  • Francesco Jerace (sculptor)
  • Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (professional cyclist)
  • Francesco Leonetti (poet, novelist & art critic)
  • Francesco Panetta (champion long-distance runner)
  • Francesco Pianeta (heavyweight boxer)
  • Francesco Pignata (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 (fashion designer)
  • Fran Hauser (venture capitalist, digital media executive & philanthropist)
  • Gaetano Scorza (mathematician who inspired the theory of "Scorza varieties")
  • Gennaro Gattuso (footballer)
  • Gesualdo Penna (champion senior sprinter)
  • Giandomenico Martoretta (16th-century Baroque composer)
  • Gianna Maria Canale (model & actress)
  • Gianni Amelio (film director)
  • Gianni De Luca (comic book artist, illustrator, painter & etcher)
  • Gianni Versace (fashion designer & founder of Versace Group)
  • Gigi Peronace (football agent)
  • Gioachino Greco (17th-century champion chess player)
  • Giacomo Marramao (philosopher & teacher)
  • Gino Renni (actor, comedian & singer)
  • 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 adventurer & traveler)
  • Giovanni Francesco Mormando (15th-century architect)
  • Giovanni Leonardo di Bona (first international chess tournament winner)
  • Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania (16th-century geographer & theologian)
  • Giovanni Luca Conforti (16th-century composer & prominent falsetto singer)
  • Giovanni Nicotera (19th-century Italian patriot & politician)
  • Giovanni Parisi (gold medal winning boxer at the 1988 Seoul Olympics)
  • Giovanni Tocci (professional diver)
  • Giovanni Valentino Gentile (16th-century humanist & non-Trinitarian)
  • Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (17th-century author, academic & jurist)
  • Girolamo de Rada (19th-century writer of Italo-Albanian literature)
  • Giulio Variboba (18th-century poet & priest)
  • Giuseppe Albanese (classical pianist)
  • Giuseppe Antonio Sorbilli (sculptor)
  • Giuseppe Bardari (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 Lagrotteria (weightlifter who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics)
  • 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 athlete & television presenter)
  • Glycon of Croton (ancient athlete)
  • Goffredo Zehender (Racing Driver)
  • Gregorio Carafa (Prince & Grand Master of the Order of Malta)
  • Gregorio Preti (17th-century Baroque artist & brother of Mattia Preti)
  • Guglielmo Pepe (19th-century general & patriot)
  • Guglielmo Verdirame (barrister & professor of law at King's College London)
  • Gugliemo Sirleto (16th-century cardinal & scholar)
  • Guido Daniele (internationally renowned body painting artist)
  • Henry Aristippus (religious scholar & writer in Norman Kingdom of Sicily)
  • Hippostratus of Croton (ancient athlete)
  • Ibycus (ancient lyric poet)
  • Isabela de Rosis (religious sister & congregation founder)
  • Isomachus of Croton (ancient athlete)
  • Janus Parrhasius (16th-century humanist who founded the Cosentian Academy in 1511)
  • Jimi Bertucci (singer, songwriter, musician & composer)
  • Joachim of Fiore (12th-century mystic & 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 & political activist)
  • Leonzio Pilato (14th-century humanist & Western Europe's first Professor of Greek)
  • Leopoldo Trieste (actor, film director & script writer)
  • Linda Lanzillotta (member of Italy-USA Foundation & founder/President of GLOCUS Think Tank)
  • Loredana Bertè (singer)
  • Louiselle (singer)
  • Luciano Rispoli (television/radio writer & presenter)
  • Lucio Parrillo (fantasy artist)
  • Luigi Miceli (19th-century Italian patriot, politician & military figure)
  • Luigi Ruffo-Scilla (Catholic Cardinal & Archbishop of Naples)
  • Luigi Tripepi (Catholic Cardinal & poet)
  • Lycinus of Croton (ancient athlete)
  • Marcello Fonte (actor)
  • Marcello Guido (deconstructivist architect)
  • Marco Aurelio Severino (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)
  • Maria Latella (multimedia journalist, columnist, TV anchor woman & interviewer)
  • Maria Perrotta (classical pianist)
  • Maria Perrusi (Miss Italia 2009)
  • Maria Voce (lawyer & former President of the Focolare Movement)
  • Mariangela Perrupato (synchronized swimmer)
  • 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 & professional ice dancer)
  • Mattia Preti (17th-century Baroque artist)
  • Maurizio Leone (champion long-distance runner)
  • 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 & journalist)
  • Michéal Castaldo (classical crossover tenor, music producer & composer)
  • Milo of Croton (ancient olympic athlete)
  • Mimmo Calopresti (film director, screenwriter, producer & actor)
  • Mimmo Rotella (20th-century poet & contemporary artist who invented the Decollage)
  • Mino Reitano (singer-songwriter & 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 & Roman Catholic churches)
  • Nick Mancuso (actor of stage & screen)
  • Nick Nostro (film director)
  • Nicola Antonio Manfroce (19th-century composer)
  • Nicola Calipari (military intelligence officer)
  • Nicola Squitti (Italian senator & diplomat)
  • Nik Spatari (painter, sculptor & architect)
  • Ninetto Davoli (actor)
  • Nossis (ancient epigrammist & poet)
  • Nuccio Schepis (artist, sculptor & art restorer)
  • Occhiali (16th-century Ottoman admiral)
  • Ofelia Giudicissi Curci (poet & archeologist)
  • Orfeo Reda (painter & artist)
  • 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 & composition)
  • Pasquale Anselmo (actor & voice actor)
  • Pasquale Carpino (celebrity chef)
  • Pasquale Galluppi (19th-century philosopher)
  • Paul Néri (professional cyclist)
  • Peppino Mazzotta (actor)
  • Peter Carravetta (philosopher, poet, literary theorist & translator)
  • Phayllos of Croton (ancient athlete who outfitted & commanded a ship at the Battle of Salamis)
  • Philippus of Croton (ancient olympic athlete & war hero)
  • Philistion of Locri (ancient physician & writer on medicine)
  • Philolaus (pythagorean & 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 Delle Piane (actor & TV personality)
  • Pietro Negroni (16th-century Renaissance artist)
  • Pino Arlacchi (sociologist & politician)
  • Polissena Ruffo (Princess & 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)
  • Quintus Laronius (Roman military officer & Senator)
  • Quinzio Bongiovanni (scholar of philosophy)
  • Raf Vallone (actor & international film star)
  • Raffaele Conflenti (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 & founder of Turano Baking Company)
  • Rhys Coiro (film, television & stage actor)
  • Rino Barillari (King of Paparazzi)
  • Rino Gaetano (singer-songwriter)
  • Roberto Russo (pianist & composer)
  • Roberto Sgambelluri (professional racing cyclist)
  • Rocco B. Commisso (founder of Mediacom Communications Corporation)
  • Rocco Granata (singer-songwriter who wrote the hit song "Marina")
  • Rocco Jemma (professor of Pediatric Medicine)
  • Rocky Gattellari (professional boxer & businessman)
  • Roger II of Sicily (Duke of Apulia & Calabria & 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 & 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 (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 Frega (composer of cultured contemporary & experimental music)
  • Salvatore Petruolo (painter)
  • Salvatore Pisani (sculptor)
  • Sandra Savaglio (award-winning astrophysicist & author)
  • Santi Paladino (journalist, politician & writer)
  • Santo Versace (President & Co-CEO of Versace Group)
  • Scilla Sclanizza (actress of stage & screen)
  • Sergio Cammariere (jazz singer-songwriter)
  • Sergio Laganà (professional road cyclist)
  • Sergio Pastore (film director & screenwriter)
  • Silvio Vigliaturo (glassfusion maestro)
  • Simone Borrelli (actor, director, singer-songwriter & musician)
  • Simone Rosalba (volleyball player & 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 Arecchi (physicist who contributed to laser physics & quantum optics)
  • 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 Condello (professional wrestler & promoter)
  • Tony Gaudio (Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Anthony Adverse")
  • Tony Nardi (actor, playwright, director & producer)
  • Tony Parisi (former WWWF & WWF wrestling champion)
  • Umberto Boccioni (20th-century futurist, painter & sculptor)
  • Vincent Canadé (20th-century artist)
  • Vincenza Petrilli (paralympic archer who won silver medal at 2020 Summer Paralympics)
  • Vincenzo Caglioti (chemist & academician)
  • Vincenzo Chimirri (equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games)
  • Vincenzo Di Benedetto (classical philologist)
  • Vincenzo Dorsa (Arbëresh scholar, writer & translator)
  • Vincenzo Fondacaro (sailor, navy captain & merchant officer)
  • Vincenzo Iaquinta (footballer)
  • Vincenzo Lauro (Papal diplomat, Bishop & Cardinal)
  • Vincenzo Milione (painter)
  • Vincenzo Musolino (actor, director, producer & screenwriter)
  • Vincenzo Scaramuzza (international pianist & music teacher)
  • Vincenzo Talarico (screenwriter & film actor)
  • Vincenzo Valente (composer & writer)
  • Vittoria Belvedere (film & television actress)
  • Zaleucus (devised the western world's first code of law)

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