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List of people from Calabria
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July 27, 2025
List of
people from the region of
Calabria
:
Notable Calabrians
Achille Falcone
, 16th-century composer
Achille Manfredini
, 19th-century architect, engineer and active in the Art Nouveau Movement
Achille Talarico
, 19th-century painter of the Neapolitan School
Acrion
, Pythagorean philosopher
Ada Dondini
, actress
Adele Cambria
, actress, journalist and writer
Agostino Li Vecchi
, member of Italian basketball team at 2000 Olympics
Antonio Aiello
, singer/songwriter
Alba Florio
, poet
Alcmaeon of Croton
, ancient philosopher/medical theorist who pioneered anatomical dissection
Alessandro De Rose
, champion 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
Alfredo Valente (photographer)
, photographer, singer, painter and art collector
Aloysius Lilius
, 16th-century astronomer who created the
Gregorian Calendar
Amyris of Sybaris
, consulted the Delphic oracle
Annalisa Insarda
, 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
Angelo Savelli
, painter
Anna Barbaro
, paralympic triathlete who won silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Anna Maria Maiolino
, artist
Anselmo Lorecchio
, lawyer, journalist, politician, poet, writer and newspaper founder
Antonella Della Porta
, film actress
Antonino Spirlì
, actor, author and journalist
Antonio Cantafora
, film and television actor
Antonio Diego Voci
, figurative artist and sculptor
Antonio D'Oppido
, champion swimmer
Antonio Fava
, actor/director, comedian, musician and Maestro of Commedia dell'arte
Antonio Fuoco
, motor racing driver
Antonio Maria Magro
, actor, director and screenwriter
Antonio Porchia
, poet
Antonio Pujía
, artist and sculptor
Antonio Restelli
, cyclist who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics
Antonio Rodotà
, former Director General of the European Space Agency
Antonio Serra
, late 16th-century philosopher and economist
Antonio Siciliano
, film editor
Antonio Strati
, organizational theorist and 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 and 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 and religious radio host of "Radio Maria"
Blessed
Maria Candida of the Eucharist
, Discalced Carmelite nun and mystic
Blessed
Mariantonia Samà
, known as the "Little Sister of Saint Bruno"
Bohemond I of Antioch
, Prince of Taranto and Antioch
Bruno Amantea
, physician and surgeon
Bruno Chimirri
, equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games
Brunori Sas
, singer/songwriter
Calliphon of Croton
, pythagorean physician
Carlo Carlei
, film director
Carlo Musitano
, 17th-century priest and physician
Carmelo Zito
, journalist and newspaper editor
Carmine Abate
, writer and novelist
Cassiodorus
, founder of the Vivarium Monastery who put together the first western bible
Cesare Berlingeri
, contemporary artist
Cesare Lanza
, journalist and 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
Cosimo Schepis
, artist, sculptor and art restorer
Cristiano Caccamo
, actor
Cylon of Croton
, led a revolt against the Pythagoreans
Damo
, Pythagorean philosopher
Daniele Lavia
, member of Italian men's national volleyball team
Dario Cirisano
, Winter Youth Olympic Gold winning Ice Dancer
Davi Wornel
, singer-songwriter, composer and producer
Demetrio Nava
, jurist, priest, polymath and historian
Democedes
, ancient physician that Herodotus called "the most skillful physician of his time"
Dick Danello
, singer and 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
, 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
Eleonora Bilotta
, human-computer interaction researcher and author
Eleuterio Francesco Fortino
, awarded Catholic priest who improved relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches during his service
Elio Veltri
, journalist and politician
Elisabetta Gregoraci
, model and 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
Ernesto Chiminello
, general in World War II
Eugene De Rosa
, 20th-century architect
Eugene Gaudio
, cinematographer for 1916 version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Eugenio Tano
, 19th-century painter
Eurytus
, Ancient philosopher
Fabio Mollo
, film director and screenwriter
Fabio Salerno
, Catholic Priest and 2nd Personal Papal Secretary to Pope Francis
Fabrizio Ruffo
, cardinal and politician who led the Sanfedismo movement
Fausto Torrefranca
, musicologist and critic
Felice DeMatteo
, composer, arranger and bandmaster
Ferdinando di Diano
, mathematician, abbot, philosopher and theologist
Ferruccio Baffa Trasci
, 17th-century bishop, theologian and philosopher
Filippo De Nobili
, writer and poet
Flavia Fortunato
, singer, actress and television presenter
Florestano Pepe
, 19th-century Italian patriot
Fortunato Arena
, actor and stuntman
Francesco Acri
, 19th-century philosopher and historian of philosophy
Francesco Altimari
, scholar in the field of Albanology
Francesco Amico
, Roman Catholic theologian, professor and 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 diplomat and governor of Albania
Francesco Jerace
, sculptor
Francesco Manuel Bongiorno
, professional cyclist
Francesco La Monaca
, painter and sculptor
Francesco Leonetti
, poet, novelist and art critic
Francesco Misiano
, communist politician and film producer
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 and anti-fascist
Francesco Sambiasi
, 16th-century Catholic missionary to China
Francesco Saverio Mergalo
, 18th-century painter
Francesco Saverio Salfi
, writer, politician and librettist
Francesco Smalto
, fashion designer
Fran Hauser
, venture capitalist, digital media executive and 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 and actress
Gianni Amelio
, 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
, philosopher and teacher
Gino Chiellino
, writer, editor, translator and literary scholar
Gino Renni
, actor, comedian and 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 and Chairman of Defense Group
Leonardo
Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri
, 17th-century adventurer and traveler
Giovanni Francesco Mormando
, 15th-century 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 and 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
, 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 and author
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo
, visual artist
Giuseppe Musolino
, outlaw/folk hero
Giuseppe Novelli
, geneticist
Giuseppe Petitto
, award-winning film director
Giuseppe Sensi
, cardinal and 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 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
Gregorio Scalise
, Poet and Dramatist
Guglielmo Pepe
, 19th-century general and patriot
Guglielmo Verdirame
, member of the House of Lords, King's Counsel, and professor of law at King's College London
Guglielmo 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 and 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
, member of
Italy-USA Foundation
and founder/President of GLOCUS Think Tank
Loredana Bertè
, singer
Lorenzo Calafiore
, champion wrestler
Louiselle
, singer
Luciano Rispoli
, television/radio writer and 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
Mac Cara
, American baseball player
Manuela Zoccali
, astronomer
Marcello Fonte
, actor
Marcello Guido
, deconstructivist architect
Marco Aurelio Severino
, surgeon, anatomist and 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 and interviewer
Maria Perrotta
, classical pianist
Maria Perrusi
, Miss Italia 2009
Maria Voce
, lawyer and former President of the Focolare Movement
Mariangela Perrupato
, synchronized swimmer
Marina Ripa di Meana
, actress, director, writer, stylist, activist and TV personality
Mario Alicata
, Italian Partisan, literary critic and politician
Mario Tricoci
, hairstylist-entrepreneur
Marion A. Trozzolo
, inventor of the Teflon coated frying pan
Massimiliano Mondello
, professional table tennis player who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Matilde Ciccia
, actress and 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
Michelangelo La Neve
, comics writer and screenwriter
Michele D’Oppido
, professional swimmer
Michele Guerrisi
, artist and writer
Michele Morrone
, actor, model, singer and fashion designer
Michele Pane
, 19th–20th-century symbolist poet and journalist
Milo of Croton
, ancient olympic athlete
Mimmo Calopresti
, film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
Mimmo Candito
, Italian war correspondent
Mimmo Rotella
, 20th-century poet and contemporary artist who invented the Decollage
Mino Reitano
, singer-songwriter and actor
Natuzza Evolo
, Catholic mystic and Servant of God
Nazzareno Natale
, Actor
Niccolò Lapiccola
, 18th-century artist
Nicholas Musuraca
, cinematographer and 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
, film director
Nicola Antonio Manfroce
, 19th-century composer
Nicola Calipari
, military intelligence officer
Nicola Squitti
, Italian senator and diplomat
Nik Spatari
, painter, sculptor and architect
Ninetto Davoli
, actor
Nossis
, ancient epigrammist and poet
Nuccio Ordine
, literary critic and professor of Italian literature
Nuccio Schepis
, artist, sculptor and art restorer
Occhiali
, 16th-century Ottoman admiral
Ofelia Giudicissi Curci
, poet and archeologist
Orfeo Reda
, painter and artist
Oreste Moricca
, gold medal winning fencer at the 1924 Paris Olympics
Osvaldo Paladini
, distinguished admiral
Otello Profazio
, folk singer-songwriter and 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
, 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 and author
Pierpaolo Parisio
, Cardinal who was one of the Presidents of the Council of Trent at its first session in 1542
Pietro Campana
, engraver
Pietro Delle Piane
, actor and TV personality
Pietro Negroni
, 16th-century Renaissance artist
Pietro Paolo Bombino
, 16th-century Italian Jesuit, orator, theologian, historian and 1st biographer of
Edmund Campion
Pino Arlacchi
, sociologist and politician
Polissena Ruffo
, Princess and first wife to
Francesco Sforza
Pope Anterus
, 3rd-century pope and saint
Pope Dionysius
, 3rd-century pope and saint
Pope John VII
, 8th-century pope
Pope Telesphorus
, 2nd-century pope and saint
Pope Zachary
, 8th-century pope and saint
Pope Zosimus
, 5th-century pope and saint
Proclus of Rhegium
, ancient physician
Quintus Laronius
, Roman military officer and Senator
Quinzio Bongiovanni
, scholar of philosophy
Raf Vallone
, actor and international film star
Raffaele Conflenti
, aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer
Raffaele Piria
, 19th-century chemist who discovered the major component of Aspirin
Regina Catrambone
, philanthropist and 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
Riccardo Pizzuti
, actor and stuntman
Rino Barillari
, King of Paparazzi
Rino Gaetano
, singer-songwriter
Roberto Russo
, pianist and 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
Rocco Pantaleo
, restauranteur, businessman and philanthropist
Rocco Verduci
, 19th-century Italian revolutionary and martyr of the 1847 Two Sicilies Insurrection
Rocky Gattellari
, professional boxer and 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
, 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 and experimental music
Salvatore Petruolo
, painter
Salvatore Pisani
, sculptor
Salvatore Settis
, archeologist and art historian
Sandra Savaglio
, award-winning astrophysicist and author
Santi Paladino
, journalist, politician and writer
Santo Versace
, President and Co-CEO of Versace Group
Sergio Cammariere
, jazz singer-songwriter
Sergio Laganà
, professional road cyclist
Sergio Pastore
, film director and screenwriter
Silvio Vigliaturo
, glassfusion maestro
Simon of Bisignano
, teacher of canon law
Simone Borrelli
, actor, director, singer-songwriter and musician
Simone Rosalba
, volleyball player and member of the 1998 world championship Gold Medal Team
Stefano De Sando
, actor and voice actor
Stefano Mancuso
, Botanist, Director of Intl Lab of Plant Neurobiology and Editor of Plant Signalling and Behaviour Journal
Stefano Patrizi
, jurist and scholar
Stefano Rodotà
, jurist, politician, academic and author
Stesichorus
, ancient lyric poet
Steve Conte
, actor
Tatiana Trouvé
, contemporary visual artist and sculptor
Teresa Macrì
, art critic, curator and 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 and quantum optics
Tito Minniti
, Italian Royal Air Force Hero of World War 2
Tobia Giuseppe Loriga
, Italian and IBF International Light Middleweight Boxing Champion
Tommaso Campanella
, 16th-century Renaissance philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet
Tommaso Martini
, late-Baroque painter
Tony Condello
, professional wrestler and promoter
Tony Gaudio
, Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Anthony Adverse"
Tony Nardi
, actor, playwright, director and producer
Tony Parisi
, former WWWF and WWF wrestling champion
Umberto Boccioni
, 20th-century futurist, painter and sculptor
Vincent Canadé
, 20th-century artist
Vincenza Petrilli
, paralympic archer who won silver medal at 2020 Summer Paralympics
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 Florio Sr.
, entrepreneur and politician
Vincenzo Fondacaro
, sailor, navy captain and merchant officer
Vincenzo Iaquinta
, footballer
Vincenzo Lauro
, Papal diplomat, Bishop and Cardinal
Vincenzo Milione
, painter
Vincenzo Musolino
, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
Vincenzo Scaramuzza
, international pianist and music teacher
Vincenzo Talarico
, screenwriter and film actor
Vincenzo Valente
, composer and writer
Vittoria Belvedere
, film and television actress
Zaleucus
, devised the Western world's first code of law
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