List of people from 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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 Leonetti, poet, novelist and 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Morrone, actor, model, singer and fashion designer
• 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, 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 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Simone Borrelli, actor, director, singer-songwriter and musician
• Simone Rosalba, volleyball player and member of the 1998 world championship Gold Medal Team
• Stefano Rodotà, jurist, politician, academic and author
• Stesichorus, ancient poet
• Stefano Mancuso, Botanist, Director of Intl Lab of Plant Neurobiology and Editor of Plant Signalling and Behaviour Journal
• 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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