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 Altimari (Italian scholar in the field of Albanology)
• 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 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)
• 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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