List of people from Calabria

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
 * 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