List of people from the region of Calabria:
Notable Calabrians edit
- Achille Falcone (16th-century composer)
- Achille Manfredini (19-century architect, engineer & 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 & writer)
- Agostino Li Vecchi (member of Italian basketball team at 2000 Olympics)
- Antonio Aiello (singer/songwriter)
- 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 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 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 & 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)
- 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 & 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)
- Eurytus (Ancient philosopher)
- Fabio Salerno (Catholic Priest & 2nd Personal Papal Secretary to Pope Francis)
- 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)
- Gregorio Scalise (Poet and Dramatist)
- Guglielmo Pepe (19th-century general & patriot)
- Guglielmo Verdirame (member of the House of Lords, King's Counsel, & professor of law at King's College London)
- Guglielmo 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)
- Michelangelo La Neve (comics writer & screenwriter)
- Michele D’Oppido (professional swimmer)
- Michele Morrone (actor, model, singer & fashion designer)
- 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 & Servant of God)
- Nazzareno Natale (Actor)
- 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 Ordine (literary critic & professor of Italian literature)
- 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)
- Pietro Paolo Bombino (16th-century Italian Jesuit, orator, theologian, historian & 1st biographer of Edmund Campion)
- 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)
- Rocco Pantaleo (restauranteur, businessman & philanthropist)
- Rocco Verduci (19th-century Italian revolutionary & martyr of the 1847 Two Sicilies Insurrection)
- 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)
- 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)
- Stefano Mancuso (Botanist, Director of Intl Lab of Plant Neurobiology & Editor of Plant Signalling & Behaviour Journal)
- 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 Florio Sr. (entrepreneur & politician)
- 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)