# 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
* 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 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
* 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 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
* 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
* 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 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 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 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