People
- Surname
- Adriana Basile (c. 1590–c. 1640), an Italian composer
- Alfio Basile (born 1943), Argentine football coach and former player
- Arturo Basile (1914–1968), Italian conductor
- Emanuele Basile (died 1980), captain of Carabinieri murdered by Cosa Nostra
- Ernesto Basile (1857–1932), Italian architect
- Giambattista Basile (1566/1575–1632), Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector
- Gianluca Basile (born 1975), Italian basketball player
- Pierre Basile (died 1199), French knight who shot King Richard I of England with a crossbow at the siege of Châlus-Charbrol
- Given name
- Basile Bouchon (fl. 1725), Lyon textile worker who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape
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