Personalities
- Lucia Apicella (Mamma Lucia, philanthropist)
- Ferrante I d'Aragona (Ferdinand I of Naples, King of Naples from 1458 to 1494)
- Mario Avagliano (historian and journalist)
- Tommaso Avagliano (writer and publisher)
- Ferdinando Baldi (film director, film producer and screenwriter)
- Alfonso Balzico (sculptor and painter)
- Pope Boniface IX
- Alda Borelli, actress in theatre and silent films
- Donato Antonio Cafaro (16th century engineer)
- Donato Antonio Cafaro (17th century royal engineer, probably descended from the previous)
- Giambattista Castaldo (16th century soldier)
- Giuliana De Sio (actress)
- Teresa De Sio (singer)
- Giovanni Vincenzo Della Monica (16th century engineer; collaborated with Giovan Battista Cavagna)
- Raffaele Della Monica (cartoonist)
- Antonietta Di Martino (high jumper, Italian indoor/outdoor champion)
- Antonio Fiorentino della Cava (architect, designer of the cloisters of Santa Caterina a Formiello)
- Giulio Genoino (Catholic priest; originator, with Masaniello, of the Neapolitan Revolt of 1647)
- Costantino Grimaldi (philosopher, jurist, politician and noted anticurialist)
- Simonetta Lamberti (10-year-old victim of a Camorra killing)
- Sabato Martelli Castaldi (General of the Italian Air Force, partisan and martyr killed in the slaughter of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre on 24 March 1944; posthumous Gold Medal of Military Valor)
- Attilio Mellone (member of the Franciscan order and man of letters)
- Eduardo Migliaccio (actor and comedian)
- Gino Palumbo (journalist)
- Fausto Salsano (football manager)
- Raffaele Schiavi (football player)
- Stefano Sorrentino (football player)
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