People
- Ennius (239 BCE - 169 BC), poet among the fathers of Roman poetry
- Abraham de Balmes (c. 1450-1523), Jewish physician and translator
- Filippo Smaldone (1848–1923), Catholic priest and saint
- Tito Schipa (1888–1965), tenor
- Antonio Amantea (1894–1983), World War I Fighter Ace
- Cloe Elmo (1910–1962), opera singer
- Aldo Moro (1916–1978), Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy
- Ennio de Giorgi (1928–1996), mathematician
- Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), actor, film director and screenwriter
- Franco Causio (born 1949), retired footballer, 1982 FIFA World Cup winner
- Ennio Capasa (born 1960), fashion designer, creator of the Italian fashion house CoSTUME NATIONAL
- Antonio Conte (born 1969), retired footballer
- Marco Materazzi (born 1973), footballer, 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
- Francesco Danieli (born 1981), historian, iconologist
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“A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.”
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“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have a vote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”
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