Calabria - Famous Calabrians

Famous Calabrians

• Zaleucus (devised the western world's first code of law)
• Alcmaeon of Croton (ancient philosopher/medical theorist who pioneered anatomical dissection)
• Philistion of Locri (ancient physician and writer on medicine)
• Democedes (ancient physician)
• Philolaus (pythagorean and presocratic philosopher)
• Stesichorus (ancient poet)
• Uluj Ali (16th c. Ottoman admiral)
• Roger II of Sicily (Duke of Apulia and Calabria and 1st King of Sicily)
• Bohemond I of Antioch (Prince of Taranto & Antioch)
• Barlaam of Seminara (14th c. humanist Greek teacher to Petrarch and Boccaccio)
• Cassiodorus (Roman statesman & founder of the Vivarium monastery)
• Gianni Amelio (Italian film director)
• Mimmo Calopresti (Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor)
• Umberto Boccioni (20th c. futurist painter and sculptor)
• Ferruccio Baffa Trasci (17th c. bishop, theologian and philosopher)
• Tommaso Campanella (16th c. philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet)
• Janus Parrhasius (16th c. humanist who founded the Cosentian Academy in 1511)
• Giovanni Leonardo di Bona (first international chess tournament winner)
• Cicco Simonetta (Renaissance statesman who composed a treatise on cryptography)
• Francesco Cilea (19th c. opera composer)
• Alfonso Rendano (19th c. pianist and composer)
• Leonardo Vinci (18th c. composer)
• Alessandro Longo (19th c. composer amd musicologist)
• Pietro Negroni (16th c. Renaissance artist)
• Marco Cardisco (16th c. Renaissance artist)
• Francesco Cozza (famous 17th c. Baroque artist)
• Renato Dulbecco (Nobel Prize winning virologist)
• Joachim of Fiore (12th c. mystic and theologian)
• Pasquale Galluppi (19th c. philosopher)
• Pope Telesphorus
• Pope Anterus
• Pope Zosimus
• Pope John VII
• Pope Zachary
• John XVI (anti-pope)
• Ibycus (ancient lyric poet)
• Acrion (pythagorean philosopher)
• Aloysius Lilius (16th c. astronomer who created the Gregorian Calendar)
• Giovanni Battista Zupi (first to discover that the planet Mercury orbited around the sun)
• Milo of Croton (famous ancient athlete)
• Astylos of Croton (famous ancient athlete)
• Giuseppe Musolino (famous outlaw/folk hero)
• Nossis (ancient epigrammist and poet)
• Guglielmo Pepe (19th c. Italian patriot)
• Leonzio Pilato (14th c. humanist and Western Europe's first Professor of Greek)
• Clearchus of Rhegium (ancient sculptor)
• Timaeus of Locri (pythagorean philosopher)
• Mattia Preti (famous 17th c. Baroque artist)
• Gregorio Preti (17th c. Baroque artist and brother of Mattia Preti)
• Niccolò Lapiccola (18th c. artist)
• Gemelli Careri (17th c. Italian adventurer and traveler)
• Saint Nilo of Rossano (b. 910 - d. 1005, founded the monastery of Grottaferrata)
• Saint Francis of Paola (b. 1416 – d. 1507, patron saint of Calabria)
• Saint Bartholomew the Younger (b. 970 - d. 1055, abbot of Grottaferrata)
• Saint Nicodemus of Mammola (b. 900 - d. 990)
• Saint Fantinus (b. 927 - d. 1000)
• Saint Humilis of Bisignano (b. 1582 - d. 1637)
• Saint Gaetano Catanoso (b. 1879 - d. 1963)
• Fabrizio Ruffo (Italian cardinal and politician who led the Sanfedismo movement)
• Antonio Serra (late 16th c. philosopher and economist)
• Baldassarre Squitti (teacher of law and politician)
• Mimmo Rotella (20th c. artist and poet)
• Michele Pane (19th-20th c. symbolist poet and journalist)
• Giulio Variboba (18th c. poet and priest)
• Francesco Antonio Santori (19th c. writer, poet and playwright)
• Domingo F. Periconi (20th c. artist)
• Bernardino Telesio (famous 16th c. philosopher & natural scientist)
• Raffaele Piria (famous 19th c. chemist)
• Marion A. Trozzolo (inventor of the Teflon coated frying pan)
• Silvio Vigliaturo (glassfusion maestro)
• Charles Atlas (famous bodybuilder)
• Mino Reitano (singer-songwriter and actor)
• Rino Gaetano (singer-songwriter)
• Loredana Bertè (singer)
• Mia Martini (singer)
• Rocco Granata (singer-songwriter who wrote the hit song "Marina")
• Francesco Anile (opera tenor)
• Gennaro Gattuso (footballer)
• Rosario Rubbettino (founded publishing house Rubbettino Editore)
• Nicola Calipari (military intelligence officer)
• Gianni Versace (famous fashion designer and founder of Versace fashion label)
• Santo Versace (President and Co-CEO of Versace)
• Guido Daniele (internationally renowned body painting artist)
• Vincenzo Iaquinta (footballer)
• Goffredo Zehender (Racing Driver)
• Toni Scarmato (astronomer)
• Natuzza Evolo (Catholic mystic)
• Aroldo Tieri (actor)
• Corrado Alvaro (writer and journalist)
• Leonida Rèpaci (writer, poet, playwright and political activist)
• Leopoldo Trieste (actor, film director and script writer)
• Vincenzo Talarico (screenwriter and film actor)
• Raf Vallone (actor & international film star)
• Gianna Maria Canale (model and actress)
• Marcello Guido (deconstructivist architect)
• Enzo Mirigliani (patron of Miss Italy beauty contest)
• Mauro Fiore (Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Avatar")