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List of people from the region of
Calabria:
Notable Calabrians
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Achille Falcone, 16th-century composer
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Achille Manfredini, 19th-century architect, engineer and active in the Art Nouveau Movement
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Achille Talarico, 19th-century painter of the Neapolitan School
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Acrion, Pythagorean philosopher
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Ada Dondini, actress
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Adele Cambria, actress, journalist and writer
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Agostino Li Vecchi, member of Italian basketball team at 2000 Olympics
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Antonio Aiello, singer/songwriter
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Alba Florio, poet
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Alcmaeon of Croton, ancient philosopher/medical theorist who pioneered anatomical dissection
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Alessandro De Rose, champion cliff diver
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Alessandro Longo, 19th-century composer and musicologist
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Alexis, ancient comic poet
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Alfonso Rendano, 19th-century pianist and composer who invented the "third pedal"
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Alfredo Costanzo, Australian motor racing driver born in Calabria
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Aloysius Lilius, 16th-century astronomer who created the
Gregorian Calendar
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Amyris of Sybaris, consulted the Delphic oracle
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Annalisa Insarda, film, television, theatre and voice actress
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Andy Varipapa, professional bowler called "the greatest one-man bowling show on Earth"
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Angelo Arciglione, international prize-winning pianist
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Angelo Maria Mazzia, 19th-century artist and Knight of the
Order of the Crown of Italy
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Anna Barbaro, paralympic triathlete who won silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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Anna Maria Maiolino, artist
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Anselmo Lorecchio, lawyer, journalist, politician, poet, writer and newspaper founder
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Antonella Della Porta, film actress
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Antonio Cantafora, film and television actor
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Antonio Diego Voci, figurative artist and sculptor
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Antonio D'Oppido, champion swimmer
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Antonio Fava, actor/director, comedian, musician and Maestro of Commedia dell'arte
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Antonio Fuoco, motor racing driver
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Antonio Maria Magro, actor, director and screenwriter
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Antonio Porchia, poet
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Antonio Pujía, artist and sculptor
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Antonio Restelli, cyclist who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics
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Antonio Rodotà, former Director General of the European Space Agency
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Antonio Serra, late 16th-century philosopher and economist
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Antonio Siciliano, film editor
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Antonio Strati, organizational theorist and artist
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Antonio Tallura, actor and writer
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Antony Carbone, film and television actor
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Arignote, pythagorean philosopher
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Aristomachus of Croton, ancient party leader of Croton during the Hannibalian war
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Aroldo Tieri, actor
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Astylos of Croton, ancient olympic athlete
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Autoleon, ancient war hero
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Baldassarre Squitti, teacher of law and politician
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Barlaam of Seminara, 14th-century humanist Greek teacher to Petrarch and Boccaccio
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Benito Carbone, football manager
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Bernardino Telesio, 16th-century philosopher and first of the modern scientists
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Camillus Costanzo, 16th-century Jesuit missionary and Roman Catholic martyr
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Elena Aiello, founder of "Sister Minims of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ"
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Francesco Maria Greco, co-founder of "Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts"
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Francesco Mottola, founder of the "Secular Institute of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart"
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Gaetana Tolomeo, venerable, Servant of God and religious radio host of "Radio Maria"
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Maria Candida of the Eucharist, Discalced Carmelite nun and mystic
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Mariantonia Samà, known as the "Little Sister of Saint Bruno"
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Bohemond I of Antioch, Prince of Taranto and Antioch
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Bruno Amantea, physician and surgeon
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Bruno Chimirri, equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games
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Brunori Sas, singer/songwriter
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Calliphon of Croton, pythagorean physician
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Carlo Carlei, film director
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Carmelo Zito, journalist and newspaper editor
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Carmine Abate, writer and novelist
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Cassiodorus, founder of the Vivarium Monastery who put together the first western bible
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Cesare Lanza, journalist and author
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Charles Atlas, bodybuilder
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Cicco Simonetta, Renaissance statesman who composed a treatise on cryptography
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Clearchus of Rhegium, ancient sculptor
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Clinomachus, Megarian philosopher
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Corrado Alvaro, writer and journalist
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Cosimo Schepis, artist, sculptor and art restorer
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Cristiano Caccamo, actor
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Cylon of Croton, led a revolt against the Pythagoreans
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Damo, Pythagorean philosopher
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Daniele Lavia, member of Italian men's national volleyball team
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Dario Cirisano, Winter Youth Olympic Gold winning Ice Dancer
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Democedes, ancient physician that Herodotus called "the most skillful physician of his time"
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Dick Danello, singer and composer
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Diego Carpitella, professor of ethnomusicology
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Diognetus of Croton, ancient athlete
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Domenico Berardi, youngest footballer to score 4 goals in a "Serie A" match since 1931
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Domenico Caruso, writer, poet and scholar of Calabrian dialects
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Domenico Siciliani, General and Deputy Governor of Cyrenaica
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Domenico Spanò Bolani, historian and writer
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Domingo F. Periconi, 20th-century artist
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Donatella Versace, Vice-President and chief designer of Versace Group
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El Presidente, musician/singer/record producer
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Eleuterio Francesco Fortino, awarded Catholic priest who improved relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches during his service
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Elio Veltri, journalist and politician
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Elisabetta Gregoraci, model and television personality
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Elsa Serrano, fashion designer
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Emilio Bulgarelli, won gold team medal in water polo at the 1948 London Olympics
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Enrico Salfi, 19th-century painter of biblical/Roman subjects
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Enzo Mirigliani, patron of Miss Italy beauty contest
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Eratosthenes of Croton, ancient athlete
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Erminio Blotta, sculptor
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Eugene De Rosa, 20th-century architect
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Eugene Gaudio, cinematographer for 1916 version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
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Eugenio Tano, 19th-century painter
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Eurytus, Ancient philosopher
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Fabio Salerno, Catholic Priest and 2nd Personal Papal Secretary to Pope Francis
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Fabrizio Ruffo, cardinal and politician who led the Sanfedismo movement
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Fausto Torrefranca, musicologist and critic
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Ferdinando di Diano, mathematician, abbot, philosopher and theologist
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Ferruccio Baffa Trasci, 17th-century bishop, theologian and philosopher
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Filippo De Nobili, writer and poet
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Flavia Fortunato, singer, actress and television presenter
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Florestano Pepe, 19th-century Italian patriot
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Fortunato Arena, actor and stuntman
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Francesco Acri, 19th-century philosopher and historian of philosophy
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Francesco Altimari, scholar in the field of Albanology
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Francesco Amico, Roman Catholic theologian, professor and chancellor
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Francesco Anile, opera tenor
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Francesco Antonio Santori, 19th-century writer, poet and playwright
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Francesco Cilea, 19th-century opera composer
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Francesco Colelli, baroque painter
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Francesco Cozza, 17th-century Baroque artist
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Francesco Domenico Chiarello,
Knight of Vittorio Veneto who saw action in both World Wars
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Francesco Fiorentino, philosopher and historiographer
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Francesco Florimo, 19th-century archivist, musicologist, music historian and composer
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Francesco Jacomoni, 20th-century diplomat and governor of Albania
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Francesco Jerace, sculptor
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Francesco Manuel Bongiorno, professional cyclist
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Francesco Leonetti, poet, novelist and art critic
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Francesco Panetta, champion long-distance runner
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Francesco Pianeta, heavyweight boxer
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Francesco Pignata, champion javelin thrower
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Francesco Raffaello Santoro, painter
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Francesco Reda, professional road bicycle racer
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Francesco Repaci, politician, socialist and anti-fascist
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Francesco Sambiasi, 16th-century Catholic missionary to China
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Francesco Saverio Mergalo, 18th-century painter
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Francesco Saverio Salfi, writer, politician and librettist
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Francesco Smalto, fashion designer
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Fran Hauser, venture capitalist, digital media executive and philanthropist
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Gaetano Scorza, mathematician who inspired the theory of "
Scorza varieties"
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Gennaro Gattuso, footballer
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Gesualdo Penna, champion senior sprinter
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Giandomenico Martoretta, 16th-century Baroque composer
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Gianna Maria Canale, model and actress
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Gianni Amelio, film director
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Gianni De Luca, comic book artist, illustrator, painter and etcher
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Gianni Versace, fashion designer and founder of
Versace Group
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Gigi Peronace, football agent
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Gioachino Greco, 17th-century champion chess player
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Giacomo Marramao, philosopher and teacher
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Gino Renni, actor, comedian and singer
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Giorgio Campanella, professional boxer
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Giorgio Miceli, opera composer
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Giovanni Andrea Serrao, intellectual who supported the Parthenopaean Republic of 1799
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Giovanni Angelo Criscuolo, 16th-century Renaissance painter
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Giovanni Battista Palatino, 16th-century Renaissance master calligrapher whose name was given to the
Palatino typeface
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Giovanni Battista Zupi, 16th-century astronomer who discovered that the planet Mercury had orbital phases
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Giovanni De Gennaro, Police officer and Chairman of Defense Group
Leonardo
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Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, 17th-century adventurer and traveler
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Giovanni Francesco Mormando, 15th-century architect
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Giovanni Leonardo di Bona, first international chess tournament winner
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Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania, 16th-century geographer and theologian
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Giovanni Luca Conforti, 16th-century composer and prominent falsetto singer
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Giovanni Nicotera, 19th-century Italian patriot and politician
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Giovanni Parisi, gold medal winning boxer at the 1988 Seoul Olympics
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Giovanni Tocci, professional diver
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Giovanni Valentino Gentile, 16th-century humanist and non-Trinitarian
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Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, 17th-century author, academic and jurist
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Girolamo de Rada, 19th-century writer of Italo-Albanian literature
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Giulio Variboba, 18th-century poet and priest
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Giuseppe Albanese, classical pianist
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Giuseppe Antonio Sorbilli, sculptor
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Giuseppe Bardari, writer
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Giuseppe Ciro, racing driver
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Giuseppe Coniglio, poet
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Giuseppe Faraca, won young rider classification in the 1981 Giro d'Italia
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Giuseppe Filianoti, lyric tenor
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Giuseppe Lagrotteria, weightlifter who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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Giuseppe Leuzzi, journalist, essayist, writer and author
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Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, visual artist
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Giuseppe Musolino, outlaw/folk hero
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Giuseppe Novelli, geneticist
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Giuseppe Petitto, award-winning film director
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Giuseppe Sensi, cardinal and Vatican diplomat
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Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio, anatomist whose name is associated with lacrimal glands called "
Ciaccio's glands"
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Giuseppina Macrì, won bronze medal at the 2001 World Judo Championships in Munich
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Giusy Versace, paralympic athlete and television presenter
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Glycon of Croton, ancient athlete
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Goffredo Zehender, Racing Driver
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Gregorio Carafa, Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
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Gregorio Preti, 17th-century Baroque artist and brother of Mattia Preti
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Gregorio Scalise, Poet and Dramatist
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Guglielmo Pepe, 19th-century general and patriot
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Guglielmo Verdirame, member of the House of Lords, King's Counsel, and professor of law at King's College London
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Guglielmo Sirleto, 16th-century cardinal and scholar
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Guido Daniele, internationally renowned body painting artist
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Henry Aristippus, religious scholar and writer in Norman Kingdom of Sicily
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Hippostratus of Croton, ancient athlete
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Ibycus, ancient lyric poet
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Isabela de Rosis, religious sister and congregation founder
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Isomachus of Croton, ancient athlete
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Janus Parrhasius, 16th-century humanist who founded the
Cosentian Academy in 1511
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Jimi Bertucci, singer, songwriter, musician and composer
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Joachim of Fiore, 12th-century mystic and theologian
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John Italus, 11th-century Byzantine philosopher
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John XVI, 10th-century antipope
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Jone Salinas, film actress
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Karmel Kandreva, writer and poet
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Leonardo Vinci, 18th-century composer
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Leonida Rèpaci, writer, poet, playwright and political activist
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Leonzio Pilato, 14th-century humanist and Western Europe's first Professor of Greek
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Leopoldo Trieste, actor, film director and script writer
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Linda Lanzillotta, member of
Italy-USA Foundation and founder/President of GLOCUS Think Tank
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Loredana Bertè, singer
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Louiselle, singer
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Luciano Rispoli, television/radio writer and presenter
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Lucio Parrillo, fantasy artist
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Luigi Miceli, 19th-century Italian patriot, politician and military figure
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Luigi Ruffo-Scilla, Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Naples
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Luigi Tripepi, Catholic Cardinal and poet
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Lycinus of Croton, ancient athlete
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Marcello Fonte, actor
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Marcello Guido, deconstructivist architect
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Marco Aurelio Severino, surgeon, anatomist and author
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Marco Cardisco, 16th-century Renaissance artist
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Maria Antonia Braile, writer who was the first Albanian woman to ever publish literature in Albanian
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Maria Latella, multimedia journalist, columnist, TV anchor woman and interviewer
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Maria Perrotta, classical pianist
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Maria Perrusi, Miss Italia 2009
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Maria Voce, lawyer and former President of the Focolare Movement
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Mariangela Perrupato, synchronized swimmer
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Marina Ripa di Meana, actress, director, writer, stylist, activist and TV personality
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Mario Alicata, Italian Partisan, literary critic and politician
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Mario Tricoci, hairstylist-entrepreneur
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Marion A. Trozzolo, inventor of the Teflon coated frying pan
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Matilde Ciccia, actress and professional ice dancer
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Mattia Preti, 17th-century Baroque artist
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Maurizio Leone, champion long-distance runner
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Mauro Fiore, Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Avatar"
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Melinno, ancient lyric poet
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Mia Martini, singer
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Michelangelo Falvetti, 17th-century Baroque composer
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Michelangelo La Neve, comics writer and screenwriter
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Michele D’Oppido, professional swimmer
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Michele Morrone, actor, model, singer and fashion designer
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Michele Pane, 19th–20th-century symbolist poet and journalist
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Michéal Castaldo, classical crossover tenor, music producer and composer
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Milo of Croton, ancient olympic athlete
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Mimmo Calopresti, film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
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Mimmo Rotella, 20th-century poet and contemporary artist who invented the Decollage
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Mino Reitano, singer-songwriter and actor
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Natuzza Evolo, Catholic mystic and Servant of God
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Nazzareno Natale, Actor
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Niccolò Lapiccola, 18th-century artist
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Nicholas Musuraca, cinematographer and pioneer of film noir
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Nicholas of Crotone, 13th-century bilingual bishop known for his role in the reconciliation of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches
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Nick Mancuso, actor of stage and screen
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Nick Nostro, film director
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Nicola Antonio Manfroce, 19th-century composer
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Nicola Calipari, military intelligence officer
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Nicola Squitti, Italian senator and diplomat
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Nik Spatari, painter, sculptor and architect
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Ninetto Davoli, actor
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Nossis, ancient epigrammist and poet
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Nuccio Ordine, literary critic and professor of Italian literature
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Nuccio Schepis, artist, sculptor and art restorer
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Occhiali, 16th-century Ottoman admiral
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Ofelia Giudicissi Curci, poet and archeologist
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Orfeo Reda, painter and artist
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Oreste Moricca, gold medal winning fencer at the 1924 Paris Olympics
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Otello Profazio, folk singer-songwriter and author
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Paolo Antonio Foscarini, 16th-century scientist who wrote about the mobility of the earth
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Paolo Serrao, teacher of musical theory and composition
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Pasquale Anselmo, actor and voice actor
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Pasquale Carpino, celebrity chef
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Pasquale Galluppi, 19th-century philosopher
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Paul Néri, professional cyclist
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Peppino Mazzotta, actor
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Peter Carravetta, philosopher, poet, literary theorist and translator
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Phayllos of Croton, ancient athlete who outfitted and commanded a ship at the
Battle of Salamis
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Philippus of Croton, ancient olympic athlete and war hero
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Philistion of Locri, ancient physician and writer on medicine
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Philolaus, pythagorean and presocratic philosopher
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Phintys, pythagorean philosopher
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Pier Francesco Pingitore, director, screenwriter, playwright and author
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Pierpaolo Parisio, Cardinal who was one of the Presidents of the Council of Trent at its first session in 1542
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Pietro Delle Piane, actor and TV personality
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Pietro Negroni, 16th-century Renaissance artist
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Pietro Paolo Bombino, 16th-century Italian Jesuit, orator, theologian, historian and 1st biographer of
Edmund Campion
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Pino Arlacchi, sociologist and politician
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Polissena Ruffo, Princess and first wife to
Francesco Sforza
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Pope Anterus, 3rd-century pope and saint
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Pope John VII, 8th-century pope
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Pope Telesphorus, 2nd-century pope and saint
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Pope Zachary, 8th-century pope and saint
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Pope Zosimus, 5th-century pope and saint
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Proclus of Rhegium, ancient physician
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Quintus Laronius, Roman military officer and Senator
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Quinzio Bongiovanni, scholar of philosophy
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Raf Vallone, actor and international film star
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Raffaele Conflenti, aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer
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Raffaele Piria, 19th-century chemist who discovered the major component of Aspirin
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Regina Catrambone, philanthropist and co-founder of
Migrant Offshore Aid Station
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Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize winning virologist
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Renato Turano, politician/businessman and founder of Turano Baking Company
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Rhys Coiro, film, television and stage actor
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Rino Barillari, King of Paparazzi
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Rino Gaetano, singer-songwriter
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Roberto Russo, pianist and composer
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Roberto Sgambelluri, professional racing cyclist
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Rocco B. Commisso, founder of Mediacom Communications Corporation
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Rocco Granata, singer-songwriter who wrote the hit song "Marina"
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Rocco Jemma, professor of Pediatric Medicine
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Rocco Pantaleo, restauranteur, businessman and philanthropist
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Rocco Verduci, 19th-century Italian revolutionary and martyr of the 1847 Two Sicilies Insurrection
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Rocky Gattellari, professional boxer and businessman
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Roger II of Sicily, Duke of Apulia and Calabria and 1st King of Sicily
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Rosalba Forciniti, won bronze medal in Judo at the 2012 London Olympics
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Rosario Rubbettino, founded publishing house Rubbettino Editore
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Rosella Postorino, award winning author
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Rubens Santoro, painter
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Alexander of Constantinople, Bishop of Byzantium and 1st Archbishop of Constantinople
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Saint Bartholomew the Younger, 970–1055, abbot of Grottaferrata
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Saint Fantinus, 927–1000
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Saint Francis of Paola, 1416–1507, patron saint of Calabria
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Saint Gaetano Catanoso, 1879–1963
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Gregor von Burtscheid, 940–999
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Himerius of Cremona, Bishop – died 560
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Humilis of Bisignano, 1582–1637
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Luca Antonio Falcone, 1669–1739
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Nicodemus of Mammola, 900–990
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Nicola Saggio, born 1650 Longobardi – died 1709 Rome
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Saint Nilo of Rossano, 910–1005, founded the monastery of Grottaferrata
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Salvatore Albano, sculptor
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Salvatore Frega, composer of cultured contemporary and experimental music
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Salvatore Petruolo, painter
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Salvatore Pisani, sculptor
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Sandra Savaglio, award-winning astrophysicist and author
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Santi Paladino, journalist, politician and writer
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Santo Versace, President and Co-CEO of Versace Group
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Sergio Cammariere, jazz singer-songwriter
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Sergio Laganà, professional road cyclist
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Sergio Pastore, film director and screenwriter
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Silvio Vigliaturo, glassfusion maestro
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Simone Borrelli, actor, director, singer-songwriter and musician
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Simone Rosalba, volleyball player and member of the 1998 world championship Gold Medal Team
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Stefano Rodotà, jurist, politician, academic and author
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Stesichorus, ancient poet
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Stefano Mancuso, Botanist, Director of Intl Lab of Plant Neurobiology and Editor of Plant Signalling and Behaviour Journal
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Steve Conte, actor
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Tatiana Trouvé, contemporary visual artist and sculptor
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Teresa Macrì, art critic, curator and writer
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Theagenes of Rhegium, ancient literary critic
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Timaeus of Locri, pythagorean philosopher
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Tisicrates of Croton, ancient athlete
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Tito Arecchi, physicist who contributed to laser physics and quantum optics
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Tito Minniti, Italian Royal Air Force Hero of World War 2
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Tobia Giuseppe Loriga, Italian and IBF International Light Middleweight Boxing Champion
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Tommaso Campanella, 16th-century Renaissance philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet
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Tommaso Martini, late-Baroque painter
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Tony Condello, professional wrestler and promoter
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Tony Gaudio, Academy Award Winning Cinematographer for the movie "Anthony Adverse"
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Tony Nardi, actor, playwright, director and producer
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Tony Parisi, former WWWF and WWF wrestling champion
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Umberto Boccioni, 20th-century futurist, painter and sculptor
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Vincent Canadé, 20th-century artist
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Vincenza Petrilli, paralympic archer who won silver medal at 2020 Summer Paralympics
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Vincenzo Caglioti, chemist and academician
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Vincenzo Chimirri, equestrian who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games
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Vincenzo Di Benedetto, classical philologist
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Vincenzo Dorsa, Arbëresh scholar, writer and translator
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Vincenzo Florio Sr., entrepreneur and politician
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Vincenzo Fondacaro, sailor, navy captain and merchant officer
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Vincenzo Iaquinta, footballer
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Vincenzo Lauro, Papal diplomat, Bishop and Cardinal
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Vincenzo Milione, painter
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Vincenzo Musolino, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
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Vincenzo Scaramuzza, international pianist and music teacher
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Vincenzo Talarico, screenwriter and film actor
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Vincenzo Valente, composer and writer
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Vittoria Belvedere, film and television actress
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Zaleucus, devised the Western world's first code of law
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