List of Famous people born in Abruzzo, Italy
Giuseppe Di Falco
Maurizio Bevilacqua
Maurizio Bevilacqua is an Italian-Canadian politician, currently serving as mayor of Vaughan, Ontario. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1988 to 2010 and was one of eleven candidates for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada but dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006. He has been described in the media as a "right-of-centre, business friendly Liberal".
Alessandro Donati
Alessandro Donati is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI Professional Continental team Acqua & Sapone.
Francesca Mambro
Francesca Mambro is a former leading member of the far-right Italian Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR). She was arrested in Rome in March 1982 for complicity in the Bologna bombing of April 1980. Mambro was tried and found guilty of 96 murders, for which she received a total of nine life sentences equating to over 84 years' imprisonment. Mambro was paroled in 2013 and her sentence expired five years later.
Simone Masciarelli
Simone Masciarelli is a former Italian cyclist.
Ettore Spalletti
Ettore Spalletti was an Italian artist. He exhibited at Documenta in 1982 and 1992 and represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 1997. Spalletti was mostly known for his light blue monochrome paintings that he created on different surfaces and for his creative use of light. Spalletti lived and worked for all his life in his birthplace Cappelle sul Tavo in Abruzzo.
Marcus Caelius Rufus
Marcus Caelius Rufus was an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic. He was born into a wealthy equestrian family from Interamnia Praetuttiorum (Teramo), on the central east coast of Italy. He is best known for his prosecution of Gaius Antonius Hybrida in 59 B.C. He was also known for his trial for public violence in March 56 BC, when Cicero defended him in the extant speech Pro Caelio, and as both recipient and author of some of the best-written letters in the ad Familiares corpus of Cicero's extant correspondence. He may be the Rufus named in the poems of Catullus.
Sallust
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, an opponent of the old Roman aristocracy, throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar. Sallust is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, and the Histories are still extant. Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides and amassed great wealth from his governorship of Africa.
Amico Agnifili
Amico Agnifili was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Giovanni Migliorati
Giovanni Niccolò delle Caselle Migliorati was an Italian Cardinal. From 12 June 1405; he was Archbishop of Ravenna from 1400 to 1405. From 1405 he was Administrator of the same Archdiocese.