List of Famous people born in Apulia, Italy

Girolamo Seripando was an Augustinian friar, Italian theologian and cardinal.

Matteo Tafuri was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and physician.

Giacomo Domenico Mario Antonio Pasquale Giuseppe Tritto was an Italian composer, known primarily for his fifty-four operas. He was born in Altamura, and studied in Naples; among his teachers were Nicola Fago, Girolamo Abos, and Pasquale Cafaro. Amongst his pupils were the young Vincenzo Bellini around 1821, plus Ferdinando Orlandi. He died in Naples.

Antonio de Ferraris, also known by his epithet Galateo, was an Italian scholar of Greek ethnicity, academic, doctor and humanist.

Raf Baldassarre was an Italian film actor.

Innico Caracciolo di Martina or Innico Caracciolo the Younger was an Italian cardinal.

Aristoxenus of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony, survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and meter. The Elements is the chief source of our knowledge of ancient Greek music.