List of Famous people born in Apulia, Italy

Nicola Arigliano

First Name Nicola
Last Name Arigliano
Born on December 6, 1923
Died on March 30, 2010 (aged 86)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Nicola Arigliano was an Italian jazz singer, musician, and occasional actor.

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Pietro Mennea

Pietro Paolo Mennea
First Name Pietro
Last Name Mennea
Born on June 28, 1952
Died on March 21, 2013 (aged 60)
Born in Italy, Apulia
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Pietro Paolo Mennea was an Italian sprinter and politician. He was most successful in the 200 m event, in which he won a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and set a world record at 19.72 seconds in September 1979. This record stood for almost 17 years – the longest duration in the event history – and is still listed as the European record.

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Franco Simone

Francesco Luigi Simone
First Name Franco
Last Name Simone
Born on July 21, 1949 (age 75)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Francesco Luigi Simone is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and television host.

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Riccardo Scamarcio

Riccardo Dario Scamarcio
First Name Riccardo
Born on November 13, 1979 (age 44)
Born in Italy, Apulia
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Riccardo Dario Scamarcio is an Italian film actor and film producer.

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Leonardo Nigro

First Name Leonardo
Last Name Nigro
Born on February 15, 1974 (age 50)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Leonardo Nigro is a Swiss actor.

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Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria

First Name Ferdinand,
Last Name Calabria
Born on December 15, 1488
Died on October 26, 1550 (aged 61)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria was a Neapolitan prince who played a significant role in the Mediterranean politics of the Crown of Aragon in the early 16th century.

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Domenico Losurdo

First Name Domenico
Born on November 14, 1941
Died on June 28, 2018 (aged 76)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Domenico Losurdo was an Italian Marxist philosopher and historian. A polarising figure, praised by some for his criticism of liberalism in practice and criticised by others for relativising Joseph Stalin, Losurdo was best known for his critique of anti-communism, colonialism, imperialism, the European tradition of liberalism and the concept of totalitarianism. Losurdo also articulated a distinction between political-moral and naturalistic despecification.

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Anna Dello Russo

First Name Anna
Last Name Russo
Born on April 16, 1962 (age 62)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Anna Dello Russo is an Italian fashion journalist, editor and author known globally in the fashion industry for her eccentric Street fashion. She has been a creative consultant and editor-at-large for Vogue Japan since 2006. She runs her personal fashion blog with help from a small team of content creators. Due to her successes in the fashion and journalism industry, Dello Russo is an internet personality.

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Antonio Ambrosetti

First Name Antonio
Last Name Ambrosetti
Born on November 25, 1944
Died on November 20, 2020 (aged 75)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Antonio Ambrosetti was an Italian mathematician who worked in the fields of partial differential equations and calculus of variations.

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Lawrence of Brindisi

Giulio Cesare Russo
First Name Lawrence
Last Name Brindisi
Born on July 22, 1559
Died on July 22, 1619 (aged 60)
Born in Italy, Apulia

Lawrence of Brindisi, born Giulio Cesare Russo, was a Roman Catholic priest and a theologian as well as a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. An accomplished linguist, in addition to his native Italian, Lawrence could read and speak Latin, Hebrew, Greek, German, Bohemian, Spanish, and French fluently. Lawrence was ordained a priest at the age of 23. Lawrence was beatified on 1 June 1783 and canonized as a saint on 8 December 1881.

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