List of Famous people born in Apulia, Italy

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

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.

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

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

Leonardo Nigro is a Swiss actor.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.