List of Famous people born in Apulia, Italy

Isabella of Clermont, also known as Isabella of Taranto, was queen of Naples as the first wife of King Ferdinand I of Naples, and a feudatory of the kingdom as the holder and ruling Princess of the Principality of Taranto in 1463–1465.

Achille Starace was a prominent leader of Fascist Italy before and during World War II.

Lucius Livius Andronicus was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family at Rome by translating Greek works into Latin, including Homer's Odyssey. They were meant at first as educational devices in the school he founded. He wrote works for the stage—both tragedies and comedies—which are regarded as the first dramatic works written in the Latin language of ancient Rome. His comedies were based on Greek New Comedy and featured characters in Greek costume. Thus, the Romans referred to this new genre by the term comoedia palliata. The Roman biographer Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius. The genre was imitated by the next dramatists to follow in Andronicus' footsteps and on that account he is regarded as the father of Roman drama and of Latin literature in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. Varro, Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, considered Livius Andronicus to have been the originator of Latin literature. He is the earliest Roman poet whose name is known.

Patricia Carli is an Italian-Belgian singer.

Walter VI of Brienne was a French nobleman and crusader. He was the count of Brienne in France, the count of Conversano and Lecce in southern Italy and the titular Duke of Athens in Greece.

Isabella of Balzo was a Queen consort of Naples. She was the second consort and only Queen consort of Frederick IV of Naples. Isabella was also suo jure Duchess of Andria and Venosa and Princess of Altamura.

Mario Almirante was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between 1920 and 1933. His 1927 film La bellezza del mondo featured an early appearance of Vittorio De Sica.

Sibylla of Conversano was a wealthy Italian heiress, Duchess of Normandy by marriage to Robert Curthose. She was regent of Normandy during the absence of her spouse.

Giuliano Carnimeo was an Italian director and screenwriter, sometimes credited as Anthony Ascott or Antony Ascot.

Anna Hoxha, known professionally as Anna Oxa, is an Italian singer, actress, and television presenter. Affectionately referred to as la Voce e il Cuore, Oxa has received mainstream popularity and recognition within Italy due to her numerous participations in the Sanremo Music Festival.