List of Famous people born in Calabria, Italy
Gianni Versace
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings, and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton; Diana, Princess of Wales; Naomi Campbell; Kate Moss; Madonna; Elton John; Tupac Shakur and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world.
Domenico Tedesco
Domenico Tedesco is a German-Italian football manager who is the manager of Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow.
Donatella Versace
Donatella Francesca Versace is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace which she inherited a portion of upon her brother's death in 1997. She sold the company to Capri Holdings in 2018, but remained its chief creative officer.
Gennaro Gattuso
Gennaro Ivan Gattuso is an Italian former professional footballer and current manager of Napoli.
Santo Versace
Santo Domenico Versace is an Italian businessman and politician who is the president and co-chief executive officer of Gianni Versace SpA, based in Milan, Italy. Since 2008 he has been elected as Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic in the constituency of Calabria. He is a member of the Alliance for Italy political party, formerly being a member of The People of Freedom.
Antonio Maria Magro
Antonio Maria Magro is an Italian film director, actor and screenwriter.
Domenico Berardi
Domenico Berardi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger and forward for Serie A club Sassuolo and the Italy national team.
Francesco Pianeta
Francesco Pianeta is an Italian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2018. He challenged for the unified heavyweight title in 2013 and the WBA (Regular) title in 2015. At regional level held the European Union heavyweight title from 2008 to 2009.
Frank Costello
Frank Costello was an Italian-American crime boss of the Luciano crime family. In 1957, Costello survived an assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese and carried out by Vincent Gigante. However, the altercation persuaded Costello to relinquish power to Genovese and retire. Costello died on February 18, 1973.
Albert Anastasia
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman, and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. criminal collective, Anastasia eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family. He was also in control of the New York waterfront for most of his criminal career, including the dockworker unions. He was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became boss of the family.