List of Famous people born in Campania, Italy

Alessandra Mastronardi

First Name Alessandra
Last Name Mastronardi
Born on February 18, 1986 (age 40)
Born in Italy, Campania
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Alessandra Carina Mastronardi is an Italian actress. She is best known for her roles in the film To Rome with Love and the television series Master of None the latter for which she garnered a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017.

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Francesco Schettino

First Name Francesco
Last Name Schettino
Born on November 14, 1960 (age 65)
Born in Italy, Campania

Francesco Schettino is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. In 2015, he was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for his role in the incident.

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

First Name Gian
Born on December 7, 1598
Died on November 28, 1680 (aged 81)
Born in Italy, Campania

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful...." In addition, he was a painter and a man of the theater: he wrote, directed and acted in plays, for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery. He produced designs as well for a wide variety of decorative art objects including lamps, tables, mirrors, and even coaches.

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Tony Rosato

Antonio Rosato
First Name Tony
Last Name Rosato
Born on December 26, 1954
Died on January 10, 2017 (aged 62)
Born in Italy, Campania

Antonio Rosato was an Italian-Canadian actor and comedian, who appeared in television and films. He was best known as a cast member on both SCTV and Saturday Night Live, and for voicing Luigi in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World.

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Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry

First Name Marie-Caroline
Died on April 17, 1870
Born in Italy, Campania

Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry was an Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who married into the French royal family, and was the mother of Henri, Count of Chambord.

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Vito Genovese

First Name Vito
Last Name Genovese
Born on November 21, 1897
Died on February 14, 1969 (aged 71)
Born in Italy, Campania

Vito Genovese was an Italian-born American mobster who mainly operated in the United States. Genovese rose to power during Prohibition as an enforcer in the American Mafia. A long-time associate and childhood friend of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped shape the rise of the Mafia and organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano's crime family, which was renamed the Genovese crime family in his honor.

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Torquato Tasso

First Name Torquato
Last Name Tasso
Born on March 11, 1544
Died on April 25, 1595 (aged 51)
Born in Italy, Campania

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem.

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Fabrizio Romano

First Name Fabrizio
Born on February 21, 1993 (age 33)
Born in Italy, Campania

Fabrizio Romano is an Italian journalist who specializes in football transfers. He has worked for Sky Sport Italy since the age of 19 and has amassed a large following on social media, having over four million followers on Twitter.

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Girolamo Panzetta

First Name Girolamo
Last Name Panzetta
Born on September 6, 1962 (age 63)
Born in Italy, Campania
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Girolamo Panzetta is an Italian celebrity living and working in Japan. He has appeared on Japanese television in a variety of shows, including dramas and cooking shows. He has also been featured in fashion magazines. Panzetta voiced the Italian car Luigi in the Japanese version of Cars. He is also the author of several books and essays. He appeared on over 170 front covers of every edition of Japanese men's fashion magazine LEON since its launch in September 2001.

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Januarius

Born on April 21, 0272
Died on January 1, 0305 (aged 32)
Born in Italy, Campania

Januarius, also known as Januarius I of Benevento, was Bishop of Benevento and is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Great Persecution which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305.

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