List of Famous people born in Campania, Italy
Manolo Portanova
Manolo Portanova is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Genoa.
Roberto Insigne
Roberto Insigne is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Benevento. He is also the younger brother of current Napoli captain, Lorenzo Insigne.
Paolo Porpora
Paolo Porpora (1617–1673) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, who was active mainly in Naples and specialized in floral still lifes. He is documented as a pupil of Giacomo Recco, the father of Giuseppe Recco, and said to have worked under Aniello Falcone. He joined the Roman Accademia di San Luca from 1656 to 1658. He appears to have been influenced in Rome by Netherlandish still-life painters. Among his pupils were Giovan Battista Ruoppolo and the Neapolitan Onofrio Loth.
Tiziana Cantone
Tiziana Cantone, name subsequently legally changed to "Tiziana Giglio", was an Italian woman who committed suicide after the spread on the web of some of her amateur pornographic videos.
Nicolás Blandi
Nicolás Blandi is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Colo-Colo.
Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV was King of Spain and the Spanish Empire from 14 December 1788, until 19 March 1808.
Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the years between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Nobile also designed and flew the Italia, a second polar airship; this second expedition ended in a deadly crash and provoked an international rescue effort.
Libero De Rienzo
Libero De Rienzo is an Italian film actor, director and screenwriter.
Fabrizia Ramondino
Fabrizia Ramondino (1936–2008) was an Italian author who has many works "which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, cultural and linguistic comment" according to Adalgisa Giorgio, who has conducted research of Ramondino's life and works.
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), sometimes called Alphonsus Maria de Liguori or Saint Alphonsus Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.