List of Famous people born in Campania, Italy

Gianvincenzo Carafa (1477–1541) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Gaius Trebatius Testa was a jurist of ancient Rome, whose family, and himself, originated from Elea.

Giovanni Enrico Aberle Sforza, better known as Juan Aberle, was an Italian conductor and composer who lived in Guatemala and El Salvador.

Luca Giordano was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.

Giambattista Marino was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his long epic L'Adone.

Pope Boniface IX was the Roman claimant to the headship of the Catholic Church from 2 November 1389 to his death. He was the second Roman pope of the Western Schism. During this time the Avignon claimants, Clement VII and Benedict XIII, maintained the Roman Curia in Avignon, under the protection of the French monarchy.