List of Famous people born in Ionian Islands Region, Greece

Ugo Foscolo, born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and a poet.

Carlo II Tocco was the ruler of Epirus from 1429 until his death.

Count Augustinos Ioannis Maria Kapodistrias was a Greek soldier and politician. He was born in Corfu. and studied geology. Augustinos Kapodistrias was the younger brother of Viaros Kapodistrias and of the first Governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias.

Gerasimos Arsenis was a Greek politician who served as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament and as a Minister in several Governments with the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

Georgios Theotokis was a Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece, serving the post four times. He represented the New Party or Neoteristikon Komma (NK).

Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas, known mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek recording artist; model; film and television actor; businessman and former pole vaulter. Born in Corfu, he won medals on the national athletics team during the 1980s. Rouvas began a musical career in 1991 as one of Greece's first dance-pop performers. His tenor vocals, complex choreography, costumes, and technological advancements have been credited with transforming music videos and live performances. Rouvas is noted for avoiding domestic music, attaining success for a non-laïko or -éntekhno artist, and for breaking cultural, social, artistic, and generational barriers in Greece and Cyprus.

Jusuf Vrioni (1916–2001) was an Albanian athlete, translator, diplomat, and Albanian ambassador to UNESCO.

Athanassios Spyridon Fokas is a Greek mathematician, with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Medicine. Since 2002, he is Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.

Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos was a Greek archaeologist.