List of Famous people born in Ionian Islands Region, Greece

Andreas Laskaratos was a satirical poet and writer from the Ionian island of Cefalonia, representative of the Heptanese School (literature). He was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church because his satire targeted many of the church's prominent members.

Tzavalas Karousos was a Greek actor.

Yiannis Dimitras is a Greek singer. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, performing seventeenth on the night, before Cyprus and after Belgium, with the song "Feggari Kalokerino", and placed eighth out of twenty, with fifty-five points. He was a member of the Greek jury in 1996.

Yannis Spiteris, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia and apostolic administrator of Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki from 2003 to 2020. In 1968 he was ordained Catholic priest and on March 22, 2003 was appointed archbishop, being ordained Catholic bishop on May 18, 2003.

Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty, of which the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece—not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός, Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι. A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.

Antonio Cagnoli was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and diplomat in the service of the Republic of Venice. His father Ottavio was chancellor to the Venetian governor of the Ionian Islands.

Dimitrios P. Golemis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras was a Greek composer particularly admired for his operas who was part of the generation of composers that heralded the works of Giacomo Puccini. His compositions were praised worldwide during his lifetime and he is arguably the most important composer of the Ionian School (music). He composed also the Olympic Hymn on lyrics of Kostis Palamas.

Andreas Moustoxydis, sometimes Latinized as Mustoxydes or in the Italian form Andrea Mustoxidi, was a Greek historian and philologist from Corfu.