List of Famous people with last name Polidori

John William Polidori was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story. Although the story was at first erroneously accredited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the story is Polidori's.

Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, later Rossetti, of London, was a scholar, daughter, wife, sister and mother of important writers and artists; she was the governess of her four children. She was also a model of the paintings of her son Dante. Some photographic portraits, by Lewis Carroll, in which he appears with his family in the Victorian era, are permanently displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Gaetano Fedele Polidori (1763–1853) was an Italian writer and scholar living in London. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–1778), a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany.

Gianni Polidori (1923–1992) was an Italian art director. He designed the sets for several films by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Paolo Polidori was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.