- Nicola Pisano
Nicola Pisano was an Italian sculptor whose work is noted for its classical Roman sculptural style. Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture.
- Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (January 9 1928 - Lampedusa August 6 1994) was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italian singer, songwriter, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament
- Gianluca Basile
Gianluca Basile (born January 24, 1975 in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy) is an Italian basketball player. He currently plays for Winterthur FCB and is also the captain of the Italian national team. He is considered to be one of the best 1990s and 2000s Italian basketball players. Has won the silver medal in 2004 Olympic Games. He is 190 cm tall (6'3") and weighs about 90 kg. Basile excels in the role of point guard, and is a very effective three-point thrower.
- Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan. She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She also beat former world number one Swiss Martina Hingis in Australia at the beginning of the 2006 season.
- Albano Carrisi
Albano Carrisi (born May 20, 1943) is an Italian singer. His stage name is Al Bano or Al Bano Carrisi
- Rocco Buttiglione
Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Christian Democrat politician and an academic philosopher. His being proposed as a European Commissioner resulted in controversy, as some political groups opposed him for his conservative views on homosexuality and women, despite his assurances that these were only his personal convictions and would not dictate his administration. He is a Professor of political science at Saint Pius V University in Rome, …
- Conrad IV of Germany
Conrad IV (25 April, 1228 - 21 May, 1254) was king of Jerusalem (as Conrad II) (1228-1254), of Germany (1237-1254), and of Sicily (as Conrad I) (1250-1254). He was a son of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II and the queen regnant of Jerusalem, Yolanda. Born in Andria, Conrad was the second but only surviving son of Frederick and Yolanda, who died while bearing him. Conrad lived in Italy until 1235, when he first visited Germany.
- Vitantonio Liuzzi
Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi (born 6 August 1981 in Locorotondo) is an Italian Formula One driver, who drives for Scuderia Toro Rosso.
- Michele Placido
Michele Placido (born May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano) is an internationally known Italian actor and director. He is best known for the role of Corrado Cattani in the TV series "La Piovra".
- Caparezza
Caparezza, byname of Michele Salvemini (born October 9 1973) is an Italian rapper. He debuted in 1997 at the Sanremo Festival (an Italian singing competition) under the name MikiMix. He was born in Molfetta, Apulia.
- Umberto Giordano
Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. He was born in Foggia in Puglia, Italy and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera "Marina", was written for the competition staged by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian "verismo"; the winner was Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana".
- Pasqualina Napoletano
Pasqualina Napoletano (born on 28 September 1949) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Central region with the Democratici di Sinistra, a Vice-Chairwoman of the Socialist Group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. She is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- Nichi Vendola
Nicola (Nichi) Vendola (born 26 August 1958), is an Italian politician and the president of Apulia region.
- Mario Mauro
Mario Mauro (born July 24, 1961 in San Giovanni Rotondo) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament and a teacher of history. He was elected on the Forza Italia ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. On July 20, 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.
- Salvatore de Giorgi
Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi (born September 6, 1930) is an Italian churchman, the Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo in Sicily. De Giorgi was born in Vernole, in Apulia (Southern Italy). He was ordained as a priest in 1953 and first became a bishop in 1973, when he was made titular bishop of Tulana and an auxiliary bishop of Oria. Seven years later, in 1981, he was made archbishop of Foggia. From 1987 to 1990, he served as archbishop of Taranto.
- Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo (August 5, 1694 - October 31, 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian Baroque composer.
- Nicola di Bari
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer. He was born in Zapponeta as Michele Scommegna. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1971 and 1972. In 1972 he represented Italy at Eurovision Song Contest with "I Giorni Dell'Arcobaleno". He is also well-known in Latin America for his albums recorded in Spanish.
- Pietro Colonna Galatino
Pietro Colonna Galatino, also known as Petrus Galatinus (died after 1539) was an Italian Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian, and Orientalist.
- Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini (May 9, 1914 - June 14, 2005) was an Italian conductor, and violist.
- Giuseppe di Vittorio
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym "Nicoletti" (August 12 1892, Cerignola-November 3 1957, Lecco), was an Italian syndicalist trade unionist and communist politician, one of the most influential leaders of the labor movement after World War I.
- Vitangelo Spadavecchia
Vitangelo Spadavecchia (born 25 January, 1982 in Molfetta, Bari) is an Italian football (soccer) goalkeeper, currently plays for Calcio Catania, on loan from A.S. Bari.
- Carlo Cafiero
Carlo Cafiero (September 1, 1846 - July 17, 1892) was an important Italian anarchist and champion of Mikhail Bakunin during the second half of the 19th century.
- Rogerius Of Apulia
Rogerius of Apulia (also Rogerios; "Ruggero di Puglia" in Italian) (cca. 1205-1266) was a medieval Roman Catholic monk and chronicler, born in Torre Maggiore, Apulia. He became bishop of Oradea in 1249, and is best known for his account of the Tatar invasions.
- Mario Carli
Mario Carli (December 30 1888 - September 9 1935) was an Italian poet, novelist, essayist, diplomat, and journalist.
- Gennaro Rubino
Gennaro Rubino (born 1859) was an Italian anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate King Leopold II of Belgium.
- Tommaso Traetta
Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (March 30, 1727-April 6, 1779) was an Italian composer.
- Giovanni Marinelli
Giovanni Marinelli (October 18 1879, Andria-January 11 1944, Verona) was an Italian Fascist political leader. A wealthy man, Marinelli contributed to Fascist success by financing the March on Rome. Secretary of the National Fascist Party (PNF), he created the "Ceka", a secret police established on the model of the Soviet Cheka. The Ceka soon established itself as a terrorist squad, and was behind the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, …
- Andrea Pazienza
Andrea Pazienza (born May 25 1956 - June 16 1988), was an Italian comics artist.
- Mario Gentile
Mario Gentile is a former municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He served as a councillor and city controller in North York, and was also a member of the Metropolitan Toronto council. His political career ended with a criminal conviction in 1994.
- Julian Of Eclanum
Julian of Eclanum (Giuliano di Eclano) (c. 386 - c. 455) was bishop of Eclanum, near today's Benevento (Italy). He was a distinguished leader of the heretical Pelagians of 5th century.
- Vincenzo Lavarra
Vincenzo Lavarra (born January 27, 1954 in Gioia del Colle, Bari Province) is an Italian politician and a Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Democrats of the Left (DS), which is a part of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Lavarra is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
- Gaetano Salvemini
Gaetano Salvemini (november 8, 1873 - september 6, 1957) was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer.
- Vittorio Catani
Vittorio Catani (1940, Bari, Italy) is an Italian science fiction writer. He currently lives and works in Bari, Italy. A retired bank clerk, he started publishing essays and fiction in 1962, especially within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
- Angelo Stano
Angelo Stano (born January 6, 1953) is an Italian comic book artist.
- Niccolò Dell' Dell'Arca
Niccolò dell’Arca was an Italian Early Renaissance sculptor. He is also known under the names Niccolò da Ragusa, Niccolò da Bari and Niccolò d'Antonio d'Apulia. The surname “dell’Arca” refers to his contribution to the Arca di San Domenico. The place and the year of his birth are not certain. He was probably born in Apulia, or perhaps in Bari, and then most likely lived for some time in Dalmatia.
- Erin Houck
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- Claudia
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- Julio
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- Alberto
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