- Albano Carrisi
Albano Carrisi (born May 20, 1943) is an Italian singer. His stage name is Al Bano or Al Bano Carrisi
- 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".
- Nichi Vendola
Nicola (Nichi) Vendola (born 26 August 1958), is an Italian politician and the president of Apulia region.
- Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 - May 9, 1978) was an Italian politician and five time Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years. One of the most important leaders of "Democrazia Cristiana" (Christian Democracy, DC), Moro was considered an intellectual and an incredibly patient mediator, …
- Sergio Rubini
Sergio Rubini (december 21, 1959) is an Italian actor and film director.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo (August 5, 1694 - October 31, 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian Baroque composer.
- 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".
- 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.
- Andrea Pazienza
Andrea Pazienza (born May 25 1956 - June 16 1988), was an Italian comics artist.
- Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini (May 9, 1914 - June 14, 2005) was an Italian conductor, and violist.
- 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.
- Pietro Mennea
Pietro Paolo Mennea (born June 28, 1952) is an Italian former sprinter, who held the 200 m world record for 17 years.
- 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.
- 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.
- Loredana Lecciso
Loredana Lecciso (born 26 August 1972) is a star of Italian television. She was also a journalist for the Italian TV show "La vita in diretta". In 2001 she became the girlfriend of the famous Italian singer, Albano Carrisi. Loredana Lecciso was born in Lecce, Apulia. She is known as the Italian "Queen of Trash" for her exhibitions of bad quality, and has been compared to Paris Hilton. Lecciso features in many Italian magazines and TV shows.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Antonio Salandra
Antonio Salandra (1853-08-13 - 1931-12-09) was a conservative Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy between 1914 and 1916.
- Ennius
Quintus Ennius (239 - 169 BC) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry. He was of Greek descent. Although only fragments of his works survive, his influence in Latin literature was significant.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pope Innocent Innocent XII
Pope Innocent XII (March 13, 1615 - September 27, 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli was Pope from 1691 to 1700. He was the successor of Pope Alexander VIII (1689-91).
- Luigi Mastrangelo
Luigi ("Gigi") Mastrangelo (born August 17, 1976 in Mottola) is an Italian volleyball player. Standing at 202 cm, he plays as middle hitter/blocker. He played 212 times for the Italian national volleyball team. He was three times gold medalist at the European Championship (1999, 2003 and 2005).
- Farinelli
Farinelli (January 24, 1705 - September 16, 1782), whose real name was Carlo Broschi, was one of the most famous Italian soprano castrato singers of the 18th century.
- Gennaro Rubino
Gennaro Rubino (born 1859) was an Italian anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate King Leopold II of Belgium.
- Pope Benedict Benedict XIII
Pope Benedict XIII (February 2, 1649 - February 21, 1730), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was pope from 1724 until his death. He succeeded Pope Innocent XIII (1721-1724). He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della tolfa, from Toritto. He was a member of the Orsini of Rome, the third and last member of that family to become Pope.
- Gaetano Salvemini
Gaetano Salvemini (november 8, 1873 - september 6, 1957) was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer.
- Tommaso Traetta
Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (March 30, 1727-April 6, 1779) was an Italian composer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mario Beccia
Mario Beccia (born August 16, 1966 in Troia, Puglia) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, active between 1977 and 1988 and as of 2006 works as a directeur sportif at Team Vorarlberg. In his career, Beccia won a total of fifteen races, including 4 stages in the Giro d'Italia, the 1980 Tour de Suisse and 1982 La Flèche Wallonne.
- Angelo Stano
Angelo Stano (born January 6, 1953) is an Italian comic book artist.