- Nino D'Angelo
Nino d'Angelo (b. June 21, 1957) is an Italian singer. He was born in San Pietro a Patierno, a suburb of Naples. Nino had a very difficult childhood, and to aid the poor financial condition of his family he dropped out of school and started work at a very young age. Thanks to Alberto Lupo he was able to enter the music world but only after enormous sacrifices: his first album, … - Ben Bova
Galaxyonline.com, the largest science fiction and science fact related Interactive online network in the universe, announced today that renowned author and futurist Dr. Ben Bova has recently signed on as supersite publisher and senior vice president. - Eduardo de Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo, often called simply Eduardo (May 24, 1900 - October 31, 1984) was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet. He is most well-known for his work in Neapolitan like "Filumena Marturano", though he also directed numerous films in Italian such as "Napoli Milionaria!". Born in Naples, De Filippo began acting at the age of 5 and in 1932 formed a theater company with his brother Peppino and sister Titina. - Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, … - Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (June 23, 1668 - January 23, 1744) was a Neapolitan philosopher, historian, and jurist. Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker in Naples, Italy, Vico attended a series of grammar schools, but ill-health and dissatisfaction with Jesuit scholasticism led to home schooling. - Mario Abbate
Mario Abbate (born in Naples, August 10, 1927 - dead August 6, 1981) was an Italian singer, famous as an exponent of Neapolitan songs. In the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in three movies, one directed by Dino Risi, "Operazione San Gennaro". He died at the age of 53. - Gabriella Ferri
Gabriella Ferri (1942 - April 3, 2004) was an Italian singer born in Rome. Ferri's career began in a Milan nightclub in 1963. By 1965, she had successfully broke onto the Rome singing scene singing popular Roman songs. One of her biggest hits was "Sempre" ("Always"). During her career, she also performed Neapolitan and Latin American pieces. During the 1970s, she starred on several popular TV shows. By the 1990s, however, she had largely left the spotlight. - Libero Bovio
Libero Bovio (June 9, 1883 - May 26, 1942), was a Neapolitan lyricist and dialect poet. Bovio was one of those responsible for the rejuvenation of Neapolitan dialect in plays, poetry and song at the beginning of the twentieth century. He took odd jobs at newspapers and then went to work in the export office of the National Museum. He then became director of "Canzonetta" a small publishing concern dedicated to the music of Naples. - Francesco Caracciolo
Prince Francesco Caracciolo (January 18, 1752 - June 30, 1799) was a Neapolitan admiral and revolutionist - Giuseppe Sanmartino
Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720 - 1793) was a Neapolitan sculptor during the Rococo period. His first dated (1753) work is "The Veiled Christ" or "Christ lying under the Shroud", commissioned initially from the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini who did not live to complete the work. - Jacopo Sannazaro
Jacopo Sannazaro or Sannazzaro (1458 - April 27, 1530) was a Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples. He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic "Arcadia", a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of "Arcadia", representing an idyllic land, in European literature: see the theme Et In Arcadia Ego. - Fabrizio Ruffo
Fabrizio Ruffo (September 16, 1744 - December 13, 1827) was a Neapolitan cardinal and politician. - Pietro Colletta
Pietro Colletta (January 23, 1775 - November 11, 1831) was a Neapolitan general and historian, entered the Neapolitan artillery in 1796 and took part in the campaign against the French in 1798. - Vincenzo Gemito
Vincenzo Gemito, (July 16, 1852 - March 1, 1929) was an Italian sculptor and artist who was considered both genius and insane, but whose works are highly prized by international galleries and collectors today. Although he worked in various studios of well known artists in his native Naples, Rome and Paris, he is considered to have largely been self-taught, the reason he produced such distinctive works for that time, replacing sentiment with outstanding realism. - Battistello Caracciolo
Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (also called Battistello; c. 1570 - 1637), was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio. Caracciolo was born in Naples. Caravaggio arrived there in late 1606 after killing a man in a brawl in Rome. His stay in the city lasted only about eight months, with another brief visit in 1609/1610, yet his impact on artistic life there was profound. Battistello, only a few years younger than Caravaggio, … - Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951). Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in "La Moglie più bella" (aka "The Most Beautiful Wife"). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her UK film debut in 1980 in "Flash Gordon". - Bernardo Cavallino
Bernardo Cavallino was a Italian painter of the Baroque period, working in Naples. Born in Naples, he likely died during the plague epidemic in 1656. While his paintings are some of the more stunningly expressive works emerging from the Neapolitan artists of his day, little is known about the painter's background or training. Of eighty attributed paintings, less than ten are signed. He worked through private dealers and collectors whose records are no longer available. - Lou Monte
Lou Monte, born Louis Scaglione on (April 2, 1917 – June 12, 1989), was an Italian-American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Records and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Monte's first big hit came in 1954, with the release of his version of "Darktown Strutters' Ball". In 1962, Monte would release his first million-seller, "Pepino, the Italian Mouse". - Amedeo Maiuri
Amedeo Maiuri (January 7, 1886 - April 7, 1963) was a renowned Neapolitan archaeologist, famous for his archaeological investigations of the Roman city of Pompeii, famously destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August of A.D. 79. Born at Veroli, Italy, from 1914 until 1924 the young Maiuri directed the Italian archaeological mission in Greece, with particular focus on Rhodes and the construction of a new museum there. - Giovanni de Macque
Giovanni de Macque (Jean de Macque) (?1548-1550 - September 1614) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was one of the most famous Neapolitan composers of the late 16th century; some of his experimentation with chromaticism was likely influenced by Gesualdo, who was an associate of his. - Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet FRS (1810-1881), Irish geologist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes. Mallet was born in Dublin, on June 3, 1810. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, and graduated in 1830 at the age of 20. He built the Fastnet Rock lighthouse, southwest of Cape Clear and delivered many works including railway stations and bridge plates. He was awarded the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1859. - Pietro Giannone
Pietro Giannone (7 May 1676 - 17 March 1748) was an Italian historian born in Ischitella, in the province of Capitanata. He opposed the papal influence in Naples. Arriving in Naples at the age of eighteen, he devoted himself to the study of law, but his legal pursuits were much surpassed in importance by his literary labours. He devoted twenty years to the composition of his great work, the "Storia civile del regno di Napoli", which was ultimately published in 1723. - Bernardo Tasso
Bernardo Tasso (November 11, 1493-September 5, 1569), born in Bergamo, was an Italian courtier and poet. He was, for many years, secretary in the service of the prince of Salerno, and his wife Porzia de Rossi was closely connected with the most illustrious Neapolitan families. Their son, the great poet Torquato Tasso, was born at Sorrento in 1544. During the boy's childhood the prince of Salerno came into collision with the Spanish government of Naples, was outlawed, … - Giuseppe Bonito
Giuseppe Bonito was a Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period. Giuseppe Bonito is known for genre depictions on canvas. Many of Gaspare Traversi’s paintings had previously been attributed to Bonito. Like Traversi, Bonito was student of the large studio of Francesco Solimena. Bonito represented urban scenes with folklore details and figures of Commedia dell’Arte. Between the 1736 and 1742 Bonito it worked for the family Borboni in the royal palace of Portici. - Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith (born 1966) is an airline pilot, air travel columnist and author. His weekly air travel column, "Ask the Pilot", appears every Friday on the website Salon.com. The column first ran in 2002, and takes on everything from the latest urban myths to the trends and travesties of the airlines. His earlier columns were adapted and compiled into "Ask the Pilot-Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel", published by Riverhead/Penguin in June, 2004. - Domenico Gargiulo
Domenico Gargiulo was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Naples and known for his landscapes. He was also called Micco Spadaro because his father was a maker of swords ("spade"). He was trained in the workshop of the battle-painter Aniello Falcone, where he was contemporary of Andrea di Leone and Salvator Rosa. He also worked with Viviano Codazzi. His early works were influenced by Paul Bril and Filippo Napoletano. - Federico Castelluccio
Federico Castelluccio (born April 29, 1964 in Naples) is an Italian-American actor and professional artist, who is most famous for his role as Furio Giunta on the HBO TV series, "The Sopranos". Born in Naples, Italy, his family moved to Paterson, New Jersey in 1968. In 1982 Federico was awarded a full scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he earned a BFA in painting and media arts. - Carlo Filangieri
Carlo Filangieri (May 10, 1784 - October 9, 1867), prince of Satriano, was a Neapolitan soldier and statesman. He was the son of Gaetano Filangieri, a celebrated philosopher and jurist. - Joe Gallo
Joseph "Joey" Gallo, a.k.a. "Crazy Joe" (April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972) was a New York City gangster, gunman, and racketeer of the Profaci crime family (later known as the Colombo crime family). He was also a friend of the late actor Jerry Orbach. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan parents, Gallo earned his nickname in mafia circles because he was a ruthless killer who was a happy shooter and very unpredictable. - Lorenzo de Tonti
Lorenzo de Tonti (c. 1602 - c. 1684) was a governor of Gaeta, Italy and a Neapolitan banker. He invented the tontine, a form of life insurance. Around 1650, he and his wife, Isabelle di Lietto, gave birth to their first son, the future explorer Henri de Tonti. Shortly afterwards, Tonti was involved in a revolt against a Spanish viceroy in Naples and had to seek political asylum in France. In Paris, the family gave birth to their second son, Alphonse de Tonti, … - Paolo Porpora
Paolo Porpora (1617 - 1670) was an Italian painter painter of the late-Baroque, who was active mainly in Naples and specialized in floral still lifes. He is documented as a pupil of Giacomo Recco, the father of Giuseppe Recco, and said to have worked under Aniello Falcone. He joined the Roman Accademia di San Luca from 1656 to 1658. He appears to have been influenced in Rome by Netherlandish still life painters. Among his pupils was Giovan Battista Ruoppolo. - Ilona Mitrecey
Ilona Mitrecey (more commonly known as Ilona is a young French singer. She became famous in France after the release of her hit single, "Un monde parfait" ("A Perfect World"), a high-energy techno song which had already been released in Italy in March 2004 under the name Très Bien featuring Ilona, on February 28 2005, based on a traditional Neapolitan song. The song reached #1 on France's Top 40 charts on March 6 2005, … - Pietro Novelli
Pietro Novelli was a Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Palermo. Also known as "il Monrealese" or "Pietro "Malta" Novelli" to distinguish him from his father, Pietro Antonio Novelli. He was born in Monreale, and died in Palermo. He initially trained with his father, a painter and mosaicist, then in 1618, he moved to Palermo and apprenticed with Vito Carrera (1555–1623). His first dated work is from 1626: "St. - Barnabe Barnes
Barnabe Barnes, English poet, fourth son of Dr Richard Barnes, bishop of Durham, was born in Yorkshire, perhaps at Stonegrave, a living of his father's, in 1568 or 1569. In 1586 he was entered at Brasenose College, Oxford, where Giovanni Florio was his servitor, and in 1591 went to France with the earl of Essex, who was then serving against the prince of Parma. On his return he published "Parthenophil and Parthenophe, Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes" (ent. - Giovanni Caracciolo
Giovanni Caracciolo, often called Sergianni (c. 1372 - August 19, 1432) was a Neapolitan nobleman, prime minister and favorite of queen Joan II of Naples. Due to his relationship with queen Joan (starting around 1416), Caracciolo was able to create for himself a considerable amount power in the Neapolitan court and a great amount of wealth. Around 1425 he was "Siniscalco" (prime minister) of Naples, count of Avellino, lord of Capua, Melfi, … - Raimondo Montecuccoli
Raimondo, Count of Montecúccoli or Montecucculi, (born February 21, 1608 or 1609 at the castle of Montecucculo in Modena; died October 16, 1680 at Linz) was an Austrian general who was also prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Neapolitan duke of Melfi. His family was of Burgundian origin and had settled in north Italy in the 10th century. At the age of sixteen Montecucculi began as a private soldier under his uncle, Count Ernest Montecucculi, … - Giovan Battista Ruoppolo
Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (1629 - 1693) was a Neapolitan painter from the Baroque era, notable for painting still-lifes. He was a disciple of Paolo Porpora (1617-1673), a contemporary of Salvatore Rosa. Additional Porpora pupils who formed a school of still-life painters in Naples were Giovan Battista and Giuseppe Recco, and Ruoppolo's brother of Giuseppe Ruoppolo. The initials of Ruoppolo match those of the younger Recco, … - Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto
Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto (later Marella Agnelli; born May 4 1927) is an Italian-American princess who made a small but significant name as a furniture designer and a bigger name as a tastemaker in the New York of the 1950s and 1960s. She was one of Truman Capote's so-called "swans" along with Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley and Slim Keith. - Steve Ferrigno
Stefano "Steve" Ferrigno (ca.1900 - November 5, 1930) was born in Sicily, it is unknown exactly when he emigrated to the United States, but he became a member of New York's Italian underworld most likely around the 1910's, during his late teens. Ferrigno worked his way up the ranks of the Coney Island, Brooklyn based Neapolitan Camorra crime family led by Pellegrino "Don Grino" Morano and his top Lieutenant, Alessandro Vollero, who led the Navy St. Gang. - Alphonso Sgroia
Alfonso "The Butcher" Sgroia (July 19, 1886-May 1940) was a New York mobster who belonged to the Neapolitan Camorra gang. Born in [[Italy], Sgroia immigrated to the U.S. in 1899 at age 13. He opened a butcher shop, earning him his nickname and lived with his brother Biagio on 117th Street in Manhattan. On June 24 1916, the Manhattan Sicilian Morello Gang, and two Neapolitan Brooklyn gangs, …
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