List of personalities of the city of Bari
This list contains personalities born in Bari and those who worked in Bari but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Bari
To 1900
- Gaetano Latilla (1711–1788), opera composer
- Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800), composer
- Nicola De Giosa (1819–1885), composer and conductor
- Giuseppe Massari (1821-1884), politician and writer
- Emil Roth (1893–1980), Swiss architect
- Francesco Martino (1900-1965), Turner
1901 to 1950
- Elia di San Clemente (1901-1927), nun
- Luigi Losito (1905–1992), Italian-German painter
- Enzo Fiermonte (1908–1993), boxer and actor
- Nicola Manzari (1908–1991), playwright, screenwriter and film director
- Licia Albanese (1909–2014), opera singer
- Eugenio Giannini (1910–1952), Italian-American mobster
- Pietro Lombardi (1922-2011), wrestler
- Umberto Raho (1922–2016), actor
- Vito Lattanzio (1926-2010), politician
- Luca Sportelli (1927–1999), actor
- Riccardo Cucciolla (1924–1999), actor
- Giuliano Carnimeo (1932–2016), film director and screenwriter
- Nico Perrone (* 1935), essayist, historian and journalist
- Oktay Sinanoğlu (1935–2015), Turkish chemist and biophysicist
- Luciano Bux (1936-2014), bishop
- Mario Martiradonna (1938–2011), football player
- Fabio Sarno (born 1940), actor
- Luciano Canfora (* 1942), classical philologist
- Guido Marzulli (* 1943), painter
From 1951
- Carmine Fornari (* 1951), film director and screenwriter
- Antonio Loprieno (* 1955), Egyptologist
- Roberto Ottaviano (* 1957), jazz saxophonist and composer
- Gianni Alemanno (* 1958), politician
- Thomas Jauch (* 1958), German film director
- Luigi Michele de Palma (* 1958), clergyman and church historian
- Nichi Vendola (* 1958), journalist, studied philosopher and politician
- Michele Lanubile (* 1959), film director
- Stephan Massimo (* 1959), musician, songwriter and composer
- Gianrico Carofiglio (* 1961), writer, lawyer and senator
- Anna Oxa (* 1961), singer
- Ruggero Verroca (* 1961), rower
- Antonio Enrico Felle (* 1962), Christian archaeologist
- Doriana Leondeff (* 1962), screenwriter
- Anna Dello Russo (* 1962), fashion journalist
- Antonello De Leo (* 1965), film director
- Gianluca Pozzi (* 1965), tennis player
- Antonio Fanelli (* 1966), racing cyclist
- Luigi Giorgio (* 1966), automobile racing driver
- Teresa Ranieri (* 1966), choreographer and lecturer
- Lorenzo Lorusso (* 1967), religious priest and canon lawyer
- Ettore Bassi (* 1970), actor and television presenter
- Antonio Chimenti (* 1970), football player
- Fabio Ferri (born 1970), actor
- Andrea Palmieri (* 1970), Catholic clergyman
- Lorenzo Amoruso (* 1971), football player
- Pierluigi Balducci (* 1971), jazz musician
- Luca Leoni (* 1973), pop singer
- Gianluca Petrella (* 1975), musician
- Eleonora Forenza (* 1976), politician
- Ivan Fanelli (* 1978), racing cyclist
- Eugenio Loria (* 1981), racing cyclist
- Antonio Cassano (* 1982), football player
- Tommaso Romito (* 1982), football player
- Livio Minafra (* 1982), jazz musician
- Marco Calamita (* 1983), soccer player
Well-known residents of Bari
- Pedro Waloschek (1929–2012), Austrian experimental particle physicist