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Alessia Reato was born in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for The Panic, For When You Get Lost (2023) and Suspicious Lea (2023).

Gabriella Giacobbe (L'Aquila, 1923 - Rome, January 8, 1979) was an Italian actress active in theater, television and cinema. She is formed at the school of theater of Giorgio Strehler and performs long at the Piccolo Teatro of Milan. She also works with Luchino Visconti and Eduardo De Filippo. She also had a prolific career in television, appearing in dramas of success as "A come Andromeda, La donna di picche e I promessi sposi". More sporadic are his film appearances, which, however, include works by Luigi Magni, Dino Risi, Nelo Risi and the famous spaghetti western "Keoma" by Enzo G. Castellari. She died of cancer on January 8, 1979 at age 55.

Benito Barbieri was born in 1936 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is an actor, known for Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981), The Third Solution (1988) and Le braghe del padrone (1978).

Pia Velsi was born on 31 March 1924 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress, known for Tutti pazzi per amore (2008), ...and the Wild Wild Women (1959) and Scaramouche (1965).

Nanda Primavera was born on 23 August 1898 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Wayward Wife (1953), Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955) and Moglie e buoi... (1956). She was married to Guido Riccioli. She died on 9 August 1995 in Marino, Lazio, Italy.

Pietro Zardini was born on 11 March 1901 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He was an actor, known for Fantozzi (1975), Fantozzi contro tutti (1980) and Fantozzi 2 (1976). He died on 18 November 1987 in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy.

Claudia Romani (born April 14, 1982 in L'Aquila, Italy) is an Italian American model. In 2006 was voted one of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World by FHM Denmark. Since 2010, she is based in Miami, Florida. This buxom brunette have a spectacular body, thanks her genetic, her gym work, also is vegan.

She moved to Denmark in her late teens, also studying in England and now work in the USA.

She has been featured in magazines such as FHM (Denmark, Turkey and Slovenia), GQ, Maxim (Italy and Greece), Cosmopolitan (UK), More!, and Playboy Italy. She is the Model Consultant for Miami Life Magazine and has been featured on their cover numbers of times, as well as having been a cover model for Semanario Argentino, Gente Sur and others.

Romani has appeared on commercials for Samsung, Toyota, and Ford. In the Latin market she has appeared in shows such as Noche de Perros and Despierta America. She is also the official model on the TV show Esta Noche Tu Night on Mega TV.

In 2006, she was voted one of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World by FHM Denmark, she won the title of Miss Internet by Clarence as well as "Denmark's Most Beautiful Legs" by Q magazine and "Page 9 Miss Of the Year" by Ekstra Bladet. In February 2013 she was voted among the "Most Beautiful of 2012" by GQ Mexico, ahead of Sofia Vergara, Alyssa Miller, and Megan Fox.

She was voted best Bikini Body 2012 on the VH1 website in the supermodels category, beating Adriana Lima and Naomi Campbell. Afterwards she won in round 2 with Selena Gomez and in round 3 with Drita D'Avanzo. She was in the final with Beyoncé at the VH1 Bikini Awards Finals; Beyoncé won 52.88% against 47.12% Claudia. Three of Claudia's pictures also made it to the VH1 chart of the 100 Hottest Bikini Photos of 2012. Claudia won the 2014 Mentality Magazine March Hotness Tournament, beating out 64 of the most beautiful women in the world.

.Claudia has been a spokesperson for Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia, a cycling race organized by Giro d'Italia and Gazzetta dello Sport in Miami.[20] As of 2013 she retains the role and has traveled in the US as a spokes-model for Gran Fondo, working at the Five Boro Bike Tour in New York City and the Interbike convention in Las Vegas. On November 10, 2013 she the spokesperson for Gran Fondo Giro in Miami, posing at the start line with professional cyclist Pippo Pozzato, next to event sponsors Lamborghini. In the summer of 2013 Romani was invited along with several French media figures to join the Starwest Celebrity "Petanque" (bocce ball) tournament, in Arcachon, France, with her own team.

She is also a spokesperson for Forza l'Aquila alongside the Italian rugby team, in support of her hometown after it was hit by an earthquake. In August 2013 she was invited to the Circolo Tennis L'Aquila, where her grandfather used to play, for a photo-shoot and to help with the tennis organization's international image-building after the earthquake. Also in the summer of 2013 she was chosen to represent her hometown calcio team L'Aquila Calcio.

In a December 2014 competition, she won competition "sexy supporter Italy." In 2015 Claudia was in the Show Secret Story, by Endemol France, this is basically Big Brother, French version. She became an American citizen on March 23, 2019. She considers herself a vegetarian activist. She is a tifosi-fanatic of A.C. Milan.

Vincent Zazzara was born on 8 October 1920 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He was married to Maxine Zazzara and Betty Grace Peterson Zazzara. He died on 27 March 1985 in Whittier, California, USA.

Alessia Fabiani was born on 10 December 1976 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress, known for Border Line (2010), La vita dispari (2009) and Piove sul bagnato (2009).

Bruno Vespa was born on 27 May 1944 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Yes for Europe (1996), 100 minutes pour convaincre (2002) and Don Matteo (2000). He has been married to Augusta Iannini since 1977. They have two children.

Paolo Corridore was born on 27 November 1979 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is an actor, known for Versipellis (2011), Narcissus (2015) and Casting (2009).

Paolo Silveri was born on 28 December 1913 in Ofena, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He was an actor, known for La favorita (1952) and Verdi (1982). He died on 3 July 2001 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Sabatino Ciuffini was born on 21 October 1920 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Super Fuzz (1980), The Tartars (1961) and Odds and Evens (1978). He died in 2003 in Italy.

Giacomo Dell'Orso was born on 2 December 1931 in Ofena, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a composer, known for Zombie Holocaust (1980) and Emanuelle Around the World (1977). He was married to Edda Dell'Orso. He died on 9 September 2024 in Rome, Italy.

Raffaele Andreassi was born on 2 August 1924 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Flashback (1969), I vecchi (1960) and Antonio Ligabue, pittore (1965). He died on 20 November 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Simona Cipollone was born on 2 July 1972 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress and composer, known for La tassinara (2020), Il sorriso di Candida (2013) and Festival di Sanremo (1951).

Andrea Adriatico was born in 1966 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Wind in the Evening (2004), Pugni e su di me si chiude un cielo (2002) and L'auto del silenzio (2002).

Matteo Garofalo was born on 22 November 1993 in Avezzano, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is an actor, known for Dragonero - I paladini (2022).

Claudio Junior Bielli was born on 23 November 1979 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a composer, known for The Innocent Bastard (2016), Martedì e venerdì (2024) and The Italian Dream (2015).

Antonino Chiaramonte is an eclectic Italian musician, internationally acclaimed electroacoustic music composer, sound designer, and video artist. His music production is oriented towards the research and experimentation of new expressive abilities which arise from the interference between different music languages and technologies applied to the arts. His attention is focused on intermediality, live electronics and performers' interaction in a continuous dynamic exchange between gesture/improvisation and control/composition. He graduated in flute at "St. Cecilia" Conservatoire of Rome. He studied composition with Mauro Cardi, focusing on electroacoustic music and music and the moving image interaction. He obtained a first-class diploma in electronic music composition from Perugia Conservatoire with Luigi Ceccarelli. He has collaborated with many international festivals as a composer and live electronics performer. His piece Riflessioni won the first Prize at the 34th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music - Bourges 2007 and was also selected within the 3rd Federazione CEMAT call for Electroacoustic Music Works CD production. His piece Envoys was a finalist at the "European competition for live-electronic music projects" organised by ECPNM (European Conference of Promoters of New Music) and hosted by the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007. This work was also selected for the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) 2008 - Belfast. The audio/visual live performance Cut-up & grain, Chapter 1: Life, conceived and performed with Cesare Saldicco, obtained a Mention at the 36th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art - Bourges 2009. The video/music work Falling, directed by Adriano Cirulli, has been selected by the ICMC 2012 and screened at IRZU (Institute for Sonic Arts Research) - Ljubljana. He has been collaborating since 2007 with the dancer and choreographer Francesco Scavetta, producing the sound design and the live electronics music for the piece Sincerely yours, premiered at Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhäjärvi - Finland. He also created the multichannel sound design of Scavetta's piece, On the Moon and the Day After, and performed the sound diffusion and live electronics during the premiere at Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO), March 2013. In 2009, he established, together with Anna Troisi, a project called ..::Electroshop::.., which is a workshop where the building of sounding artworks and the programming of original audio/video signal processing software overlap with music scores or improvised electroacoustic performances, achieving a correspondence between the created instruments, the live video and the music. He is FLEE's artistic director and conductor (Frosinone Laptop & Electroacoustic Ensemble). He is professor in Performance and Control Environments for Live Electronics at the Frosinone Conservatoire and former member of the ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research), University of Plymouth (UK) as Honorary Research Fellow in Electronic Music Composition in the Faculty of Arts. He is also active as a movie soundtrack composer. His works have been successfully performed in Italy, Switzerland, the U.S.A., Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, China, France, Finland, Japan and the U.K.

Guerrino Rocco was born on 22 May 1955 in Collarmele, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. Guerrino is known for Mr. Nice Guy (1987). Guerrino died on 26 January 2024 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

Elena Floris was born on 29 August 1982 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress, known for L'amore non basta (2008) and Video Cartoline Aquilane n. 3: Magia in Piazza (2011).

Benedetto Croce was born on 25 February 1866 in Pescasseroli, Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Italy. He was married to Adele Rossi. He died on 20 November 1952 in Naples, Italy.

Panfilo Gentile was born on 28 May 1889 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He died on 6 September 1971 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.