People from Venosa

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( ), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."

Napoletan noble, composer and murderer (1566–1613)

King of Sicily from 1258 to 1266

Italian painter (1844-1883)

Catholic cardinal

Italian physician, botanist, and literary theorist (1500-1571)

Italian poet

Italian writer

Italian pilot (1893-1959)