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Top 10 Top 10 Historic Figures
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1. Parthenope
The siren spurned by Ulysses gave her name to the first Greek colony, in 680 BC, now Pizzofalcone.
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2. Spartacus
This runaway slave led a revolt of the oppressed from headquarters on Vesuvius.
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3. Romulus Augustulus
The last emperor of the Western Empire died in Naples in AD 476.
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4. Belisarius
The general was sent by the Byzantine Emperor to reconquer much of the Italian peninsula in the 5th century.
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5. Pope Innocent II
When the Normans were making progress towards Naples in 1137 the city turned to the pope for help, but the Normans took him prisoner.
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6. Queen Joan I
Joan (1343–81) was so loved by the people that they forgave her for plotting the murder of her husband.
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7. Tommaso Aniello
This fisherman led a revolt in 1647 against the taxation policies of the Spanish rulers.
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8. Maria Carolina of Austria
The sister of Marie Antoinette was the power behind the throne of her husband, Ferdinand IV (1768–1811).
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9. King Joachim Murat
Napoleon’s brother-in-law ascended the throne of Naples in 1808 but was executed in 1815.
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10. Antonio Bassolino
Naples’ left-wing mayor from 1993 to 2001 brought about a long-overdue clean up of the city (see The New Naples).
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