Editing Sorrento (section)

== Notable people ==
[[File:Antoninus of Sorrento statue.jpg|thumb|175px|Statue of St Antoninus of Sorrento]]
* [[Antoninus of Sorrento]] (555 or 556 – 625), an Italian abbot, hermit and saint
* Saint [[Baculus of Sorrento]] (7th c.), venerated as a Bishop of Sorrento
* [[Nardo Mormile]] (died 1493), a Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Sorrento 1480–1493
* [[Antonius Agellius]] (1532 in Sorrento – 1608), [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Acerno|Bishop of Acerno]] and a member of the [[Theatines]]
* [[Torquato Tasso]] (1544–1595), Italian poet<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Tasso,_Torquato |volume= 26 |short=x}}</ref>  of the 16th century
* [[Giuseppe Agellio]] (1570 in Sorrento – after 1620), an Italian painter of the Baroque period
* [[Giacomo di Castro]] ({{circa|1597}} in Sorrento – 1687), an Italian painter of the Baroque period
* [[Sylvester Shchedrin]] (1791 – 1830 in Sorrento), a Russian landscape painter, emigrated to Italy in 1818 
* [[Edoardo De Martino]] CVO (1838 Meta di Sorrento – 1912), an Italian-British painter, mainly active in London, painted warships and marine battles
* [[Bonaventura Gargiulo]] (1843–1904), Italian Capuchin friar, editor and publisher and Bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of San Severo]]
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (1844–1900), the German philosopher, was in Sorrento for six months in 1876. He there wrote ''[[Human, All Too Human]]''
* [[Maxim Gorky]] (1868–1936), a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist, five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lived in Sorrento during his second exile from 1921 to 1928
* [[Aniello Califano]] (1870 in Sorrento – 1919), an Italian poet and writer, author of Neapolitan songs
* [[Pasquale Troise]] (1895, in Minori village – 1957), mandolinist and bandleader, active in England from the 1920s. 
* [[Enrico Garff]] (born 1939), an Italian portrait painter and colourist, he has worked in Positano, Sorrento, Rome, Sicily and in Sweden and Finland
* [[Raffaele Lauro]] (born 1944 in Sorrento), politician and writer<ref>{{cite web|author=Mauro Siniscalchi |url=http://www.raffaelelauro.it/en/index.html |title=Raffaele Lauro |website=Raffaelelauro.it |access-date=2017-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carusothesong.com/en/home.html |title=Caruso the Song &#124; Caruso the Song - Lucio Dalla e Sorrento |access-date=2015-10-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150223205254/http://www.carusothesong.com/en/home.html |archive-date=2015-02-23 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carusothesong.com/docufilm/english.html |title=Lucio Dalla e Sorrento - I luoghi dell'anima |website=www.carusothesong.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913180253/http://www.carusothesong.com/docufilm/english.html |archive-date=13 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>