Coriolano Paparazzo ist the name of a hotelkeeper in the novel "By the Ionian Sea" (1901) from George Gissing. A travel book about a tour through southern Italy.

Federico Fellini took this name, but also impressions of a fotografer named Tazio Secchiaroli, who was famous for a picture of King Farouk of Egypt overturning a restaurant table.

Fellini named a Colleague of Marcello Rubini (played by Marcello Mastroianni) Paparazzo. A Fotographer played by Walter Santesso. In the Movie La Dolce Vita (1960, 167 minutes, black-and-white).
With Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg and Yvonne Furneaux.