List of Famous people born in Palermo, Italy
Prince Carlo Ferdinando, Prince of Capua
Prince Charles of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Capua was the second son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain. He contracted a morganatic marriage in 1836 and had to live for the rest of his life in exile.
Giacomo Almirante
Giacomo Almirante (1875–1944) was an Italian stage and film actor.
Mimi Aguglia
Mimi Aguglia was an Italian actress, born Girolama Aguglia in Palermo, Sicily, while her mother, actress Giuseppina Aguglia, was playing Desdemona in Othello.
Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia
Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Margaret of Sicily
Margaret of Sicily or Margherita di Sicilia-Aragona was a Sicilian princess, daughter of the King Frederick III of Sicily and his wife Eleanor of Anjou. In 1348 she married Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and was Countess Palatine of the Rhine until 1353, year of the husband's death.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and being the founder of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him, the first applied mathematics institute ever founded. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils.
Manfredi Gravina
Francesco Paolo Cantelli
Francesco Paolo Cantelli was an Italian mathematician.
Francesco Gonzaga
Francesco Gonzaga was an Italian nobleman, who was Duke of Ariano. He was also a Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.