List of Famous people born in Sicily, Italy

Frédéric François

First Name Frédéric
Last Name François
Born on June 3, 1950 (age 73)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Frédéric François, is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Diletta Leotta

First Name Diletta
Born on August 16, 1991 (age 32)
Born in Italy, Sicily


Giulia Diletta Leotta is an Italian television presenter from Catania, Sicily. Leotta currently presents the Serie A broadcasts for DAZN since the 2018–2019 season. Earlier, she had presented Serie B games on Sky Sport (Italy) with Gianluca Di Marzio and Luca Marchegiani. From April to August of 2018, Leotta worked alongside Aída Yéspica as the host of 105 Take Away, a program of Radio 105 Network. Leotta hosted with Francesco Facchinetti the 2018 edition of Miss Italia that was aired by La7 and won by Carlotta Maggiorana. In 2020, Leotta co-presented the 70th annual edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Rosalia Lombardo

First Name Rosalia
Last Name Lombardo
Born on December 13, 1918
Died on December 6, 1920 (aged 1)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week shy of her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, was grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. Her mummified body, sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty", was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Vinnie Paz

First Name Vinnie
Born on October 5, 1977 (age 46)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Vincenzo Luvineri, better known as Vinnie Paz, is a Sicilian American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks. He is also the frontman of the hip hop collective Army of the Pharaohs.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Franca Viola

First Name Franca
Last Name Viola
Born on January 9, 1948 (age 76)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Franca Viola is an Italian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a "rehabilitating marriage" to her rapist after being kidnapped, held hostage for more than a week, and raped numerous times. She is considered to be the first Italian woman who had been raped to publicly refuse to marry her rapist. Instead, she and her family successfully pursued prosecution of the rapist. The trial had a wide resonance in Italy, as Viola's behavior clashed with traditional social conventions in Southern Italy, whereby a woman would lose her honour if she did not marry the man to whom she had lost her virginity. Franca Viola became a symbol of the cultural progress and emancipation of women in post-war Italy.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Santo Di Matteo

First Name Santo
Last Name Matteo
Born on December 7, 1954 (age 69)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Santino Di Matteo, also known as Mezzanasca, is an Italian former member of the Sicilian Mafia from the town of Altofonte in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Salvatore Cascio

First Name Salvatore
Last Name Cascio
Born on November 8, 1979 (age 44)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Salvatore Cascio is an Italian actor. His most famous performance was in Cinema Paradiso (1988), for which he received critical acclaim and a BAFTA Award.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Domenico Cefalu

First Name Domenico
Born on January 1, 1947 (age 77)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Domenico "Italian Dom" Cefalù, also known as "Greaseball", "Dom and Cheese" and "Dom from 18th Avenue", is currently the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family and influential leader of the organization's Sicilian faction.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Mary Ann Vecchio

First Name Mary
Last Name Vecchio
Born on December 4, 1955 (age 68)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Mary Ann Vecchio is one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Daniele Garozzo

First Name Daniele
Last Name Garozzo
Born on August 4, 1992 (age 31)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Daniele Garozzo is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, 2017 individual European champion, three-time team world champion, and 2016 individual Olympic champion. He is the younger brother of Italian épée fencer Enrico Garozzo.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.042879104614258s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.036742925643921s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.036704063415527s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.02529501914978s
t_/blocks/person-card: 10x 0.023413181304932s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0072379112243652s
router_page: 1x 0.0039598941802979s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0030868053436279s
headline: 2x 0.0029268264770508s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00040102005004883s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00038409233093262s
head-facts: 1x 0.00037193298339844s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 4.2200088500977E-5s
qids: 1.5x 1.0967254638672E-5s
related: 1x 4.0531158447266E-6s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2024-04-27 23:06:04)  -----