List of Famous people born in Sicily, Italy

Luca Guadagnino

First Name Luca
Last Name Guadagnino
Born on August 10, 1971 (age 54)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian filmmaker. He has collaborated a number of times with actress Tilda Swinton, including on the films The Protagonists (1999), I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015) and Suspiria (2018), a remake of the 1977 film of the same name.

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Luca Parmitano

Luca Salvo Parmitano
First Name Luca
Last Name Parmitano
Born on September 27, 1976 (age 49)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Colonel Luca Parmitano is an Italian astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). He was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. Parmitano is also a Colonel and test pilot for the Italian Air Force. Parmitano is the youngest non-Russian astronaut to undertake a long-duration mission, at 36 years and eight months old on the launch day of his mission.

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Alfredo Donnarumma

First Name Alfredo
Born on November 30, 1990 (age 35)
Born in Italy, Sicily
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Alfredo Donnarumma is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Serie B club Brescia.

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Miriam Leone

First Name Miriam
Born on April 14, 1985 (age 41)
Born in Italy, Sicily
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Miriam Leone is an Italian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Italia 2008 beauty contest.

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Damiano Caruso

First Name Damiano
Last Name Caruso
Born on October 12, 1987 (age 38)
Born in Italy, Sicily
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Damiano Caruso is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious. Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race.

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Deborah Blando

First Name Deborah
Born on March 3, 1969 (age 57)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Deborah Salvatrice Blando is an Italian-born Brazilian singer and composer. She has sold about six million copies sold worldwide, with six albums released between 1991 and 2002. She has seven number 1 single and ten Top 10 singles in Brazil, five singles in the American Hispanic market, and two of them in the Top 10 which became known in Europe, such as the pop ballad "Innocence" in 1992.

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Maria Grazia Cucinotta

First Name Maria
Last Name Cucinotta
Born on July 27, 1968 (age 57)
Born in Italy, Sicily
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Maria Grazia Cucinotta is an Italian actress who has featured in films and television series since 1990. She has also worked as a film producer, screenwriter and model. Internationally she is best known for her roles in Il Postino, as Isabella from HBO television series The Sopranos, and as the Bond girl, credited as a Cigar Girl, in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

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Marcella Carollo

First Name Marcella
Last Name Carollo
Born on November 30, 1961 (age 64)
Born in Italy, Sicily

C. Marcella Carollo worked as a professional astronomer for 25 years between 1994–2019. Her scientific career was ended by the ETH Zürich who, following accusations that she had bullied students, made her the first Professor to be dismissed at ETH Zurich in the 165 years of its history. Carollo has maintained her innocence against these accusations, publicly commenting on her case in terms that indicate "academic mobbing". The dismissal has been appealed to the Swiss Federal Administrative Court.

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Giuseppe Tornatore

First Name Giuseppe
Born on May 27, 1956 (age 69)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Giuseppe Tornatore is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as Everybody's Fine, The Legend of 1900, Malèna, Baarìa and The Best Offer. Probably his most noted film is Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana.

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Lando Buzzanca

First Name Lando
Last Name Buzzanca
Born on August 24, 1935 (age 90)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Gerlando Buzzanca, best known as Lando Buzzanca, is an Italian theatrical, film and television actor, whose career spanned over 55 years.

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