List of Famous people born in Sicily, Italy
Vito Badalamenti
Vito Badalamenti is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the "Italy's most wanted list" from 1995 until 2012 when the statute of limitations was declared expired.
Francesco Montenegro
Francesco Montenegro is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as Archbishop of Agrigento since 2008. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 14 February 2015.
Isabella Ragonese
Isabella Ragonese is an Italian actress.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.
Michele Parrinello
Michele Parrinello is an Italian physicist particularly known for his work in molecular dynamics. Parrinello and Roberto Car were awarded the Dirac Medal and the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2009 for their continuing development of the Car–Parrinello method, first proposed in their seminal 1985 paper, "Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory".
Giovanni Cottone
Etta Scollo
Etta Scollo is an Italian singer and songwriter. Her music combines traditional Sicilian music, pop and jazz.
Carmelo Cuttitta
Umberto Balsamo
Rosario Umberto Balsamo, best known as Umberto Balsamo is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer.
Domenico Dolce
Domenico Mario Assunto Dolce is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Along with Stefano Gabbana, he is one half of the luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana (D&G). Since founding D&G in 1985, Dolce has become one of the world's most influential fashion designers and an industry icon.