List of Famous people born in Syracuse, Italy

Corax was one of the founders of ancient Greek rhetoric. Some scholars contend that both founders are merely legendary personages, others that Corax and Tisias were the same person, described in one fragment as "Tisias, the Crow". And according to Aristotle, Empedocles was the actual founder of rhetoric, but this is also unlikely. It is believed that William Shakespeare derived the name Sycorax from Corax of Syracuse. Corax is said to have lived in Sicily in the 5th century BC, when Thrasybulus, tyrant of Syracuse, was overthrown and a democracy formed.

Aristomache was the daughter of Hipparinus of Syracuse, and the sister of the Sicilian tyrant Dion of Syracuse.

Arete（Ancient Greek: Ἀρετή) was the daughter of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse with Aristomache.

Salvatore "Salvo" Randone was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor.

Giuseppe Palumbo is an Italian racing cyclist. Palumbo became Junior World Champion in the road race twice, in 1992 and 1993.

Concetto Lo Bello was an Italian association football international referee. He holds the record for refereeing the most games in Serie A (328).

Lucia Sardo is an Italian actress.

Dionysius the Younger, or Dionysius II, was a Greek politician who ruled Syracuse, Sicily from 367 BC to 357 BC and again from 346 BC to 344 BC.

Antonino Lo Surdo was an Italian physicist. He was appointed as professor of physics at the Istituto di Fisica in Rome in 1919; upon the death of Orso Mario Corbino in 1937, he became the director. Lo Surdo studied terrestrial physics, including seismology and geophysics; the 1908 Messina earthquake caused the death of his parents and other close relatives, except his brother. He contributed to the foundation of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica under the auspices of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, when its president was Guglielmo Marconi.

Dario Bandiera is an Italian actor and comedian.