List of people from Sardinia

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Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of about 1.6 million people. The list includes notable natives of Sardinia, as well as those who were born elsewhere but spent a large part of their active life in Sardinia. People of Sardinian heritage and descent are in a separate section of this article.

Academic figures and inventors[edit]

Domenico Alberto Azuni
Giovanni Spano
Gianluigi Gessa

Activists[edit]

Architects and designers[edit]

Authors[edit]

Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926

Businessmen[edit]

Cinema and TV[edit]

Actors and actresses[edit]

Rubi Dalma

Filmmakers[edit]

Nanni Loy

Showgirls and fashion models[edit]

Melissa Satta

Police officers[edit]

Emanuela Loi

Criminals[edit]

Journalists[edit]

Attilio Deffenu

Mercenaries, soldiers and troops[edit]

Domenico Millelire
  • Mario Aramu (1900–1940), aviator
  • Domenico Millelire (1761–1827) patriot, navy officer
  • Antonio Todde (1889–2002), oldest man in the world at the date of his death and the third-oldest military veteran ever
  • Efisio Tola (1803–1833), patriot
  • Justin Tuveri (May 13, 1898 – October 5, 2007), one of the last Italian veterans of the First World War

Musicians and singers[edit]

Giuseppe Anedda

Visual artists[edit]

Painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors[edit]

Francesco Ciusa
Pinuccio Sciola

Cartoonists and comics creators[edit]

Politicians[edit]

Eleanor of Arborea, queen of the Giudicato of Arborea (Sardinian: Judicadu de Arbarée)
Giovanni Maria Angioy, Sardinian patriot

Sportspeople[edit]

Athletics[edit]

Basketball[edit]

Bodybuilding[edit]

Boxing[edit]

Canoeing[edit]

Cycling[edit]

Equestrianism[edit]

Paolo Angioni in 1968

Extreme sports[edit]

Football[edit]

Salvatore Sirigu
Andrea Cossu

Horse racing[edit]

Ice hockey[edit]

Modern pentathlon[edit]

Motor racing[edit]

Rowing[edit]

Tennis[edit]

Religious figures[edit]

Pope Hilarius
Joseph Toronto

Notable people of Sardinian descent[edit]

Wally Schirra, astronaut
Goffredo Mameli, author of Italian national anthem (Genoese of Sardinian ancestry).
Enrico Letta (Pisan of Sardinian ancestry).

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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