37.5027° N, 15.0872° E
CATANIA
Most Famous People Born in Catania, Italy
- Notable people
- 720
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1940
- Most distinctive
- Mafioso 168.8×
A Sicilian bel canto stronghold — the Composer and Singer benches are Bellini's city still looking after its own, with a Philosopher thread running through the Etnean school around Verga's verismo. The Journalist count is the anti-mafia press tradition; yes, there is also a Mafioso tile, and no, we will not dwell on it.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Catania during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Catania Is Known For
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Politician is Catania's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (93).
Catania over-indexes on mafioso — 168.8× the global rate.
Catania under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Catania's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Music
- Art & Design
- Other
Carmelo Sciuto Patti
1829 - 1898
Sebastiano Messina
Born 1958
Salvatore Torrisi
Born 1957
Vincenzo Cutelli
1542 - 1597
Angelo Massimino
1927 - 1996
Francesco Longo Mancini
1880 - 1954
Gaetano Fichera (medico)
1880 - 1935
Vincent Manago
1880 - 1936
Mimì Maria Lazzaro
1905 - 1968
Mimma Fazio
Born 1980
Raimondo Todaro
Born 1987
Giuseppe Lazzaro Danzuso
Born 1958
Angelo Cavallaro
Born 1967
Giacomo Tamburino
Born 1925
Turi Scalia
1921 - 2002
Luigi Caruso (homme politique)
Born 1953
Maria Gentile
1902 - 1993
Franco Lantieri
-
Carmelo Pittera
Born 1944
Filadelfo Fichera
1850 - 1909
Alessandro Messina (doppiatore)
Born 1975
Claudio Chillemi
Born 1964
Natale Attanasio
1845 - 1923
Luciano Mirone
Born 1961
Giuseppe Maria Reina
Born 1954
Franco Chillemi
1942 - 2011
Gianni Vezzosi
Born 1970
Bruno Battaglia
1923 - 2011
Domenico Ventura
Born 1949
Basilio Catanoso
Born 1963
Antonio Placido Torresi
1951 - 2012
Giuseppe Dipasquale
Born 1963
Giovanni Arena
Born 1956
Salvo D'Angelo
1909 - 1989
Giovanni Battista Grossi
1605 - 1666
Massimiliano Ravalle
Born 1988
Ilde Pirovano
1899 - 1981
Dante Majorana
1874 - 1955
Vittorio Longhi
Born 1972
Dino Giarrusso
Born 1974
Cinzia Dato
Born 1955
Sebastiano Ittar
1768 - 1847
Giacomo Caliri
Born 1940
Martino Frontini
1827 - 1909
Enrico De Seta (disegnatore)
1908 - 2008
Sibilla Sormella
Born 1273
Salvatore Enrico Failla
1938 - 2008
Francesco Pastura
1905 - 1968
Paolo Marletta
1914 - 2010
Salvatore Spoto
Born 1944
Agostino Racalbuto
1948 - 2005
Edoardo Puglisi
Born 1936
Enzo Fragalà
1948 - 2010
Conchita Puglisi
Born 1975
Angelo Ermanno Cammarata
1899 - 1971
Antonino Gandolfo Brancaleone
1820 - 1888
Titomanlio Manzella
1891 - 1966
Ivan Garofalo
Born 1948
Orazio Stracuzzi
Born 1947
Baldassare Porto
1923 - 2013
Erminio Criscione
1955 - 1992
Euplio Reina
1806 - 1877
Joseph Di Mauro
1932 - 2001
Martin of Aragon (heir of Sicily)
1406 - 1407
Mariella Lo Giudice
1952 - 2011
Tiziana Grasso
Born 1985
Sebastiano Milluzzo
1915 - 2011
Dino Strano
1935 - 1982
Antonella Arancio
Born 1974
Francesco Giacobbe
Born 1958
Andrea Aradas
1810 - 1882
Rosario Bucolo
Born 1988
Paolo Fucile
Born 1981
Giuseppe Mazzaglia
Born 1926
Giacomo Sacchero
1813 - 1875
Domenico Danzuso
1922 - 2000
Adele Gloria
1910 - 1984
Gaetano Emanuel Calì
1885 - 1936
Dario Messana
Born 1979
Filippo Maria Drago
Born 1963
Maria Nicotra
1913 - 2007
Fabio Barchitta
Born 1961
Chris Darril
Born 1989
Massimo Fichera
1929 - 2012
Edoardo Guglielmino
1924 - 2009
Giuseppe Marletta
1878 - 1943
Santi Pulvirenti
Born 1973
Paolo Agosteo
1908 - 2008
Antonino Drago
1924 - 1997
Maria Cocuzza
Born 1973
Venerando Pulizzi
1792 - 1852
Margherita Chiavaro
Born 1979
Salvatore Raiti
Born 1965
Angelo Munzone
1933 - 2017
Giovanna Sonnino
Born 1955
Carmelo Costanzo
1923 - 1990
Giovanni Formisano
1878 - 1962
Maurizio Nicolosi
Born 1966
Antonio Mazzarino
1923 - 1999
Jürg Spahr
1925 - 2002
Vincenzo Giuffrida
1878 - 1940
Francesco Coniglio
1916 - 1993
Giuseppe Cassì
Born 1963
Alessandro Trimarchi
Born 1972
Cristina Salmeri
Born 1965
Andrea D'Amico (footballer)
Born 1989
Niccolò Giannotta
1846 - 1914
Massimiliano Presti
Born 1975
Gesualdo Manzella Frontini
1885 - 1965
Francesco Fisichella
1841 - 1908
Agata Ruscica
Born 1948
Antonio Scavone
Born 1956
Aldo Forbice
Born 1940
Gianluca Musumeci
Born 1969
Margherita Nicosia
1893 - 1965
Giuseppe Zurria
1810 - 1896
Franco d'Urso
1900 - 1989
Giuseppe Sapienza
1884 - 1949
Salvatore Pillera
Born 1954
Vincenzo Gibiino
Born 1965
Antonio Nicotra
1908 - 2002
Concetto Maugeri
1919 - 1951
Manuela Malerba
Born 1976
Veruska
Born 1975
Amedeo Matacena
Born 1963
Mario Ciancio Sanfilippo
Born 1932
Matilde Piana
Born 1958
Francesco Tornabene
1813 - 1897
Salvatore Garozzo
Born 1977
Giuseppe Carnazza Puglisi
1834 - 1910
Salvatore Buglio
Born 1951
Alfio Ferlito
1946 - 1982
Stelio Mangiameli
Born 1954
Elio Catania
Born 1946
Gianni Bucceri
1872 - 1953
Domenico Sudano
Born 1940
Plinio Maggi
1940 - 2019
Gabriello Carnazza Puglisi
1809 - 1880
Manuel Zurria
Born 1962
Baldassare Armato
1924 - 2009
Pietro Turchetti
Born 1949
Giovanni Gebbia
Born 1956
Gaetano Gebbia
Born 1957
Simone Caruso
Born 1994
Tommaso Malerba
1866 - 1962
Alonzo di Benedetto
1664 - 1729
Francesco Rapisardi
Born 1842
Salvo Fleres
Born 1956
Angelo Epaminonda
1945 - 2016
Manuela Ventura
Born 1973
Sebastiano Catania
1853 - 1946
Michelangelo Crispi
Born 1971
Ignazio Marcoccio
1913 - 2012
Francisco Leocata
Born 1944
Veronica Privitera
Born 1988
Giordano Maccarrone
Born 1990
Vincenzo Oliva
Born 1958
Giuseppe Giunta
Born 1973
Giulio Macaione
Born 1983
Giuseppe Zacco
1786 - 1834
Salvo La Rosa
Born 1963
Fabrizio Puglisi
Born 1969
Mariano Bottino
1882 - 1966
Sebastiano Grasso
Born 1978
Massimiliano Perrotta
Born 1974
Sebastiano Lo Nigro
1919 - 1984
Antonino Pennisi
Born 1954
Eugenio Benedetti
Born 1929
Matteo Musumeci
Born 1976
Antonio Maria Trigona
1760 - 1835
Cosimo D'Arrigo
Born 1945
Pippo Limnell Finocchiaro
Born 1987
Santi Puglisi
Born 1940
Salvatore Bianchetti
Born 1950
Francesco Rapisarda
Born 1992
Emma D'Aquino
Born 1966
Giuseppe Salvo
Born 1949
Mario Rendo
1922 - 2005
Salvatore Cappello
Born 1959
Ugo Saitta
1912 - 1983
Alfio Consoli
Born 1974
Salvatore Leonardi
Born 1939
Nello Greco
Born 1953
Giovanni Torrisi
1917 - 1992
Angelo Destasio
Born 1962
Francesco Merlo
Born 1951
Ferdinando Agnini
1924 - 1944
Attilio Rapisarda
1882 - 1965
Mario Porto
Born 1959
Jonio Montiel
1924 - 1986
Ornella Bertorotta
Born 1967
Mario Rizzari
1817 - 1886
Claudio Quartarone
Born 1984
Luca Antonio Cangemi
Born 1966
Alberto Di Mauro
Born 1974
Angelo Majorana
1910 - 2007
Antonio Calì
1788 - 1866
Elisa Anzaldo
Born 1966
Michele Ortino
1914 - 1978
Clelia Piscitello
Born 1958
Tony Rapisarda
Born 1965
Alfio Consoli
1945 - 2007
Giuseppe Borrello
1820 - 1894
Nunzia Catalfo
Born 1967
Francesco Buglio
Born 1957
Cosimo Adronico
Born 1964
Giuseppe D'Urso (ingegnere)
1935 - 1996
Bernardo Gentile Cusa
1850 - 1934
Roberto Mario Sergio Commercio
Born 1955
Michele Giorgianni
1915 - 2003
Bonaventura Belluto
1600 - 1676
Giovanni D'Urso
1933 - 2011
Domenico Trischitta
Born 1960
Giambattista Scidà
1930 - 2011
Kim Arena
1948 - 2004
Luigi Gravina
1830 - 1910
Dora Musumeci
1934 - 2004
Pietro Di Mattei
1896 - 1994
Ivanhoe Lo Bello
Born 1963
Ferdinando Cosentini
1769 - 1840
Francesco Pezzino
1920 - 1993
Salvatore Patti
1800 - 1869
Giovanni Auteri Berretta
1851 - 1929
Antonio Zacco (artista)
1747 - 1831
Tony Catania
Born 1965
Elisa Sciuto
Born 1979
Carmelo Florio
1887 - 1975
Alessandro Nicosia
Born 1953
Salvatore Furia
1924 - 2010
Lucia Mangano
1896 - 1946
Saverio Fiducia
1878 - 1970
Franco Zuccalà
Born 1940
Dante Majorana
Born 1947
Raffaele Cosentino
1884 - 1957
Nello Aprile
1914 - 2012
Emilio Catellani
Born 1964
Serapione di Catania
Died 304
Antonino Magrì
Born 1955
Orazio Santagati
1923 - 1983
Giovanni Lizzio
1945 - 1992
Epifanio Comis
Born 1968
Ugo Francica Nava
Born 1963
Rosario Iozia
1962 - 1987
Gaetano Maria Garrasi
1727 - 1817
Fabio Majorana
1875 - 1934
Domenico Castorina
1812 - 1850
Enzo Rapisarda
Born 1967
Aldo Ercolano
Born 1960
Francesco Virlinzi
1959 - 2000
Teresa Armato
Born 1955
Vincenzo Guarniera
Born 1906
Luigi La Ferlita
1906 - 1974
Emanuele Tuccari
1920 - 2011
Pietro Arcidiacono
Born 1988
Luigi Sapienza
1866 - 1939
Antonio Battaglia Avola
Born 1811
Antonino Francaviglia
1902 - 1982
Salvatore Russo (vescovo)
1885 - 1964
Roberto Disma
Born 1993
Mario Giuseppe Mirone
1789 - 1864
Antonio Sapuppo Asmundo
1858 - 1945
Massimo Castagna
Born 1961
Gianni Corsaro
1925 - 2006
Count Cutelli
1889 - 1944
Emanuele Catania (footballer)
Born 1981
Salvatore Giardina
Born 1981
Nino Porto
1912 - 2008
Antonino Recca
Born 1949
Alberto Anile
-
Luciana Dolliver
1910 - 1982
Urania Papatheu
Born 1965
Nino Cannata
1929 - 2016
Eugenio Rendo
Born 1949
Alberto Peratoner
1862 - 1925
Cosma Nepita
Died 1595
Santi Corvaja
1920 - 1999
Francesca Tosto
Born 1983
Filippo Di Mulo
Born 1960
Elio Sparano
1926 - 2004
Giuseppe Marraffino
1771 - 1850
Rosanna Ragusa
Born 1969
Luca Presti
Born 1980
Nino Romeo
Born 1955
Andrea Di Grazia
Born 1996
Riccardo Polosa
-
Marialuisa Faro
Born 1984
Giovanna Granato
Born 1964
Salvatore Davide Arena
Born 1977
Giuseppe Finocchiaro
Born 1965
Gaetano D'Alessandro
Born 1952
Francesco Tornabene Roccaforte
1813 - 1897
Carlo Guarrera
Born 1960
Robert Giardinelli
1914 - 1996
Felice Zappulla
1914 - 1983
Davide Oliveri
Born 1967
Antonino Cantone
Born 1953
Gianfranca Montedoro
Born 1940
Ignazio d'Amico
Died 1668
Luigi Condorelli Francaviglia
Born 1938
Massimiliano Parisi
Born 1976