38.1157° N, 13.3613° E
PALERMO
Most Famous People Born in Palermo, Italy
- Notable people
- 1,542
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1922
- Most distinctive
- Mafia 336.0×
A Sicilian capital whose most distinctive profession in the entire dataset is mafioso, at more than three hundred times the global rate, with magistrates and criminals and mobsters close behind — the statistical footprint of both Cosa Nostra and the judges who prosecuted it. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were born here, as was Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; the pre-modern bench runs through Norman and Hohenstaufen kings, Arab-Norman saints, and Alessandro Scarlatti.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Palermo during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Palermo Is Known For
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Politician is Palermo's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (246).
Palermo over-indexes on mafia — 336.0× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Palermo's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Hector Lucchesi-Palli
1806 - 1864
Federico Amador
Born 1975
Francesco Alliata
1919 - 2015
Francesco Di Mariano
Born 1996
Salvatore Marchesi
1822 - 1908
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 15th Duke of Alba
1821 - 1881
Sandro Paternostro
1922 - 2000
Raimondo Lanza di Trabia
1915 - 1954
Rocco Lentini
1858 - 1943
Michele Di Piedi
Born 1980
Luigi Crocco
1909 - 1986
Niccolò Turrisi Colonna
1817 - 1889
Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca, 1st Marquis of Branciforte
1750 - 1812
Antonino Diana
1586 - 1663
Vincenzo Cuccia
1892 - 1979
Salvo Cuccia
Born 1960
Barbara Giuranna
1899 - 1998
Francesco Paolo Di Blasi
1753 - 1795
Rocco D'Assunta
1904 - 1970
Michele de Franchis
1875 - 1946
Salvatore Lo Forte
1804 - 1885
Costanza Quatriglio
Born 1973
Ugo Giachery
1896 - 1989
Michele Carrascosa
1774 - 1853
Alberto Rosselli
1921 - 1976
Andrea Manzella
Born 1933
Giusto Catania
Born 1971
Mariano Smiriglio
1561 - 1636
Salvatore Cancemi
1942 - 2011
Salvatore Di Vittorio
Born 1967
Cataldo Parisio
1455 - 1517
Francesco Sozzi
1732 - 1795
Giuseppe Patricolo
1834 - 1905
Stefano Donaudy
1879 - 1925
Salvatore Allegra
1897 - 1993
Carlo d'Aragona Tagliavia
1530 - 1599
Antonio Mongitore
1663 - 1743
Adolfo Omodeo
1889 - 1946
Giuseppe Greco (footballer, born 1983)
Born 1983
Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile
1851 - 1916
Salvatore Termini
Born 1967
Francesco Maria Emanuele Gaetani
1720 - 1802
Alfonso Traina
1925 - 2019
Giuseppe Provenzano
Born 1946
Stefano Bontade
1939 - 1981
Francesco Ardizzone
Born 1992
Manlio Di Stefano
Born 1981
Teresa Mannino
Born 1970
Lia Pasqualino Noto
1909 - 1998
Salvatore Lo Piccolo
Born 1942
Corrado Lojacono
1924 - 2012
Vincenzo Riolo
1772 - 1837
Maurizio Carta
Born 1967
Enrico Albanese
1834 - 1889
Vittorio Ducrot
1867 - 1942
Alessandro Bazan
Born 1966
Tommaso de Vigilia
1435 - 1495
Elena Lunda
1901 - 1947
Salvatore Agnelli
1817 - 1878
Héctor Mauré
1920 - 1976
Giovanni Onorato
1910 - 1960
Christian (singer)
Born 1947
Ignazio Messina
Born 1964
Nunzio Filogamo
1902 - 2002
Giuseppe Calò
Born 1931
Lorena Cacciatore
Born 1987
Petru Fudduni
1600 - 1670
Joseph Lanza
1904 - 1968
Olivia of Palermo
448 - 463
Andrea Accardi
Born 1968
Tony Colombo
Born 1986
Girolamo Bellavista
1908 - 1976
Michele Lojacono Pojero
1853 - 1919
Pietro Martorana
1705 - 1759
Carlo Sposito
1924 - 1984
Margaret of Sicily, Countess Palatine of the Rhine
1331 - 1377
Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia
1499 - 1558
Pietro Ballo
Born 1952
Giacomo Gagini
1517 - 1598
Ico Parisi
1916 - 1996
Lucio Maria Attinelli
Born 1933
Antonello Crescenzio
1476 - 1542
Salvatore Inzerillo
1944 - 1981
Giovanni Bucaro
Born 1970
Riccardo Nuti
Born 1981
Rosalia Novelli
1628 - 1688
Sergio Boccadutri
Born 1976
Gabriele di Torremuzza
1727 - 1792
Bonaventura Aliotti
1640 - 1690
Antonio Ugo
1870 - 1950
Gaspare Grasselini
1796 - 1875
Giulia Tofana
Died 1659
Giovanni Schillaci
Born 1967
Antonello Antinoro
Born 1960
Beatrice Monroy
Born 1953
Emilio Salafia
1910 - 1969
Michele Cavataio
1929 - 1969
Corrado Zoli
1877 - 1951
Isidoro Carini
1843 - 1895
Giovanni Corrao
1822 - 1863
Francesco Galeoto
Born 1972
Salvatore Contorno
Born 1946
Vincenzo Gaggini
1527 - 1595
Elio Battaglia
Born 1933
Antonio Manno
1739 - 1810
Angelo La Barbera
1924 - 1975
Domenico Marotta
1886 - 1974
Jo Chiarello
Born 1963
Francisco María Píccolo
1654 - 1729
Massimo Ciancimino
Born 1963
Filippo Marchese
1938 - 1982
Salvatore La Barbera
1922 - 1963
Philip Mangano
1898 - 1951
Antonino Bonvissuto
Born 1985
Giovanni Di Gregorio
Born 1973
Giuseppe Avarna
1843 - 1916
Paolo Ruffini (journaliste)
Born 1956
Alessandro d'Anna
1746 - 1810
Marzio Mastrilli
1753 - 1833
Simone Mantia
1873 - 1951
Amedeo John Engel Terzi
1872 - 1956
Giuseppe Crestadoro
1711 - 1808
Rosario La Duca
1923 - 2008
Davide Morello
Born 1978
Salvatore Bonafede
Born 1962
Antonino Catalano
1932 - 1987
Sergio Ammirata
Born 1935
Procopio Serpotta
1679 - 1756
Domenico Saverni
Born 1958
Francesco Balducci
1579 - 1642
Mauro Barella
Born 1956
Diego Cammarata
Born 1951
Basilio Franchina
1914 - 2003
Max Crivello
Born 1958
Marcella Frangipane
Born 1948
Manfredi Gravina
1883 - 1932
Vincenzo della Greca
1592 - 1661
Gianvito Misuraca
Born 1990
Giuseppe Amendola
1750 - 1808
Antonio Branciforte Colonna
1711 - 1786
Enrico Morello
Born 1977
Benedetto Civiletti
1845 - 1899
Vito Fazio Allmayer
1885 - 1958
Luigi Cocilovo
Born 1947
Ignazio Florio Jr.
1869 - 1957
Domenico Scinà
1765 - 1837
Mario Amato
1937 - 1980
Ernesto Bazan
Born 1959
Francesco Musotto
Born 1947
Elvira Sellerio
1936 - 2010
Prince Antonio, Count of Lecce
1816 - 1843
Renato Calapso
1901 - 1976
Titti De Simone
Born 1970
Giuseppe Serpotta
1653 - 1719
Vito Crimi
Born 1972
Fazio Gaggini
1520 - 1567
Giacomo Almirante
1875 - 1944
Rosetta Calavetta
1914 - 1993
Vittorio Bongiorno
Born 1973
Fabio Romano
Born 1967
Gaetano Starrabba
Born 1932
Angelo Pellegrino
Born 1946
Luciano del Castillo
Born 1960
Jacopo Siculo
1490 - 1544
Carlo Padiglione
1827 - 1921
Gaetano Fidanzati
1935 - 2013
Onofrio Abbate
1824 - 1915
Giuseppe d’Alvino
1550 - 1611
Valentino Picone
Born 1971
Maurizio Bernardo
Born 1963
Aurora Quattrocchi
Born 1943
Domenico Quattrociocchi
1872 - 1941
Ottavio Ziino
1909 - 1995
Benedetto De Lisi
1831 - 1875
Salvatore Ficarra
Born 1971
Alberto Cossentino
Born 1988
Alessandro Pajno
Born 1948
Giulia Di Vita
Born 1984
Onofrio Barone
Born 1964
Francesco Di Salvo
1913 - 1977
Cesare Sanfilippo
1911 - 2000
Mario Cucinella
Born 1960
Giuseppe Prestia
Born 1993
Ignazio Florio Sr.
1838 - 1891
Giuseppe Salvatore Pianell
1818 - 1892
Francesco Cosentino
1922 - 1985
Ottavio Tiby
1891 - 1955
Rosario Garibaldi Bosco
1866 - 1936
Ferdinando Latteri
1945 - 2011
Carlo Alberto Garufi
1868 - 1948
Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti
1839 - 1921
Beatrix of Sicily (1260–1307)
1260 - 1307
Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato
1841 - 1927
Sergio Friscia
Born 1971
Antonio Maria Travia
1914 - 2006
Alfredo Galasso
Born 1940
Nino Prester
Born 1955
Giovanni Pitruzzella
Born 1959
Emma Baeri
Born 1942
John Theristus
995 - 1054
Luca Flores
1956 - 1995
Giovanni Fiandaca
Born 1947
Gianni Gebbia
Born 1961
Andrea Giardina
Born 1949
Michele Geraci (economista)
Born 1966
Simonetta Jung
1917 - 2005
Francesco Paolo Perez
1812 - 1892
Giovanni Narzisi
Born 1929
Guido Cerniglia
1939 - 2020
Dario Aita
Born 1987
Pietro Bachi
1787 - 1853
Rosario Mazzola
1924 - 2018
Enrico Gentile
Born 1921
Maria Nallino
1908 - 1974
Gregorio Di Leo
Born 1983
Antonio D'Antoni
1801 - 1859
Ignazio Arcoleo
Born 1948
Livia De Stefani
1913 - 1991
Giuseppe Bertini (compositore)
1759 - 1852
Davide Faraone
Born 1975
Camillo Autore
1882 - 1936
Ginger Costa-Jackson
Born 1986
Antonio Castellini
1951 - 1976
Mario Pupella
Born 1958
Salvatore Taglioni
1789 - 1868
Antonio Palazzo
Born 1937
John Gambino
1940 - 2017
Gaetano Vasari
Born 1970
Enzo Peri
Born 1939
Michele Perriera
1937 - 2010
Fabrizio Micari
Born 1963
Paulo Salemi
Born 1993
Pietro Lanza di Scalea
1863 - 1938
Salvatore Caronia Roberti
1887 - 1970
Evelina Santangelo
Born 1965
Roberta Giarrusso
Born 1982
Stefano Maniscalco
Born 1982
Antonio Ximenes
1829 - 1896
Rosario Pergolizzi
Born 1968
Andrea D'Antoni
1811 - 1868
Andrea Ferrante
Born 1968
Ernesto Lugaro
1870 - 1940
Girolamo Germano
1568 - 1632
Vittorio Mangano
1940 - 2000
Margherita Bontade
1900 - 1992
Alfredo Salafia
1869 - 1933
Pietro Lanza
1807 - 1855
Salvatore Di Cristina
Born 1937
Vittorio Corona (pittore)
1901 - 1966
Bruno Caruso
1927 - 2018
Alfredo Li Bassi
Born 1971
Massimo Tarantino
Born 1971
Vito Schifani
1965 - 1992
Nicolò Carnesi
Born 1987
Alberto Burgio
Born 1955
Claudio Cerasa
Born 1982
Giovanni Gioia
1925 - 1981
Maurizio Prollo
Born 1972
Jennifer Lombardo
Born 1991
Salvo Sottile
Born 1973
Giuseppe Maggiore
1882 - 1954
Agostino Ziino
Born 1937
Michele Mortellari
1750 - 1807
Giuseppe Girgenti
Born 1967
Giovanni Martorana
1965 - 2018
Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet
1814 - 1870
Francesco Campanella (politico)
Born 1964
Filippo Panseca
Born 1940
Salvatore Borsellino
Born 1942
Lollo Franco
Born 1949
Gianfranco Marrone
Born 1959
Jean Baptiste Giattini
1601 - 1672
Corradino Mineo (matematico)
1875 - 1960
Francesco Marino Mannoia
Born 1951
Roberto Mariano
1969 - 1990
Umberto Domina
1921 - 2006
Gerlando Alberti
1927 - 2012
Sebastiano Tusa
1952 - 2019
Francesco Madonia
1924 - 2007
Pietro Mignosi
1895 - 1937
Giuseppe Lauricella (politico)
Born 1960
Michelangelo Console
1812 - 1897
Carlo Avarna di Gualtieri
1757 - 1836
Domenico Cefalù
Born 1947
Frank Guida
1922 - 2007
David Messina (journalist)
Born 1932
Mario Ruccione
1908 - 1969
Vincenzo Ferrera
Born 1973
Michele Anzaldi
Born 1960
Giuseppe Lucchese
Born 1959
Edoardo Cacciatore
1912 - 1996
Giuseppe Graviano
Born 1963
Gioacchino Di Marzo
1839 - 1916
Girolamo Ragusa Moleti
1851 - 1917
Giuseppe Carlo Marino
Born 1939
Domenico La Cavera
1915 - 2011
Manlio Dovì
Born 1964
Paolo Carbonaro
Born 1989
Francesco Corrao
1922 - 1994
Aldo Ajello
Born 1936