List of Sardinians

Academic figures

• Efisio Arru  (1927–2000), Parassitologist
• Domenico Alberto Azuni
  Domenico Alberto Azuni
  Domenico Alberto Azuni was an Italian jurist.- Biography :He was born at Sassari, in Sardinia. He studied law at Sassari and Turin, and in 1782 was made judge of the consulate at Nice. In 1786-1788 he published his Dizionario Universale Ragionato della Giurisprudenza Mercantile...
  
  , (1749–1827), Jurist
  Jurist
  A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
  
  
• Ludovico Baille
  Ludovico Baille
  Ludovico Baille Having graduated in law from the Reale Università di Cagliari he was appointed in 1786 to the Ministry of the Spanish government at Turin, but his chief interest was in tracking down in archives and libraries the materials that would serve him for a planned history of his native...
  
  , (1764–1869), Historian
• Giuseppe Brotzu, 1895–1976), Researcher and Pharmacologist, discover of cephalosporins-based antibiotics
• Carlo Cercignani, (1939–2010), physicist and mathematician
• Fausto Cercignani
  Fausto Cercignani
  Fausto Cercignani is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet.- Biography :Born to Tuscan parents, Fausto Cercignani studied in Milan, where he graduated in foreign languages and literatures with a dissertation dealing with English at Shakespeare’s time...
  
  , (born 1969), academic
• Adelasia Cocco, ( 1885- ) first woman medical officer in Italy
• Walter Ferreri
  Walter Ferreri
  Walter Ferreri, originally from Buddusò in Sardinia, is an astronomer at Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino in Italy and a science writer. He is a member of the "Division III Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites" and the "Division III Planetary Systems Sciences"...
  
  , Astronomer
• Alessio Fontana, (1504–1558), jurist, member of Imperial Chancellery of Charles V
  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...
  
  
• Ida Olga Maria Comaschi Caria  (1911–1987) Paleonthologist
• Francesco De Rosa (1854–1938), ethnologist
• Giovanni Lilliu, (born 1914), Archeologist
• Efisio Marini, (1835–1900), Researcher
• Dionigi Panedda, archeologist and historian
• Antonio Pigliaru
  Antonio Pigliaru
  Antonio Pigliaru was a Sardinian jurist and philosopher. He was the most important Sardinian intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, and one of the most vivid contemporary Italian thinkers...
  
    (1922–1969), philosopher
• Michelangelo Pira  (1928–1980), journalist
  Journalist
  A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
  
   and Anthropologist
• Franco Restaino  (born 1922), philosopher
• Paolo Savona
  Paolo Savona
  Paolo Savona is an Italian economist and university professor.- Institutional career :After graduating from university, his career started by winning the competition to enter the Servizio Studi of Banca d'Italia . Here he worked together with the governors Guido Carli and Paolo Baffi...
  
  , (born 1936), Economist
• Giovanni Spano
  Giovanni Spano
  Giovanni Spano , also a priest and a linguist, is considered one of the first archaeologists to study the Mediterranean island of Sardinia....
  
  , 1803–1878), Linguist and archeologist
• Pasquale Tola
  Pasquale Tola
  Pasquale Tola was an Italian magistrate, politician and historian.He studied in Sassari, where he obtained a degree in theology and jurisprudence and also followed courses in philosophy and fine arts. In 1848 he was part of the ministerial working group in Sardinia. He was in favor of the...
  
  , (1800–1874), Historian, magistrate and politician
• Tomaso Vercellotti
  Tomaso Vercellotti
  Tomaso Vercellotti MD, DDS is an Italian Medical Doctor, Doctor of Dentistry and the inventor of the Piezosurgical procedure and Piezosurgery Device. Tomaso Vercellotti was born in Sassari Italy.Dr...
  
  , (born 1954), Mesdical doctor inventor of piezosurgery
  Piezosurgery
  The process was developed by Tomaso Vercellotti and has been patented. It is indicated for use in oral, maxillofacial, cranial and spinal procedures.Piezosurgical is a process that utilizes piezoelectric vibrations in the application of cutting bone tissue...
  
  

Architects and Designers

• Francesco Boffo
  Francesco Boffo
  Francesco Carlo Boffo was a Sardinian-born Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odessa between 1818 and 1861, including the famous Potemkin Stairs....
  
   (1796-1867), Neoclasssical architect
• Vico Mossa
  Vico Mossa
  Vico Mossa was an Italian architect and writer. He is best known for his buildings in Sassari, notably the restoration of the Teatro Civico, Palazzo Bosazza, Hotel Turritana, Palazzo dell'Upim, Chiesa di San Vincenzo, and Collegio Marianum on the Piazza Duomo...
  
  , (1914 - 2003), Architect
• Eugenio Tavolara
  Eugenio Tavolara
  Eugenio Tavolara was an artist born in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, with interests in many disciplines. He is well known for his hand-crafted "toys", most prominently small statues in terracotta representing Sardinians in traditional costumes. In a 2007 tribute exhibition, 14 Sardian artists...
  
  , (1901–1963), sculptor and designer

Authors

• Francesco Abate
• Filippo Addis
• Milena Agus (Her parents are from Sardinia)
• Giulio Angioni
• Pietro Aquenza Mossa
• Gerolamo Araolla
  Gerolamo Araolla
  Gerolamo Araolla was a Sardinian poet and priest.-Early life:Gerolamo Araolla was born into a distinguished family. He was a pupil of the Sassari physician and philologist Gavino Sambigucci. After studying literature and philosophy, Araolla graduated with a law degree from the University of Pisa...
  
  
• Giovanni Arquer
• Pietro Arquer
• Sigismondo Arquer
• Sergio Atzeni
  Sergio Atzeni
  Sergio Atzeni was an italian writer.Born in Capoterra, southern Sardinia, he moved to Cagliari where, as a journalist, he worked for some of the most important Sardinian newspapers. He also became a member of the Italian Communist Party, but later left the party, being disullusioned with politics...
  
  
• Vicente Bacallar Sanna
• Antonio Bacaredda
• Ottone Bacaredda
• Ludovico Baille
  Ludovico Baille
  Ludovico Baille Having graduated in law from the Reale Università di Cagliari he was appointed in 1786 to the Ministry of the Spanish government at Turin, but his chief interest was in tracking down in archives and libraries the materials that would serve him for a planned history of his native...
  
  
• Faustino Cesare Baille
• Francesco Bellit
• Giovanni Maria Bellu
• Remo Bodei
  Remo Bodei
  Remo Bodei is an Italian philosopher. He is Professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also teaches at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa....
  
  
• Manlio Brigaglia
• Antioco Brondo
• Rina Brundu
  Rina Brundu
  Rina Brundu is an Italian writer, the author of the novel Tana di Volpe featuring the Sardinian detective Don Osvaldo Da Silva Ochoa.She was born in Villagrande Strisaili in the Sardinian Province of Ogliastra...
  
  
• Vincenzo Brusco Onnis
• Carlo Buragna
• Pompeo Calvia
• Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...
  
   (His mother was Sardinian)
• Salvatore Cambosu
• Francesco Carboni di Bonnanaro
• Stefano Carlo
• Maurizio Carrus
• Pietro Casu
• Antioco Casula, Montanaru
• Francesco Casula
• Pietro Chessa Cappai
• Gavino Contini
• Raimondo Congiu
• Mario Corda
• Gavino Cossu
• Enrico Costa
• Giovan Pietro Cubeddu
• Michele Cugusi
• Antioco Antonio Del Arca
• Grazia Deledda
  Grazia Deledda
  Grazia Deledda was an Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926.-Biography:...
  
   Nobel
• Jose Delitala Castelvì
• Giovanni Delogu Ibba
• Pasquale Dessanay
• Giuseppe Dessì
• Giovanni Maria Dettori
• Francesco Angelo De Vico
• Giovanni Dexart
• Melchiorre Dore
• Francesco Fancello
• Fabio Fancello
• Giovanni Francesco Fara
• Filiberto Farci
• Marcello Fois
• Maria Giacobbe
• Pietro Lavra
• Romolo Riccardo Lecis
• Gavino Ledda
  Gavino Ledda
  Gavino Ledda is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work Padre padrone .-Early life:...
  
  
• Emilio Lussu
  Emilio Lussu
  Emilio Lussu was an Italian soldier, politician and a writer.-The soldier:Lussu was born in Armungia, province of Cagliari and graduated with a degree in law in 1914...
  
  
• Anna Maria Falchi Massidda
• Antonio Maccioni
• Andrea Manca del Arca
• Giuseppe Manno
• Francesco Ignazio Mannu
• Pietro Martini
• Lino Masala Lobina
• Diego Mele
• Peppino Mereu
• Paolo Mossa di Bonorva
• Antonio Mura
• Giovanni Antonio Mura
• Pietro Mura
• Michela Murgia
• Melchiorre Murenu
  Melchiorre Murenu
  Melchiorre Murenu was a blind Sardinian poet and writer.Melchiorre Murenu is known as the "Homer or the Marghine", because he was blind and lived his entire life for poetry....
  
  
• Salvatore Niffoi
• Gavino Pes
• Paolo Pillonca
• Bianca Pitzorno
• Efisio Pintor Sirigu
• Gianfranco Pintore
• Onofrio Piras, Solitariu
• Raimondo Piras
• Pietro Pisurzi
• Massimo Pittau
• Giantomaso Porcell
• Vincenzo Raimondo Porru
• Giovanni Proto Arca
• Maurizio Pugioni
• Antonio Purqueddu
• Salvator Ruju
• Gavino Sambigucci
• Giacinto Satta
• Salvatore Satta
• Sebastiano Satta
• Luigi Soffi
• Flavio Soriga
• Canonico Giovanni Spano
• Pietro Spiggia
• Antonio Solinas
• Vincenzo Sulis
• Nicola Tanda
  Nicola Tanda
  Nicola Tanda is an Italian philologist, literary critic and writer.A native of Sardinia, he studied under Ungaretti and Sapegno at Rome...
  
  
• Pasquale Tola
  Pasquale Tola
  Pasquale Tola was an Italian magistrate, politician and historian.He studied in Sassari, where he obtained a degree in theology and jurisprudence and also followed courses in philosophy and fine arts. In 1848 he was part of the ministerial working group in Sardinia. He was in favor of the...
  
  
• Raimondo Valle
• Salvatore Vidal (Giovanni Andrea Contini)
• Filippo Vivanet
• Giuseppe Zatrillas Vico
• Luigi Usai

Businessmen

• Renato Soru
  Renato Soru
  Renato Soru is an Italian entrepreneur, the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. He was born in Sanluri, Sardinia....
  
  , (born 1957), entrepreneur founder of Tiscali
  Tiscali
  Tiscali may refer to:*Tiscali, an archaeological village of Nuragici people, in Sardinia, Italy, notable because it was completely inside a huge cavern*Tiscali SpA, a telecom company based in Italy*Tiscali TV , multiple uses...
  
   and former governor of Sardinia

Actors & Actresses

• Gianni Agus
  Gianni Agus
  Gianni Agus was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 64 films between 1938 and 1991.-Selected filmography:* The Balloon Vendor * Dirty Weekend * Adam and Eve * His Young Wife...
  
  
• Salvatore Coco
  Salvatore Coco
  -Biography:Coco was born in Sydney and is of Sicilian descent. He performed with Australian Theatre for Young People where he developed his talents in acting, singing, guitar, dance and cabaret. He is also a qualified chef.-Career:...
  
   - Australian actor, parents from Sardinia
• Bruce Kirby
  Bruce Kirby (actor)
  Bruce Kirby is an American character actor.Though he has been a working actor since the 1950s, Kirby is most familiar to Columbo fans as the gullible Sergeant Kramer. He also appeared in the 1971 movie called How to Frame a Figg with Don Knotts and the 1972 comedy Another Fine Mess with Rich Little...
  
   (born 1928), american actor, sardinian ancestry
• Valeria Marini
  Valeria Marini
  Valeria Marini is an Italian model, actress, showgirl and fashion designer.-Biography:Born in Rome but raised in Cagliari, Sardinia, land of origin of her parents, Valeria's first cinematographic appearance was in 1987 in the film Cronaca nera. After this she made her debut in theatre with the...
  
  
• Christopher Meloni
  Christopher Meloni
  Christopher Peter Meloni is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz.-Early life:Meloni was born the youngest of three children in...
  
   - American actor, father from Sardinia
• Tiberio Murgia
  Tiberio Murgia
  Tiberio Murgia was an Italian film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1958 and 2009.-Selected filmography:* Big Deal on Madonna Street * Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti...
  
  
• Caterina Murino
  Caterina Murino
  -Biography:She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, and initially wanted to be a doctor, but switched career paths to pageantry after twice failing the medical school entrance exams. She came fourth in the 1996 Miss Italy contest...
  
  
• Amedeo Nazzari
  Amedeo Nazzari
  Amedeo Nazzari was an Italian actor.Star of Italian cinema during the 40's and 50's. He made several melodramas with Raffaello Matarazzo, such as Catene in 1949...
  
  
• Alessandro Nivola
  Alessandro Nivola
  Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two films of the Goal! trilogy.-Personal life:...
  
  -American Actor, Grandson of Costantino Nivola
• Marisa Pavan
  Marisa Pavan
  Marisa Pavan is an Italian-born actress who first became famous as the twin sister to movie star Pier Angeli before achieving movie stardom on her own...
  
   - also known as Marisa Pierangeli
• Anna Maria Pierangeli - also known as Pier Angeli
• Pamela Prati
  Pamela Prati
  Pamela Prati is an Italian actress, showgirl, model, singer and television hostess. She has appeared in many television variety shows and in erotic comedies. She has hosted several programmes for Mediaset's Canale 5, including Scherzi a Parte and La sai l'ultima?...
  
  
• Stefano Satta Flores
  Stefano Satta Flores
  Stefano Satta Flores was an Italian film and dubbing actor.A native of Naples, Italy, Satta Flores graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in the Italian capital city of Rome. He began acting in amateur dramatics at the Piccolo Teatro, where he acted in Shakespeare and Sbragia plays...
  
  

Film makers

• Luigi Batzella
  Luigi Batzella
  Luigi Batzella was an Italian Z-movie director, writer and former actor who used numerous pseudonyms. Some of them were Paolo Solvay, Ivan Kathansky, A.M...
  
  
• Antonello Grimaldi
  Antonello Grimaldi
  Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, known as Antonello Grimaldi is an Italian actor, film and television director, and screenwriter.-Biography:Grimaldi was born on 14 August 1955 in Sassari,...
  
  
• Nanni Loy
  Nanni Loy
  Nanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia...
  
  
• Sebastian Piras
  Sebastian Piras
  Sebastian Piras is a photographer and filmmaker.Sebastian was born in Nuoro, Sardinia in Italy. He lived in England, France and Germany before settling in New York City in 1985.His main photographic subject has been portraiture...
  
   photographer and filmmaker

Showgirls

• Elisabetta Canalis
  Elisabetta Canalis
  -Career:Canalis had minor roles in the films Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and Virgin Territory. She was also a velina in the television show Striscia la notizia. In 2007, she hosted the annual music festival, Festivalbar. In 2009, she co-hosted the Italian version of Total Request Live. In 2010,...
  
  
• Valeria Marini
  Valeria Marini
  Valeria Marini is an Italian model, actress, showgirl and fashion designer.-Biography:Born in Rome but raised in Cagliari, Sardinia, land of origin of her parents, Valeria's first cinematographic appearance was in 1987 in the film Cronaca nera. After this she made her debut in theatre with the...
  
   born in Rome, from Sardinian parents
• Giorgia Palmas
  Giorgia Palmas
  Giorgia Palmas is an Italian television personality and model. She became famous following her appearances on the Italian television show Striscia la notizia.- Career :...
  
  
• Pamela Prati
  Pamela Prati
  Pamela Prati is an Italian actress, showgirl, model, singer and television hostess. She has appeared in many television variety shows and in erotic comedies. She has hosted several programmes for Mediaset's Canale 5, including Scherzi a Parte and La sai l'ultima?...
  
  
• Melissa Satta
  Melissa Satta
  Melissa Satta is an American-born Italian model and actress. She spent her youth in the island of Sardinia, land of origin of her parents. She was a showgirl in the Italian satirical series Striscia la notizia. She has appeared in Maxim magazine and was featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated...
  
  

Mercenaries, soldiers & troops

• Brigata Cagliarihttp://web.infinito.it/utenti/f/fanteriadarresto/63_storia.html
• Brigata Sassari, _{(founded 1915), mechanized infantry brigade of the Italian Army}
• Granatieri di Sardegna Mechanized Brigade
  Granatieri di Sardegna Mechanized Brigade
  The Granatieri di Sardegna Mechanized Brigade is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Italian Army, based mainly in Rome and central Italy.- Structure :...
  
  , _{(founded 1814), mechanized infantry brigade of the Italian Army}

Musicians and singers

• Askra
• Bertas
• Beyond Control
• Leonardo Cabizza folk guitar player
• Luigi Canepa
• Maria Carta
  Maria Carta
  Maria Carta was a Rome-based Sardinian folk music singer-songwriter. She also performed in film and theater and, in 1975, she wrote a book of poetry, Ritual Song.She was born in Siligo, Sassari, Sardinia....
  
  
• Marco Carta
  Marco Carta
  Marco Carta is an Italian singer. In 2009, he had sold 350,000 albums and 150,000 singles.-Early life and victory to "Amici":In 2007, he participated as a singer in the Talent Show Amici di Maria De Filippi...
  
  
• Chaoswave
  Chaoswave
  Chaoswave is an Italian/Danish Progressive/Groove metal band, founded by former Sinphonia guitarist Henrik Rangstrup in 2003.-Band members:*Giorgia Fadda - vocals*Fabio Carta - vocals*Henrik Rangstrup - guitars*Michele Mura - bass*Raphael Saini - drums...
  
  
• Totore Chessa
• Giovanni Matteo De Candia
  Mario (tenor)
  Giovanni Matteo "Mario" was an Italian opera singer. The most celebrated tenor of his era, he was lionized by audiences in Paris and London.-Early life:...
  
   operatic singer (tenor), known as Mario
• Bernardo de Muro
  Bernardo de Muro
  Bernardo De Muro was an international operatic tenor from Sardinia.-Biography:Bernardino De Muro was born on November 3, 1881 in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia to Antonio Maria and Jeanne-Marie Demuro. His father was a small landowner. Bernardo’s formal education ceased at primary school...
  
   operatic singer (tenor)
• Francesco Demuro
  Francesco Demuro
  Francesco Demuro , is an Italian operatic tenor.He was born in Porto Torres, Sardinia. By the age of ten, Demuro made his first stage appearance, and by the age of twelve, he had joined the Minicantadores...
  
  
• Mariangela Demurtas, singer of metal norwegian band Tristania
  Tristania (band)
  Tristania is a band from Norway, formed in 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as symphonic gothic metal with doom/death metal influences , due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history...
  
  
• Marino De Rosas, folk guitar player
• La Fossa
  La Fossa
  La Fossa is one of the earlier rap groups from Italy and one of the first from the island of Sardinia. They formed in 1996. Unlike fellow Sardinian rap group Sa Razza, La Fossa usually does not rap in Sardinian, and uses primarily Italian lyrics...
  
   (rap group)
• Paolo Fresu
  Paolo Fresu
  Paolo Fresu is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.-Career:Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda...
  
  
• Battista Giordano, Composer/Musician
• Gold Kids a hardcore punk band hailing from Cagliari
• Elena Ledda
  Elena Ledda
  Elena Ledda is a Sardinian singer.Born near Cagliari, she pursued conservatory studies in oboe and voice. Ledda has a dramatic soprano voice suitable for opera, which she originally performed as an artist, but was attracted by the folk singing of her native Sardinia and has chosen a career...
  
  
• Les Balentes
• Malos Cantores
  Malos Cantores
  Malos Cantores is a rap duo from Sardinia, Italy. It is composed of Micio P and Quilo, both former members of pioneering Sardinian hip hop group Sa Razza. Their debut album, "Un grande raap sardo" , features performances by many guests, among them Italy's Caparezza, Barcelona's Leur y la Chola,...
  
   (rap group)
• Goffredo Mameli
  Goffredo Mameli
  Goffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer, and a notable figure in the Italian Risorgimento. He is also the author of the lyrics of the current Italian national anthem.-Biography:...
  
   (creator of the Italian anthem, Sardinian origin)
• Mammaoil
• Bernadette Manca di Nissa
  Bernadette Manca di Nissa
  Bernadette Manca di Nissa is an Italian operatic contralto who has sung leading roles in the principal opera houses of Italy as well as internationally...
  
  
• Carmen Melis
  Carmen Melis
  Carmen Melis was an Italian operatic soprano who had a major international career during the first four decades of the 20th century. She was known, above all, as a verismo soprano, and was one of the most interesting singing actresses of the early 20th century...
  
  , (1885–1967), operatic soprano
• Efisio Melis
  Efisio Melis
  Efisio Melis was a Sardinian folk musician.He was born in Villaputzu near the southeastern tip of the island of Sardinia. Melis is considered to have been the greatest performer ever on the traditional instrument, the launeddas, which is typically used in the music of southern Sardinia.Melis was a...
  
  
• Marcello Melis
• Efisio Mocci, (1889–1974), famous accordion player, has made lots of original sardinian folk ballads
• PAGO
  Pago
  Pago may refer to:* Chalan Pago-Ordot, Guam, a municipality** Pago Bay, on the coast of Guam* pago, the Chamorro word for Hibiscus tiliaceus* Pago Pago, American Samoa* the Italian name for Pag , off the coast of Croatia...
  
   (Stage name of Pacifico Settembre)
• Roberto Meloni (singer)
  Roberto Meloni (singer)
  Roberto Meloni, born in 1977 in Ardara , is an Italian singer currently residing in Latvia.He has been performing on the stage since he was four, taking part in many events and contest as Una Voce per Sanremo in 1995. He studied at Foreign Languages University and, after getting graduated he won a...
  
  
• Kenze Neke
• Franco Oppo, composer
• Mauro Palmas
• Andrea Parodi
• Antonello Salis
• Marisa Sannia
  Marisa Sannia
  Marisa Sannia was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia.. She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties. And she later became an interpreter of songs, composer, an actress and then finally an artistic researcher...
  
  
• Valerio Scanu
  Valerio Scanu
  Valerio Scanu is an Italian pop singer.In 2008 Valerio took part in the 8th edition of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi, in which he came second place....
  
  
• Sa Razza
  Sa Razza
  Sa Razza is one of the first hip hop crews from Sardinia, Italy. Their first track "In sa ia" was the first rap track in Sardinian. On their debut album "Wessisla", they merged influences from G funk, Chicano rap and other Latin styles with their Sardinian and Italian rhymes...
  
  
• Sikitikis
• Tazenda
  Tazenda
  Tazenda is an Italian ethnic pop-rock band. The group was formed in Sardinia in 1988 by Andrea Parodi, Gigi Camedda and Gino Marielli. The group's music is characterized by the influence from traditional Sardinian music; the lyrics of most of its songs are in the Logudorese dialect of the Sardinian...
  
  
• Tenores di Bitti
  Tenores di Bitti
  The Tenores di Bitti are a traditional folk music group from Bitti, Sardinia who employ a polyphonic vocal style, often described as a type of overtone singing, whose oral tradition dates back to 3000 BC ....
  
  

Painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors

• Edina Altara
  Edina Altara
  Edina Altara was an Italian illustrator, decorator and fashion designer from Sassari. In the thirties she was devoted to ceramics, fashion and decoration...
  
  , (1898–1983), illustrator and painter
• Giuseppe Biasi
  Giuseppe Biasi
  Giuseppe Biasi was an Italian painter.-Biography:While pursuing classical studies in accordance with his family’s wishes, Biasi became well known in his hometown for caricatures published in local humorous journals when he was still very young...
  
  , (1885–1945), painter
• Vittore Bocchetta
  Vittore Bocchetta
  Vittore Bocchetta is an Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist Italian resistance movement during World War II.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1918), Sculptor, painter and academic
• Ignazio Fresu
  Ignazio fresu
  Ignazio Fresu is an Italian contemporary sculptor. He creates his artworks using waste products such as pieces of old metal, polystyrene, and packaging collected from bins, dumps, and scrap metal yards....
  
  , (born 1957), sculptor
• Giovanni del Giglio
  Giovanni del Giglio
  Giovanni del Giglio was an Italian painter known as the Maestro di Ozieri.-Biography:...
  
  , (?–1554), mannerist painter
• Master of Castelsardo
  Master of Castelsardo
  The Master of Castelsardo was an Italian painter active in Sardinia at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the sixteenth century. His name comes from a painting of the Madonna and Child currently in the cathedral of Castelsardo....
  
  , (15th-16th century), painter
• Francesco Menzio
  Francesco Menzio
  Francesco Menzio , was an Italian painter.Francesco Menzio was born in Tempio Pausania, in Sardinia, from a Piedmontese family. He moved to Turin with his family in 1912 and started painting at the end of the First World War, in which he participated. He frequented the studio of Felice Casorati...
  
  , (1899–1979), Painter
• Costantino Nivola
  Costantino Nivola
  Costantino Nivola was an Italian sculptor. He is the grandfather of actor Alessandro Nivola.- Birth and upbringing :...
  
  , (1911–1988), sculptor
• Aligi Sassu
  Aligi Sassu
  Aligi Sassu was an Italian painter and sculptor.-Biography:Aligi Sassu was born in Milan, Lombardy, into a Sardinian-origin family. His father Antonio was one of the founders of the Italian Socialist Party at Sassari in 1894, and had moved to Milan in 1896, where he had married Lina Pedretti in...
  
  , (1912–2000), sculptor and painter
• Pinuccio Sciola
  Pinuccio Sciola
  Pinuccio Sciola is a sculptor and muralist from San Sperate, Sardinia. His work has been mentioned as a major attraction of the nearby town of Assemini...
  
  , (born 1942), sculptor
• Mario Sironi
  Mario Sironi
  Mario Sironi was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.-Biography:...
  
  , (1885–1961), modernist painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer

Cartoonists & Comics Creators

• Aurelio Galleppini
  Aurelio Galleppini
  Aurelio Galleppini , better known with his nickname Galep, was an Italian comics artist and illustrator....
  
   (His parents were Sardinians), _{(1917–1994)}
• Igort
  Igort
  Igort is an Italian comics artist and illustrator.-References:...
  
   (real name Igor Tuveri), _{(born 1958)}
• Graziano Origa
  Graziano Origa
  Graziano Origa in 1979 founded the Punk Art movement in Milan, Italy, creating his own magazine Punk Artist.Graziano is easily one of the most controversial Italian art directors no-code, although he's possibly the least comfortable fit in border line seminal...
  
   (born 1952), cartoonist, punk artist
• Michele Medda
  Michele Medda
  Michele Medda is an Italian comics writer.Medda was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. In 1991, together with Antonio Serra and Bepi Vigna, he created the science fiction series Nathan Never for Sergio Bonelli Editore...
  
  , (born 1962), comic writer

Politicians

• Giovanni Maria Angioy
  Giovanni Maria Angioy
  Giovanni Maria Angioy was a Sardinian politician and patriot and to this day he is considered a national hero in Sardinia....
  
  , _{(1751–1808), Politician and patriot}
• Gavino Angius
  Gavino Angius
  Gavino Angius is an Italian politician.-Biography:Born at Sassari , after the degree in Political Sciences, he became a member of the Italian Communist Party , for which he was secretary of his city's section...
  
  , (born 1946), Senator
  Italian Senate
  The Senate of the Republic is the upper house of the Italian Parliament. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as Senato del Regno , itself a continuation of the Senato Subalpino of Sardinia-Piedmont established on 8 May 1848...
  
  
• Eleanor of Arborea
  Eleanor of Arborea
  Eleanor ; 1347 – 1404) was the giudicessa of Arborea from 1383 to her death. She was one of the last — and most powerful and significant — Sardinian judges; as well as the island's most renowned heroine....
  
  , (1347–1404), Giudicessa
  Giudicati
  The giudicati were the indigenous kingdoms of Sardinia from about 900 until 1410, when the last fell to the Aragonese. The rulers of the giudicati were giudici , from the Latin iudice , often translates as "judge". The Latin for giudicato was iudicatus The giudicati (singular giudicato) were the...
  
   of Arborea
• Marianus IV of Arborea
  Marianus IV of Arborea
  Marianus IV , called the Great, was the Giudice of Arborea from 1347 to his death. He was, as his nickname indicates, the greatest sovereign of Arborea. He was a legislator and a warrior whose reign saw the commencement of massive codification of the laws of his realm and incessant warfare with the...
  
   the Great, (1329–1376), Giudice of Arborea
  Giudice of Arborea
  The Giudici ) of Arborea were the local rulers of the west of Sardinia during the Middle Ages...
  
  
• Hugh I of Arborea
  Hugh I of Arborea
  Hugh I Giudici of Arborea from 1185 CE until his death in 1211 CE. Hugh was the son of Ispella di Serra and Hugh I of Bas. He was a grandson -through his mother- of Barisone II of Arborea...
  
  , (1178–1211), Giudice of Arborea
  Giudice of Arborea
  The Giudici ) of Arborea were the local rulers of the west of Sardinia during the Middle Ages...
  
  
• Giorgio Asproni, _{(1808–1876), Member of Italian Parliament}
• Enrico Berlinguer
  Enrico Berlinguer
  Enrico Berlinguer was an Italian politician; he was national secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1972 until his death.-Early career:...
  
  , (1922–1984), Italian Communist Party
  Italian Communist Party
  The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
  
   leader
• Giovanni Berlinguer
  Giovanni Berlinguer
  Giovanni Berlinguer , Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian politician and Professor of Social Medicine.He was born in Sassari, Sardinia, the son of Mario Berlinguer...
  
  , (born 1924), Member of the European Parliament
  Member of the European Parliament
  A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
  
  
• Mario Berlinguer
  Mario Berlinguer
  Mario Berlinguer was an Italian lawyer and politician. He descended from a noble Sardinian family.Born in Sassari, in his youth he was a follower of the Meridionalist activist Gaetano Salvemini...
  
   _{(1891–1969)}
• Benedetta of Cagliari
  Benedetta of Cagliari
  Benedetta was the daughter and heiress of William I of Cagliari and Adelasia, daughter of Moroello Malaspina. She succeeded her father in January or February 1214....
  
  , (c. 1194–1232/1233), Giudicessa di Cagliari
  Giudice of Cagliari
  The giudici of Cagliari were the local rulers of the south of Sardinia during the Middle Ages. Theirs was the largest giudicato and for the eleventh through twelfth centuries contested the supremacy on the island with that of Logudoro...
  
  
• Francesco Cocco Ortu, _{(1842–1929), Member of Italian Parliament}
• Michele Columbu
  Michele Columbu
  Michele Columbu is an Italian politician and writer from Ollolai, Sardinia.For decades, between World War II and the 1970s he was the leader of Partito Sardo d'Azione , Sardinian autonomist party claiming for detachment from Italy and fiercely contesting the presence of NATO military bases in...
  
  , (born 1914), former Member of the European Parliament
  Member of the European Parliament
  A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
  
  
• Francesco Cossiga
  Francesco Cossiga
  Francesco Cossiga was an Italian politician, the 43rd Prime Minister and the eighth President of the Italian Republic. He was also a professor of constitutional law at the University of Sassari....
  
  , (1928–2010), former President of the Italian Republic
  President of the Italian Republic
  The President of the Italian Republic is the head of state of Italy and, as such, is intended to represent national unity and guarantee that Italian politics comply with the Constitution. The president's term of office lasts for seven years....
  
  
• Attilio Deffenu, _{(1890–1918), trade unionist}
• Oliviero Diliberto
  Oliviero Diliberto
  Oliviero Diliberto is an Italian politician. He is the current leader of the Party of Italian Communists.- Early life :...
  
  , (born 1956), Italian Communist Party
  Italian Communist Party
  The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
  
   leader
• Antonio Gramsci
  Antonio Gramsci
  Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
  
  , (1891–1937), founding member of the Italian Communist Party
  Italian Communist Party
  The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
  
  
• Ippolita Ludovisi
  Ippolita Ludovisi
  Olimpia Ippolita I Ludovisi was the Princess of Piombino from 1701 until her death. She was born in Cagliari, the youngest daughter of Niccolò I Ludovisi....
  
  , (1663–1733), Princess of Piombino
• Emilio Lussu
  Emilio Lussu
  Emilio Lussu was an Italian soldier, politician and a writer.-The soldier:Lussu was born in Armungia, province of Cagliari and graduated with a degree in law in 1914...
  
  , _{(1890–1975), soldier, politician and writer}
• Jean-Paul Marat
  Jean-Paul Marat
  Jean-Paul Marat , born in the Principality of Neuchâtel, was a physician, political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution...
  
   (from the father's side), (1743–1793), politician from the French Revolution
  French Revolution
  The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
  
  
• Ospitone
  Ospitone
  Ospitone was a Christian chief of Barbagia in Sardinia in the late sixth century. Gregory the Great, in a letter dated to 594, commended Ospitone for his Christianity at a time when most Barbaricini were still pagans "living, all like irrational animals, ignorant of the truth of God and worshiping...
  
  , (6th century A.D.), chief of barbagia
  Barbagia
  Barbagia is a mountain area of inner Sardinia. It is mostly comprised in the province of Nuoro and located alongside the Gennargentu massif....
  
  's people
• Francesco Pais Serra, (1837–1924), member of Italian Parliament and Major General of Royal Italian Army
  Royal Italian Army
  The Regio Esercito was the army of the Kingdom of Italy from the unification of Italy in 1861 to the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946...
  
  
• Juan Domingo Perón, (1895–1974), President of Argentina
  President of Argentina
  The President of the Argentine Nation , usually known as the President of Argentina, is the head of state of Argentina. Under the national Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.Through Argentine history, the...
  
   (Sardinian descent from father side)
• Efisio Pintor, _{(1765–1814), politician and lawyer}
• Giuseppe Pisanu
  Giuseppe Pisanu
  Giuseppe Pisanu is an Italian politician, longtime member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Christian Democracy and then for Forza Italia...
  
  , _{(born 1937), former Italaian Minister}
• Antonio Segni
  Antonio Segni
  Antonio Segni was an Italian politician who was the 35th Prime Minister of Italy , and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964...
  
  , (1891–1972), former President of the Italian Republic
  President of the Italian Republic
  The President of the Italian Republic is the head of state of Italy and, as such, is intended to represent national unity and guarantee that Italian politics comply with the Constitution. The president's term of office lasts for seven years....
  
  
• Mario Segni
  Mario Segni
  Mariotto Segni, more often known as Mario, is an Italian politician, son of Antonio Segni, one time President of the Republic of Italy....
  
  , _{(born 1939), Member of Italian Parliament}
• Domenico Simon, (1758–1829), secretary of Kingdom of Sardinia
  Kingdom of Sardinia
  The Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia first as a part of the Crown of Aragon and subsequently the Spanish Empire , and second as a part of the composite state of the House of Savoy . Its capital was originally Cagliari, in the south of the island, and later Turin, on the...
  
   Parliament
• Giovanni Siotto Pintor, _{(1806–1882), Senator, Lawyer and Magistrate}
• Adelasia of Torres
  Adelasia of Torres
  Adelasia , eldest child of Marianus II of Logudoro by Agnes of Massa, daughter of William I of Cagliari, and successor of her brother, Barisone III, in 1236, was the Judge of Logudoro from 1236 and Judge of Gallura from 1238....
  
  , _{(1207–1259), Giudicessa di Torres}
• Giovanni Battista Tuveri, _{(1815–1887), politician and jurist}
• Michele Zanche, (1203–1275), named by Dante Alighieri
  Dante Alighieri
  Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...
  
   in the Divina Commedia
• Antonio Simon Mossa (Sardinian origin)

Boxers & wrestlers

• Fernando Atzori
  Fernando Atzori
  Fernando Atzori is a former professional boxer, and olympic boxing gold medalist from Italy.- Amateur career :...
  
  , _{(born 1942), olympic boxing gold medalist}
• Salvatore Burruni
  Salvatore Burruni
  Salvatore Burruni , was an Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer who fought between 1957 to 1969. Burruni was born in Alghero , and fought mostly in Europe.-Amateur career:...
  
   Boxing Champion
• Joe Calzaghe
  Joe Calzaghe
  Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....
  
   - father from Sardinia
• Enzo Calzaghe
  Enzo Calzaghe
  Enzo Calzaghe MBE is an Anglo-Italian boxing trainer. He is the father of Joe Calzaghe and the head trainer for Team Calzaghe at the Newbridge boxing club...
  
  
• Franco Columbu
  Franco Columbu
  Franco Columbu is an Italian actor, former bodybuilder and World's Strongest Man competitor.-Bodybuilding:Columbu was born in Ollolai, Sardinia . Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of Olympic Weightlifting, powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning...
  
   Ex-boxer and then bodybuilder
• Duilio Loi
  Duilio Loi
  Duilio Loi was an Italian boxer who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the world junior welterweight championship. Loi fought from 1948 to 1962, and retired with a record of 115 wins , 3 losses and 8 draws...
  
   - son of Sardinian
• Simone Maludrottu
  Simone Maludrottu
  Simone Maludrottu is a professional boxer from Olbia, Sardinia, Italy. Maludrottu fights in the Bantamweight division and in the current European title holder.-Debut:...
  
   - European bantamweight
  Bantamweight
  Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight...
  
   boxing champion
• Gavino Matta
  Gavino Matta
  Gavino Matta was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Sassari....
  
  
• Nicolino Locche
  Nicolino Locche
  Nicolino Locche was an Argentine boxer from Tunuyán, Mendoza. He was of Italian origin, with his ancestors coming from Sardinia...
  
   - Argentine Boxing Champion of Sardinian descent
• Franco Udella
  Franco Udella
  Franco Udella is an Italian former world boxing champion.- Olympic games results :1968 *Lost to Alberto Morales 0-51972 *1st round bye...
  
   - World Boxing Champion

Footballers

• Salvatore Burrai
  Salvatore Burrai
  Salvatore Burrai is an Italian professional footballer currently playing for Cagliari Calcio.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sandro Cois
  Sandro Cois
  Sandro Cois is a retired Italian football player. He has enjoyed a long career playing primarily as a defensive midfielder.He played for several clubs, including Torino and Piacenza...
  
   - Sardinian origin
• Alessio Cossu
  Alessio Cossu
  Alessio Cossu is an Italian footballer.-Biography:Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Cossu was sold to Serie C1 side Ravenna in co-ownership deal...
  
   (born 1986)
• Andrea Cossu (born 1980)
  Andrea Cossu (born 1980)
  Andrea Cossu is an Italian footballer who plays in the in the role of an attacking midfielder, for Cagliari Calcio.-Club career:...
  
  
• Antonello Cuccureddu
  Antonello Cuccureddu
  Antonello Cuccureddu is an Italian football coach and former player.-Career:A central defender, Cuccureddu spent his playing career with Brescia , Juventus , and Fiorentina...
  
   - Sardinian origin
• Gianluca Festa
  Gianluca Festa
  Gianluca Festa is an Italian footballer former defender turned coach-Playing career:Festa played with several notable teams, including Internazionale, AS Roma and Middlesbrough, being one of the first Italians to play in the Premier League. Festa arrived at Middlesbrough from Inter Milan in the...
  
  
• Salvatore Fresi
  Salvatore Fresi
  Salvatore Fresi is an Italian footballer.Fresi was born at La Maddalena, Sardinia. His first professional championship was with Salernitana, with whom he conquered the promotion to Serie B...
  
  
• Gustavo Giagnoni
  Gustavo Giagnoni
  Gustavo Giagnoni is an Italian former footballer and manager from Olbia, Sardinia. He is most noted for his career as a footballing manager in Italy at clubs such as Roma, Bologna and AC Milan....
  
  
• Valentino Lai
  Valentino Lai
  Valentino Lai is a Italian-born Swedish footballer who plays for Viborg FF.-Club career:Born in Cagliari, he started his career playing for FBK Balkan at the youth level, and then Malmö FF. In 2001, he moved to Italy playing for Venezia, where he made his Serie A debut. In 2002, he moved to...
  
  
• Marco Materazzi
  Marco Materazzi
  Marco Materazzi , is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender, and is currently a free agent.At the beginning of his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Premier League side Everton. He spent two periods with Perugia and signed for...
  
   - Mother from Tempio, father from Arborea, province of Oristano
• Giuseppe Materazzi
  Giuseppe Materazzi
  Giuseppe Materazzi is an Italian football manager and former player.- Playing career :...
  
  
• Gianfranco Matteoli
  Gianfranco Matteoli
  Gianfranco Matteoli is a retired Italian footballer.During his club career he played for Cantu San Paolo, Como, Osimana, Reggiana, Sampdoria, Internazionale, Cagliari and Perugia. He earned 6 caps for the Italy national football team....
  
  
• Francesco Pisano
  Francesco Pisano
  Francesco Pisano is an Italian football defender. He currently plays for Cagliari Calcio. Pisano can play as a Right back or Right Wing Back...
  
  
• Andrea Pisanu
  Andrea Pisanu
  Andrea Pisanu is an Italian footballer, who plays for A.C. Prato in the role of a left or right midfielder.In January 2010 he joined Bologna in co-ownership deal, in a directly swap with Francesco Valiani. Both player valued €2.5 million for half of the registration rights.On August 2011 joined...
  
  
• Marco Sau
  Marco Sau
  Marco Sau is an Italian football player. He currently plays for S.S. Juve Stabia, on loan from Cagliari.On July 2009, Sau was moved to Lecco. On August 2010 he was acquired on loan by Foggia.-External links:*...
  
  
• Salvatore Sirigu
  Salvatore Sirigu
  Salvatore Sirigu is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and Italy national football team.-Club career:...
  
  
• Pietro Paolo Virdis
  Pietro Paolo Virdis
  Antonio Pietro Paolo Virdis is a former Italian footballer who played for Cagliari Calcio, Juventus F.C., Udinese Calcio, AC Milan and was part of their European Cup victory in 1989.-Club:...
  
  
• Gianfranco Zola
  Gianfranco Zola
  Gianfranco Zola, OBE, Ufficiale OMRI is a retired Italian footballer and manager, who most recently managed West Ham United from 2008 to 2010, after having been assistant manager of the Italy U-21 under Pierluigi Casiraghi...
  
  

Jockeys

• Andrea Degortes best known as Aceto
• Frankie Dettori
  Frankie Dettori
  Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE is an Italian horse racing jockey and celebrity. Dettori has been Champion Jockey on three occasions and has ridden the winners of more than 500 Group races.. He has had many successes in his role of stable jockey to Godolphin Racing...
  
   - Born in Milan from Sardinian parents
• Gianfranco Dettori
  Gianfranco Dettori
  Gianfranco Dettori is an Italian retired Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Dettori was born in Serramanna, in what is now the Medio Campidano, Sardinia. During his career, he won an Italian riding championship thirteen times...
  
  

Religious figures

• Abraham da Cagliari
  Abraham da Cagliari
  Abraham da Cagliari was a rabbi at Cagliari, Sardinia, in the eighth century. He is mentioned by Antonio di Tharos, a historian of the time, and by Delotone, in his Ritmo di Gialeto...
  
  ,(8th century A.D.) ,Rabbi
• Salvatore Alepus
  Salvatore Alepus
  Salvatore Alessio Alepus was an Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop, who ruled the archdiocese of Sassari in the sixteenth century.-Biography:...
  
  , (1503–1568), Archbishop
• Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso
  Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso
  Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso was the dean of the College of Cardinals during the last part of the record long reign of Pope Pius IX....
  
  , (1796–1878), Cardinal
• Antiochus of Sulcis
  Antiochus of Sulcis
  Saint Antiochus of Sulcis was an early Christian martyr of Sardinia. The island and town of Sant'Antioco are named after him. He is a figure associated with the Sardinian mines from which the Romans extracted minerals and precious metals; the Romans condemned prisoners of war and Christians to...
  
  , (died c. 110 AD), Christian martyr
• Saint Ephysius
  Ephysius
  Ephysius of Sardinia is a Christian martyr. Nothing is known of his life, except his martyrdom. He is the patron of Pisa and Sardinia. He is especially revered in the city of Cagliari, Sardinia, while his relics lie at Pisa.-Sources:...
  
  , _{(250-303), Christian martyr}
• Eusebius of Vercelli
  Eusebius of Vercelli
  Eusebius of Vercelli was a bishop and saint in Italy. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.-Biography:...
  
  
• Riccus, (13th century), Archbishop
• Saint Gabinus, _{(4th century A.D.), Christian martyr}
• Pope Hilarius
  Pope Hilarius
  Pope Saint Hilarius was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 461 to February 28, 468. He was canonized as a saint after his death....
  
  , _{(? - 468), Pope}
• Saint Lucifer
  Saint Lucifer
  Lucifer Calaritanus was a bishop of Cagliari in Sardinia known for his passionate opposition to Arianism. He is venerated as a Saint in Sardinia, though his status remains controversial.-Life:...
  
  , _{(4th century A.D.), Bishop of Cagliari}
• Antonia Mesina
  Antonia Mesina
  Blessed Antonia Messina was born on 21 June 1919. She was the second of ten children born to a poor family. After four years of school she took over housekeeping to help her bedridden mother, Grazia. She joined Catholic Action at the age of ten. While gathering firewood on 17 May 1935, she was...
  
  , _{(1919–1935), Martyr}
• Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
  Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
  Blessed Sister Maria Gabriella Sagheddu was a Trappist nun. She was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939...
  
  , _{(1914–1939), Saint Beatus}
• Pope Symmachus
  Pope Symmachus
  Saint Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514. His tenure was marked by a serious schism over who was legitimately elected pope by the citizens of Rome....
  
  , _{(6th century A.D.), Pope}
• Joseph Toronto
  Joseph Toronto
  -Biography:Toronto was born in Sardinia and was a sailor in the Mediterranean Merchant Marines and on trans-Atlantic freighters. While in Boston, Massachusetts in 1843, Toronto met Latter Day Saint missionaries, read the Book of Mormon , and was baptized by George B...
  
  , (1818–1883), Mormon
  Mormon
  The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
  
  missionary