Famous Sicilians
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Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), scientist and philosopher
Gorgias (c. 483 BC – 375 BC), philosopher
Timaeus (c. 345 BC – 250 BC), historian
Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – 212 BC), scientist
Diodorus Siculus (c. 90 BC – 30 BC), historian
Pope Leo II, Pope from 682 to 683
Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily 1130 – 1154
William I of Sicily, King of Sicily 1154 – 1166
William II of Sicily, King of Sicily 1166 – 1189
Frederick II (1194 – 1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily (Frederick I of Sicily)
Cielo d’Alcamo (c. 1200 – 1250), poet
Giacomo da Lentini (1210 – 1260), poet
Guido Delle Colonne (1215 – 1290), poet
Antonello da Messina (1430 – 1479), painter
Antonello Gagini (1478 – 1536), sculptor
Francesco Maurolico (1494 – 1575), mathematician
Sigismondo D’India (1582 – 1629), composer
Pietro Novelli (1603 – 1647), painter
Giacomo Serpotta (1656 – 1732), sculptor
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725), composer
Filippo Juvarra (1678 – 1736), architect
Giovanni Meli (1740 – 1815), poet
Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835), opera composer
Francesco Crispi (1819 – 1901), politician
Giovanni Verga (1840 – 1922), novelist
Giuseppe Sergi (1841 – 1936), anthropologist
Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936), dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nino Martoglio (1870 – 1921), poet
Luigi Sturzo (1871 – 1959), politician
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957), writer, poet
Julius Evola (1898 – 1974), political philosopher
Ignazio Buttitta (1899 – 1997), poet
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 – 1968), poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Ettore Maiorana (born 1906 – presumed dead 1938), physicist
Renato Guttuso (1911 – 1987), painter
Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), novelist
Nino Vaccarella (born 1933), race driver
Leonardo Sciascia (1921 – 1989), writer
Carla Accardi (born 1924), painter
Vincenzo Consolo, (1933 – 2012), poet
Giovanni Falcone (1939 – 1992), judge
Paolo Borsellino (1940 – 1992), judge
Franco Battiato (born 1945) , singer
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 1956), filmmaker
Ettore Messina (born 1959), basketball coach
Rosario Fiorello (born 1960), entertainer
Anna Kanakis (born 1962), model, actress
Salvatore Schillaci (born 1964), football player
Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 1969), actress
Carmen Consoli (born 1974), singer
