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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

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Domenico Alberto Azuni
Giovanni Spano
Gianluigi Gessa

Activists

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Architects and designers

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Paola Antonelli

Authors

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Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926

Businessmen

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Renato Soru

Cinema and TV

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Actors and actresses

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Pier Angeli
Rubi Dalma

Filmmakers

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Nanni Loy

Showgirls and fashion models

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Melissa Satta

Police officers

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Emanuela Loi

Criminals

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Journalists

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Attilio Deffenu

Mercenaries, soldiers and troops

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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

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the tenor Giovanni Matteo De Candia.
Giuseppe Anedda

Visual artists

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Painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors

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Francesco Ciusa
Pinuccio Sciola

Cartoonists and comics creators

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Politicians

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

Sportspeople

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Athletics

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Basketball

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Bodybuilding

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Boxing

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Canoeing

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Cycling

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Equestrianism

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Paolo Angioni in 1968

Extreme sports

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Football

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Gianfranco Zola
Salvatore Sirigu
Andrea Cossu

Horse racing

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Ice hockey

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Modern pentathlon

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Motor racing

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Rowing

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Tennis

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Religious figures

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Pope Hilarius
Joseph Toronto

Notable people of Sardinian descent

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

See also

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References

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