List of people from Sicily
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean as well as the largest region by area in Italy with a population of over five million and has contributed many famous names to all areas of work.
Philosophers and scientists
Empedocles (c. 490 – 430 BC), scientist and philosopher
Gorgias (c. 483 – 375 BC), philosopher
Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BC), engineer and mathematician
Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1166 AD), geographer and author of Tabula Rogeriana
Constantine the African (c. 1020 – 1087), physician and translator
Giovanni Aurispa (1376–1459), anthropologist
Francesco Maurolico (1494–1575), mathematician
Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826), astronomer, discovered the minor planet Ceres
Niccolò Cacciatore (1780–1841), astronomer
Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), chemist
Giuseppe Sergi (1841–1936), anthropologist
Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941), political scientist
Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944), philosopher
Ettore Majorana (1906 – ?), physicist
Antonino Zichichi (1929), physicist
Religious figures
