List of famous people in Sardinia

The list of known people in Sardinia gives an overview of people who come from Sardinia , who have Sardinian ancestors or whose work is important for Sardinia, and about whom there is an article in the German Wikipedia. Since Sardinia has been conquered by different peoples in the course of its history, who have mixed or left Sardinia over the centuries, the term “ Sardinia ” does not designate an ethnic group, but serves as a designation of origin.

Native Sardinians

Eleonora di Arborea

• Lucifer of Calaris († 371), Bishop of Cagliari
• Hilary (Pope) († 468), Pope from 461 to 468
• Symmachus (Pope) († 514), from 498 Pope
• Eleonora di Arborea (1350–1404), from 1383 regent of Sardinia for her son Frederick
• Domenico Millelire (1761–1827), marine, commandant of the La Maddalena naval base
• Effinio Cugia (1818–1872), General
• Grazia Deledda (1871–1936), writer, was one of the most important authors in Italian literature
• Luigi Efisio Marras (1888–1981), general, military attaché in Berlin, chief of staff
• Emilio Lussu (1890–1975), officer, autonomist, anti-fascist, minister, writer
• Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), writer, politician and philosopher, a theorist of socialism, communist and anti-fascist
• Antonio Segni (1891–1972), politician, 1955–1957 and 1959–1960 Prime Minister of Italy
• Clemente Biondetti (1898–1955), racing driver
• Primo Longobardo (1901-1942), naval officer
• Salvatore Satta (1902–1975), lawyer and writer
• Costantino Nivola (1911–1988), artist, facade designer, sculptor, invented the technique of cement casting on modeled sand in 1948/49, from 1962 professor of art studies at Columbia University
• Maria Gabriella Sagheddu (1914–1939), Trappist, venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church
• Giovanni Cogoni (1916–2007), Roman Catholic bishop
• Giovanni Lilliu (1914–2012), archaeologist
• Enrico Berlinguer (1922–1984), politician, longtime general secretary of the Italian Communist Party
• Francesco Cossiga (1928–2010), politician, Prime Minister 1979–1980, President 1985–1992
• Giuseppe Pittau (1928-2014), 1981-1983 Acting Head of the Society of Jesus, from 1998, Titular Archbishop of Castro di Sardegna
• Maria Giacobbe (* 1928), writer and curator
• Pier Angeli (1932–1971), actress
• Maria Carta (1934–1994), actress and singer
• Gavino Ledda (* 1938), writer
• Giulio Angioni (1939–2017), writer and anthropologist
• Carlo Cercignani (1939-2010), physicist and mathematician, professor at the Politechnica in Milan
• Antonello Salis (* 1950), jazz musician
• Renato Soru (* 1957), founder of the telecommunications company Tiscali, 2004–2008 President of the Italian region of Sardinia
• Gianfranco Zola (* 1966), soccer player, ended his career in 2004 with the US Cagliari
• Caterina Murino (born 1977), actress

People who worked in Sardinia

Viktor Amadeus II

• Pontianus († 235), Pope from 230, exiled to Sardinia, died there in the mines
• Hippolytus of Rome (170-235), first antipope from 217, banished to Sardinia with Pope Pontianus and perished in the mines there
• Enzio of Sardinia (1224–1272), illegitimate son of Emperor Frederick II, King of Sardinia 1239–1249 / 1272
• Salvator von Horta (1520–1567), lay brother of the Franciscan Order, canonized from 1565 in the monastery of Santa Maria di Gesú in Sardinia, 1938
• Viktor Amadeus II. (1666–1732), Duke of Savoy, 1713–1720 King of Sicily, 1720–1730 first Savoy as King of Sardinia
• Charles Emanuel III. (1701–1773), son of Viktor Amadeus II, from 1730 King of Sardinia
• Viktor Amadeus III. (1726–1796), son of Charles Emanuel III, from 1773 King of Sardinia
• Charles Emanuel IV. (1751–1819), eldest son of Viktor Amadeus III., 1796–1802 King of Sardinia
• Victor Emanuel I (1759–1824), third son of Victor Amadeus III, 1802–1821 King of Sardinia, moved in 1806 his residence to Cagliari
• Karl Felix I (1765–1831), fifth son of Viktor Amadeus II., 1799–1806 and 1817–1821 governor of Sardinia, from 1821 King of Sardinia
• Claudio Gabriele de Launay (1786–1850), General and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, appointed Viceroy of Sardinia in 1843
• Karl Albert I (1798–1849), distant cousin of Karl Felix I, from 1831 King of Sardinia
• Viktor Emanuel II. (1820–1878), son of Karl Albert I, from 1849 King of Sardinia, from 1861 King of Italy
• Quintino Sella (1827–1884), mining engineer, mineralogist and politician.
• Max Leopold Wagner (1880–1962), Romance scholar and linguist
• Luigi Riva (* 1944), Italian soccer player, played for US Cagliari from 1963 to 1976