List of personalities of the city of Catania
This list contains personalities born in Catania as well as those who worked in Catania but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Catania
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Until 1800
- Agatha of Catania (around 225 - around 250), saint
- Constance of Sicily (around 1249–1302), Queen of Aragon and of Sicily
- Jacob III (1315–1349), King of Mallorca
- Ludwig (1337–1355), King of Sicily
- Friedrich III. (around 1341–1377), King of Sicily, as well as Duke of Athens and Neopatria
- Nicolaus de Tudeschis (1386–1445), theologian
- Olivio Sozzi (1690–1765), painter
- Francesco Battaglia (1701–1788), architect
- Sebastiano Lo Monaco (around 1730 - around 1775), painter
- Saverio Landolina (1743–1814), archaeologist and natural scientist
- Giuseppe Zacco (1786–1834), painter
- Giuseppe Gandolfo (1792–1855), painter
- Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867), opera composer
- Giuseppe Rapisardi (1799-1853), painter
1801 to 1900
- Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835), opera composer
- Michele Rapisardi (1822–1886), painter
- Pietro Platania (1828–1907), composer and music teacher
- Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro (1832–1904), paleontologist and geologist
- Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), writer
- Antonino Gandolfo (1841–1910), painter
- Mario Rapisardi (1844–1912), poet
- Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè (1846–1928), Archbishop of Catania
- Giuseppe Vadalà-Papale (1854–1921), lawyer and legal philosopher
- Giuseppe de Felice Giuffrida (1859–1920), politician and journalist
- Francesco Paolo Frontini (1860–1939), composer
- Alessandro Abate (1867–1952), painter
- Quirino Majorana (1871–1957), experimental physicist
- Oreste Bilancia (1881–1945), actor
- Saro Arcidiacono (1886–1972), actor
1901 to 1950
- Filippo Anfuso (1901–1963), diplomat and politician
- Salvatore Battaglia (1904–1971), Romance philologist and lexicographer
- Ettore Majorana (1906 - missing 1938), physicist
- Ignazio Balsamo (1912–1994), actor
- Vittorio Crucillà (1917–2008), journalist and film director
- Giovanni Grimaldi (1917–2001), screenwriter and film director
- Sebastiano Lo Nigro (1919–1984), folklorist
- Gaetano Benedetti (1920–2013), psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- Giuseppe Catalfamo (1921–1989), Professor of Education
- Turi Ferro (1921-2001), actor
- Grazia Di Marzà (1922–1993), actress
- Libero Grassi (1924–1991), clothing entrepreneur and mafia opponent
- Giuseppe Calderone (1925–1978), Mafioso
- Aldo Clementi (1925–2011), composer
- Roberto Pregadio (1928–2010), film composer, musician and conductor
- Candido Cannavò (1930–2009), sports journalist and editor of Gazzetta dello Sport
- Raoul Gatto (1930-2017), theoretical physicist
- Antonio Calderone (1935-2013), Mafioso
- Alfredo Maria Bonanno (* 1937), insurrectionalist
- Daniela Rocca (1937–1995), actress
- Nitto Santapaola (* 1938), mafioso
- Pietro Torrisi (* 1940), stunt man and actor
- Umberto Balsamo (* 1942), songwriter
- Aldo Grimaldi (1942–1990), film director and screenwriter
- Ada Pometti (born 1942), actress
- Salvatore Bugnatelli (* 1943), film director, screenwriter and film editor
- Gianni Bella (born 1946), singer
- Franco Diogene (1947–2005), actor
- Dante Majorana (* 1947), documentary filmmaker and film director
- Pietro Anastasi (1948-2020), football player
- Ivan Garofalo (* 1948), Graecist and medical historian
- Raffaele Lombardo (* 1950), politician
From 1951
- Jerry Calà (* 1951), actor, screenwriter and film director
- Giuseppe Marciante (* 1951), Bishop of Cefalù
- Marcella Bella (born 1952), singer
- Stelio Mangiameli (* 1954), legal scholar
- Angelo Arcidiacono (1955-2007), saber fencer
- Giuseppe Sciacca (* 1955), Curia Bishop of the Catholic Church
- Napoleone Ferrara (* 1956), Italian-American angiogenesis researcher
- Guia Jelo (born 1956), actress
- Claudio Fava (* 1957), politician, journalist and opponent of the Mafia
- Etta Scollo (* 1958), singer
- Ettore Messina (* 1959), basketball coach
- Pietro Scalia (* 1960), film editor
- Angelo d'Arrigo (1961–2006), paraglider and hang-glider pilot and ornithologist
- Manuel Zurria (* 1962), flautist
- Giovanni La Via (* 1963), politician
- Gianni Celeste (born 1964), singer
- Michela Giuffrida (* 1964), politician
- Vincenzo Ortoleva (* 1965), classical philologist
- Guglielmo Giombanco (* 1966), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Patti
- Nunzia Catalfo (* 1967), politician and former Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
- Gerardina Trovato (* 1967), singer-songwriter and singer
- Giuseppe Fiorello (born 1969), actor
- Fabrizio Puglisi (* 1969), jazz bassist
- Giuseppe D'Urso (* 1969), middle-distance runner
- Mario Biondi (* 1971), singer
- Salvatore Domenico Pogliese (* 1972), politician
- Carmen Consoli (* 1974), songwriter and singer
- Massimo (* 1975), musician
- Tiziana Lodato (born 1976), actress
- Lorenzo Patanè (* 1976), actor
- Laura Torrisi (* 1979), actress
- Daniele Gangemi (* 1980), film director and screenwriter
- Paolo Pizzo (* 1983), fencer
- Miriam Leone (* 1985), actress, television presenter and model
- Melissa Panarello (* 1985), author
- Claudio Licciardello (* 1986), athlete
- Rossella Fiamingo (* 1991), fencer
- Carlotta Ferlito (* 1995), artistic gymnast
- Giulia Mignemi (* 1999), rower
Well-known residents of Catania
- Luigi Capuana (1839-1915), writer