List of personalities of the city of Messina
This list contains personalities who were born in Messina and those who worked in Messina but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Messina
Until 1800
- Antonello da Messina (around 1430 - 1479), painter
- Alfonso Franco (1466–1533), painter and silversmith
- Antonello de Saliba (around 1467 - around 1535), painter
- Girolamo Alibrandi (around 1470 - around 1524), painter
- Antonio Giuffrè (1493–1543), painter
- Franciscus Maurolicus (1494–1575), polymath
- Mariano Riccio (1510–1593), painter
- Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha (1545–1605), Ottoman civil servant, general and admiral
- Antonio Catalano (1560-1630), painter
- Natale Masuccio (1568-1619), architect
- Alonso Rodriguez (1578–1648), painter
- Giovanni Simone Comandè (1580–1634), painter
- Antonio Barbalonga (1600–1649), painter
- Giovanni Battista Quagliata (1603–1673), painter
- Giovanni Fulco (1605–1680), painter
- Domenico Guargena (1610–1663), Capuchin and painter
- Domenico Maroli (1612–1676), painter
- Andrea Suppa (1628–1671), painter and architect
- Agostino Scilla (1629–1700), painter, paleontologist, numismatist and geologist
- Bartolomeo Tricomi (around 1630-1709), painter
- Filippo Tancredi (1665-1722), painter
- Giovanni Tuccari (1667–1743), painter
- Nicola van Houbraken (1668–1722), painter
- Antonio Filocamo (1669–1743), painter
- Filippo Juvarra (1678–1736), architect
- Paolo Filocamo (1688–1743), painter and architect
- Litterio Paladini (1691–1734), painter and engraver
- Giuseppe Paladini (1721–1794), painter
- Giacomo Minutoli (1765–1827), architect
- Franz Xaver von Weber (1766–1843), Swiss politician
- Letterio Subba (1787–1868), architect, sculptor and painter
1801 to 1900
- Michele Panebianco (1806–1873), painter
- Tommaso Aloisio Juvara (1809–1875), draftsman and engraver
- Giacomo Conti (1813–1888), painter
- Giuseppe La Farina (1815–1863), lawyer, journalist, writer and politician
- Saro Zagari (1821–1897), architect and sculptor
- Giuseppe Prinzi (1825–1895), sculptor
- Laura Gonzenbach (1842–1878), fairy tale collector
- Giacomo Natoli (1846–1896), politician, Mayor of Messina
- Annibale Maria Di Francia (1851–1927), priest, founder of an order and saint
- Helene Klostermann (1858–1935), teacher
- Antonio Ruggeri (1859-1915), vine grower
- Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo (1860–1937), writer and Romanist
- Pietro Gori (1865–1911), lawyer, journalist and poet
- Gaetano Martino (1900–1967), politician
1901 to 1950
- Salvatore Todaro (1908–1942), naval officer
- Gino Buzzanca (1912–1985), actor
- Enrico Fulchignoni (1913–1988), documentary filmmaker and screenwriter
- Mario Landi (1920–1992), director
- Adolfo Celi (1922–1986), film actor and director
- Tano Cimarosa (1922–2008), actor and film director
- Turi Vasile (1922–2009), film producer, screenwriter and film director
- Domenico Amoroso (1927–1997), Roman Catholic religious and bishop of Trapani
- Wladimiro Calarese (1930-2005), fencer
- Antonino Giuffrè (1933–1997), civil engineer
- Nino Marino (* 1935), writer, screenwriter and film director
- Ferdinando Salleo (* 1936), diplomat
- Vittorio Luigi Mondello (* 1937), Catholic clergyman and emeritus Archbishop of Reggio Calabria-Bova
- Carlo Ausino (* 1938), filmmaker
- Carlo Quartucci (1938–2019), director, actor and set designer
- Paolo Lombardo (* 1941), filmmaker
- Antonio Martino (* 1942), politician
- Michele Parrinello (* 1945), physicist
- Francesco Montenegro (* 1946), Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Agrigento and Cardinal
- Michele Giuttari (* 1950), policeman and writer
From 1951
- Massimo Sigala (* 1951), racing car driver
- Gaetano Saya (* 1956), politician
- Lucia Aliberti (* 1957), opera singer
- Francesco Calogero (* 1957), film director and screenwriter
- Donatella Maiorca (* 1957), editing secretary and director
- Alfredo Ormando (1958–1998), theologian and writer
- Giovanni Scalzo (* 1959), fencer
- Luigi Brogna (1961-2008), writer
- Ninni Bruschetta (* 1962), actor, theater director and screenwriter
- Anna Kanakis (* 1962), film actress and politician
- Cesare Di Pietro (* 1964), Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
- Giovanni Mazzarino (* 1965), jazz pianist and band leader
- Maria Grazia Cucinotta (* 1968), actress, film producer, film director and model
- Sonia Alfano (* 1971), anti-mafia activist and politician
- Antonino Fogliani (* 1976), conductor
- Vincenzo Nibali (* 1984), racing cyclist
- Giuseppe Sulfaro (* 1984), actor
Well known residents of Messina
- Karl Fürchtegott Grob (1830–1893), tobacco grower
- Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (* 1929), American classical archaeologist