Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. km and 5 million inhabitants.

Famous Sicilians

• Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), scientist and philosopher
• Diodorus (1st century BC), historian
• Gorgias (c. 483 BC – 375 BC), sophist, philosopher, and rhetorician
• Archimedes (c. 287 BC – 212 BC), scientist
• Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily 1130 – 1154
• Frederick II (1194 – 1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily (Frederick I of Sicily)
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835), opera composer
• Francesco Crispi (1819 – 1901), politician
• Giovanni Verga (1840 – 1922), novelist
• Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936), dramatist
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957), writer, poet
• Giovanni Falcone (1939 – 1992), judge
• Paolo Borsellino (1940 – 1992), judge
• Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), novelist
• Salvatore Schillaci (born 1964), football player
• Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 1969), actress
• Giovanni Meli, poet
• Nino Martoglio, poet