43 Notable alumni of
University of Catania
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The University of Catania is 1002nd in the world, 351st in Europe, and 22nd in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from the University of Catania sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Franco Battiato
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- singerfilm directorwriterfilm screenwritercomposer
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Francesco "Franco" Battiato was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes, and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, progressive rock, opera, symphonic music, movie soundtrack, oratorio and new wave.
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Miriam Leone
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- stage actortelevision presenteractorbeauty pageant contestantmodel
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Miriam Leone is an Italian actress and beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Italia 2008.
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Pippo Baudo
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- television presenterradio personalitylyricist
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Giuseppe Vittorio Raimondo "Pippo" Baudo is one of the most famous Italian television presenters, with a career spanning six decades. He is often nicknamed "Superpippo" (referencing the Italian name of Super Goof). Baudo has also been the artistic director and president of the Teatro Stabile di Catania.
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Giovanni Verga
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- photographerpoliticianplaywrightscreenwriterwriter
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Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer.
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Lucia Azzolina
- Enrolled in the University of Catania
- Graduated with laurea in philosophy and literature
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- teacherpolitician
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Lucia Azzolina is an Italian politician and teacher. She was the Minister of Education during the Conte II Cabinet.
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Umberto Agnelli
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- politicianengineerbusinesspersonentrepreneur
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Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia (born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli.
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Anna Valle
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- film actormodelbeauty pageant contestantactor
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Anna Valle is an Italian actress and beauty pageant titleholder.
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Nicola Gratteri
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- writerprosecutor
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Nicola Gratteri is an Italian prosecutor. He grew up in southern Italy and after he witnessed the brutal methods of the 'Ndrangheta mafia group, he resolved to work against them. After studying for a law degree, he became a prosecutor working to bring mafia members to justice. Gratteri has survived a number of assassination attempts related to his work and is now protected by an armed guard. In 2014, prime minister Matteo Renzi unsuccessfully proposed him as Minister of Justice. Gratteri was prosecutor of Catanzaro from 2016 and of Naples from 2023.
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Giulia Grillo
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- politician
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Giulia Grillo is an Italian physician and politician who served as the Italian Minister of Health from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. A member of the Five Star Movement, she has served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 15 March 2013.
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Giuseppe Fava
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- screenwriterwriterjournalistpoet lawyer
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Giuseppe "Pippo" Fava was an Italian writer, investigative journalist, playwright, and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia. He was the founder of the I Siciliani, a monthly magazine. His motto in life was "Is there any use in living if you don't have the courage to fight?"
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Donatella Finocchiaro
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- actorfilm director
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Donatella Finocchiaro is an Italian actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films since 2002. She starred in The Wedding Director, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
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Gesualdo Bufalino
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- writertranslatorpoetteacher
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Gesualdo Bufalino, was an Italian writer who lived in Sicily for most of his life.
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Manlio Sgalambro
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- philosopherlibrettistpoetscreenwriterwriter
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Manlio Sgalambro was an Italian philosopher and writer, born in Lentini. He is known for his collaboration with Franco Battiato.
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Luigi Capuana
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- poetliterary criticscience fiction writerwriterjournalist
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Luigi Capuana was an Italian author and journalist and one of the most important members of the verist movement (see also verismo (literature)). He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of each other. He was also one of the first Italian authors influenced by the works of Émile Zola, French author and creator of naturalism. Capuana also wrote poetry in Sicilian, of which an example appears below.
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Claudio Fava
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- politicianjournalistpoet lawyerscreenwriterwriter
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Claudio Fava is an Italian politician and writer. He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom). He was until 2009 Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democratic Left (SD), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
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Anna Finocchiaro
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- politicianmagistratejudge
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Anna Finocchiaro Fidelbo is an Italian politician. She was the Democratic Party's leader in the Senate from 2007 to 2013. She served as Minister for Equal Opportunities in the cabinet of Romano Prodi from 1996 to 1998.
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Vitaliano Brancati
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- poetscreenwriternovelistwriterplaywright
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Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.
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Salvo Randone
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- stage actorfilm actorradio drama actor
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Salvatore Randone, known professionally as Salvo Randone, was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
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Pietro Bartolo
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- politicianphysician
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Pietro Bartolo, OMRI, MEP, is an Italian doctor and politician. From 1992 to 2019, he was known as the responsible medician for first visits to migrants who landed in Lampedusa; in 25 years, he examined and cared for about 250,000 refugees on the island. In 2019, Bartolo was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Party.
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Raffaele Lombardo
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- politician
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Raffaele Lombardo Italian pronunciation: [raffaˈɛːle lomˈbardo]; is an Italian politician. Born in Catania, he was Sicily's president and former member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Movement for the Autonomies, and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
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Enzo Bianco
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- lawyerpolitician
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Enzo Bianco is an Italian politician, former mayor of Catania and former Minister of the Interior.
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Salvo Pogliese
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- politician
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Salvatore Domenico Antonio Pogliese is an Italian politician, Mayor of Catania from 2018 to 2022.
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Augusto Barbera
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- politicianjuristjudge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
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Augusto Antonio Barbera is an Italian judge and former constitutional law professor at the University of Bologna. In his political career he was member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1976 and 1994 for the Italian Communist Party and later the Democratic Party of the Left. In 1993 he served shortly as Minister without portfolio for relations with Parliament in the government of Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Barbera has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 21 December 2015 and its President since 12 December 2023.
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Nadia Terranova
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- lecturerwriterbloggerchildren's writer
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Nadia Terranova is an Italian author.
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Umberto Scapagnini
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- politicianphysician
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Umberto Scapagnini was an Italian politician, former mayor of Catania.
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Salvo Andò
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristjournalist
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Salvatore "Salvo" Andò is an Italian academic and politician. He was the minister of defence between 1992 and 1993.
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Mario Michele Giarrusso
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- politician
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Mario Michele Giarrusso was an Italian Senator. He is a member of the Italexit party, after being expelled from the Five Star Movement. He represents Sicily.
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Raffaele Stancanelli
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- politician
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Raffaele Stancanelli is an Italian politician.
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Giuseppe La Farina
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Giuseppe La Farina was an influential leader of the Italian Risorgimento. He was founder of the Italian National Society in 1857, a society dedicated to the unification of Italy.
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Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida
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- journalistpolitician
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Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida was an Italian socialist politician and journalist from Sicily. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues) a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration. As the first socialist mayor of Catania in Sicily, from 1902 until 1914, he became the protagonist of a kind of municipal socialism.
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Gaetano Fichera
- Enrolled in the University of Catania
- Studied in 1937-1939
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- university teachermathematicianhistorian of mathematics
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Gaetano Fichera was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables. He was born in Acireale, and died in Rome.
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Antonio Mario La Pergola
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristjudge
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Antonio Mario La Pergola was an Italian jurist, Advocate General and later Judge for the European Court of Justice, as well as President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
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Tommaso Campailla
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- philosopherphysicianpoet
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Tommaso Campailla was an Italian philosopher, physician, politician and poet.
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Urania Papatheu
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- politician
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Urania Giulia Rosina Papatheu is an Italian politician from Forza Italia. She represented Sicily in the Senate of Italy from 2018 to 2022.
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Filippo Cordova
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- politician
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Filippo Cordova was an Italian patriot, jurist and politician.
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Simona Suriano
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- politician
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Simona Suriano is an Italian politician. She was elected to be a deputy to the Parliament of Italy in the 2018 Italian general election for the Legislature XVIII of Italy.
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Giulio Crimi
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- teacheropera singer
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Giulio Crimi was an Italian operatic tenor.
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Marialuisa Faro
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- politician
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Marialuisa Faro is an Italian politician and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic representing the Five Star Movement.
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Nicolò Mineo
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- politicianacademicliterary criticphilologist
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Nicolò Mineo was an Italian literary critic, literary historian and philologist. He was professor emeritus of Italian literature at the University of Catania from 2010.
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Piero Carnabuci
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Piero Carnabuci was an Italian stage and film actor.
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Vito Latora
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Vito Latora is an Italian physicist, currently Professor in Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences of the Queen Mary University of London. He is known for his works on complex systems, in particular on the structure and dynamics of complex networks.
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Salvatore Raiti
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- lawyerpolitician
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Salvatore Raiti is an Italian politician.
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Filippo Drago
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- university teacherpsychiatristneuroscientistpharmacologist
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Filippo Drago is an Italian pharmacologist, neurologist and psychiatrist.
