30 Notable alumni of
University of Messina
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The University of Messina is 1164th in the world, 413th in Europe, and 26th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from the University of Messina sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Santo Versace
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- entrepreneurpoliticianfilm producer
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Santo Domenico Versace is an Italian businessman and politician who is the president and co-chief executive officer of Gianni Versace SpA, based in Milan, Italy. Since 2008 he has been elected as Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic in the constituency of Calabria. He is a member of the Alliance for Italy political party, and a former member of The People of Freedom.
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Giancarlo Magalli
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- screenwritertelevision writertelevision presenteractor
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Giancarlo Magalli is an Italian television writer, presenter and actor.
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Marco Minniti
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- politician
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Marco Minniti is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the government of Italy as Minister of the Interior from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. Previously, he was one of the most prominent councilors of former Prime Ministers Matteo Renzi and Massimo D'Alema.
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Gianni Amelio
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.
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Alessia Gazzola
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- writernovelistphysician writermedical examiner
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Alessia Gazzola is an Italian novelist.
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Cateno De Luca
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- politician
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Cateno Roberto Salvatore De Luca is an Italian politician who has been the mayor of Messina from 2018 to 2022 and the mayor of Taormina since 2023. He was also the mayor of Fiumedinisi, his hometown, from 2003 to 2011 and of Santa Teresa di Riva from 2012 to 2017.
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Giorgio La Pira
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- lawyerpolitician
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Giorgio La Pira, TOSD was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the Mayor of Florence. He also served as a deputy for Christian Democracy and participated in the assembly that wrote the Italian Constitution following World War II. In his public and private life he was a tireless champion of peace and human rights who worked for the betterment of the poor and disenfranchised. La Pira belonged to the Third Order of Saint Dominic. From 1934 until his death he lived in the San Marco complex.
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Franco Sensi
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- entrepreneurpoliticianassociation football player
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Francesco Sensi, Cavaliere del lavoro was an Italian oil tycoon. He was born in Rome, where he lived throughout his entire life, though he also served time as mayor of Visso, the city where his family came from. He had been for fifteen years, until his death, chairman of Associazione Sportiva Roma, the major football club of Rome. He took control of the club in May 1993, both with Pietro Mezzaroma, and he then became the chairman on 8 November 1993.
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Antonio Martino
- Enrolled in the University of Messina
- Studied in 1964
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- economistuniversity teacherpoliticiandiplomatjournalist
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Antonio Martino was an Italian politician. A founding member of Forza Italia, he served as the minister of foreign affairs in 1994 and minister of defense from 2001 to 2006.
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Cesare Terranova
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- judgepolitician
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Cesare Terranova was an Italian judge and politician from Sicily, notable for his anti-Mafia stance. From 1958 until 1971 Terranova was an examining magistrate at the Palermo prosecuting office. He was one of the first to seriously investigate the Mafia and the financial operations of Cosa Nostra. He was killed by the Mafia in 1979.
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Domenico Scilipoti
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- politicianphysician
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Domenico Scilipoti Isgrò is an Italian politician and doctor.
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Giuseppe Scopelliti
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- journalistpolitician
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Giuseppe Scopelliti is an Italian politician.
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Barbara Floridia
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- politicianhistorian of classical antiquityteacher
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Barbara Floridia is an Italian politician who currently serves as a Senator.
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Vincenzo Consolo
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- journalistwriter
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Vincenzo Consolo was an Italian writer.
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Lucio Colletti
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- philosopherpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Lucio Colletti was an Italian Western Marxist philosopher. Colletti started to be known outside Italy because of a long interview with him that Marxist historian Perry Anderson published in the New Left Review in 1974.
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Antonio Spadaro
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- Catholic priestjournalistwriter
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Antonio Spadaro, SJ is an Italian Jesuit priest, journalist and writer.
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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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Italo Falcomatà
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- politician
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Italo Falcomatà was an Italian politician and school and university teacher. Three times mayor of Reggio Calabria, from 1993 to 2001, under his guidance a period known as the Reggio Spring began. From 1970 to 1971, the city of Reggio was the scene of a popular uprising – known as the Moti di Reggio – against the government choice of Catanzaro as capital of the newly instituted Region of Calabria; afterwards there was a period of social and urban deterioration which lasted until the Reggio Spring began. His youngest child Giuseppe Falcomatà is the current mayor of Reggio since 2014.
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Gianpiero D'Alia
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- politician
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Gianpiero D'Alia is an Italian politician.
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Federico Basile
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- politician
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Federico Basile is an Italian politician who served as mayor of Messina since 2022.
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Maria Tripodi
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- politician
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Maria Tripodi is an Italian politician of Forza Italia. Since 2022, she has served as undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2018 to 2022, she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Armando Veneto
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- politician
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Armando Veneto is an Italian politician and lawyer.
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Giancarlo Aragona
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- diplomat
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Giancarlo Aragona is an Italian diplomat who served as ambassador of Italy to NATO, Russia and United Kingdom and Secretary General of OSCE.
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Carolina Costa
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- judoka
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Carolina Costa is an Italian female judoka and paralympic athlete. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's +70 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
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Christian Bisceglia
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Christian Bisceglia is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in a small town near Milan, but he is Messinese of adoption.
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Francesco La Camera
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Italy
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- diplomat
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Francesco La Camera is an Italian civil servant, academic, diplomat who was elected the second Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency, and assumed office on 4 April 2019. At the IRENA, he has a four-year tenure, after succeeding Adnan Z. Amin of Kenya, who served in a two-term tenure from 2011 to 2019 and has been given the honorary title of Director-General Emeritus. La Camera's election took place in the context of the Ninth Session of the annual Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency in Abu Dhabi. La Camera was previously the Director-General for Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate at the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, where he was involved in international cooperation and partnerships agreements globally, especially in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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Giuseppe Albanese
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- pianist
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Giuseppe Albanese is an Italian pianist.
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Nicola Capria
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- politician
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Nicola Capria was an Italian politician, member of the Italian Socialist Party.
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Maria Angela Danzì
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- politician
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Maria Angela Danzì is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Five Star Movement from 2022 to 2024.
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Carmelo Zito
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Carmelo Zito, born in Oppido Mamertina, Italy and immigrated to the United States circa 1923, was an outspoken Italian American immigrant who operated the Il Corriere del Popolo Italian-language newspaper in San Francisco, California, from 1935 through 1966. He was active in the Italian anti-fascist movement in the United States. Family members relate that he fled Mussolini's regime after learning that he was targeted for execution by the Fascists. However, local historians refer that Zito fled to the States after he shot with his hunting rifle, while drunk, a statue of the Virgin Mary: an event that infuriated the people of his village, who vehemently demonstrated against the act of blasphemy.