page_title: List of people from Sardinia
section_title: Notable people of Sardinian descent
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Sardinia / Notable people of Sardinian descent
caption_attribution_description: English: The Gemini-6 prime crew goes through simulated flight test activity in the white room atop Pad 19 at Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. (right), command pilot; and Thomas P. Stafford (at left, out of frame), pilot, are preparing for a two-day mission in space. NASA will attempt to rendezvous the Gemini-6 spacecraft with the Gemini-7 spacecraft.
context_page_description: Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of about 1.6 million people. The list includes notable natives of Sardinia, as well as those who were born elsewhere but spent a large part of their active life in Sardinia. People of Sardinian heritage and descent are in a separate section of this article.
context_section_description: Ettore Pais (1856– 1939), historian with Sardinian ancestry
  Gustavo Piga (born 1964),   economist
  Ambra Medda (born 1982), Designer
  Orazio Satta Puliga (1910 - 1974), car designer
  Italo Calvino (1923 - 1985), writer candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature with Sardinian ancestry from mother side
  Cecilia Maria de Candia (1853 - 1926), writer (Sardinian ancestry from father side)
  Goffredo Mameli, patriot and poet, creator of the Italian anthem (born in Genoa by Sardinian father)
  Éric Cantona (born 24 May 1966), French actor and football player with Sardinian ancestry
  Donatella Damiani (born 1958), Sardinian from father side
  Bruce Kirby (born 1928), American actor, Sardinian ancestry
  Bruno Kirby (1949 – 2006), American actor, Sardinian ancestry
  Christopher Meloni - American actor, father from Sardinia
  Fernanda Montenegro (born 1929), Brazilian actress, with Sardinian ancestry from mother's side
  Sean Penn - American Actor, Sardinian from mother side 
  Bruno Putzulu French actor, Sardinian ancestry
  Stefano Satta Flores, Sardinian ancestry
  Wally Schirra (1923 – 2007), astronaut with Sardinian ancestry
  Valeria Marini, born in Rome (Sardinian from mother side)
  Pamela Prati (Sardinian from mother side)
  Virginia Sanjust di Teulada (born 1977), Sardinian from father side
  Adriana Serra  (1923 – 1995), actress and  Miss Italia 1941 (Sardinian from father side) 
  Corrado Augias (born 26 January 1935), Sardinian ancestry
  Mino Carta (born 1933), Sardinian parents
  Jean-Marc Morandini (born 1965) Sardinian from mother side
  Barbara Serra (born 1974), Sardinian from father side
  Efisio Tola (1803 - 1833),  patriot.
  
   
  Ricky Gianco (born Riccardo Sanna, 1943), singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, with partial Sardinian ancestry
  Ivan Graziani, Sardinian from mother side
  Nyco Lilliu (born 1987), Sardinian ancestry
  Pierrick Lilliu (born 1986), Sardinian ancestry
  Ugo Mulas (1928 - 1973), photographer with Sardinian ancestry
  Aurelio Galleppini (1917-1994) (His parents were Sardinians)
  
   
  Graziano Delrio (born 1960),   Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport with Sardinian ancestry 
  Beji Caid Essebsi (born 1926), President of Tunisia (Paternal great-great-grandfather  from Sardinia)
  Enrico Letta (born 1966), former Prime Minister of Italy. Sardinian from mother side.
  Jean-Paul Marat (from the father's side) (1743–1793), politician during the French Revolution
  Giorgia Meloni (born 1977), ex minister of Italy (Sardinian from father side)
  Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974), President of Argentina (Sardinian descent from father side)
  Silvia Salis (born in Genoa, Sardinian ancestry)
  Luigi Datome (born 1987 ) professional basketball player with Sardinian ancestry who currently plays for Fenerbahçe Ülker.
  Joe Calzaghe - father Enzo from Sardinia
  Nicolino Locche (1939 – 2005), Argentine boxer with Sardinian ancestry
  Duilio Loi - Sardinian from father side
  Graciano Rocchigiani - father Zanubio from Sardinia
  Mattia Aramu (born 1995), Sardinian parents 
  Dennis Chessa (born 1992) Sardinian ancestry
  Marco Materazzi - Mother from Tempio, father from Arborea, province of Oristano
  Frankie Dettori - Born in Milan from Sardinian parents
  Fabio Carta - Born in Torino, Sardinian parents
  Andreia Marras (born   1971) Sardinian ancestry
  Alessandro Mahmoud (Mahmood) - Born in Milan from Sardinian mother
caption: Wally Schirra, astronaut
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