page_title: List of people from Sardinia
section_title: Academic figures and inventors
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Sardinia / Academic figures and inventors
caption_attribution_description: English: Domenico Alberto Azuni (sassari August 3, 1749 –cagliari January 23, 1827) was an Italian jurist.
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: Pietro Amat di San Filippo (1826 - 1895),   geographer, historian and bibliographer.
  Giulio Angioni (1939-2016), writer and anthropologist
  Efisio Arru (1927 – 2000), parasitologist
  Domenico Alberto Azuni (1749–1827), Jurist
  Ludovico Baille (1764–1869), Historian
  Augusto Bissiri (1879 - 1968), inventor, credited as one of the first developers of television, the cathode ray tube and the fax.
  Remo Bodei (born in Cagliari,1938), philosopher
  Francesco Antonio Boi (1767 - 1850), physician and  anatomist
  Francesco Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), inventor, born in Gadoni, regarded as the first developer of the Revolver
  Giuseppe Brotzu (1895 – 1976), pharmacologist, discoverer of cephalosphorin based antibiotics, and candidate for Nobel Prize in Medicine.
  Carlo Cercignani (1939–2010), physicist and mathematician
  Fausto Cercignani (born 1941), scholar in linguistics
  Enrico Costa (born 1944), astrophysicist, known for studies on the gamma-ray bursts
  Erminio Costa (Cagliari 1924- Washington 2009),  neuroscientist
  Joan de Girgio Vitelli (Alghero 1870 - Rome 1916), lawyer and writer.
  Carlo Fadda ( 1853–1931)   jurist and politician.
  Antonio Fais  (1841 – 1925), mathematician and engineer.
  Giovanni Francesco Fara (1543-1591), geographer and historian
  Walter Ferreri, Astronomer
  Gian Luigi Gessa (born 1932), pharmacologist and neuropsychiatrist
  Pier Michele Giagaraccio (16th century AD), jurist, lawyer, and poet
  Paola Leone, neurologist leader researcher of Canavan disease
  Giovanni Lilliu (1914 –  2012),  archeologist, academician, publicist and politician.
  Eva Mameli (1886 – 1978), botanist, naturalist and mathematician.
  Lidia Mannuzzu (1958 – 2016) biologist, physiologist and academic
  Antonio Pigliaru  (1922–1969), philosopher
  Salvatore Satta (1902 – 1975), jurist and writer.
  Sebastiano Satta (1867 – 1914), poet, writer, lawyer and journalist.
  Paolo Savona (born 1936), economist
  Giovanni Soro (died 1544), the Western world first great cryptanalyst. Soro was employed in Venice by the Council of Ten as cipher breaker-in-chief.
  Giovanni Spano (1803–1878), linguist and archaeologist
  Nicola Tanda (born 1928) philologist and literary critic.
  Pasquale Tola (1800–1874), historian, magistrate and politician
caption: Domenico Alberto Azuni
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