Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Palermo to Naples.
Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta. He is one of the greatest literary figures in the European literature of the 20th century.
Giovanna Mezzogiorno is an Italian theatre and film actress.
Susanna Tamaro is an Italian novelist and film director. She is an author of novels, stories, magazine articles, and children's literature. Her novel Va' dove ti porta il cuore was a worldwide bestseller, translated into 44 languages and awarded with the 1994 Premio Donna Città di Roma.
Valeria Montaldi is an Italian journalist and writer.
Carmine Abate is an Italian writer. He has written numerous short stories, novels and essays, mainly focusing on issues of migration and the encounters between disparate cultures.
Claudio Chillemi is an Italian writer, author of short stories, novels and plays for children.
Enzo Fileno Carabba is an Italian writer with published works in Italy and abroad. He writes short stories, scripts for radio, librettos and children's books.
Rosa Balistreri was an Italian singer and musician. Her hoarse voice charged with melancholy and strong personality made her a Sicilian icon of the twentieth century, much like the writer Leonardo Sciascia, the poet Ignazio Buttitta and the painter Renato Guttuso, who counted all three among her admirers.
Laura Giordano is an Italian lyric soprano.
Fisichella is an Italian noble family, forming part of the Sicilian nobility. Members of the family include multiple judges and prelates, among them a justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Sicily and an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Giacomo Romano Davare is an Italian writer, actor, stage director and teacher.
Maria Messina was an Italian writer.
Laura Mancinelli was an Italian writer, Germanist, medievalist and university professor.
Emanuela Abbadessa is an Italian writer. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Capo Scirocco in 2013.
Giorgio Fontana is an Italian writer currently living and working in Milan.
Salvatore Lupo is an Italian historian and author from Siena, specializing in the Sicilian Mafia.
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli is an Italian writer and journalist.
Silvana Grasso is an Italian writer.
