Last Updated on Friday, 23 July 2010 17:51
Famous people of Piazza Armerina are:
- Angerio by Eufemia (XI century-1124), bishop and lord of Catania
- Artale Alagona II, (XIV century), Lord
- John Suriano, (XIV century), appointed Castellano Square and Grand Prior of the monastery of S. Andrea and peers of the realm, from Martin I of Aragon King of Sicily, after the exile of Alagona Artale - 1396, Source: History of the Grand Priors in Sicily - Sicilian Castles
- Antonio The Verso (1565-1621), composer and madrigals
- Prospero Intorcetta (1626-1696), Jesuit, first in Europe to translate the works of Confucius
- Maura Paul, (1638-1711), poet
- Joseph Benedict Gaetano Maria Trigona and Placido Vincenzo Parisi (1767-1837), cardinal
- Antonino Cascino (1862-1917), general of World War I
- Tebaldini John, (1864-1952), organist and composer
- Fuardo Gaetano (1878-1962), engineer and inventor
- Salvatore Principato (1892-1944), partisan
- Andrea Lo Jacono (1911-2001), the top government official and first president of the Tar Piedmont
- Sebastiano Rosso (1912-1994), bishop
- Gino Vinicio Gentili (1914-2006), archaeologist
- Nigrelli Ignatius (1926-2000), historian, writer and environmentalist
- Vincent Cirrincione, (1926-2002), bishop
- George Boris Giuliano, (1930-1979), police detective
- Michele Pennisi, (1946), bishop
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