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» Saint Agatha
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» Antonello da Messina (Renaissance artist)
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» Giuseppe Balsamo ("Cagliostro")
» Vincenzo Bellini (composer)
» Benjamin of Tudela
» Paolo Borsellino (jurist)
» Bourbon-Two Sicilies Dynasty
» Andrea Camilleri (novelist)
» Stanislao Cannizzaro (chemist)
» Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
» Ciullo d'Alcamo (medieval poet)
» Pompeo Colajanni (partisan)
» Constance of Aragon (queen)
» Francesco Crispi (prime minister)
» Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress)
» Danilo Dolci (social activist)
» Diodorus Siculus (historian)
» Dion (tyrant of Syracuse)
» Ducetius (Sicel leader)
» Elvira of Castile (queen of Sicily)
» Empedocles (philosopher)
» Hugo Falcandas (medieval chronicler)
» Giovanni Falcone (jurist)
» Francis II (king of Sicily)
» Gorgias of Lentini (sophist philosopher)
» Marella Ferrera (fashion designer)
» Ignazio Florio (industrialist)
» Frederick II (king and emperor)
» Johann W. von Goethe (writer)
» Libero Grassi (entrepreneur)
» Abdullah al Idrisi (geographer)
» Jawhar as-Siqilli (Fatimid general)
» Joan (Plantagenet) of England (queen)
» Ibn Jubayr (geographer)
» Guido Jung (politician)
» Francesco Laurana (sculptor)
» Laura Lanza (Baroness of Carini)
» Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (novelist)
» Francesco Lo Jacono (painter)
» Louis IX of France
» Saint Lucy
» Manfred (king of Sicily)
» Ettore Majorana (physicist)
» Margaret of Navarre (queen)
» Maria Sophia of Bavaria (queen)
» Francesco Messina (sculptor)
» Mario Minniti (painter)
» Nicodemus of Palermo (bishop)
» Saint Paul
» Peter of Aragon (king of Sicily)
» Peter of Eboli (medieval chronicler)
» Luigi Pirandello (writer)
» Giuseppe Pitré
» Salvatore Quasimodo (poet)
» Roger II (first king of Sicily)
» Saint Rosalie
» Savoy Dynasty
» Alessandro Scarlatti (composer)
» Leonardo Sciascia (writer)
» Emilio Segré (physicist and Nobel laureate)
» Giacomo Serpotta (sculptor)
» Giuseppe Di Stefano (operatic tenor)
» Stesichorus (Greek lyric poet)
» Luigi Sturzo (statesman)
» Timaeus (ancient historian)
» Saint Thomas Becket
» Giuseppe Tornatore (movie director)
» Fulco de Verdura (jewelry designer)
» Giovanni Verga (writer)
» William II (king of Sicily)

Mythology
» Arethusa
» Artemis (Diana)
» Charybdis
» Daedalus
» Gargoyles
» Hercules
» Icarus
» Kyane
» Persephone
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» Scylla
» Sacred Mountain

Topics
» Ancient Acoustics
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» Baroness of Carini
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» Black Death
» Chess in Sicily
» Constantinian Order of St George
» Royal Dais
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» Italian Law
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