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. Academic figures and inventors 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 cephalosporin 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 Activists Aurelio Chessa (1913–1996) anarchist, journalist and historian Giovanni Nuvoli Architects and designers Paola Antonelli (born 1963), architect, senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Carlo Battaglia (1933–2005), designer Gaetano Cima (1805–1878), Neoclassical architect Fernando Clemente (1917–1998), architect and urbanist Francesco Boffo (1796–1867), Neoclassical architect Davis Ducart architect of the 18th-century Renzo