Frau (Cagliari 1880 – 1926), designer Flavio Manzoni (born 1965), architect and car designer Vico Mossa (1914–2003), Architect Enzo Satta, urbanist and architect Eugenio Tavolara (1901–1963), sculptor and designer Authors Milena Agus (born 1955) Francesco Alziator (1909–1977), writer and journalist Antonella Anedda (born 1955), half-Sardinian Giulio Angioni (born 1939) writer and anthropologist Gerolamo Araolla (1542–1615) Sergio Atzeni (1952–1995) Vicente Bacallar Sanna (1669–1726) Ludovico Baille (1764–1839) Alberto Capitta (born 1954) Fausta Cialente (1898–1994) Antoni Cossu (1927–2002) Grazia Deledda (1871–1936), winner of the Nobel prize for literature Pietro Delitala (middle 16th century – 1613), poet Salvatore Farina (1846–1918), novelist Maria Chessa Lai (1922–2012), poet Gavino Ledda (born 1938) Emilio Lussu (1890–1975) Francesco Manunta i Baldino (1928–1995), poet Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli Melchiorre Murenu (1803–1854) Michela Murgia Salvatore Niffoi (born 1950), writer Rafael Sari (1904–1978), poet and writer Flavio Soriga (born 1975) writer Pasqual Scanu (1908–1978) Tigellius (1st century BC – 40 BC), lyric poet during the time of Julius Caesar Pasquale Tola (1800–1874) Dolores Turchi (born 1935) Businessmen Massimo Cellino (born 1956), entrepreneur and football club owner Giovanni Antonio Sanna (1819–1875), entrepreneur and politician Renato Soru (born 1957), entrepreneur founder of Tiscali and former governor of Sardinia Salvatore Dau (1839–1914), tanner https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salvatore_Dau_1885.jpg Cinema and TV Actors and actresses Gianni Agus Mavie Bardanzellu (born 1938), actress Vittorio Congia (1930–2019), film actor Rubi Dalma (1906–1994) Giancarlo Dettori (born 5 April 1932), actor Maria Frau (born 6 August 1930) Rossana Ghessa (born 24 January 1943) Rita Livesi (born 1915) Mario Majeroni (1870–1931) Gloria Milland (born 1940), actress Tiberio Murgia Caterina Murino Amedeo Nazzari Alessandro Nivola – American actor, grandson of Costantino Nivola Marisa Pierangeli Anna Maria Pierangeli – also known as Pier Angeli Filmmakers Luigi Batzella Antonello Grimaldi Piero Livi (1925–2015), director and screenwriter Nanni Loy Sebastian Piras, photographer and filmmaker Fiorenzo Serra (1921–2005), documentarist Franco Solinas (1927–1982) screenwriter Showgirls and fashion models Elisabetta Canalis Franca Dall'Olio (born 1945), Miss Italia 1963 Alessandra Meloni (born 1972), Miss Italia 1994 Giorgia Palmas Melissa Satta Police officers Emanuela Loi Criminals Er Canaro (born 1956) Giovanni Corbeddu Salis (1844–1898), outlaw Journalists Francesco Alziator (1909–1977), born in Cagliari Pasquale Chessa (born 1947), historian and journalist Attilio Deffenu (1890–1918) journalist, syndicalist and patriot Annalisa Piras (born 1971), journalist and film maker Cristiano Ruiu (born 1979) Mercenaries, soldiers and troops Mario Aramu (1900–1940), aviator Domenico Millelire (1761–1827) patriot, navy officer Antonio Todde (1889–2002), oldest man in the world at the date