Carmelo Scarnecchia, gambling expert and sleight-of-hand card performer Mary Schiavo - former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation Michael Schiavo - ex-husband of Terri Schiavo, the woman whose comatose state and subsequent court case garnered much media attention Christian Siriano - fashion designer from New York Milton Sirotta - at age nine coined the term googol Michael Smerconish - CNN journalist Carmela Teoli - 14-year-old mill worker whose Congressional testimony helped end the 1912 Lawrence textile strike Jack Valenti - of Sicilian heritage, president of the Motion Picture Association of America from 1966 to 2007 Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann - fashion model, and socialite See also List of Italians List of Sicilian Americans List of Italian Britons List of Italian-American television characters List of Italian-American women writers References Americans Italian Italian