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Famous people with Sardinian Ancestry (but not born in Sardinia)
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Wally Schirra


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Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, America's first effort to put humans in space.

Schirra was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on March 12, 1923, to an aviation family that hailed from the Italian island of Sardinia.

He flew the six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962, becoming the fifth American, and the ninth human, to ride a rocket into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module.

He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. He retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain and from NASA after his Apollo flight, becoming a consultant to CBS News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing missions.

Schirra died at the age of 84 on May 3, 2007 of a heart attack due to malignant mesothelioma.
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:above: Wow i didn't know is existed an austronaut of Sardinian descent!
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Mara Cubeddu


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Mara Cubeddu, also known under the pseudonym Bea and Dawn Win (Monza, May 5, 1956), is an Italian singer with sardinian ancestry. It is famous for being the vocalist of bands Flora Fauna Cemento and Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble.
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Vittoria Valmaggia


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Vittoria Valmaggia (Oria, 29 March 1944 - Modena, 31 October 2009) was an Italian artist. Known also as Rina Conforti or Tappin, she was a ceramist, painter, stylist and the first Sardinian artist to produce dolls in traditional costumes combining multiple fabrics, gold and silver miniature jewellery, copper and ceramics.

Vittoria Valmaggia was attending elementary school in Apulia when she moved with her family to Sardinia - homeland of her grandmother. As the eldest of the four children, she was constrained to take care about her mother and brothers due to the parents’ divorce, soon after graduation in accounting. She first worked for an insurance company, then was offered a job at Insar in Stintino by Angelo Moratti until 1969.

In 1966, passion for the local art transmitted her by the grandmother, native of Borutta, resulted in opening, in parallel to her job, the first shop with carved wood furnitures in Stintino. In addition, she gratified by designing interiors of villas for tourists.

In the 1969-1972 Valmaggia opened a crafts shop in Palau called “Rina Palau” where she still sold furnitures, but already extended her activity to painted clothing, antiques and Sardinian jewellery. During this period she met priest Giacomino Canu from the parish of Baja Sardinia and developed interest for oil painting.

After marrying Gerardo Conforti - a carabinieri marshal, she moved to Riola Sardo where her husband commanded a local station in the 1973-1977. In these years she painted “Sea and rocks in Capo Falcone (Stintino)” exhibited at “Galleria ENFAC” in Turin.[1] Due to her husband’s job she moved, this time to the |island of La Maddalena, where in the 1977-1982 she concentrated on painintg. Her works, inspired by the nature around and often exhibited in private lounges, depicted deciduous flowers, coastal landscapes with a stormy sea and boats at the sunset. At the same time Valmaggia focused on her main passion - traditions and costumes of Sardinia, studied thoroughly from historical documents and rare books on Sardinian culture. In collaboration with I.S.O.L.A.,[2] she dedicated herself to mannequin-dolls in Sardinian costumes characterized by faces made of empty nutshells covered with nylon veil.

In 1983 the dolls in great demand convinced her husband to take his formal leave from carabinieri in order to support her in management of the activity. In the same year they opened the first art shop and gallery in Cannigione called “Tappin” and with this signature many of her creations became famous. During this period she elaborated dolls’ structure substituting nutshells by ceramic faces and adding ceramic hands. Entirely hand crafted - feature that guaranteed uniqueness of every art piece, 25 cm to one meter tall, the dolls were composed of a precious copper structure covered by a soft layer of foam giving shape to fabrics including brocade, damask, lampas, coarse woollen fabric and Sardinian velvet with lace elements. The costume was then adorned with traditional gold and silver miniature jewels.

At the height of her artistic career in 1985, Valmaggia designed modern versions of the traditional Sardinian costume that were presented during fashion shows at the main squares of Cannigione and Baja Sardinia.

In the 1990s she dedicated herself to artistic ceramics making small sculptures inspired by faces of Sardinian women, tiny animals, floral compositions, as well as varied plates with marine motives that relfected topics of her paintings.

Beginning of the 21st Century was dominated by furnishing accessories in ceramics such as vases, plates and wall lamps in the marine style. In 2007 she was diagnosed brain cancer, however, even following surgery, she continued her artistic activity until death two years later.
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Gustavo Piga

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Gustavo Piga (18 February 1964), is an economist. He is professor of Political economy at University of Rome Tor Vergata.
In 1996 attained the PhD in Economics at Columbia University. In 1997-98 taught Accounting and Finance at the Department of Economics of Columbia University. He is the director responsible for the Rivista di Politica Economica, and expert of OECD. Piga is the president of the association "I Viaggiatori in Movimento". He wrote Revisiting Keynes". In 2002-2005 he was the president of Consip a joint-stock company, set up in 1997, held by the Italian Ministry of economy and finance.

Works

Approfondimenti di economia politica, Roma, La Sapienza, 1996
Who's afraid of index-linked bonds?, with Lorenzo Pecchi, Roma, Università degli studi La Sapienza, 1996
On the sources of the inflationary-bias and output variability, Roma, Università Luiss Guido Carli, 1999
The link between the size and the management of public debt: the role of bond ownership in the italian case, with Giorgio Valente, Roma, Universita Luiss Guido Caarli, 1999
Capital accumulation, productivity and growth: monitoring Italy 2005, with Marco Malgarini, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave
Lezioni di microeconomia, Torino, Giappichelli, [2008]
Budget rules versus budget flexibility: a political equilibrium approach, Roma, Università Luiss, 1994
EMU and public debt management: one money, one debt?, with Carlo Favero, Alessandro Missale
The politics of index-linked bonds, with Lorenzo Pecchi, Roma: Università Luiss Guido Carli, 1997
Managing public debt: index-linked bonds in theory and practice, with Marcello De Cecco, Lorenzo Pecchi, Cheltenham, UK, Brookfield, US, Elgar, 1997
Public debt management in the European monetary union, Roma, Università Luiss Guido Carli, 1999
Handbook of procurement, with Nicola Dimitri, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Regole per il mercato, with Mario Baldassarri, Giampaolo Galli, Milano, Il Sole 24 ore, 2002
L' esternalizzazione dei processi gestionali: l'impatto sulle imprese e le prospettive per il Sistema Italia, with Corrado Cerruti, Riccardo Pacini, Il Sole 24 ore, 2008
Approfondimenti di economia politica, Roma, Euroma, stampa 1998
Understanding the high interest rates on Italian government securities, with Alberto Giovannini, Roma, Luiss University, 1992
The Italian term structure of interest rates and the government issuance policy, with Giorgio Valente, Roma, Luiss edizioni, 2001
In search of an independent province for the treasuries: how should governments announce debt issues?, Roma, Università degli studi La Sapienza, 1995
Esercizi di economia politica with Valerio Crispolti, Roma, NIS, 1997
The economics of public procurement, with Khi V. Thai, Basingstoke; New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Il ventunesimo secolo di Keynes. Economia e società per le nuove generazioni, with Lorenzo Pecchi, Roma, Luiss University Press, 2011
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Martin Angioni

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Martin Angioni, is a businessman, a marketing expert and a manager of sardinian ancestry. He has studied at the Cambridge University. He was the country manager of Amazon Italia, the general manager for Yahoo!Italia and the Ceo of Ackerman McQueen. He is the son of the sardinian equestrian champion, gold medal at Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, Paolo Angioni.
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Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi

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Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi (or es-Sebsi, Arabic: محمد الباجي قائد السبسي‎‎, Muhammad al-Bājī Qā’id as-Sibsī) is a Tunisian politician who has been President of Tunisia since December 2014. Previously he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1981 to 1986 and as Prime Minister from February 2011 to December 2011.

Essebsi is the founder of the Nidaa Tounes political party, which won a plurality in the 2014 parliamentary election. In December 2014, he won the first regular presidential election following the Tunisian Revolution, becoming Tunisia's first freely and directly elected president.

Born in Sidi Bou Said to a family from the Tunisian landed élite, he is a great-grandson of Ismail Caïd Essebsi, a Sardinian kidnapped by Tunisian corsairs along the coasts of Sardinia at the beginning of the nineteenth century who became a mamluk leader raised with the ruling family. He was later recognized as a free man when he became an important member of the government.

He has two sons and two daughters.

Essebsi is currently 90 years old and have been a third-oldest current head of state after Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth realms.
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Ettore Pais

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Ettore Pais (July 27, 1856, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy – 1939, Rome) was an ancient historian, Latin epigrapher, and an politician.

Pais was the son of Michele Pais Leoni, a nobleman from Sassari, Sardinia and Carlotta Tranchero, from Piedmont. He studied at Lucca and Florence from 1874, receiving his degree from Florence in 1878. Among his teachers were Atto Vannucci and the philologist Domenico Comparetti. After spending some years in Sardinia, he published La Sardegna prima del dominio romano (Sardinia before the roman conquest) in 1881. That same year he studied at Berlin with Theodor Mommsen and the two collaborated on the fifth volume the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum that was published in 1884. He began his teaching career in Palermo in 1886 and moved to Pisa in 1888 where he would become professor of ancient history. Pais stayed there until 1899, when he began teaching at Naples, and later the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1905. From 1910 to 1914 he was director of the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the excavations at Pompeii. Pais studied as a visiting scholar at leading universities around the world and received many honorary degrees, including those granted to him by the following: professor of history and Roman law from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, honorary degrees at Oxford, Chicago and Paris. He taught courses in Paris at the Sorbonne, in Bucharest, Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Boston, Cambridge, New York, and Chicago.

In 1911 he published La civiltà dei nuraghi e lo sviluppo sociologico della Sardegna (The Nuragic civilization and the sociologic development of Sardinia) and in 1923 Storia della Sardegna e della Corsica durante il dominio romano (History of Sardinia and Corsica during the Roman Era). From 1923 until 1931 he was professor at the University of Rome and, from 1922 until his death, served in the Italian senate.
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Paolo Orano

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Paolo Orano (born 15 June 1875 in Rome – died 7 April 1945 in Padula) was a psychologist, politician and writer. Orano began his political career as a revolutionary syndicalist in Italian Socialist Party. He later became a leading figure within the National Fascist Party.


Orano was born in 1875 in Rome to a local father and a Sardinian mother. He learned literature and philosophy at University of Rome and graduated in 1898. In the next year he began teaching philosophy high schools, including in Siena, Senigallia and Tivoli. He also worked with various publishers.

Orano began his political career as one of a number of leading syndicalist thinkers associated with the Italian Socialist Party at the turn of the century. His estrangement from the Socialists began in 1905 when he resigned his position at the newspaper Avanti! following the dismissal of syndicalist Enrico Leone.




Syndacalism

Along with fellow syndicalists Arturo Labriola and Robert Michels, as well as nationalist Enrico Corradini, Orano became part of a group of intellectuals who followed the ideals of Georges Sorel. To this end he founded his own weekly newspaper, La Lupa, in October 1910. It came to represent the first collaboration between syndicalists like Orano and nationalists like Enrico Corradini. Benito Mussolini would later claim that this paper was an influence on his political ideas. Orano became a strong critic of democracy, seeing it as the cause of Italy's ills and his rhetoric, along with that of fellow syndicalists such as Filippo Corridoni and Angelo Olivetti, was by 1914 very similar to that coming from the Italian Nationalist Association. Orano supported the First World War, ostensibly because he hoped that it would strengthen both the bourgeoisie and proletariat and thus hasten the process of class conflict and revolution. However his views caused considerable controversy within the syndicalist movement and helped to bring about its fragmentation as many of those associated with the movement, in particular Leone, were anti-war. By the end of the war his positions were largely indistinguishable from those of the nationalists.




Fascism

Orano soon moved over to the Fascists and during the March on Rome he served as Mussolini's chief of staff, whilst also occupying a seat on the Grand Council of the party. He enjoyed a high-profile under the fascist government, serving in the parliament and holding the post of rector of the University of Perugia.
His most notable contribution to fascism was his anti-semitism and he was the author in 1937 of the book The Jews in Italy. The book was influenced by Bernard Lazare in so much as it accepted his thesis that the activities of the Jews themselves helped to cause anti-semitism, although it made no reference to Lazare's refutations of the prejudice. In the book Orano expressed affection for some individual Jews, notably Ettore Ovazza, but nonetheless the book helped to legitimise anti-Semitism as a part of Italian fascism and laid the groundwork for later persecutions. Despite this the non-biological nature of his anti-semitism meant that he did not go far enough for Giovanni Preziosi, who attacked Orano's work in his journal La Vita Italiana.
Captured in 1944 he was held along with many fellow fascist officials at a prison camp at Padula where he died the following year following complications with a peptic ulcer haemorrhage.




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As well as his political writing Orano was also noted for his psychological and philosophical work. His 1897 book Cristo e Quirino criticised Christianity from a Nietzschean perspective, suggesting that it told people to accept their lot in life and thus solidified hierarchy in society. Mussolini would later use these arguments about the parallels between the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Empire, and thus common ground between fascism and Catholicism, during his negotiations with Pius XI, much to horror of the pontiff who considered the very notion heretical.
His 1902 book Psicologica Sociale sought to attack transpersonal psychology and instead argued in favour of materialism and inductive reasoning that took into account the works of Karl Marx and Charles Darwin.
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Rubi Dalma

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Rubi Dalma, born Giusta Manca di Villahermosa, (24 April 1906 - 7 August 1994) was a sardinian actress.

She belonged to an aristocratic family from the Sardinian town of Sassari.

After a bit part in the Camillo Mastrocinque's film Regina della Scala, in which she basically played herself, Manca di Villahermosa decided to start a career as an actress and she adopted the stage name Rubi Dalma (sometimes spelled as Rubi D'Alma or Ruby Dalma).

Her breakout role was as the aristocrat donna Paola unsuccessfully courted by Vittorio De Sica in Mario Camerini's Il signor Max. From then Dalma started a successful career, even if often limited to stereotyped roles of cold, sophisticated and sometimes snobbish noblewomen. After the war she mainly appeared in character roles and, gradually, moved away from the cinema industry.
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