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Famous people with Sardinian Ancestry (but not born in Sardinia)
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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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Adriana Serra


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Adriana Serra (27 November 1923 – 13 November 1995) was a film actress with sardinian roots. She appeared in 18 films between 1943 and 1952. She was born in Milan, Italy. She was Miss Italia in 1941.


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Giovanni Atzeni


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Giovanni Atzeni (born 12 April 1985, Nagold, Germany; known as "Tittia") is a sardinian Palio jockey, most famous for winning two consecutive races during Il Palio Di Siena in 2013, subsequently stopping his rival Luigi Bruschelli (known as "Trecciolino" or "Gigi") from matching the record of 14 Palio wins (a record held by another jockey, Aceto) which has not been beaten since 1780.


Palio Victories


2 July 2007 - winning for Contrada dell'Oca
2 July 2011 - winning for Contrada dell'Oca
2 July 2013 - winning for Contrada dell'Oca
16 August 2013 - winning for Contrada dell'Onda
17 August 2015 - winning for Contrada della Selva
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Bianca Berlinguer

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Bianca Maria Berlinguer (Rome, 9 December 1959) is a journalist. She was the director of newscast TG3 from October 2009 to August 2016.

The first of the four children of the Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer and Letizia Laurenti (the other siblings are Maria Stella, Marco (it) and Laura, journalist of Studio Aperto), Bianca Berlinguer is married in second marriage with the politician Luigi Manconi.

She owns a degree in literature, and after a period of training at Radiocorriere TV, at the beginning of the 1980s she started working at Il Messaggero and at the same time worked at Mixer (1985) as an editor. She later joined the TG3 newsroom on a permanent basis. She presented the TG3 evening edition uninterruptedly since 1991. She also presented Primo piano, an in-depth programme on Rai 3.

She was appointed director of the TG3 on 1 October 2009 . She took office on 12 October. On 24 September 2010 she won the first edition of the journalism prize "L'isola che c'è", awarded to 10 Sardinian journalists working in Rome for the printed press or the RAI - Radiotelevisione italiana. On 24 September 2011 she won the Premio Nazionale Alghero Donna di Letteratura e Giornalismo (it), journalism section. As director she continues to lead (after a gap of some months) the evening edition of TG3, and the in-depth programme Linea Notte.

She led the TG3 for the last time on 5 August 2016 and was succeeded by Luca Mazzà.

Since 7 November 2016, she is leading the tv program Cartabianca on Rai 3.
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Paolo Bonolis

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Paolo Bonolis (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːolo boˈnɔːlis]; born 14 June 1961) is a television host. He made his debut in 1981 on Tre, due, uno, contatto..., a program for children that aired on Italian national broadcaster RAI.

In 1982, he moved to Italia 1 where he hosted Bim bum bam, again a program for children. He anchored Bim Bum Bam until 1990 and then he hosted some variety shows like Urka!, Bulli & pupe, Non è la RAI and Belli freschi. After that, he signed back with RAI and hosted a few prime time shows like I cervelloni, Beato tra le donne and the quiz show Luna park, on air in the evening in Raiuno.

In 1996 he went back to Mediaset, where he successfully hosted Tira & molla and the prime time shows Ciao Darwin and Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?. Beginning in the same year he also hosted on Canale 5 the satirical news program Striscia la notizia. The program was anchored along with Bonolis's longstanding collaborator, the singer and comic actor Luca Laurenti.

He returned in RAI in 2003, when he presented Domenica In and, later, Affari tuoi, game show that in early 2004 had a lot of success. After that he presented the Festival di Sanremo 2005, the most important Italian music festival, having a lot of success. He repeated this experience in 2009 with Ivan Olita.

In the second part of the 2000s (decade) he hosted, for Canale 5, programs like Il senso della vita and some new editions of the successful shows Ciao Darwin and Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?.

In 2006, he debuted in the movie industry with the film Commediasexi.

Bonolis ancestors were from Sardinia, also his surname (though today almost disappeared in Sardinia has sardinian origin). Paolo Bonolis lived 6 years of his youth in Buddusò (province of Sassari) where some of his uncles, whose surname is Addis, still reside today.
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Giorgia Meloni


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Giorgia Meloni (born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician and journalist, president of Brothers of Italy.

Giorgia Meloni was Minister of Youth in the IV Berlusconi government and president of Young Italy, the youth section of The People of Freedom.

She is co-founder of the party Brothers of Italy ("Fratelli d'Italia") with Guido Crosetto and Ignazio La Russa, and on March 8, 2014, she was elected president of the party. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy since 2006.




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Meloni was born in Rome, to a father from Sardinia and a mother from Sicily.

Being active in politics since her teenage years, she earned a diploma from the former Amerigo Vespucci Institute in 1996.

In 1992, when she was 15, she started her political commitment in "Fronte della Gioventù", the youth section of Italian Social Movement. After she founded a student movement called "Gli Antenati", in 1995 she became a member of the National Alliance.

In 1996, she became the national president of "Azione Studentesca", the student movement of National Alliance.

In 1998, she was elected city councilwoman of the Province of Rome and she held this position until 2002.

In 2000, she was elected national director, and in 2004, was the first women president of Youth Action, the party's youth wing.

In 2006, she became the youngest ever deputy vice president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and she started to work as journalist.

In 2009, her party merged with Forza Italia into The People of Freedom and she took over the presidency of the united party's youth section, called Young Italy.

In 2008, she was appointed as Minister of Youth Policy in Berlusconi IV Cabinet, a position she held until November 16, 2011. She was the youngest-ever minister in the history of the Italian Republic.

In November 2012, she announced her bid to contest the leadership of the People of Freedom party against Angelino Alfano, in contrast with the party's support of the Monti Cabinet. After the cancellation of the primaries, she teamed up with fellow MPs Ignazio La Russa and Guido Crosetto for an anti-Monti policy, asking for renewal within the party and being also critical of the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi.

In December 2012, all three MPs left the party to found a new political movement, "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy), its name borrowed from the words of the Italian National Anthem. At the Italian general election, 2013, her party received 2.0% of the vote and 9 seats.

In March 2014 she won the primary election of her party and became its President.

She was candidate for mayor of Rome in 2016, but lost. She and her party were for a "No" vote on the Italian constitutional referendum, 2016.
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Filippo Tortu


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Filippo Tortu (born 15 June 1998) is sprinter, italian national record holder of 100 meters with the time of 9.99 and the first ever Italian to fall below 10 seconds on the distance.

He won the gold medal in 100 metres at the 2017 European U20 Championships and the silver medal at the 2016 World U20 Championships. He is coached by his father, Salvino Tortu, a former Sardinian sprinter who emigrated to Lombardy. His older brother, Giacomo, is also a sprinter.




Biography

Born in Milan but with Sardinian origins (his father was a Sardinian runner too), He began to play sports at the age of eight years, dividing his time between athletics and basketball.

In 2010 and 2011 he won in the categories of first and second media, the title of fastest guy in Milan and is dedicated to athletics definitely Salvino coached by his father, former sprinter. In 2013 he won the 80 meters at the Italian championships cadets Jesolo with 9.09 time. Trials for the European Youth Olympic Games, in 2014, took third place in the 100 meters, though lacking the qualification that instead obtained in the double distance. During a 200 meters preliminarie race for the Youth Olympics Tortu fell on the finish line, breaking both arms making him unable to compete in the final. In 2015 he realizes the Italian youth records of 100 meters with 10.33 and 200 meters with 20.92.

In 2016 he realizes in Savona the Italian junior record of 100 meters, getting twice the 10.24 time; this record was unbeaten for 34 years, as held by Pierfrancesco Pavoni who ran the distance in 10.25 at the 1982 European Championships. A month later, he landed in Rieti his first Italian title, winning the final of 100 meters in 10.32. Takes part in the European Championships in Amsterdam, where, after winning its own heat, to qualify for the semifinals running in 10.19, new Italian junior record, failing, however, to reach the final for 3 cents. Also it runs in the final stage of 4×100 relay that, qualified for the final, ending the race in 5th place. He participates at the World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, where he won the silver medal in 100 meters with 10.24, behind the american Noah Lyles (10.17). In the same event participates in the 4×100 relay that, qualified for the final, finished 7th.

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