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Famous Sardinians; This is a list of famous people born in the island of Sardinia
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Augusto Bissiri

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Augusto Bissiri (1879–1968) was an inventor born in Seui, Sardinia in 1879.

Augusto Bissiri is credited as one of the first developers of television, the fax and the cathode ray tube.

In 1906, Augusto trasmitted a photograph image from one room to another, and in 1917, he successfully transmitted an image from London to New York. He patented his television apparatus in Los Angeles in 1928.


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I haven't ever heard about this Bissiri and his inventions before. So was the inventor of Television sardinian? :omg:
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libni
Jul 30 2013, 08:08 AM
I haven't ever heard about this Bissiri and his inventions before.
Me too. I like this forum because i'm discovering new things about Sardinia that i didn't know. It's more informative than great part of the forums in italian language.
Edited by Pearl, Jul 30 2013, 10:56 PM.
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Gianfranco Zola

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Gianfranco Zola, OBE, Ufficiale OMRI (born 5 July 1966 in Oliena) is a retired footballer and current manager, who most recently served as manager of West Ham United from 2008 to 2010, after having been assistant manager of the Italy U-21 under Pierluigi Casiraghi.

He spent the first decade of his career playing in Italy, most notably with Napoli, alongside Diego Maradona and Careca, and at Parma, before moving to English sideChelsea, where he was voted Football Writers' Player of the Year in 1997 and Chelsea's greatest ever player. He was capped 35 times for Italy.
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Walter Ferreri

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Walter Ferreri, originally from Buddusò in Sardinia, is an astronomer at Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino in Italy and a science writer. He is a member of the "Division III Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites" and the "Division III Planetary Systems Sciences" at the IAU. The asteroid 3308 Ferreri is named after him for his contributions for and popularization of astronomy.

Astronomical objects discovered by Walter Ferreri:

3625 FracastoroApril 27, 1984
3778 ReggeApril 26, 1984
4061 MartelliMarch 19, 1988
4398 ChiaraApril 23, 1984
5003 SilvanominutoMarch 15, 1988
5022 Roccapalumba[1]April 23, 1984
6114 Dalla-Degregori[1]April 28, 1984
6289 Lanusei[1]April 28, 1984
7396 BrusinMarch 4, 1986
(10738) 1988 FW2March 17, 1988
(19968) 1988 FE3March 19, 1988
(21007) 1988 FD3March 19, 1988
(52267) 1986 EP2March 4, 1986
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Marisa Sannìa

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Marisa Sannia (February 15, 1947 Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy – April 14, 2008 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia. She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties. She later became an interpreter of songs, composer, an actress and then finally an artistic researcher. She is primarily noted for being a singer in the Sardinian language, her native tongue.

Sannia died in Cagliari at the age of 61 on April 14, 2008.

Biography

Having been a basketball player with good level in Cus Cagliari (which also called the national), Marisa Sannia began her musical career in the early sixties, winning a competition for new items that allowed her to get a record deal with the Cetra Fonit.

Her talent was spotted by Sergio Endrigo and Luis Enriquez Bacalov that sought to tap into composing a piece for her debut recording "All or nothing" and promoting its participation in 1967, on television as "real Scala" and "Settevoci".

The recognition received by the television appearances allowed her to participate the same year two musicarelli: "Kids of yellow flag", "Stasera mi butto", alongside Giancarlo Giannini.

After a few discrete successes (A postcard, Be proud of me - award of record criticism), and participation in Festivalbar 1967 where she ranked in the third round for young artists, Marisa Sannia knew real popularity in 1968 when she finished second in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Casa Bianca", written by Don Backy and sung along with Ornella Vanoni, who became a great success, so as to be inserted in the soundtrack of the film "Alfredo Alfredo", by Pietro Germi.

After the success Sanremo, Marisa Sannia published her first album. Followed by several successful songs: "A tear", "the company" (composed by Carlo Donida and Mogol and resumed in 1976 by Lucio Battisti and then in 2007 by Vasco Rossi), "Love is a dove", "How sweet the evening tonight" and "my land".

Marisa Sannia also worked in film and participated in various events such as singing Canzonissima (1972, inter alia with a song by Nino Tristan, "A Kite"), the International Festival of Light Music of Venice, A Song for Europe in Switzerland and again in 1970 in San Remo in 1971 and 1984.

In the early seventies she devoted herself to theater by participating in two musicals (Cain and Abel and stories suburbs) very successful alongside Tony Cucchiara and in some work directed by Giorgio Albertazzi. Still under the wing of Sergio Endrigo, she also participated in the album The Ark, a collection of songs by Vinicius de Moraes dedicated to children. In 1973 she published a disc with songs taken from the Walt Disney movie entitled Marisa in Wonderland.

In 1976 her first songwriting collection was published with the interesting title "The pasta sheet".

In the early eighties Sannia Marisa also appeared in television drama "George Sand" with Albertazzi, Anna Proclemer and Paola Borboni and participated in the film by Pupi Avati "Help me to dream". In 1984 she returned to Sanremo with "love Love" that followed a long period of isolation from the scene.

In 1993 she returned with a disc in the Sardinian language in which the verses of music Antioco Casula, Sardinian poet active in the first half of the twentieth century, entitled "Sa oghe de su Entu e de su mare". Marisa Sannia later returned to the theater with Albertazzi in "memories of Adriano" - Portrait of an entry of 1995.

In 1997 recorded the new disc Melagranàda in collaboration with the contemporary poet writer Francesco Masala in a collection from the Poesias in duas limbas. In 2002 she participated in "songs for you", a tribute to Sergio Endrigo, interpreting "Hands holes".

In 2003 she published a third collection in the Sardinian language, and "Nanas and Janas", with new words and music written by herself. This research is poetic and musical recital summarized in "Songs between two languages on the way of poetry" presented in important exhibitions in Italy and abroad as The Night of the Poets all'anfiteatro Nora Roman, at Taormina Film Festival and as part of the exhibition Rome Meets the World . In January 2006 she took part in the concert tribute to Sergio Endrigo, entitled "Hello Poet" and collected in a CD / DVD, which interprets "The White Rose" and "How ever tonight."

Her last work, posthumously published and distributed (Felmay - Egea distributions) in November 2008 (preview Premio Tenco) and Marisa Sannia "Rosa de papel" is dedicated to the life and poetry of Federico García Lorca. This is a collection of 12 songs, and is particularly dear to the singer/Songwriter who has put to music the poems of the great poet of youth. Among the songs are some real musical gems as: "El nino mudo", "Rosa de papel", "Laberytos y espeyos", "Hi cerrado my balcon".

She also won the Festival della Canzone d'Autore for Children. Marisa Sannia was interested in the work of other artists. And some of her own compositions have been covered also in Spain by the singer Ester Formosa.

Due to a sudden and serious illness Marisa Sannia died April 14, 2008. In August 2008, in her memory is due to the recognition of the award "Maria Carta." Also worth mentioning is that in January 2009, the great artist Maria Lai dedicated to the figure of Sannia an exhibition of her works.
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Paolo Angioni


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Paolo Angioni (born in Cagliari 22 January 1938) is a former equestrian and Olympic champion. He competed in the mixed three-day eventing, individual and team, at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a team gold medal in 1964. In 1966, Angioni was crushed by his horse at a competition in Poland. He went into a coma, but recovered and continued to compete. In retirement he wrote several books on equestrian history and techniques.

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Nanni Loy

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Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.

Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli. Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law.

He became famous for introducing in Italy the candid camera with his show Specchio segreto (Secret mirror) in 1965.

His 1962 film The Four Days of Naples was nominated for two Academy Awards. It also won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival in 1963.

His 1971 film Detenuto in attesa di giudizio was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. The star, Alberto Sordi, won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award.

He specialized in comedy films such as Padre di famiglia but he also shot film dealing with social themes (Detenuto in attesa di giudizio and Sistemo l'America e torno).

Loy died at Fregene, near Rome, in 1995.


Partial filmography


  • Parola di ladro (1956) (with Gianni Puccini)
  • Il marito (1958) (with Gianni Puccini)
  • Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
  • Un giorno da leoni (1961)
  • Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962)
  • Made in Italy (1965)
  • Il padre di famiglia (1967)
  • Rosolino Paternò soldato (1970)
  • Detenuto in attesa di giudizio (1971)
  • Sistemo l'America e torno (1973)
  • Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
  • Quelle strane occasioni (1976), fragment "Italian Superman", credited as Anonymous
  • Basta che non si sappia in giro (1976)
  • Café Express (1980)
  • Testa o croce (1982)
  • Mi manda Picone (1984)
  • Amici miei atto III (1985)
  • Scugnizzi (1989)
  • Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993)
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Giuseppe Manno

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Giuseppe Manno (1786 - 1868) was a magistrate, politician and historian. He was elected president of the Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and later of Kingdom of Italy.


Biography

Manno was born in Alghero, Sardinia the 17th March 1786 from a noble family, his father was Antonio Manno and his mother was Caterina Diaz. He moved to Cagliari, where he graduated in Civil and Canon law in 1804; in 1805 he became a tax lawyer for the Reale Udienza and in 1811 he collaborated for the realization of the magazine Foglio periodico di Sardegna, printed in Cagliari.

He moved to Turin in 1817, where he was appointed First official of the State Secretary for the Sardinian Affairs. He become the personal secretary of the King Charles Felix in 1821.

He was appointed member of the Supremo Consiglio di Sardegna (Supreme Council of Sardinia) in 1823, where he worked to modernize the legal system of the Kingdom. In 1826 he became member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and in 1834 became Academic della Crusca.

On 14 October 1845, he was elected President of the Senate of Nice, and in 1847 was elected president of the Senate of Piedmont.


Honours and awards

  • Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  • Comendador of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  • Knight of Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  • Knight of the Civil Order of Savoy
  • Milite of the Military Order of Savoy
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Adelasia of Torres


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Adelasia (1207–1259), eldest child of Marianus II of Logudoro by Agnes of Massa, daughter of William I of Cagliari, and successor of her brother, Barisone III, in 1236, was the Judge of Logudoro from 1236 and Judge of Gallura from 1238.

By a pact signed between her father, who had interests in Gallura, and Gallurese judge, the Pisan Lamberto Visconti in November 1218, Adelasia first married the heir of Gallura, Lamberto's son Ubaldo II in 1219. Pope Honorius III, enemy of the Pisans, immediately sent his chaplain Bartolomeo to annul the marriage, but he failed and the pact between Pisa and Logudoro stood.

Ubaldo inherited the Giudicato of Gallura in 1225. Marianus died in 1232 and, by his will, was succeeded by his son Barisone III. Upon Barisone's death (1236) without heirs, also as stipulated by Marianus' will, the Logudorese magnates elected one of his daughters, Adelasia or Benedetta, to inherit. They unanimously acclaimed Adelasia, whose husband could well uphold her right. So they in turn elected him judge as well. In 1237, Pope Gregory IX sent his chaplain Alexander to Torres to receive recognition from Adelasia of papal suzerainty over Logudoro, as well as the lands she inherited from her grandfather William of Cagliari, in Pisa, Massa, and Corsica. At the palace of Ardara, in the presence of the Camaldolese abbot and monks of S. Trinità di Saccargia, she made the oath of vassalage and Ubaldo affirmed it, giving over the castle of Monte Acuto to the bishop of Ampurias as a guarantee of his good faith. Ubaldo did not, however, recognise any authority over Gallura other than the ancient authority of the Pisan archdiocese.

By Ubaldo's will, drawn up in January 1237 at Silki, Gallura was to be inherited by his cousin John Visconti. Peter II of Arborea became Adelasia's protector. She remarried quickly to Guelfo dei Porcari, a person devoted to the Holy See. He did not live long after, though. At that time, the Doria family of Genoa, Pisa's main rival, convinced the Emperor Frederick II to marry his bastard son Enzo to Adelasia and create a Kingdom of Sardinia. Enzo arrived from Cremona in October the same year as Ubaldo's death and the two were married and titled King and Queen of Sardinia. Enzo left for the peninsula in July 1239 and never returned, being taken prisoner by the Guelphs, an imprisonment which was to prove lifelong. In 1245 or 1246, the marriage was annulled.

After this date, Adelasia, saddened and tired of active government and retired to her castle of Goceano. She died in 1259, without heirs, and her territory was divided amongst the Doria, Malaspina, and Spinola families, who all held it from Genoa. The neighbourging Giudicato of Arborea succeeded in taking some land. Sassari expelled its Pisan governor with the support of the Doria, refortified its defences, and adopted a republican model of government in alliance with Genoa, which sent an annual podestà.
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