Ragusa (surname)
Ragusa is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Antonino Ragusa, (born 1990) Italian footballer * Cinzia Ragusa (born 1977), Italian water polo player * Eleonora Ragusa (1861–1939), also known as Kiyohara Tama, Kiyohara Otama, or Ragusa Tama, Japanese painter * Kym Ragusa (born 1966), American writer and film director * Vincenzo Ragusa Vincenzo Ragusa (8 July 1841 – 13 March 1927) was an Italian sculptor who lived in Meiji period Japan from 1876–1882. He introduced European techniques in bronze casting, and new methods of modeling in wood, clay, plaster and wire ar ...

Antonino Ragusa
Antonino Ragusa (born 27 March 1990) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Messina. Club career Treviso Born in Messina, Sicily, Ragusa started his professional career at Veneto club Treviso, where he played for ''Allievi Nazionali'' under-17 team in 2006–07 season. In 2008–09 season, despite remained as a member of the under-20 team, Ragusa made his Serie B debut on 7 February 2009 against Rimini. The club bankrupted at the end of season. Genoa In July 2009 Ragusa was signed by Serie A club Genoa along with youngster Thomas Bonotto and Marco Bincoletto. Ragusa was a member of Genoa's under-20 team, the ''Primavera'' (literally: spring). In August 2010 he was loaned to Lega Pro Prima Divisione (Italian third level) club Salernitana with an option to purchase. The club reached the promotion playoffs but losing to Verona in the finals. Ragusa himself was in the starting eleven in the playoffs as wing forward/winger in the 4–3–3/4–2–3–1 form ...
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Cinzia Ragusa
Cinzia Ragusa (born 24 May 1977) is an Italian water polo player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she won a gold medal. She was born in Catania. See also * Italy women's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of Olympic champions in women's water polo * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (women) * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo This is a list of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo. Men Medalists by tournament ;Abbreviation and legend * * – Host team * † – ''Defunct team'' * (C) – Captain * (GK) – Goalkeeper * (LH) – Left-handed Multipl ... References * Italian Swimming Federation Profile External links * * * * 1977 births Living people Italian female water polo players Water polo centre backs Olympic gold medalists for Italy in water polo Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics ...
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Eleonora Ragusa
(1861 – 1939), also known as or ''O'Tama Chiovara'', , or was a Japanese painter who spent most of her life in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Her maiden name was . Biography Kiyohara Tayo was the second daughter of Kiyohara Einosuke, intendant of Zōjō-ji temple in Shiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. She started seriously studying painting with a Japanese master even before entering elementary school.National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, TokyoProminent people of Minato City Her life suddenly changed when Sicilian sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa, for whom she had modeled when she was just 17, after spending six years in Japan as a sculpture professor, decided to go home in 1882 taking with him Kiyohara Einosuke, Kiyohara's wife and 21-year-old Tayo. In Palermo, Ragusa opened the Scuola Superiore d'Arte Applicata, employing Kiyohara and his wife as instructors to introduce Japanese lacquer techniques to Italy, but difficulties in obtaining the necessary raw materials caused ...
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Kym Ragusa
Kym L. Ragusa (born February 25, 1966) is an American writer and documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and education Ragusa was born in Manhattan, New York, to an Italian-American father and an African-American mother. Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Messina; her maternal ancestors were brought to the United States as slaves. She spent much of her childhood living alternately with her maternal grandparents in Harlem and her paternal grandparents in Maplewood, New Jersey. After attending public schools, Ragusa earned an M.A. in Media from the New School for Social Research. She also studied creative writing at Hunter College, where she was a student of Louise DeSalvo. Career Ragusa directed two award-winning short documentary films, ''Passing'' (1995) and ''Fuori/Outside'' (1997). Her other films include ''Demarcations'', ''Threads of Memory'', and ''Remembering the Triangle Fire''. Her memoir, ''The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, ...
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