This is a list of members of the

Sicilian Mafia The Sicilian Mafia, also simply known as the Mafia and frequently referred to as Cosa nostra (, ; "our thing") by its members, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society originating in the region of Sicily a ...

born in Sicily.

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* Mariano Agate (1939–2013) *

Pietro Aglieri Pietro Aglieri (; born 9 June 1959) is a Sicilian mafioso from the Guadagna neighbourhood of Palermo. He is known as ("The Little Gentleman") for his relatively sophisticated education and refined manners. He had a classical education and studi ...

(1928–2000) *

Gerlando Alberti Gerlando Alberti (; September 18, 1927 – February 1, 2012), nicknamed ("the imperturbable one"), Lodato, ''Quindici anni di mafia'', pp. 47-50 was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.Giovanni Arena Giovanni Arena (; born August 9, 1956 in Catania) is an Italian criminal belonging to Cosa Nostra. He was on the "list of most wanted fugitives in Italy" of the ministry of the Interior since 1993, wanted for murder, membership to the Mafia and ot ...

(1923–2004)

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* Gaetano Badalamenti (1923-2004) * Leoluca Bagarella *

Calogero Bagarella Calogero Bagarella (; January 14, 1935 – December 10, 1969) was an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was from the town of Corleone and belonged to the Mafia clan of Corleonesi. Biography Calogero Bagarella was born in Corleo ...

(1935-1969) *

Giovanni Bonomo Giovanni Bonomo (; July 10, 1935 – 2010) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 1996 for two murders, drug trafficking and money laundering, and Mafia association, until ...

(1935–2010) *

Francesco Paolo Bontade Francesco Paolo Bontade (1914 – February 25, 1974), also known as ''Don Paolino Bonta'', was a legendary and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Some sources spell his surname Bontate. He hailed from Villagrazia, a rural village before it was ...

(1914–1974) *

Giovanni Bontade Giovanni Bontade (1946 in Palermo – September 28, 1988 in Palermo) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was commonly called ''Bontade'' but the actual surname is Bontate. He was the brother of Mafia boss Stefano Bontade, who ruled the S ...

(1946–1988) * Stefano Bontade (1939–1981) *

Bernardo Brusca Bernardo is a given name and less frequently an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish surname. Possibly from the Germanic "Bernhard". Given name People * Bernardo the Japanese (died 1557), early Japanese Christian convert and disciple of Saint Fra ...

* Giovanni Brusca * Tommaso Buscetta (1928–2000) * Joseph Bonanno (1905–2002)

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* Antonino Calderone (1935–2013) * Giuseppe Calderone (1925–1978) *

Frank Cali Francesco Paolo Augusto "Frank" Cali (, ; March 26, 1965 – March 13, 2019), also known as "Franky Boy", was an American mobster and the eventual acting boss of the Gambino crime family. Law enforcement considered Cali to have been the Gambino ...

(1965-2019) * Giuseppe Calò * Salvatore Cancemi (1942–2011) * Benedetto Capizzi *

Alfonso Caruana Alfonso Caruana (; born January 1, 1946) is an Italian-Canadian crime boss and member of the Sicilian Mafia and was the head of the Sicilian Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan's branch in Canada. In 1997, he was sentenced ''in absentia'' in Italy, on s ...

Michele Cavataio Michele Cavataio (18 March 1929 – 10 December 1969), also known as ''Il cobra'' (The cobra) was an Italian mobster and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Acquasanta mandamento in Palermo and was a member of the first S ...

(1929–1969) * Salvatore Contorno *

Antonio Cottone Antonio Cottone (; 1904/1905 – August 22, 1956) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia in his hometown Villabate in the province of Palermo, Sicily. He was known as (Our Heavenly Father) due to his alleged generosity. The Cottone clan was a hi ...

(1904/05–1956) * Salvatore Cuffaro

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Salvatore D'Aquila Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila (; November 7, 1873 – October 10, 1928) was an early Italian-American Mafia boss in New York City of the D'Aquila crime family, what would later become known as the Gambino crime family. Early life and career Salv ...

(1873–1928) *

Francesco Di Carlo Francesco Di Carlo (February 18, 1941 – April 16, 2020) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned state witness (pentito — a mafioso turned informer) in 1996. He was accused of being the killer of Roberto Calvi, nicknamed "God's ...

* Giuseppe Di Cristina (1923–1978) *

Maurizio Di Gati Maurizio Di Gati (; born July 10, 1966 in Racalmuto) is a Sicilian mafioso and considered to be the boss of the Agrigento province before his arrest in November 2006. Background Di Gati was born in Racalmuto, in the province of Agrigento, the h ...

* Baldassare Di Maggio *

Santino Di Matteo Santino Di Matteo (born 7 December 1954), also known as ''Mezzanasca'', is an Italian former member of the Sicilian Mafia from the town of Altofonte in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Di Matteo took part in the killing of Antimafia judge ...

Calcedonio Di Pisa Calcedonio Di Pisa (; 11 October 1931 – 26 December 1962), also known as Doruccio, was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Mafia family in the Noce neighbourhood in Palermo and sat on the first Sicilian Mafia Commission, the ...

(1931–1962) * Francesco Domingo

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Daniele Emmanuello Daniele Emanuello (; July 23, 1963 – December 3, 2007) was the head of the Sicilian Mafia in port city of Gela, Sicily. Emanuello had been a fugitive since 1996, and was subsequently added in the List of most wanted fugitives in Italy. Emanuell ...

(1963–2007)

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Giuseppe Falsone Giuseppe Falsone (; born 28 August 1970 in Campobello di Licata), sometimes spelled as Falzone, is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the "Most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the Interior since January 1999, until his arrest in Fran ...

* Giuseppe Farinella * Gaetano Fidanzati (1935–2013)

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* Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino (1941–1996) *

John Gambino Giovanni "John" Gambino (; August 22, 1940 – November 16, 2017) was an Italian-born American mobster. Born in Palermo, Sicily, he became a made member of the Gambino crime family in 1975 and a capodecina or captain, and head of the crime family ...

Rosario Gambino Rosario "Sal" Gambino (; born January 12, 1942) is an Italian mobster in the Gambino crime family. He became nationally known when he and his brothers set up a multimillion dollar heroin cartel during the 1970s and 1980s. At the turn of the centur ...

Carlo Gambino Carlo Gambino (; August 24, 1902 – October 15, 1976) was an Italian-American crime boss of the Gambino crime family. After the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission o ...

(1902–1976) *

Raffaele Ganci Raffaele Ganci (4 January 1932 – 3 June 2022) was a member of the Mafia in Sicily from the Noce neighbourhood in Palermo. He was considered to be the right-hand man of Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina and sat on the Sicilian Mafia Commission.

Giuseppe Genco Russo Giuseppe Genco Russo (26 January 1893 – 18 March 1976) was an Italian mafioso, the boss of Mussomeli in the Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. Genco Russo, also known as "Zi Peppi Jencu", was an uncouth, sly, semi-literate thug with excell ...

(1893–1976) *

Nicola Gentile Nicola Gentile (; June 12, 1885 – November 6, 1966), also known as Nick Gentile, was a Sicilian mafioso and an organized crime figure in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. He was also known for publishing his memoirs which, violating the ...

(1885–1976) * Nenè Geraci (1917–2007) * Antonino Giuffrè *

Giuseppe Graviano Giuseppe Graviano (; September 30, 1963) is an Italian Sicilian Mafia, mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He also was one the men of the death squad that murdered Salvatore Contorno's relatives. He is currently serving several life se ...

* Giuseppe Greco (1952–1985) * Michele Greco (1924–2008) *

Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco Salvatore Greco (; born 12 May 1924), also known as "l'ingegnere" ("The Engineer") or "Totò il lungo" ("Totò the tall"), was an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was born in Ciaculli, as the son of Pietro Greco, who was killed ...

(1924–?) * Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco (1923–1978) *

Giuseppe Guttadauro Giuseppe Guttadauro (born August 18, 1948 in Bagheria, Palermo province of Italy) is an Italian Mafia boss and a high-profile surgeon from the Rocella neighbourhood in Palermo. Born in Bagheria, he became the regent of the Brancaccio mandament ...

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* Salvatore Inzerillo (1944–1981)

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* Angelo La Barbera (1924–1975) * Gioacchino La Barbera *

Salvatore La Barbera Salvatore La Barbera (; April 20, 1922 – January 17, 1963) was a Sicilian mafioso. Together with his brother Angelo La Barbera he ruled the Mafia family of Palermo Centro. Salvatore La Barbera sat on the first Sicilian Mafia Commission that ...

(1922–1963) * Luciano Leggio (1925–1993) *

Salvatore Lo Piccolo Salvatore Lo Piccolo (; born 20 July 1942), also known as "the Baron" (), is a Sicilian '' mafioso'' and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo, Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he becam ...

* Giuseppe Lucchese *

Lucky Luciano Charles "Lucky" Luciano (, ; born Salvatore Lucania ; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumenta ...

(1897–1962) * Tommy Lucchese (1899–1967)

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Francesco Madonia Francesco Madonia (March 31, 1924 – March 13, 2007) was the Mafia boss of the San Lorenzo-Pallavicino area in Palermo. In 1978 he became a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. ''Ciccio'' Madonia became the unquestioned patriarch of the Resu ...

(1924–2007) *

Stefano Magaddino Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino (; October 10, 1891 – July 19, 1974) was an Italian-born crime boss of the Buffalo crime family in western New York. His underworld influence stretched from Ohio to Southern Ontario and as far east as Montreal ...

(1891–1974) *

Andrea Manciaracina Andrea Manciaracina (; born April 7, 1962), sometimes spelled Mangiaracina, is a member of Sicily, Sicilian Sicilian Mafia, Mafia. He was born in Mazara del Vallo in the province of Trapani. He was initiated in Cosa Nostra in 1985 or 1986. In 1992 ...

Vittorio Mangano Vittorio Mangano (18 August 1940 – 23 July 2000) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra. He was well known as the stable keeper at the villa of Silvio Berlusconi in Arcore in the 1970s and as such Mangano is known as ''"lo stalli ...

(1940–2000) * Francesco Marino Mannoia *

Cesare Manzella Cesare Manzella (; December 18, 1897 – April 26, 1963) was a traditional Mafia capo, who sat on the first Sicilian Mafia Commission. He was the head of the Mafia family in Cinisi, a small seaside town near the Punta Raisi Airport. As the airport ...

(1897–1963) * Salvatore Maranzano (1886–1931) * Filippo Marchese (1938–1983) *

Giuseppe Marchese Giuseppe Marchese (born 12 December 1963) is a former member of the Sicily, Sicilian Sicilian Mafia, Mafia, who turned state witness (pentito). Giuseppe ''Pino'' Marchese was born in Palermo in a family with long-standing ties to the Mafia. His fat ...

* Joe Masseria (1886–1931) * Leonardo Messina *

Francesco Messina Denaro Matteo Messina Denaro (; born 26 April 1962), also known as ''Diabolik'', is a Sicilian Mafia boss. He got his nickname from the Italian comic book character of the same name. He is considered to be one of the new leaders of Cosa Nostra after t ...

Gerlandino Messina Gerlandino Messina (; born on July 22, 1972) is a member of the Mafia in Sicily from Porto Empedocle. He was on the most wanted list of the Italian ministry of the Interior from 1999 to 2010 when he was captured in Favara.

* Matteo Messina Denaro * Salvatore Miceli * Giuseppe Morello (1867–1930) *

Giovanni Motisi Giovanni Motisi (, ; born 1 January 1959, in Palermo) also known as U Pacchiuni'' (), is a member of the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily from the Altarello neighbourhood in Palermo. He has been on the most wanted list of the Italian ministry of the ...

Gaspare Mutolo Gaspare Mutolo (Palermo, February 5, 1940) is a Sicilian mafioso, also known as "Asparino".Rosario Naimo Rosario Naimo (born August 18, 1945 in Palermo) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia, also known as Saro or Saruzzo. He was seen as an important go-between for the Sicilian and American Mafia, closely related with the Gambino crime family. He is a man ...

* Michele Navarra (1905–1958) * Gianni Nicchi

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* Emilio Picariello (1875 or 1879–1923) * Angelo Antonino Pipitone *

Mario Prestifilippo Mario Prestifilippo (; – September 29, 1987) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was briefly the boss of the Ciaculli Mafia Family after Giuseppe Greco was murdered in 1985. He played a significant role in the Second Mafia War of the e ...

(1958–1987) * Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016) *

Vincenzo Puccio Vincenzo Puccio (November 27, 1945 – May 11, 1989) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was from Palermo and joined the Ciaculli Mafia family sometime in the late 1970s, although like many other members of that particular family he operated ...

(1945–1989) * Gaspare Pulizzi *

Luigi Putrone Luigi Putrone (; born September 8, 1960, in Porto Empedocle) is a former Sicilian mafioso, considered to be head of a powerful Mafia clan based in Porto Empedocle, in the province of Agrigento. He had been convicted in absentia to life in pris ...

Joe Profaci Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci (; October 2, 1897 – June 6, 1962) was an Italian-born New York City Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what became the Colombo crime family. Established in 1928, this was the last of the Five Families to be organi ...

(1897–1962)

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* Domenico Raccuglia *

Paolo Renda Paolo Renda (; September 10, 1939 – disappeared May 20, 2010, later Dead in absentia, declared dead September 2, 2018) was an Italian-Canadian consigliere of the Rizzuto crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, who has not been seen sinc ...

(1933–disappeared 2010) *

Rosario Riccobono Rosario Riccobono (February 10, 1929 in Palermo – November 30, 1982 in Palermo) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of Partanna Mondello, a suburb of Palermo, his native city. In 1974 he became a member of the Sicilian Mafia ...

(1929–1982) *

Salvatore Riina Salvatore Riina (; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called (, Totò being the diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s ...

(1930–2017) * Nicolo Rizzuto (1924–2010) * Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013) * Antonio Rotolo

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Antonio Salamone Antonio Salamone (December 12, 1918 in San Giuseppe Jato – May 31, 1998 in São Paulo) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia and a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission. His nickname was “il furbo” – the shrewd one. Mafia herita ...

(1918–1998) * Antonio Salvo (1929–1986) *

Ignazio Salvo Ignazio () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Arts *Ignazio Collino (1736–1793), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Fresu (born 1957), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer ...

(1932–1992) * Benedetto Santapaola *

Gerlando Sciascia Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia (; February 15, 1934 – March 18, 1999), was a New York City mobster, and a caporegime of the Bonanno crime family, who was also the Sixth Family's representative from New York, and was a major narcotics traf ...

(1934–1999) *

Vincenzo Sinagra Vincenzo Sinagra (born 1 January 1956) is a former associate of the Sicilian Mafia who became a significant pentito. Sinagra was not actually a member of the Mafia but just a petty criminal, one of fourteen children to a fisherman from Palermo. In ...

Santo Sorge Santo Sorge (Mussomeli, January 11, 1908 – New York, May, 1972) was a Sicilian Mafioso living in the United States. His exact role has never been very clear; he was one of the great 'unknowns' of the Sicilian and American Mafia. He was one of t ...

(1908–1972) *

Gaspare Spatuzza Gaspare Spatuzza (Palermo, 8 April 1964) is a Sicilian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He was an assassin for the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano who headed the Mafia family of Brancaccio. After the arrest of the Gravianos ...

Benedetto Spera Benedetto Spera (; born July 1, 1934) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia and the boss of the Belmonte Mezzagno Mafia family and the '' mandamento'' of Misilmeri in the province of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. He was convicted ''in absentia' ...

Frank Scalice Frank Scalice (; born Francesco Scalisi, ; September 23, 1893 – June 17, 1957), also known as "Don Ciccio" and "Wacky", was an Italian-American mobster active in New York City, who led the future Gambino crime family from 1930 to 1931. He ...

(1893–1957)

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* Pietro Tagliavia *

Pietro Torretta Pietro Torretta (ca. 1912 – October 3, 1975) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Mafia family in the Uditore district in Palermo and one of the protagonists in the First Mafia War. He was initially considered to be the m ...

(1912–1975) *

Mariano Tullio Troia Mariano Tullio Troia (; Palermo, September 3, 1933 – Viterbo, March 27, 2010) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 1992 until his arrest in Palermo in September 1998.

(1933–2010)

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* Bernardino Verro (1866–1915) *

Vincenzo Virga Vincenzo Virga (; born 11 September 1936 in Erice, Province of Trapani) is the boss of the Trapani Mafia family and '' mandamento'' since 1982, when the previous boss, Salvatore Minore, was murdered. Virga is currently in prison, he was sentenced ...

* Giusy Vitale * Leonardo Vitale (1941–1984) * Vito Vitale * Calogero Vizzini (1877–1954)

References

*Padovani,Marcelle & Giovanni Falcone (1992). ''Men of Honour: The Truth About the Mafia'', HarperCollins, {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Sicilian Mafiosi

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