List of Maltese people
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This is a list of notable Maltese people including those not born in, or current residents of, Malta; they are Maltese nationals.
Actors
Angelo Muscat (1930–1977)
Anthony J. Mifsud - actor, (singer, songwriter)
Charles Clews (1919–2009)
Charles Thake (1927–2018)
Davide Tucci (born 1987) – actor
Eileen Montesin
Ivan De Battista (born 1977)
Joseph Calleia (1897–1975)
Joseph Gatt (born 1974) actor, model, voice artist
Madeleine Collinson (1952–2014) – actress, model
Marisa Abela (born 1996)
Mary Collinson (1952-2021) – actress, model, twin sister of Madeleine Collinson
Simone De Battista (born 1977)
Terry Camilleri (born 1949)
Valerie Buhagiar (born 1964)
Architects
Andrea Belli (1703–1772) – architect and businessman
Andrea Vassallo (1856–1928) – eclectic architect
Antonio Cachia (1739–1813) – architect, civil and military engineer and archaeologist
Antonio Falzon (16th century) – military engineer, worked in Germany
Carlo Gimach (1651–1730) – architect, engineer and poet
Cesar Castellani (died 1905) – worked in Guyana
Domenico Cachia (c. 1690–1761) – master builder
Emanuele Luigi Galizia (1830–1907) – designed many public buildings
Francesco Zerafa (1679–1758) – architect and capomastro
Giorgio Costantino Schinas (1834–1894) – architect and civil engineer
Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (1774–1862) – architect and antiquarian
Giorgio Pullicino (1779–1851) – painter and architect
Giovanni Attard (c. 1570–1636) – architect, military engineer and stone carver
Giovanni Barbara (1642–1728) – architect and military engineer
Girolamo Cassar (c. 1520 – c. 1592) – designed many buildings in Valletta
Giuseppe Bonavia (1821–1885) – draughtsman and architect
Giuseppe Bonici (1707–1779) – architect and military engineer
Giuseppe Psaila (1891–1960) – Art Nouveau architect
Gustavo R. Vincenti (1888–1974) – architect and developer
Isabelle Barratt-Delia (born 1938) – architect
Joseph G. Huntingford (1926–1994) – Modernist architect
Lorenzo Gafà (1638–1703) – Baroque architect
Michele Cachia (1760–1839) – architect and military engineer
Richard England (born 1937)
Roger de Giorgio (1922–2016) – architect
Tommaso Dingli (1591–1666) – designed various churches
Vittorio Cassar (c. 1550 – c. 1609) – military engineer
Composers
Albert Garzia (born 1977)
Alessandro Curmi (1801–1857)
Benigno Zerafa (1726–1804)
Carmelo Pace (1906–1993) – composer, professor of musical theory and harmonics
Charles Camilleri (1931–2008)
Francesco Azopardi (1748–1809)
Girolamo Abos (1715–1760)
Nicolas Isouard (1775–1818)
Reuben Pace (born 1974)
Robert Samut (1869–1934) – composer of "L-Innu Malti" (the national anthem of Malta), professor of physiology and bacteriology
Filmmakers
Jon Cassar (born 1958) – director; producer
Rebecca Cremona – director
Military figures
Antonio Williams (1825–1908) – United States Navy seaman
Brigadier Martin Xuereb (born 1968) – former commander of the Armed Forces of Malta
Clemente Tabone (c. 1575–1665) – landowner and militia member
Juan Bautista Azopardo (1772–1848) – founder of the Argentine Navy
Orlando E. Caruana (1844–1917) – fought during the American Civil War
Toni Bajada (16th century) – spy during the Great Siege of Malta
Military figures - Siege of Malta (1798–1800)
Emmanuele Vitale (1758–1802) – general of the Maltese forces and representing Città Vecchia or Città Notabile (Mdina), Rabat and Dingli
Don Francesco Saverio Caruana – rebel leader
Vincenzo Borg – rebel leader and representing Birkirkara
Other National Assembly representatives coordinating the Maltese Battalions:
Chierico Giuseppe Abdilla for Safi
Notary Pietro Buttigieg for Zebbug
Michele Cachia for Zejtun
Parish Priest Don Felice Calleja for Mosta
Parish Priest Don Bartolomeo Caraffa for Mqabba
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