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Salvatore DiMauro
Salvatore DiMauro, born in Verona, Italy, is an Italian-born neurologist at Columbia University who discovered CPT deficiency in 1973 and leads research on mitochondrial diseases of muscle and brain.
Salvatore Farina
Salvatore Farina (1846–1918) was an Italian novelist and journalist from Sardinia, based in Milan, hailed abroad as "the Italian Dickens" for his warm, humorous domestic fiction.
Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore Ferragamo (1898-1960), Italian shoe designer and founder of the Ferragamo house; Hollywood "Shoemaker to the Stars" from 1923, returned to Florence in 1927, patented the cork wedge heel and built a global luxury group.
Salvatore Ganacci
Salvatore Ganacci is the stage name of Emir Kobilić, a Bosnian-Swedish DJ and producer known for eccentric, choreography-heavy sets, viral since his 2018 Tomorrowland performance.
Salvatore Gionta
Salvatore Gionta (1930–2025) was an Italian water polo player who won bronze at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics, earning 62 caps.
Salvatore Giunta
Salvatore Augustine Giunta (born 1985), retired U.S. Army staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, first living recipient since the Vietnam War, honored for the October 25, 2007 Korengal Valley ambush rescue of Sgt. Joshua Brennan.
Salvatore Maranzano
Salvatore Maranzano (July 1886 – September 10, 1931), Sicilian Mafia boss from Castellammare del Golfo; won the Castellammarese War against Joe Masseria, reorganized New York's Mafia into five families as capo di tutti capi, and was murdered in his 230 Park Avenue office by men posing as police officers.
Salvatore Morale
Salvatore "Tito" Morale (born 4 November 1938, Teolo, Italy), Italian 400 m hurdler; 1962 European champion in 49.2 equaling Glenn Davis's world record, 1964 Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist, later FIDAL and IAAF official.
Salvatore Oliviero
Salvatore Oliviero, born 1956 in Moncalieri, Turin, is an Italian molecular biologist, Full Professor at the University of Turin since 2013, who studies epigenetics, DNA methylation, and cancer.
Salvatore Pais
Salvatore Cezar Pais (born 1967) is a Romanian-American aerospace engineer known for filing the Navy's "UFO patents" between 2015 and 2019, including a craft using an inertial mass reduction device.
Salvatore Pincherle
Salvatore Pincherle (1853–1936) was an Italian mathematician at the University of Bologna, a founder of functional analysis who pioneered Mellin–Barnes integrals and led the 1928 Bologna Congress.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was an Italian poet and translator who led the Hermetic school, turned after World War II to civic poetry, and won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Salvatore Riina
Salvatore (Totò) Riina, Corleone-born boss of bosses of Cosa Nostra 1982–1993, won the Second Mafia War, ordered the Falcone and Borsellino bombings, served 26 life sentences, and died in Parma in 2017.
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Salvatore Sanfilippo, known online as antirez, is an Italian programmer who created the open source database Redis in 2009 and led it for eleven years.
Salvatore Sanzo
Salvatore Sanzo (born 1975, Pisa), Italian foil fencer nicknamed Toti: four Olympic medals including 2004 team gold, world foil champion 2001 and 2005, later Pisa sports councillor.
Salvatore Schillaci
Salvatore 'Totò' Schillaci (1964–2024), Italian striker from Palermo; top scorer and best player of the 1990 World Cup with six goals, winning the Golden Boot and Golden Ball as Italy finished third.
Salvatore Siena
Salvatore Siena is an Italian medical oncologist who has directed the Oncologia Falck division at Milan's Niguarda Cancer Center since 1999, leading trials including HERACLES and DESTINY-CRC01 in colorectal cancer.
Salvatore Sirigu
Salvatore Sirigu, Italian goalkeeper born 1987 in Nuoro; four Ligue 1 titles with Paris Saint-Germain, Euro 2020 winner and Euro 2012 runner-up with Italy; later Torino, Genoa, Napoli, Fiorentina, Nice, Palermo; without a club since July 2025.
Salvatore Tessio
Salvatore "Sal" Tessio is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969) and its 1972 film, a Corleone family caporegime who betrays Michael Corleone.
Salvatore Testa
Salvatore "Salvie" Testa (1956-1984), son of Philadelphia mob boss Philip "Chicken Man" Testa; Scarfo crime family member who survived a 1982 shooting and was murdered on Nicodemo Scarfo's orders at a South Philadelphia candy store.
Salvatore Torquato
Salvatore Torquato is an American theoretical scientist at Princeton University who works on statistical mechanics and materials theory, known for packing theory and the concept of hyperuniformity.
Salvatore V. Pizzo
Salvatore V. Pizzo is a pathologist at Duke University who chaired its Pathology department from 1991 to 2014 and identified ATP synthase as angiostatin's endothelial receptor.
Salve Regina
The Salve Regina, also known as Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian antiphon of the Catholic Church, sung at Compline from Trinity Sunday until the Saturday before Advent.
Salvia
Salvia (sages), largest genus of Lamiaceae with roughly 900-1000 species, cosmopolitan herbs and shrubs defined by two stamens forming a pollen-depositing lever mechanism; includes culinary sage Salvia officinalis.
Salvia BioElectronics
Salvia BioElectronics is a Dutch clinical-stage medtech startup founded in Eindhoven in 2017, developing an implantable neuromodulation therapy for chronic migraine and cluster headache; it raised a $60 million Series B in 2025.
Salvia divinorum
Salvia divinorum (Diviner's Sage, Maria Pastora, Sally-D), a perennial mint native to Oaxaca, Mexico, used by Mazatec shamans; its diterpene salvinorin A is the only known non-alkaloidal hallucinogen and a selective kappa-opioid receptor agonist, producing short-lived dissociative effects; not federally scheduled in the US but banned in many states.
Salvia hispanica
Salvia hispanica (chia) is an annual Lamiaceae herb native to Mexico and Guatemala, domesticated in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; its seeds, rich in fiber, protein, and alpha-linolenic acid, are a globally marketed functional food.
Salvia miltiorrhiza
Salvia miltiorrhiza (danshen, 丹参), red sage, a Lamiaceae perennial native to China and Vietnam whose dried root is a major traditional Chinese medicine for cardiovascular disease, containing tanshinones and salvianolic acids.
Salvia officinalis
Salvia officinalis, common or culinary sage, is a Mediterranean evergreen subshrub of the mint family grown for aromatic gray-green leaves used in cooking and herbal medicine; its thujone-rich essential oil is regulated by the EMA.
Salvia Palth
Salvia Palth is the lo-fi project of New Zealander Daniel Johann Lines, whose 2013 Bandcamp debut melanchole became a bedroom-pop cult classic; second album last chance to see arrived in 2024.