List of Sicilian Americans - Others

Others

• Airi Magdalene Zombie (born 1991), Florida-born up-and-coming makeup artist specializing in special effects, prosthetic makeup and the visual arts. Fangoria magazine interview Professional youtube channel.
• Anthony T. Rossi, (1900–1993), was born as Antonio Talamo Rossi in Messina, Sicily. He had the equivalent of a high school education. He emigrated to the United States when he was 21 years old and educated himself to the point that he became an expert mathematician and mechanical engineer. He founded Tropicana Products, a producer of orange juice founded in 1947 in Bradenton, Florida in the United States which grew from 50 employees to over 8,000 in 2004, expanding into multiple product lines and became one of the world's largest producers and marketers of citrus juice.
• Antonin Scalia, (born March 11, 1936) (sometimes known by the nickname "Nino") has been a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice since 1986. He is widely considered the leading originalist voice on the Court and one of the most outspoken defenders of textualism. Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey to his mother, Catherine, and his father, S. Eugene. His mother was born in the United States; his father, a professor of romance languages, emigrated from Sicily at age 15. When Scalia was five years old, his family moved to Queens, New York City, New York, during which time his father worked at Brooklyn College.

• Ferdinand Pecora, (January 6, 1882 – December 7, 1971). Ferdinand Pecora was born in Nicosia, Sicily, the son of Louis Pecora and Rosa Messina who emigrated to the United States and New York City with his parents. He earned a law degree from the New York Law School and eventually worked as an assistant district attorney. He led Senate hearings into the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that launched a major reform of the American financial system. Pecora personally undertook many of the interrogations during the hearings, including high profile Wall Street personalities such as Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange and investment bankers Thomas W. Lamont, Otto H. Kahn, Albert H. Wiggin, and Charles E. Mitchell. Pecora's high-profile work led to the hearings being called the Pecora Commission and it put him on the June 12, 1933 cover of Time
• Frank Lentini, born Francesco A. Lentini (1889–1966) was born in Syracuse, Sicily into a large family. He was born with three longer legs, two sets of genitals and one rudimentary foot on his third leg. His primary legs also grew into different lengths. At the age of nine, Lentini moved to the United States and entered the sideshow business
• Jack Valenti, (September 5, 1921 – April 26, 2007), was "special assistant" to Lyndon Johnson's White House. In 1966, he resigned and became the president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his tenure there, he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world. His salary in 2004 was reported to be $1.35 million, which made him the seventh-highest paid Washington trade group chief, according to the National Journal
• Joe Plumeri, President and CEO of Willis Group Holdings, and owner of the Trenton Thunder.
• John Ferruggio (1925–2010) – Led the evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, which was hijacked in 1970
• Lucky Luciano, considered to be the father of the American Mafia.
• Rachael Ray, a popular talk show host and TV chef who has had several shows on the Food Network and in syndication.
• Sam Maceo (1894–1951) and Rosario Maceo (1887–1954) were organized crime bosses in Galveston, Texas. They are credited with having made the island city a nationally known resort town from Prohibition through the end of World War II during the city's "open era."