Academic Figures and Inventors
- Giulio Angioni (born 1939), writer and anthropologist
- Efisio Arru (1927 – 2000), parasitologist
- Domenico Alberto Azuni (1749–1827), Jurist
- Ludovico Baille (1764–1869), Historian
- Augusto Bissiri (1879 - 1968), inventor, credited as one of the first developers of television and the cathode ray tube.
- Remo Bodei (born in Cagliari,1938), philosopher
- Francesco Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), inventor, born in Gadoni, regarded as the first developer of Revolver
- Giuseppe Brotzu (1895 – 1976), pharmacologist, discoverer of cephalosphorin based antibiotics.
- Carlo Cercignani (1939–2010), physicist and mathematician
- Fausto Cercignani (born 1941), scholar in linguistics
- Enrico Costa (born 1944), astrophysicist, known for studies of gamma ray bursts
- Erminio Costa (Cagliari 1924- Washington 2009), neuroscientist
- Joan de Girgio Vitelli (Alghero 1870 - Rome 1916), lawyer and writer.
- Walter Ferreri, Astronomer
- Gian Luigi Gessa (born 1932), pharmacologist and neuropsychiatrist
- Pier Michele Giagaraccio (XVI century AD), jurist, lawyer, and poet
- Paola Leone, neurologist leader researcher of Canavan disease
- Antonio Pigliaru (1922–1969), philosopher
- Paolo Savona (born 1936), economist
- Giovanni Spano (1803–1878), linguist and archaeologist
- Nicola Tanda (born 1928, Sorso), philologist, literary critic and writer.
- Pasquale Tola (1800–1874), historian, magistrate and politician
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