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PIRATES from Italy

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This page contains a list of the greatest Italian Pirates. The pantheon dataset contains 25 Pirates, 2 of which were born in Italy. This makes Italy the birth place of the 7th most number of Pirates behind France and China.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Italian Pirates of all time. This list of famous Italian Pirates is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Sextus Pompey (-67 - -35)

With an HPI of 62.83, Sextus Pompey is the most famous Italian Pirate.  His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius (c. 67 – 35 BC), also known in English as Sextus Pompey, was a Roman military leader who, throughout his life, upheld the cause of his father, Pompey the Great, against Julius Caesar and his supporters during the last civil wars of the Roman Republic. Sextus Pompey formed the last organized opposition to the Second Triumvirate, in defiance of which he succeeded in establishing an independent state in Sicily for several years.

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2. Carlo Rambaldi (1925 - 2012)

With an HPI of 52.13, Carlo Rambaldi is the 2nd most famous Italian Pirate.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as pirates born between 67 BC and 1925. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased pirates include Sextus Pompey and Carlo Rambaldi.

Deceased Pirates

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