- Lawrence Gonzi
Lawrence Gonzi (born July 1, 1953) is the Prime Minister and finance minister of Malta. He is also the leader of the governing Partit Nazzjonalista. He became prime minister on March 23, 2004, following the retirement of Eddie Fenech Adami.
- Michael Mifsud
Michael Mifsud is a professional footballer currently playing for Football League Championship side Coventry City, where he plays as a striker. He is a member of the Malta national team and has previously played for Sliema Wanderers, Kaiserslautern and Lillestrøm. He was voted Maltese Sports Person of the Year in 2001 and 2003. His foremost attribute is his electric pace, which is undoubtedly aided by his physique; he is only 1.64 m tall.
- Ira Losco
Ira Losco is a singer, born 31 July 1981 in Sliema, Malta.
- Alfred Sant
Alfred Sant (born February 28, 1948) is a Maltese politician, who served as Prime Minister of Malta between 1996 and 1998.
- Joe Borg
Joseph Borg (born 19 March 1952) is a Maltese politician and diplomat, associated with the Nationalist Party (the political party currently in government). He was instrumental in the process which led to Malta becoming a member of the European Union in 2004. He was the advisor to the foreign minister on European Union matters from 1989 until 1995, a member of the board of directors of the Maltese Central Bank from 1992 until 1995, and a member of parliament since 1995.
- Brian Said
Brian Said (born May 15 1973 in Valletta, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Sliema Wanderers in the Maltese Football League, where he plays as a defender.
- Austin Gatt
Austin Gatt (born July 29, 1953) is Minister for Investment, Industry and IT of Malta. He studied at the University of Malta where, in 1975, he graduated as Doctor of Law. He has been involved in politics since 1976 when he was responsible for the Nationalist Party Electoral Office. In 1988 he was elected Secretary General of the Nationalist Party and held the post until 1997.
- Tonio Borg
Tonio Borg is the Deputy Prime Minister of Malta and Minister of Justice and Home Affairs. He succeeded Lawrence Gonzi, who became Prime Minister instead of Edward Fenech Adami, in the role in February 2004.
- Michael Frendo
Michael Frendo (born 1955) is the foreign minister of Malta since the 3rd of July 2004. He had previously served as deputy foreign minister for three months under John Dalli.
- Eddie Fenech Adami
Edward Fenech Adami (Edoardo Fenech Adami, born February 7, 1934, Birkirkara) was the Prime Minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996 and from 1998 until 2004. He took office as the seventh President of the Republic of Malta on April 4, 2004, succeeding Guido de Marco.
- Olivia Lewis
Olivia Lewis, born October 18 1978, is a singer from Malta. She has competed 11 consecutive times in the the Malta Song For Europe festival, which selects the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. At her 11th attempt she finally won the 2007 festival, held in Ta' Qali on February 3 2007, with the song "Vertigo" and represented Malta at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, on May 10 2007.
- Tony Drago
Tony Drago (born September 22, 1965) is a professional snooker and pool player from Malta. The highpoint of his career was when he won the 2003 World Pool Masters Tournament beating Hsia Hui-kai 8-6. A combination of exceptionally fast play and an emotional temperament has made him a popular character in snooker, …
- James Robertson
James Robertson was a British photographer and gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, the Crimea and India. He was one of the first war photographers. Robertson was born in Middlesex in 1813. He trained as an engraver under Wyon (probably William Wyon) and in 1843 he began work as an engraver at the Imperial Ottoman Mint in Constantinople. It is believed that Robertson became interested in photography while in the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s.
- John James
John James (May 10, 1914 - January 27, 2002) was a British racing driver from England. He was born in Packwood, then part of Warwickshire and died in St. Julian's, Malta. He participated in one World Championship Formula One grand prix, the 1951 British Grand Prix, where he retired his Maserati 4CLT/48 with radiator problems.
- Mattia Preti
Mattia Preti (february 24 1613 - January 3 1699) was a Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta.
- Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco is a Maltese comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning "Palestine", and his comic on the Bosnian War, "Safe Area Goražde".
- John Dalli
John Dalli (born 5 October 1948) is a Maltese politician, who served as Cabinet Minister in various Governments between 1987 and 2004. As a youngster with his two brothers he worked for his father helping him to run a cafe near the docks in Marsa. When his father passed away. He joined Blue Bell in the accounts department. Qualified as an accountant, Dalli worked in the private sector occupying high level management positions in Malta and abroad, …
- Dom Mintoff
Dom Mintoff (born Dominic Mintoff; August 6th, 1916) was Prime Minister of Malta during the year 1955 (when Malta was still under British rule), and from 1971 to 1984. He was also the leader of the Malta Labour Party from 1949 to 1984. He remained a member of parliament till 1998.
- Joe Saliba
Joe Saliba is the General Secretary of the Nationalist Party of Malta (1999 -), and was preceded by Lawrence Gonzi.
- Norman Lowell
Norman Lowell (born July 29, 1946) is the founder and leader of Imperium Europa, a New Right Maltese political party.
- Paul Cremona
Mgr Paul Cremona O.P. (in Maltese: Monsinjur Pawlu Cremona), (born January 25, 1946 in Valletta, Malta) is the 11th and current Archbishop of Malta. He was ordained on January 26, 2007, the day after his 61st birthday. Prior to his ordination, Fr Paul Cremona was a Dominican friar.
- Oliver Neuville
Oliver Patric Neuville is a Swiss-German football player. He was born of a German father and an Italian mother in Locarno, Switzerland. His name (properly pronounced in French – not German – fashion) stems from his Belgian grandfather. He has one son Lars-Oliver (*1997). Neuville started his career in his native Switzerland with Servette (1992-96). He also played in Spain for Tenerife (1996-97), …
- Danielle Fishel
Danielle Christine Fishel (born May 5, 1981, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American actress, best known for her role as Topanga Lawrence (Matthews) on the 1990s TV sitcom "Boy Meets World".
- Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he was the first great representative. Caravaggio was considered enigmatic, fascinating, rebellious, and dangerous. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600, and thereafter never lacked for commissions or patrons, yet handled his success atrociously.
- Gilbert Agius
Gilbert Agius (born February 21, 1974 in Valletta, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Maltese Football League side Valletta, where he plays as a striker. Agius is the captain of his club side Valletta and the Maltese national team and is without doubt one of the most well known and highly respected figures in Maltese football history, and is hailed as a hero by the Valletta fans, due to his loyalty to his hometown club, where he has been since 1990.
- Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici
Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici (aka Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici) (b. 17 July 1933) is a former Labour Prime Minister of Malta. He studied law at the University of Malta and is known to be an expert in industrial relations law. In 1980 he was appointed Deputy Leader of the Malta Labour Party. In 1982 he was appointed Designate Leader, co-opted into Parliament and assigned the Ministry of Employment and Social Services. Later he was assigned the Ministry of Education, …
- Karl Schembri
Karl Schembri is a Maltese writer and journalist. A sociology graduate from the University of Malta, he has written two novels, "Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx" in 2002 and "Il-manifest tal-killer" in 2006. He is also the co-author of the anthology of poems "Frekwenzi ta' Spriti fis-Sakra" (1997). "Il-manifest tal-killer" was censored by the University of Malta's radio station, Campus FM, …
- Manwel Dimech
Manwel Dimech was the pre-eminent workers' leader in pre-independence Malta, a journalist, and a writer of novels and poetry. It can be said that Dimech a nationalist/anti-colonialist with a socialist outlook, as he saw one of the main aims of Malta gaining sovereignty the emancipation of the Working Class and women. Most of the policies he advocated were implemented by Socialist Prime Minister Dom Mintoff in the 1970s.
- David Camilleri
David Camilleri (born August 21 1974 in Hamrun, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Valletta in the Maltese Football League, where he plays as a midfielder.
- Luke Dimech
Luke Dimech (born January 11, 1977 in Valletta, Malta) is a professional footballer most recently playing for Maltese Football League champions Marsaxlokk, where he played as a defender.
- Andre Schembri
Andre Schembri is a Maltese footballer midfielder currently playing for Marsaxlokk. His former club was Hibernians. In the 2007/08 season he will play for the German third league club Eintracht Braunschweig (German football champion in 1967) on lease for one year.
- Jean Parisot de la Valette
Jean Parisot de Valette (born in 1494[?]; died in Malta, 21 August 1568) was born into a noble family in Quercy. He was a Knight of St. John all his adult life, joining the order in the "Langue de Provence", and fought with distinction against the Turks at Rhodes and again at Malta. He became Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller on 21 August 1557.
- John Austin
John Austin (1790 - 1859) was a noted British jurist and wrote extensively in the philosophy of law and jurisprudence. Austin served in the army in Sicily and Malta, but sold his commission to study law. He was called to the Bar in 1818. He discontinued his practice shortly after, devoted himself to the study of law as a science, and became Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London (now University College London) 1826-32.
- Kevin Sammut
Kevin Sammut (born May 26, 1981 in Sliema, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Maltese Football League side Marsaxlokk, where he plays as a midfielder.
- Claudette Pace
Claudette Pace is one of Malta's best female singers. She was born on February 8th, 1968. At an early age, Claudette studied theatre, entertainment and communications. Then she moved to Berlin to develop her voice further. Claudette has become a very well known TV personality through presenting some of the most popular TV shows in Malta. Together with her colleagues, she used to own her own TV station - Max Plus.
- John Palmer
John Palmer (born 25th September, 1959 in an airplane between London and Malta) is a composer of instrumental and electroacustic music. Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar.
- George Preca
Saint George Preca (in Maltese: San Ġorġ Preca was a Maltese priest who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately known as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as the "Second Apostle of Malta," after Saint Paul of Tarsus. He was canonized on 3 June 2007.
- Jamie Pace
Jamie Pace is a Maltese footballer having a Maltese mother and Jamaican father (the late Keith McDonald and ex-Chelsea player). Plays as a midfielder for Marsaxlokk F.C.Malta and the Malta National Team. Pace joined Marsaxlokk in 2005 from Valletta, during his time in Malta he has also played for Sliema Wanderers and Pietà Hotspurs. Played with various clubs in London before coming to Malta including 1997-1998 Barton Rovers 51 appearances 21 goals, Tooting & Mitcham 1999.
- Justin Haber
Justin Haber (born June 9 1981 in Floriana, Malta) is a professional footballer, most recently playing for Maltese Premier League side Marsaxlokk, where he played as a goalkeeper. On June 27, 2007, Justin Haber joined Greek second division side Haidari on a two-year contract. The club is based in a suburban town close to Athens. He started his football career at Floriana F.C.. During his three year spell at Floriana, …
- Kym Valentine
Kym Valentine (born May 24, 1977 in Blacktown, Sydney, Australia) is a Maltese-Australian actress who began her acting career in a McDonald's fast food advertisement at age five. Her television appearances have included "My Two Wives", "Adult Illiteracy", "At Bathurst", "Candid Camera", "Brides of Christ", "Home and Away", "Swap Shop", "Hoops TV" and "Cheez TV".