# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antonio-nicaso
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:45.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antonio-nicaso"
name: "Antonio Nicaso"
slug: "antonio-nicaso"
description: "Antonio Nicaso is an Italian author, university professor, researcher, speaker and consultant to governments and law-enforcement agencies originally from Caulonia, Calabria, Italy, now based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an expert on the Calabrian mafia. Nicaso lives and works in North America. He teaches courses on \"Social History of Organized Crime in Canada\" and \"Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals and Myth\" at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He also teaches at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ontario and the Italian School of Middlebury College in Oakland, California in the United States and is the co-director of the Research in Forensic Semiotics Unit at Victoria College."
tagline: "Italian crime expert"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antonio_Nicaso.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.27
  momentum:             19.70092024539877
  historical:           7.269012
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4150392/"
    handle:    "nm4150392"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://nicaso.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE"
    title: "Антоніо Нікасо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "انتونيو نيكاسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Nicaso"
    title: "Antonio Nicaso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Nicaso"
    title: "Antonio Nicaso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Nicaso"
    title: "Antonio Nicaso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Nicaso"
    title: "Antonio Nicaso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Никасо, Антонио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3619948"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1848382"
    title: "Antonio Nicaso"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump