[2][3][4][5] Members of the family include multiple judges and prelates, among them a justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Sicily and an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

The House of Fisichella, originally from the Val di Catania, has long been prominent in the fields of diplomacy, jurisprudence, philosophy and theology.

[3][11][12][9] Among his nephews, in the 19th century a namesake was giudice circondariale – that is commissioner and judge – of Centorbi and Mascali, in 1826 and 1830, respectively,[13][14] while Ignazio Fisichella was Deputy Secretary of the General Prosecution Office of the Kingdom of Italy at the Catania Appeal Court, and later Clerk to the civil and criminal court of Nicosia.

In the 20th century, two cadet branches branched off from the main line, whose family seat is located in Militello in Val di Catania, moving to Lombardy and Lazio, respectively; the first is represented by Rino Fisichella[b][6][17][9] (born 1951), academic, theologian and archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, while the second by Giancarlo Fisichella[c][18][19][20][21][22][9] (born 1973), famous athlete.

A mysterious "baron Fisichella"[23] appears several times in Leonardo Sciascia's historical novel The council of Egypt  [it], played in the homonymous film [it] by Gilberto Idonea [it].