{"id":"sam-tarascio","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-tarascio","language":"en","name":"Sam Tarascio","name_en":"Sam Tarascio","name_ne":null,"description":"Italian-born Australian billionaire businessman","headline":"Italian-born Australian billionaire businessman","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Salvatore \"Sam\" Tarascio (born 22 June 1944) is an Italian-born Australian billionaire businessman. Tarascio owns a portfolio of commercial and industrial real estate across Melbourne, including a business park, two distribution sites, a large shopping mall and a market.  In 1972 Tarascio founded Salta Properties, a privately owned company, after buying swampland and constructing a warehouse for Hoechst. Prior to entering the property market, Tarascio worked in pharmaceutical sales.","summary_more":["Salta Properties is managed by Tarascio's eldest son, also called Sam."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1945","date":"1945"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50356392#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Vizzini","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q478965"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50356392#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Australia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q408"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50356392#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50356392#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Tarascio","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50356392"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Sam Tarascio born?","a":"Sam Tarascio was born on 1945 in Vizzini."}],"related":[{"name":"Gina Rinehart","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gina-rinehart"},{"name":"Kerr Neilson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kerr-neilson"},{"name":"Mike Cannon-Brookes","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mike-cannon-brookes"},{"name":"Scott Farquhar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/scott-farquhar"},{"name":"Manny Stul","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/manny-stul"},{"name":"Frank Costa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/frank-costa"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Sam Tarascio","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Tarascio","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q50356392","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50356392","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Sam Tarascio, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Sam Tarascio\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/sam-tarascio. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-tarascio","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-tarascio","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-tarascio?lang=ne"}}