Italian physicist Enrico Costa was awarded the Shaw Prize for his discoveries on gamma rays

If you search for 'Enrico Costa' in Wikipedia, a bobsleigh specialist comes up (he won the two-man bobsled in 1999 at the Cortina d'Ampezzo world championships), a Sardinian author of the nineteenth century and a (contemporary) parliamentarian of the Pdl. Perhaps from today there will also be the physicist Enrico Costa, director of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics at the University of Rome. Professor Costa has won what is called the 'Nobel Prize of the East', the Shaw Prize, founded (in 2002) by a Hong Kong film producer and philanthropist, Run Run Shaw. This prize is awarded for physics and astronomy, for medicine and biology, and for mathematics. The prize for physics (the ceremony will be on September 28, and it is worth one million dollars, like the other two) is divided between Enrico Costa and Gerald Fishman, from NASA, who have unveiled the mystery of gamma ray explosions, associating them to supernovae and neutron star mergers in distant galaxies.
http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=5&twoid=80&threeid=182&fourid=309&fiveid=147
http://technology.inquirer.net/1227/bright-sparks-among-asias-nobel-prize-winners/
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/06/million-dollar-prizes-to-go-to.html