Alfredo Cachia Zammit

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Alfredo Cachia Zammit (for short: Is-Sur Fred) (23 June 1890 – 1960) was a philanthropist and a Maltese politician who contested the election with the Malta Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista) in 1927 and was elected.

Cachia Zammit was born in Żejtun, Malta on 23 June 1890 to Alexander, brother of Cav. Hon MP (1832–1918), Ambassador to the Vatican and a popular politician in the south of Malta from 1870 to 1909. For a number of years, Cachia Zammit was the president of the of Zejtun.

In 1923 he married Helen Asphar in Sliema (Malta). He is the father of Alexander Cachia Zammit (born in 1924, died 30 July 2014) a family doctor, former politician, minister and ambassador to the Holy See at the Vatican City. Alexander Cachia Zammit was elected for the first time in 1955 for the Partit Nazzjonalista and consecutively until the 1981 general elections. In 1962 Alexander become the Minister for Social Service, Work and Emigration and in 1966 Minister for Health. His endeavours as ambassador to the Vatican helped to bring Pope John Paul II on an official visit to Malta between 25 and 27 May 1990.