Colonna (surname)

Colonna is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Colonna family, some of whom included in following list:

• Dominique Colonna (b. 1928), a French former football goalkeeper
• Fanny Colonna (1934–2014), Algerian sociologist and anthropologist
• Giacomo "Sciarra" Colonna (1270–1329), member of the powerful Colonna family
• Francesco Colonna (1433(?) – 1527) an Italian Dominican friar, author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• Giovanni Colonna (archaeologist) (b. 1934), an Italian scholar of ancient Italy and, in particular, the Etruscan civilization.
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna (c.1637–1695), an Italian musician and composer
• Guido Colonna di Paliano (1908–1982), an Italian politician and European Commissioner.
• Jerry Colonna (disambiguation), multiple people

• Jerry Colonna (entertainer), American comedy writer and performer
• Jerry Colonna (financier), New York City venture capitalist

• Marcantonio Colonna (disambiguation)
  • Marcantonio Colonna (1535–1584), Duke of Tagliacozzo and Duke and Prince of Paliano, was an Italian aristocrat who served as a Viceroy of Sicily in the service of the Spanish Crown, Spanish general, and Captain General of the Church
  • Marcantonio I Colonna (1478–1522), condottiero, lord of Frascati
  • Marcantonio V Colonna (1606/10–1659), Prince of Paliano
  • Marco Antonio Colonna (1523–1597), cardinal
  • Marcantonio Colonna (18th-century cardinal) (1724–1793)
  • Marcantonio Colonna (born 1949), pen name of British historian and author Henry Sire
• Niccolò Turrisi Colonna (1817–1889), a Sicilian politician from Palermo
• Sarah Colonna, American stand-up comedian, and roundtable regular on Chelsea Lately
• Vittoria Colonna, 1490–1547, marchioness of Pescara, Italian noblewoman, poet, friend of Michelangelo
• Yvan Colonna (b. 1960) a Corsican nationalist

See also

• Gabrielle Colonna-Romano (1888–1981), French actress