Ludovico

Ludovico

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	German name Ludwig
Meaning	Famous fighter
Region of origin	Italy
Other names
Variant form(s)	Lodovico Ludovica
Related names	Alois, Clovis, Lewis, Louis, Ludovic, Ludvík, Ludwig, Luis

Ludovico (Italian pronunciation: [ludoˈviːko]) is an Italian masculine given name. It is sometimes spelled Lodovico. The feminine equivalent is Ludovica.

Persons with the name Ludovico

Given name

• Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet
• Ludovico Avio (1932–1996), Argentine football forward
• Ludovico Baille (1764–1839), Italian historian
• Ludovico Balbi (1540–1604), Italian composer
• Ludovico Barassi (1873–1953), Italian jurist
• Ludovico Barbo (1381–1443), Italian monastic life reformer
• Ludovico Bertonio (1552–1625), Italian Jesuit missionary
• Ludovico Bidoglio (1900–1970), Argentinian footballer
• Ludovico Brea (c. 1450–c. 1523), Italian painter
• Ludovico di Breme (1780–1820), Italian writer
• Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini (1636–1707), Italian architect and stage designer
• Ludovico Buti (c. 1560–after 1611), Italian painter
• Ludovico Camangi (1903–1976), Italian politician
• Lodovico Campalastro, Italian painter
• Ludovico di Caporiacco (1901–1951), Italian arachnologist
• Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619), Italian painter, etcher, and printmaker
• Ludovico of Casoria (1814–1885), Italian Franciscan friar
• Ludovico Cavaleri (1867–1942), Italian painter
• Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere (1866–1951), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
• Ludovico Costa (fl. 1648-1657), Italian painter
• Ludovico David (born 1648), Italian painter
• Ludovico Donato (died c. 1385), Italian cardinal
• Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955), Italian pianist and composer
• Ludovico Fremont (1982), Italian actor
• Ludovico Furconio, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Giovinazzo (1528-1549)
• Ludovico de Filippi (1872–1918), Italian naval officer and a pioneer of Italian aviation
• Ludovico Geymonat (1908–1991), Italian Marxist philosopher
• Ludovico Giamagna (1594–1634), Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston
• Ludovico Gimignani (1643–1697), Italian painter
• Ludovico Gonzaga (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first Capitano del Popolo of Mantua and Imperial Vicar
  • Ludovico II Gonzaga (1334–1382), Italian politician who was Capitano del Popolo of Mantua
  • Ludovico III Gonzaga (1412–1478), ruler of Mantua, Italy
  • Ludovico Gonzaga (1480-1540) (c. 1480–1540), Italian nobleman and condottiero
• Ludovico Gonzaga-Nevers, (1539–1595), Duke of Nevers from 1565
• Ludovico Lana (c. 1597–1646), Italian painter
• Ludovico Lipparini (1800–1856), Italian painter
• Ludovico Ludovisi (1595–1632), Italian cardinal and statesman
• Ludovico de Luigi (born 1933), Italian sculptor and painter
• Ludovico Madruzzo (1532–1600), Italian cardinal and statesman
• Ludovico Manin (1725–1802), Doge of Venice
• Ludovico Mazzanti (1686–1775), Italian painter
• Ludovico Mazzolino (1480–c. 1528), Italian painter
• Ludovico Micara (1775–1847), Italian cardinal
• Ludovico Moresi (born 1980), Italian footballer
• Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), Italian historian
• Ludovico Nitoglia (born 1983), Italian rugby union player
• Ludovico Pasquali, (c. 1500–1551), Italian writer
• Ludovico Prodocator (died 1504), Italian cardinal
• Ludovico Racaniello (1352–1441), Italian condottiero
• Lodovico Rocca (1895–1986), Italian composer
• Ludovico Roncalli (1654–1713), Italian nobleman and composer
• Ludovico Rusconi Sassi (1678–1736), Italian architect
• Ludovico Sabbatini (1650–1724), Italian priest and religious educator
• Ludovico I of Saluzzo (c. 1416–1475), marquess of Saluzzo
• Ludovico II of Saluzzo (1438–1504), Count of Carmagnola and marquess of Saluzzo
• Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933–1968), Italian sports car driver
• Ludovico Sforza (1452–1508), member of the Sforza dynasty of the Duchy of Milan
• Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (1622–1701), Italian Franciscan priest and author
• Ludovico Tommasi (1866–1941), Italian painter
• Ludovico de Torres (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Ludovico de Torres (cardinal) (1552-1609), Roman Catholic cardinal
  • Ludovico de Torres (archbishop) (1533–1583), Roman Catholic archbishop
• Ludovico Trasi (1634–1694), Italian painter
• Ludovico Trevisan (1401–1465), Italian catholic prelate
• Ludovico di Varthema (c. 1470–1517), Italian traveller and writer
• Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475–1527), papal scribe and type designer

Surname

• Alessandro Ludovico (born 1969), artist, media critic and magazine editor in chief
• Pedro Ludovico (1891–1979), founder of Goiânia, Brazil

Other uses

• The fictional Ludovico technique of psychological conditioning from the novel and film A Clockwork Orange
• Ludovico Technique LLC, an art and entertainment production company
• Lodovico, Kinsman to Brabantio, cousin to Desdemona in the play Othello

See also

• Lodovico