Malatesta

Malatesta may refer to:

People

Given name

• Malatesta (I) da Verucchio (1212–1312), founder of the powerful Italian Malatesta family and a famous condottiero
• Malatesta IV Baglioni (1491–1531), Italian condottiero and lord of Perugia, Bettona, Spello and other lands in Umbria

Surname

• Antonia Malatesta of Cesena, daughter (or possibly the niece) of Carlo I Malatesta, Lord of Cesena, Fano, Pesaro, and Rimini
• Carlo I Malatesta (1368–1429), Italian condottiero
• Enrico Malatesta (born 1976), Italian goalkeeper currently played for Cremonese
• Errico Malatesta (1853–1932), Italian anarchist
• Guido Malatesta (1919–1970), Italian film director and screenwriter
• Malatestino Malatesta (died 1317) or Malatestino (II) Malatesta, known as dell'Occhio, lord of Pesaro and Rimini
• Malatesta II Malatesta, best known as Guastafamiglia (c. 1299–1364), Italian condottiero and lord of Rimini.
• Malatesta IV Malatesta (also known as Malatesta dei Sonetti); (1370-1429), Italian condottiero, poet and lord
• Simone Malatesta (born 1982), Italian footballer currently played for Lupa Roma

Other

• House of Malatesta, an Italian family which ruled over Rimini from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century
• Malatesta (play), a play by Henry de Montherlant
• Malatesta (film), a 1970 German film
• Malatesta (Rome Metro), underground station of Line C of the Rome Metro