Massimo

Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine (Italian: [ˈmassimo]) is both an Italian surname and a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Massimo family, Roman noble family, notable since the Middle Ages
  • Camillo Massimo (1620-1677), Italian cardinal

Given name:

• Massimo Bottura (born 1962), Italian restaurateur
• Massimo Brambati (born 1966), Italian footballer
• Massimo Brancaccio (1965-2005), Italian drag queen performer, stage name Billy More
• Massimo Bray (born 1959), Italian intellectual and politician
• Massimo Bubola (born 1954), Italian singer-songwriter
• Massimo Crippa (born 1965), Italian footballer
• Massimo D'Alema (born 1949), Italian politician
• Massimo Luongo (born 1992), Australian footballer
• Massimo Oddo (born 1976), Italian footballer
• Massimo Pigliucci (born 1964), Italian-American Philosopher
• Massimo Polidoro (born 1969), is an Italian psychologist, writer, journalist, television personality, co-founder and executive director of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudoscience (CICAP)
• Massimo Ranieri (born Giovanni Calone, 1951), Italian pop singer, film and stage actor
• Massimo Savić (born 1962), Croatian pop singer, also known mononymously as Massimo
• Massimo Sulli (born 1963), Italian Olympic judoka
• Massimo Troisi (1953-1994), Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director
• Massimo Vignelli (1931-2014), Italian designer

See also

• Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Renaissance palace in Rome
• Istituto Massimiliano Massimo, Jesuit school in Rome
• San Massimo, municipality in Campobasso, Molise, Italy
• Circo Massimo (Rome Metro), Roman metro station
• Teatro Massimo, opera house in Palermo

Fictional characters

• Massimo Marone, a fictional character on The Bold and the Beautiful
• Don Massimo Torricelli, one of the main charaters, a mafia boss, in 365 Days.