Angelo

For other uses, see Angelo (disambiguation).

Angelo is an Italian masculine given name meaning "angel", or "messenger". Angelo is also an Italian surname that has many variations: Angeli (disambiguation), Angela (disambiguation), De Angelis, D'Angelo, Angelini, Angelino (disambiguation), Angelina (disambiguation), Angelucci, Angeloni, Angeletti (disambiguation).

People with the given name

• Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Roman Catholic bishop from Florence
• Angelo Thomas Acerra (1925–1990), Roman Catholic bishop
• Angelo Achini or Angiolo Achini (1850–1930), Italian painter
• Angelo Dayu Agor, South Sudanese politician
• Angelo Agostini (1843–1910), illustrator, journalist and founder of several publications, and although born in Italy, is considered the first Brazilian cartoonist
• Angelo Albanesi (late 18th century), Italian engraver
• Angelo Andres (1851–1934), Italian zoologist
• Angelo Angeli (1864–1931), Italian chemist
• Angelo Badà (1876–1941), Italian operatic tenor
• Angelo Badalamenti (born 1937), American composer
• Angelo Michele Bartolotti (died 1682), Italian guitarist, theorbo player and composer
• Pier Angelo Basili (1550–1604), Italian painter of the 16th-century Renaissance
• Angelo Battelli (1862–1916), Italian scientist
• Angelo Beccaria (1820–1897), Italian landscape painter
• Angelo Bendinelli (1876–1942), Italian tenor
• Angelo Bertelli (1921–1999), American football quarterback
• Angelo Boucheron (1780–1859), Italian painter and engraver
• Angelo Bronzino (1503–1572), Italian Mannerist painter
• Angelo Bruno (1910–1980), American mobster
• Angelo Buono, Jr. (1934–2002), American serial killer
• Angelo Campanella (1748–1815), Italian painter and engraver
• Angelo Canini (Angelus Canisius) (1521–1557), Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar
• Angelo Carasale (died 1742), Italian architect, active mainly in Naples
• Angelo Carletti di Chivaso (1411-1495), Italian Franciscan theologian
• Angelo Caroselli (1585–1653), Italian painter of the Baroque period
• Angelo Cataldi (born 1951), American sportcaster based in Philadelphia
• Angelo Celli (1857–1914), Italian physician and zoologist who studied malaria
• Angelo Cerica (1885–1961), Italian general and senator
• Angelo Cesselon (1922–1992), Italian poster painter
• Angelo Colaco (born 1989), Indian footballer
• Angelo F. Coniglio (born 1936), Sicilian-American engineer, genealogist and author
• Angelo Copeta (born 1919), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
• Angelo di Costanzo (1507–1591), Italian historian and poet
• Angelo Debarre (born 1962), Romani (Gypsy) guitarist in the manouche jazz style
• Angelo Del Toro (1947–1994), New York politician
• Angelo Dibona (1879–1956), Italian mountaineer
• Angelo DiGeorge (1921–2009), Italian American physician and pediatric endocrinologist
• Angelo Dolfini (born 1978), Italian figure skater
• Angelo Donati (1885–1960), Jewish Italian banker and philanthropist
• Angelo Donghia (1935–1985), American interior designer
• Angelo Dundee (1921–2012), American boxing trainer
• Angelo Emo (1731–1792), the last Grand Admiral of the Republic of Venice
• Angelo Ephrikian (1913–1982), Italian musicologist and violinist of Armenian descent
• Angelo Everardi (1647–1680), Italian painter of the Baroque period
• Angelo Faticoni (1859–1931), professional freakshow artist and contortionist
• Angelo Ferrari (1897–1954), Italian actor
• Angelo Fierro, American film and television actor
• Angelo Frigerio, Italian bobsledde
• Angelo Froglia (1955–1997), Italian painter
• Angelo Furlan (born 1977), Italian professional road bicycle racer
• Angelo Fusco (born 1956), Provisional Irish Republican Army member
• Angelo Garcia (born 1976), Puerto Rican Singer (ex-member of Menudo)
• Angelo Genocchi (1817–1889), Italian mathematician
• Angelo Genuin (born 1939), former Italian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier
• Angelo Geraldini (1422–1486), Italian humanist and diplomat, who became a bishop
• Angelo Gilardino (born 1941), Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist
• Angelo Giori (1586–1662), Italian Catholic Cardinal
• Angelo Haligiannis managed the hedge fund Sterling Watters as a Ponzi scheme
• Angelo Heilprin (1853–1907), American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist and explorer
• Angelo Hesnard (1886–1969), French born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Angelo Infanti (1939–2010), Italian film actor
• Angelo Inganni (1807–1880), Italian painter
• Angelo Ingrassia (1923–2013), American jurist
• Angelo Italia (1628–1700), Sicilian Jesuit and Baroque architect
• Angelo Keder (born 1955), Swedish contemporary artist
• Angelo Lano, American FBI agent who headed the Watergate investigation
• Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1909–1987), Italian composer
• Angelo Litrico (1927–1986), Italian fashion designer
• Angelo Loukakis, Australian author
• Angelo Maffucci (1847–1903), Italian pathologist
• Angelo Mai (1782–1854), Italian Cardinal and philologist
• Angelo Mangiarotti (1929–2012), Italian architect and industrial designer
• Ângelo Marcos da Silva (born 1975), Brazilian footballer
• Angelo Mariani (conductor) (1821–1873), Italian conductor and composer
• Angelo Mascheroni (1855–1905), pianist composer, conductor and music teacher
• Angelo Masci (1758–1821), Arbëresh jurist and scholar
• Angelo Mathews (born 1987), Sri Lankan cricketer
• Angelo Minghetti (1822–1885), Italian ceramist and painter of maiolica pieces
• Angelo Monticelli (1778–1837), Italian neoclassical painter
• Angelo Moore (born 1965), American musician
• Angelo Moratti (1909–1981), Italian oil tycoon
• Angelo Morbelli (1853–1919), Italian painter of the Divisionist style
• Angelo Mosca (1938–present), wrestler and Canadian Football Player
• Angelo Mosso (1846–1910), 19th-century Italian physiologist
• Angelo Motta, Italian entrepreneur, founder of the food company Motta
• Angelo Mozilo (born 1938), CEO of Countrywide Financial until July 1, 2008
• Angelo Muscat (1930–1977), Maltese-born film and television character actor
• Angelo Nicolini (1505–1567), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
• Angelo Oddi, composer, songwriter, and producer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Angelo Oliviero Olivetti (1874–1931), Italian revolutionary syndicalist
• Angelo Panelli (1887–1967), Italian stamp forger
• Angelo Paoli (1642–1720), Italian Carmelite, known as "the father of the poor"
• Angelo Paravisi (1930–2004), bishop of Crema
• Angelo Parisi (born 1953), French judoka and olympic champion
• Angelo Persichilli (born 1948), Italian born Canadian journalist and newspaper editor
• Angelo Petraglia (born 1954), American record producer and songwriter
• Angelo Piò (1690–1770), Bolognese sculptor
• Angelo Pizzi (1775–1819), Italian sculptor
• Angelo Pizzo, American screenwriter and film producer
• Angelo Poffo (1925–2010), American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter
• Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano (1454–1494), Florentine classical scholar and poet
• Angelo Puppolo, politician from Springfield, Massachusetts (Republican)
• Angelo Quaglio (1829–1890), German stage designer of Italian descent
• Angelo Que (born 1978), Filipino professional golfer
• Angelo Maria Quirini (1680–1755), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881–1963), Pope John XXIII
• Angelo Ribossi (1822–1886), Italian painter
• Angelo Rinaldi (born 1940), French writer and literary critic
• Angelo Maria Rivato (1924–2011), Roman Catholic bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil
• Angelo Rossi (musician), musician and writer
• Angelo Rossitto (1908–1991), American actor of Italian descent
• Angelo Rotta (1872–1965), Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest
• Angelo Ruffini (1864–1929), Italian histologist and embryologist
• Angelo Sala (1576–1637), Italian physician and chemist
• Angelo Scalzone (1931–1987), Italian sports shooter
• Angelo Secchi (1818–1878), Italian astronomer
• Angelo Stano (born 1953), Italian comic book artist
• Angelo Starr, American singer, musician and record producer
• Angelo Tonini (1888–1974), Italian athlete
• Angelo Torres (born 1932), American cartoonist and caricaturist
• Angelo Traina (1889–1971), Biblical scholar
• Angelo Trevisani (1669–1753), Italian painter
• Angelo Trezzini (1827–1904), Italian painter
• Angelo Tsagarakis (born 1984), French professional basketball guard
• Angelo Vaccarezza (born 1965), Italian politician
• Angelo Veloso (1930–1990), Portuguese politician
• Angelo Vermeulen (born 1971), Belgian visual artist and scientist
• Angelo Vicardi (1936–2006), Italian gymnast
• Angelo Weiss (born 1969), Italian former alpine skier
• Angelo Zanelli (1879–1942), Italian sculptor
• Angelo Zankl, O.S.B., (1901–2007), the longest professed Benedictine monk (86 years)
• Angelo Zorzi (1890–1974), Italian gymnast
• Angelo Zottoli (1826–1902), Italian Catholic priest and missionary in China

People with the surname

• Alfred Angelo, retailer of bridal gowns in Pennsylvania
• Beverly D'Angelo (born 1951), American film actress and singer
• Domenico Angelo (1716–1802), fencing master
• Edmond Angelo (1913–1983), American theatre and film producer
• Edward Angelo (1870–1948), Australian politician
• Ernest Angelo (born 1934), Texas businessman and politician
• Ivan Angelo (born 1936), Brazilian writer
• Jeff Angelo, Iowa politician
• Jerry Angelo, Chicago Bears general manager
• D'Angelo (born 1974), American musician
• Mark Angelo, Canadian conservationist
• Michelangelo
• Nancy Angelo (born 1953), organizational psychologist
• Richard Angelo (born 1962), nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in New York
• Tony Angelo, American drifting pioneer
• Valenti Angelo (1897–1982), Italian-American printmaker, illustrator and author
• Yves Angelo (born 1956), French cinematographer and film director

Fictional characters

• Angelo, a character in the William Shakespeare play Measure for Measure
• Angelo, a character in the William Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors
• Angelo (The Pretender), a character in the TV series The Pretender, portrayed by Paul Dillon
• Angelo, a fictional character in Dragon Quest VIII
• Angelo, the titular character of the TV series Angelo Rules
• Angelo Lagusa, the main character of the anime 91 Days

Spellings

The following forenames are related to the forename Angelo:

• Greek: Άγγελος (Ággelos, 'Angelos' meaning messenger)
• Italian: Angelo
• Portuguese: Ângelo
• Spanish: Ángel

See also

• John Marcangelo (born 1950), English pianist, drummer and composer of folk-rock music
• Richard Marcangelo, British drummer, writer and producer