Alberto is the
Romance
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Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
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version of the
Latin
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ized form (''Albertus'') of
Germanic ''
Albert
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Alber ...
''. It is used in
Italian
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** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
,
Portuguese
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** Portu ...
and
Spanish
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. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America,
Albertino in Italian as well as ''Tuco'' as a
hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...
. It derives from the name
Adalberto which in turn derives from ''
Athala'' (meaning noble) and ''Berth'' (meaning bright).
Origin and Meaning of Alberto
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People
* Alberto Aguilar Leiva (born 1984), Spanish footballer
* Alberto Airola
Alberto Airola (born 13 May 1970) is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement.
Early life
Airola was born in Moncalieri, south of Turin in Piedmont.
Political career
Airola was elected to the Italian Senate in the 2013 general e ...
(born 1970), Italian politician
* Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari (; 13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver and a two time Formula One World Champion. He was a multitalented racer who competed in motorcycle racing before switching to cars. Ascari won consecutive world titles ...
(1918–1955), Italian racing driver
* Alberto Baldonado (born 1993), Panamanian baseball player
* Alberto Bello
Alberto Bello (1897–1963) was an Argentine actor who appeared in more than 40 films during his career including ''Madame Bovary'' (1947).Goble p.159
Selected filmography
* ''Marriage in Buenos Aires'' (1940)
* '' Isabelita'' (1940)
* '' El teso ...
(1897–1963), Argentine actor
* Alberto Beneduce
Alberto Beneduce (29 May 1877 – 26 April 1944) was an Italian politician, scholar and financier, who was among the founders of many significant state-run finance institutions in Italy.
Early life and education
Beneduce was born in Caserta ...
(1877–1944), Italian scientist and economist
* Alberto Bustani Adem
Alberto Bustani Adem (born in Mexico City, 1954) is a Mexican academic and entrepreneur of Lebanese descent ( Boustani). Elder son of Antonio Bustani and Alicia Adem. His grandparents emigrated from Lebanon at the beginning of the 20th century, ...
(born 1954), Mexican engineer
* Alberto Callaspo
Alberto José Callaspo Brito (, ; born April 19, 1983) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels of An ...
(born 1983,) baseball player
* Alberto Campbell-Staines
Alberto Jonathan Campbell-Staines (born 27 June 1993) is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability who competes in the T20 classification. He won two bronze medals at the 9th INAS Athletics World Championships.
Personal
Campbell w ...
(born 1993), Australian athlete with an intellectual disability
* Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti".
Early life
Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a ...
(1897–1982), Brazilian film producer
* Alberto Cerri
Alberto Cerri (born 16 April 1996) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie B club Como, on loan from Cagliari.
Club career
Parma
On 30 March 2013, Cerri made his debut for Parma as a substitute replacing Amau ...
(born 1996), Italian footballer
* Alberto Cianca
Alberto Cianca (1884–1966) was an Italian journalist and anti-fascist politician. He edited several significant publications, including '' Il Mondo'', and served in the Parliament and Senate.
Early life and education
Cianca was born in Rome on ...
(1884–1966), Italian journalist and politician
* Alberto Cifuentes
Alberto Cifuentes Martínez (born 29 May 1979) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently the manager of Cádiz CF B.
Playing career
Born in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Cifuentes started playing as a seni ...
(born 1979), Spanish footballer, known as "Alberto"
* Alberto Clò
Alberto Clò (born 1947) is an Italian businessman, politician and academic. He served as minister of industry from 1995 to 1996. He was the director of Eni SpA.
Early life and education
Clò was born in 1947. He holds a political sciences degr ...
(born 1947), Italian businessman and politician
* Alberto Contador
Alberto Contador Velasco (; born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish former professional cyclist. He is one of the most successful riders of his era, winning the Tour de France twice ( 2007, 2009), the Giro d'Italia twice (2008, 2015), and the V ...
(born 1982), Spanish cyclist
* Alberto Cortez (born 1940), Argentine musician
* Alberto Costa (British politician)
Alberto Castrenze Costa (born 13 November 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire since the 2015 general election.
Early life
Costa was born to Italian parents wh ...
(born 1971)
* Alberto Costa (Portuguese politician)
Alberto Bernardes Costa (born in Alcobaça, 1947) was the Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance langu ...
(born 1947)
* Alberto Domínguez (composer) (1913–1975), Mexican composer and marimbist
* Alberto Edjogo-Owono
Alberto Edjogo-Owono Montalbán (born 21 April 1984), known simply as Alberto, is an Equatoguinean retired footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Born in Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain to an Equatoguinean father and a Spanish mother, Al ...
(born 1984), Equato-guinean footballer, known as "Alberto"
* Alberto Escassi
Alberto Escassi Oliva (born 28 February 1989) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as either a central defender or a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Escassi was born in Málaga, Andalusia. After playing for two other clubs as a youth ...
(born 1989), Spanish footballer
* Alberto Espinoza Barrón, Mexican drug trafficker
* Alberto Estrella
Alberto Estrella (born Alberto Rodríguez Estrella, 23 September 1962) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in more than 90 films and television shows since 1986.
Biography
Estrella was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He starred in the fil ...
(born 1962), Mexican actor
* Alberto Fabra
Alberto Fabra Part (Castellón de la Plana, born 6 April 1964) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party. He was the fifth President of the Valencian Government since devolution was granted in 1982.
Personal life
He graduate ...
(born 1964), Spanish politician
* Alberto Fanesi
Alberto José Fanesi (born 16 February 1948 in Casilda, Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe) is an Argentines, Argentine Association football, footballer manager and former player. As a player, he won the Primera División Argentina, Argentine championshi ...
(born 1948), Argentine football manager
* Alberto Fernández
Alberto Ángel Fernández (; born 2 April 1959) is an Argentine politician, lawyer and professor, serving as president of Argentina since 2019.
Born in Buenos Aires, Fernández attended the University of Buenos Aires, where he earned his law ...
(born 1959), Argentine politician, president
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
since December 2019
* Alberto Fernández (cyclist)
Alberto Fernández Blanco (15 January 1955 - 14 December 1984) was a Spanish road racing cyclist. His son Alberto Fernández Sainz is also a road racing cyclist.
Fernández was born in Cuena, Cantabria. As an amateur, he won the Spanish mo ...
(1955–1984), Spanish cyclist
* Alberto Franceschini (born 1947), Italian terrorist
* Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942), Italian composer
* Alberto Frezza
Alberto Frezza (; born May 23, 1989) is an Italian-American actor and director.
Early life and education
Alberto Frezza was born in Milan, Italy, and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At 15, he returned to Italy to attend high school.
He gra ...
(born 1989), Italian–American actor
* Alberto Frison (born 1988), Italian footballer
* Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto ( or ; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian politician, professor and former engineer who was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. Frequently described as a dictator,
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(born 1938), President of Peru
* Alberto García (athlete) Alberto García may refer to:
* Alberto García (swimmer) (born 1957), Mexican former swimmer
* Alberto García Aspe
Alberto García Aspe Mena (born 11 May 1967) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is one ...
(born 1971), Spanish long distance and cross-country runner
* Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker
* Alberto Gianni (1891–1930), Italian underwater diver
* Alberto Gilardino
Alberto Gilardino (; born 5 July 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker.
He is currently in charge as caretaker of Genoa, a club he was contracted with on July 2022 as a youth coach.
A p ...
(born 1982), Italian footballer
* Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983), Argentine composer
* Alberto Gonzales (born 1955), American politician
* Alberto González (baseball)
Alberto Ramón González (born April 18, 1983) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, and Chicago Cubs.
Prof ...
(born 1983), Venezuelan baseball player
* Alberto Grimaldi (1925–2021), Italian film producer
* Alberto Loddo (born 1979), former Italian cyclist
* Alberto Lopo
Alberto Lopo García (born 5 May 1980) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
His physical style of play resulted in him being one of the most booked players every season in Spanish football. He spent 16 ...
(born 1980), footballer
* Alberto Lora (born 1987), Spanish footballer
* Alberto Losada
Alberto Losada Alguacil (born 28 February 1982) is a Spanish former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2017 for the Kaiku, and squads.
Major results
;2004
: 3rd Vuelta a Cantabria
;2005
: 4th Overall Vuelta a Nav ...
(born 1982), Spanish cyclist
* Alberto Magnelli
Alberto Magnelli (1 July 1888 – 20 April 1971) was an Italian modern painter who was a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement.
Biography
Magnelli was born in Florence on July 1, 1888. In 1907 he started painting and, d ...
, Italian artist
* Alberto Martín (born 1978), Spanish tennis player
* Alberto Martínez (footballer, born 1950) (1950–2009), Uruguayan footballer
* Alberto Martínez Díaz
Alberto Martínez Díaz (born 27 October 1962), known as Berto (), is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Lugo, Galicia, Berto's career was mainly associated to Real Oviedo for which he pla ...
(born 1962), Spanish footballer
* Alberto Miguel (born 1977), Spanish basketball player
* Alberto Mondi
Alberto Mondi (born 17 January 1984) is an Italian who lives and performs in South Korea as a television personality and businessman. He is currently a cast member in the talk show ''Non-Summit''. He is a former footballer of Serie D.
Personal l ...
(born 1984), Italian television personality and businessman active in South Korea
* Alberto Moreno
Alberto Moreno Pérez (; born 5 July 1992) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Villarreal.
An academy graduate of local side Sevilla, he made his senior debut for the club's reserve side in 2011 befo ...
, Spanish footballer
* Alberto Naranjo
Alberto Naranjo ah-rahn'-ho(September 14, 1941 – January 27, 2020) was a Venezuelan musician. His mother, the singer Graciela Naranjo, was a radio, film and television pioneer in her homeland. Largely self-taught, Naranjo embarked on a simil ...
(born 1941), Venezuelan musician
* Alberto Oliart
Alberto Carlos Oliart Saussol (29 July 1928 – 13 February 2021) was a Spanish politician and executive. He was a government minister three times during the Spanish transition to democracy and chairman of Spanish Radio and Television Corporati ...
(1928–2021), Spanish politician
* Alberto Martinez Piedra (born 1926), Cuban-American professor
* Alberto Palatchi
Alberto Palatchi (born 1949/1950) is a Spanish billionaire businessman, and the former owner of the wedding dress company Pronovias.
Career
In 1964, Palatchi inherited a store from his parents. He grew the business into Pronovias, one of the lar ...
, Spanish billionaire
* Alberto Pullicino (1719–1759), Maltese painter
* Alberto Marcos Rey (born 1969), Spanish footballer, known as "Alberto"
* Alberto Del Rio
José Alberto Rodríguez Chucuan (born 25 May 1977) is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, professional wrestling promoter, sports commentator, and mixed martial artist, currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as a c ...
(born 1977), Mexican wrestler
* Alberto Rivera (activist)
Alberto Magno Rivera Romero (September 19, 1935June 20, 1997) was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of the theories about the Vatican espoused by fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick.
Chick promised to promot ...
, American and anti-Catholic publisher
* Alberto Romualdez, Filipino politician and doctor
* Alberto Salazar
Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958) is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where ...
(born 1958), American track coach and long-distance runner
* Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont ( Palmira, 20 July 1873 — Guarujá, 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavie ...
, (1873–1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer
* Alberto Simonini (1896–1960), Italian politician
* Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, director and screenwriter.
Early life
Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in hon ...
, (1920–2003), Italian actor
* Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba (born 19 December 1966 in San Lazzaro di Savena) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier (slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s. At 182 cm and 90 kg, his powerful ...
(born 1966), former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy, dominant technical skier (slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s
* Alberto van Klaveren (born 1948), Dutch-born Chilean diplomat and lawyer
* Alberto Yarini (1882–1910), Cuban pimp
* Alberto Zedda
Alberto Zedda (2 January 19286 March 2017) was an Italian conductor and musicologist whose specialty was the 19th-century Italian repertoire.
Alberto Zedda was born in Milan, Italy, where he accomplished his education in music and humanities, co ...
(born 1928), Italian conductor
Fictional characters
* Alberto Bertorelli, a character in the BBC sitcom '''Allo 'Allo!
''Allo 'Allo!'' is a British sitcom television series, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, starring Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner and Richard Gibson. Originally broadcast on BBC1, the series focuses on the life of a Fre ...
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* Alberto Molina, from the TV series ''Arthur
Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more wi ...
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* Alberto Scorfano, A character in Disney Pixar movie Luca
The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent population from which all organisms now living on Earth share common descent—the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. This includes all cellular organisms; th ...
Other uses
* "Alberto
Alberto is the Romance languages, Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic languages, Germanic ''Albert (given name), Albert''. It is used in Italian language, Italian, Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, ...
," an ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' episode
* ''Alberto'', a comic made by fundamentalist
Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishi ...
Jack Chick
Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morali ...
about a man called Alberto Rivera who claimed to be an ex- Jesuit priest
* Hurricane Alberto, a name given to several hurricanes
* Alberto-Culver
Alberto-Culver was an American corporation with international sales whose principal business was manufacturing hair and skin beauty care products under such brands as Alberto VO5, Andrew Collnge, St. Ives (skin care products), TRESemmé, FDS, ...
, American cosmetics company
See also
* Albert
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Alber ...
* Albert (surname) Albert is a surname, and may refer to:
*Abraham Adrian Albert (1905–1972), American mathematician
*Augustine Albert (1791–1846), French opera singer
*A. Albert (fl. 1900), an otherwise unidentified member of the gold-medal winning French 1900 ...
* Albertus (given name) Albertus is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
;Latinized names
* Aldberht or Albertus (died between 781 and 786), Bishop of Hereford
* Albertus Parisiensis (died 1177), French cantor and composer
* Albertus de Pisa (died 1240), It ...
* Adalberto
* Albertet Albertet is the Occitan diminutive of Albert (given name). It is commonly associated with two troubadours:
*Albertet Cailla
*Albertet de Sestaro (an unqualified "Albertet" usually means this troubadour)
See also
*Albert
*Alberte
Elin Alberte Le ...
, an Occitan diminutive of Albert
* Adalbert (name)
* Berto (disambiguation)
* Carlos Alberto
References
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