Forlani is an Italian surname, which is a variant of
Furlan
Friulian ( ) or Friulan (natively or ; it, friulano; de-AT, Furlanisch; sl, furlanščina) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, ...
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Forlán. Notable people with the surname include:
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Arnaldo Forlani
Arnaldo Forlani, (; born 8 December 1925) is an Italian former politician and statesman who served as the 43rd prime minister of Italy from 18 October 1980 to 28 June 1981. He also held the office of deputy prime minister, minister of Foreign A ...
(born 1925), Italian politician and Prime Minister
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Claire Forlani
Claire Antonia Forlani (born 17 December 1971) is an English actress. She became known in the mid-1990s for her leading role in the film ''Mallrats'', and in the Jean-Michel Basquiat 1996 biopic, ''Basquiat''. In 1998, she achieved wide recog ...
(born 1971), English actress
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Kazimir Forlani (1834–1887), Croatian Catholic bishop
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Remo Forlani
Remo Forlani (1927–2009) was a French writer and screenwriter born in Paris to a French mother and an Italian immigrant father.
In 1987 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française.
Selected filmography
* ''Juliette a ...
(1927–2009), French writer
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Richard Forlani Neely (born 1941), former justice and chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1995
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Simone Forlani (born 1974), Italian lightweight rower
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Italian-language surnames
Croatian surnames