Gavino is a male

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. It is common in

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

. Despite its form, it is unrelated to

Gavin Gavin is a male given name originating from Scotland. It is a variation on the medieval name Gawain, meaning "God send" or "white hawk" (or falcon). Sir Gawain was a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. '' Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' is an e ...

, dating back to ancient

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(meaning "from

Gabii Gabii was an ancient city of Latium, located due east of Rome along the Via Praenestina, which was in early times known as the ''Via Gabina''. It was on the south-eastern perimeter of an extinct volcanic crater lake, approximately circular ...

"). Saint

Gavinus Saint Gavinus ( it, San Gavino) is a Christian saint who is greatly celebrated in Sardinia, Italy, as one of the Martyrs of Torres (), along with his companions SS Protus, a bishop, and Januarius, a deacon. Narrative He was probably a Roman ...

(

San Gavino, Porto Torres The Basilica di San Gavino (Basilica of Saint Gabinus) is a proto- Romanesque church in Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy. A former cathedral, it is now a place for the veneration of local martyrs and a parish church. History Turris Libisonis (Lat ...

) was an early Christian martyr, an ex-Roman centurion decapitated in 300 AD, whose head was thrown in the

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before being reunited with his body.

People with the given name

Gavino Angius Gavino Angius (born 18 November 1946) is an Italian politician. Biography Born at Sassari (Sardinia), after the degree in Political Sciences, he became a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), for which he was secretary of his city's secti ...

(born 1946), Italian politician *

Gabino Bugallal Araújo Gabino Bugallal Araújo, 2nd Count of Bugallal (19 February 1861, in Ponteareas – 30 June 1932, in Paris) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government ( es, link=n ...

(1861–1932), Spanish politician *

Gavino Contini Gavino Contini (in Sardinian, ''Gavinu Còntene'') ((12 December 1855 – 24 July 1915)) was a Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldign ...

(1855–1915), Sardinian-Italian poet *

Gabino Coria Peñaloza Gabino Coria Peñaloza (February 19, 1881 – October 31, 1975) was an Argentine poet and lyricist. Gabino Coria Peñaloza was born in La Paz, Mendoza, in 1881. His family relocated to Buenos Aires, and Coria eventually settled into a post a ...

(1881–1975), Argentine poet and lyricist *

Gavino Gabriel Gavino Gabriel ( Tempio Pausania, 1881 – Rome, 1980) was an Italian composer, ethnomusicologist scholar of Sardinian music, especially that of Gallura, and has written and published many essays on the subject. Biography and career In 1905 h ...

(1881–1980), Italian composer and musicologist *

Gavino Ledda Gavino Ledda (; born 30 December 1938) is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work ''Padre Padrone'' (1975). Biography Early life Ledda was born in Siligo, in the Province ...

(born 1938), Italian writer and scholar *

Gavino Matta Gavino Matta (June 9, 1910 in Sassari – January 20, 1954) was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, Matta won the silver medal in the flyweight class after losing the final fight to Willy Kaiser, the Ge ...

(1910–1954), Italian boxer *

Gabino Sosa Gabino Sosa (4 October 1899 – 3 March 1971) was an Argentine football forward who spent all his career for Central Córdoba de Rosario, playing 24 years for the club.Gavinus Saint Gavinus ( it, San Gavino) is a Christian saint who is greatly celebrated in Sardinia, Italy, as one of the Martyrs of Torres (), along with his companions SS Protus, a bishop, and Januarius, a deacon. Narrative He was probably a Roman ...

San Gavino (disambiguation) San Gavino or San-Gavino may refer to: * San Gavino Monreale, a comune in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian region Sardini * San Gavino, a Christian saint who is greatly celebrated in Sardinia, Italy, as one of the Martyrs of Torres * ...

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