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Angelo Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church * Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Ro ...

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Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was in ...

(1475–1564), the Tuscan sculptor, architect, painter, and poet.

People with the given name

* Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1492–c. 1554), Italian painter in Parma *

Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...

(1912–2007), Italian film director and writer *

Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (baptized 4 November 1568 – 11 January 1646) was a Florentine poet, librettist and man of letters, known as "the Younger" to distinguish him from his granduncle. Education From 1588 to 1591 he studied mat ...

(1568-1646), Florentine poet and playwright, his grandnephew *

Michelangelo Carducci Michelangelo Carducci was a 16th-century Italy, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Umbria. He was born in Norcia. Extant works include: *''Resurrection of Lazarus'', fresco in the Norcia#Main sights, Basilica of San Benedetto, N ...

(fl. 1560s), Italian painter active in Umbria *

Michelagnolo Galilei Michelagnolo Galilei (sometimes spelled Michelangelo; 18 December 1575 – 3 January 1631) was an Italian composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, active mainly in Bavaria and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He w ...

(1575–1631), Italian lutanist and composer, younger brother of the astronomer *

Michelangelo Merisi Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

da Caravaggio (1571–1610), Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily *

Michaelangelo Meucci Michaelangelo Meucci (1840–1909) was an Italian artist, known for his paintings of birds, including dead game birds. He also painted still-life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, ...

(1840–1890), Italian painter * Michelangelo Minieri (born 1981), Italian footballer *

Michelangelo Signorile Michelangelo Signorile (; born December 19, 1960) is an American journalist, author and talk radio host. His radio program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada on Sirius XM Radio and globally online. Signorile was editor- ...

(born 1960), American writer and talkshow host

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Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was ins ...

, ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' character

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