Orso is the

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word meaning " bear", and is a common

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and surname in Italy. ''Orso'' may refer to:

People

; Given name * Orso of Benevento (died 892), Prince of Benevento *

Orso Ipato Orso Ipato (Latin: ''Ursus Hypatus''; died 737) was the third traditional Doge of Venice (726–737) and the first historically known. During his eleven-year reign, he brought great change to the Venetian navy, aided in the recapture of Ravenn ...

, Doge of Venice, 726–737 *

Orso I Participazio Orso I Participazio (Latin: ''Ursus Particiacus''; died 881), also known as Orso I Badoer, was Doge of Venice from 864 until 881. He was, according to tradition, the fourteenth doge, though historically he is only the twelfth. History He was ele ...

(died 881), Doge of Venice *

Orso II Participazio Orso II Participazio (died 932) was the eighteenth doge of the Republic of Venice, by tradition (historically, he was the sixteenth), from 912 to 932. History In 912 he was kidnapped in the Adriatic by a Serb prince of Zachlumia by the name of ...

(died 932), Doge of Venice, 912–932 *

Orso Maria Guerrini Orso Maria Guerrini (born 25 October 1942) is an Italian film, television and stage actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Florence, Guerrini started his career with several small roles in Spaghetti Westerns and genre films. He became ...

(born 1943), Italian actor *

Orso Mario Corbino Orso Mario Corbino (30 April 1876, Augusta – 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician. His younger brother was Epicarmo Corbino. He served as the minister for education in 1921 and as the minister for economy in 1921. H ...

(1876–1937), Italian physicist and politician ; Surname *

Anna Orso Anna Maria Orso (December 11, 1938 – August 14, 2012) was an Italian film actress whose career in international and Italian cinema spanned more than fifty years. Career Orso made her film debut in '' The Bible: In the Beginning'', a 1966 r ...

(1938–2012), Italian actress * Michel Orso (born 1936), French singer-songwriter *

Mike D'Orso Mike D'Orso (born October 12, 1953) is an American author and journalist based in Norfolk, Virginia. He wrote ''Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood'' (1996), ''Plundering Paradise: The Hand of Man on the Galapag ...

(born 1953), American journalist

Other

* Örsö, an island in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden *

Orso (band) oRSo is a US-based band formed in 1996 and led by Phil Spirito of Rex, HiM (US), Loftus, and Califone featuring Brian Deck of Red Red Meat and Ben Massarella of Califone. The musical style is self-described a"carny rock, chamber folk or just or ...

, a US-based band *Sant'Orso, name in

of the Collegiate church of Saint Ursus in Aosta, Italy

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