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

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; 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 (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 Orso Paolo Bertolucci (born December 12, 1936) is a French singer-songwriter. Known professionally as Michel Orso (pronunciation= Orso), he is best known in for his 1966 French hit song "Angélique". Early life Orso was born in Prunelli-di-Casa ...

(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

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, 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 Italian of the

Collegiate church of Saint Ursus The Collegiate church of Saint Ursus ( it, Collegiata di Sant'Orso, french: Collégiale de Saint-Ours) is a collegiate church in Aosta, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint Ursus of Aosta. The original church had a single hall, delimited by a sem ...

in Aosta, Italy

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