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, the equivalent of the English name

Benedict Benedict may refer to: People Names *Benedict (given name), including a list of people with the given name *Benedict (surname), including a list of people with the surname Religious figures * Pope Benedict I (died 579) *Pope Benedict II (635– ...

. Notable people named Benedetto include:

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* Benedetto Accolti (disambiguation), several people *

Benedetto Aloi Benedetto "Benny" Aloi (October 6, 1935 – April 7, 2011) was a New York City mobster who became underboss of the Colombo crime family. Aloi was a main figure in the "Windows Case", Aloi was also a major figure in the Third Colombo War. Early ye ...

(1935–2011), American mobster *

Benedetto Antelami Benedetto Antelami (c. 1150 – c. 1230)"Antelami, Benedetto" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 441. was an Italian architect and sculptor of the Romanesque school, who ...

(c. 1150–c. 1230), Italian architect and sculptor *

Benedetto Bonfigli Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420 – 8 July 1496) was an Italy, Italian Renaissance painter born in Perugia, and part of the Umbria school of painters including Raphael and Pietro Perugino, Perugino. He is al ...

(c. 1420–c. 1490), Italian painter *

Benedetto Bordone Benedetto Bordone (died 1531) was a Venetian manuscript editor, Portrait miniature, miniaturist and cartographer. He was born in Padua, then part of the Republic of Venice. His date of birth is unknown but his parents were married in Padua in 144 ...

(1460–1531), Italian manuscript editor, miniaturist and cartographer *

Benedetto Brin Benedetto Brin (17 May 1833 in Turin, Piedmont24 May 1898 in Rome, Lazio) was an Italian naval administrator and politician. He played a major role in modernizing and expanding the Italian ("Royal Navy") from the 1870s to the 1890s, designing ...

(1833–1898), Italian naval administrator and politician *

Benedetto Cairoli Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Italy for 2 years. Biography Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whol ...

(1825–1889), Italian statesman *

Benedetto Castelli Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italians, Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595. Life Born in Brescia, Castelli studied at the University of ...

(1578–1643), Italian mathematician *

Benedetto Cotrugli Benedetto Cotrugli (; 1416–1469) was a Republic of Ragusa, Ragusan merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and Renaissance humanism, humanist. Life Benedetto Cotrugli was born into a merchant family in the prosperous maritime city of Ragusa (m ...

(1416–1469), Ragusan merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist *

Benedetto Croce Benedetto Croce, ( , ; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography, and aesthetics. A Cultural liberalism, poli ...

(1866–1952), Italian philosopher and politician *

Benedetto da Maiano Benedetto da Maiano (1442 – 24 May 1497) was an Italian Early Renaissance sculptor. Biography Born in the village of Maiano (now part of Fiesole), he started his career as a companion of his brother, the architect Giuliano da Maiano. When ...

(1442–1497), Italian sculptor * Benedetto Della Vedova (born 1962), Italian politician *

Benedetto Dei Benedetto Dei (1418–1492) was an Italian poet and historian. He spent the majority of his life in Florence, where he was an adjutant to the Medici and to the Portinari, a merchant house. Dei's most significant work was his chronicle of Florenti ...

(1417–1492), Italian poet and historian *

Benedetto Ferrari Benedetto Ferrari ( – 22 October 1681) was an Italian composer, particularly of opera, librettist, and theorbo player. Biography Benedetto Ferrari was born in Reggio Emilia, Reggio nell'Emilia. He worked in Rome (1617–1618), Parma (1619–1 ...

(c. 1600–1681), Italian composer *

Benedetto I Zaccaria Benedetto I Zaccaria (c. 1235 – 1307) was an Italian admiral of the Republic of Genoa. He was the Lord of Phocaea (from 1288) and first Lord of Chios (from 1304), and the founder of Zaccaria fortunes in Byzantine and Latin Greece. He was, at d ...

(c. 1230–1307), Italian admiral * Benedetto Justiniani (1550–1622), Italian theologian *

Benedetto Luti Benedetto Luti (17 November 1666 – 17 June 1724) was an Italian Baroque painter, draftsman, and pastelist. Early life Luti was born in Florence on 17 November 1666. He trained under Anton Domenico Gabbiani before moving to Rome in 1690. Career ...

(1666–1724), Italian painter *

Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Life Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of the noble Marcello family and in his composit ...

(1686–1739), Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher *

Benedetto Pistrucci Benedetto Pistrucci (29 May 1783 – 16 September 1855) was an Italian gem-engraver, medallist and a coin engraver, probably best known for his Saint George and the Dragon design for the British sovereign coin. Pistrucci was commissioned ...

(1783–1855), Italian engraver *

Benedetto Santapaola Benedetto Santapaola (; born 4 June 1938), better known as Nitto, is a prominent Italian mafioso from Catania, the main city and industrial centre on Sicily's east coast. Santapaola was considered one of the most powerful and bloodthirsty mafia ...

(born 1938), Italian mafioso *

Benedetto Spera Benedetto Spera (; born 1 July 1934) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia and the boss of the Belmonte Mezzagno Mafia family and the '' mandamento'' of Belmonte Mezzagno in the province of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. He was convicted ''in abs ...

(born 1934), Italian mafioso *

Benedetto Stay Benedetto Stay (1714–1801) was a Republic of Ragusa, Ragusan Roman Catholic clergyman, educated by Jesuits, he attended the academic assemblies of Marin Sorgo, beginning the composition of a poem on Alessandro Farnese (cardinal), Alexander Farnes ...

(1714–1801), Croatian Roman Catholic churchman *

Benedetto Varchi Benedetto Varchi (; 1502/15031565) was an Italian humanist, historian, and poet. Biography Born in Florence to a family that had originated at Montevarchi, he frequented the neoplatonic academy that Bernardo Rucellai organized in his garden, the ...

(c. 1500–1565), Italian humanist, historian, and poet

People with the middle name

Antonio Benedetto Carpano Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764, Bioglio (Biella) – 1815, Turin) was an Italian distiller, famous for having invented vermouth and consequently the apéritif. In 1786, Antonio Benedetto Carpano invented modern Vermouth in Turin, made from wh ...

(1764–1815), Italian distiller *

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 16095 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school (painting), Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printm ...

(1609–1664), Italian artist, painter, printmaker, and draftsman *

Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo or Joseph Benedict Cottolengo (3 May 1786 – 30 April 1842) was the founder of the and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Early life Joseph Benedict Cottolengo was born on 3 May 1786, into a middle-clas ...

(1786–1842), Italian saint *

Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (21 March 1672 – 16 April 1742) was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was the son of the composer Carlo Pallavicino (1630?-1688). (Their surname Pallavicino is sometimes spelt Pallavicini.) Biography Pa ...

(1672–1742), Italian poet

People with the surname

Anthony Dominick Benedetto Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, ...

(born 1926-2023), Italian-American singer *

Darío Benedetto Darío Ismael Benedetto (born 17 May 1990) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker. Club career Early career Darío Benedetto began his career playing for Arsenal de Sarandí in 2008. He was loaned out to Defensa y Justic ...

, (born 1990) Argentine professional footballer *

Enzo Benedetto Enzo Benedetto (10 November 1905 - 27 May 1993) was an Italian painter, associated with Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early ...

(1905-1993), Italian painter * Giacomo Benedetto (born 1972), British-Italian political scientist *

John Benedetto John Joseph Benedetto (born July 16, 1939) is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park and is a leading researcher in wavelet analysis and Director of the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Application ...

(born 1939), American mathematician * Robert Benedetto (born 1946), American luthier

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