Marcello

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Marcello is a common masculine Italian given name. It is a variant of Marcellus. The Spanish and Portuguese version of the name is Marcelo, differing in having only one "l", while the Greek form is Markellos.

Etymology

The name originally means like a hammer. It is originally the adjectival form of Marcus, which means hammer; the -el suffix was in times of archaic Latin the adjectival form. It also sounds like mar 'cello'.

People with given name

• Marcello Abbado (1926–2020), Italian pianist
• Marcello Boldrini (1890–1969), Italian statistician
• Marcello Borges (born 1997), American soccer player
• Marcello Caetano (1906–1980), Portuguese politician
• Marcello Campolonghi (born 1975), Italian footballer
• Marcello Castellini (born 1973), Italian footballer
• Marcello Cerruti (1808–1896), Italian diplomat and politician
• Marcello Ciorciolini (1922–2011), Italian director and screenwriter
• Marcello Dudovich (1878–1962), Italian painter and illustrator
• Marcello Fabbri (1923–2015), Italian poet
• Marcello Falzerano (born 1991), Italian footballer
• Marcello Fois (born 1960), Italian writer
• Marcello Gandini (born 1938), Italian car designer
• Marcello Giordani (1963–2019), Italian opera singer
• Marcello Lippi (born 1948), Italian football manager
• Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), Italian biologist and physician
• Marcello Mastrilli (1603–1637), Italian Jesuit missionary
• Marcello Mastroianni (1924–1996), Italian actor
• Marcello Musto (born 1976), Canadian political scientist
• Marcello Pacifico (born 1977), Italian trade unionist
• Marcello Pera (born 1943), Italian philosopher and politician
• Marcello Planca, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
• Marcello Possenti (born 1992), Italian footballer
• Marcello D. Rapp, bass guitarist for American alternative rock band Against All Will
• Marcello Siniscalco (1924–2013), Italian scientist
• Marcello Spatafora (born 1941), Italian diplomat
• Marcello Stefanini (1938–1994), Italian politician
• Marcello Thedford, American actor
• Marcello Trotta (born 1992), Italian footballer
• Marcello Varallo (born 1947), Italian alpine skier
• Marcello Veneziale (born 1941), Italian magistrate and politician
• Marcello Venusti (1512–1579), Italian painter
• Marcello Violi (born 1993), Italian rugby union player

People with surname

In music

• Alessandro Marcello, Italian nobleman and dilettante who dabbled in various areas, especially music
• Benedetto Marcello, brother of Alessandro, Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher
• Rosanna Scalfi Marcello, composer, singer, and wife of Benedetto Marcello
• Kee Marcello, former guitarist in the Swedish hard rock band Europe
• Rob Marcello, the current guitarist of the band Danger Danger

Other fields

• Carlos Marcello, Italian-American mobster
• Marcello, pseudonym used by Swiss sculptor and painter Adèle d'Affry

Fictional Characters

• Marcello, an antagonist in the video game, Dragon Quest VIII.

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