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Pages in category "Italian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Frank Capra, Sicilian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Maria Grazia Cucinotta , actress who has featured in many films and television series since 1990, and internationally known for her role in the Italian film Il Postino .
Cusumano is a Sicilian surname. Variant spellings include Cusumano and Cosimano (a variation found in Western Sicily). Cusumano is the spelling used in western Sicily and Cosimano is found in eastern Sicily. There are also many other variants that conform to a lot of known dialectal conventions of those parts of Sicily.
Russo is a common Southern Italian and Sicilian surname. It is the Southern counterpart of Rossi and comes from a nickname indicating red hair or beard, from russo , russë and russu , from Late Latin russus or rubius , Classical Latin rubeus , "red".
Pages in category "Surnames of Italian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 704 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ferrigno is an Italian surname [1] [2] [3] [4] which is most prevalent in the regions of Campania and Sicily [1] and is also to be found among the American, French ...
Most of the names on this list are typical examples of surnames that were adopted when modern surnames were introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the romantic spirit, they refer to natural features: virta 'river', koski 'rapids', mäki 'hill', järvi 'lake', saari 'island' — often with the suffix -nen added after the model ...
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