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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". [1] [2]
Giuseppe Crispi – Priest and philologist, one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of his time [1] [2] [3] Giuseppe Schirò – Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century [20]
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Cardillo is a surname of Sicilian origin, derived from the word cardillu, meaning goldfinch. [1] People with the name. Alex ...
Viscuso is a surname of Italian origin. It is an Italian surname derived from the Sicilian word "viscusu", which literately means "tough" or "the one who is tenacious". Viscuso is decidedly Sicilian, above all of Catania, the Aci Castello, Mascalucia and Misterbianco and Bagheria (PA) and Palermo, the origin of these surnames is obscure, one could hypothesize a derivation from names of ...