Donati

Donati is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Angelo Donati (1885-1960), Italian banker and philanthropist
• Baldassare Donati (1525/30–1603), Italian composer of the late Renaissance
• Bianca Donati (born 1995), Argentine field hockey player
• Buoso Donati (—ca. 1285), character in Dante's Divine Comedy
• Cianfa Donati (—bef. 1289), character in Dante's Divine Comedy
• Corso Donati (–1308), leader of the Black Guelphs in Florence, brother of Forese and Piccarda
• Danilo Donati (1926–2001), Italian costume designer
• Enrico Donati (1909–2008), American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth
• Forese Donati (–1296), brother of Corso and Piccarda, a friend of Dante Alighieri included as a character in the Divine Comedy
• Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873), Italian astronomer
• Giulio Donati (born 1990), Italian footballer
• Giuseppe Donati (1836–1925), inventor of the modern ocarina
• Ignazio Donati (c. 1570–1638), Italian composer
• Massimo Donati (born 1981), Italian footballer
• Matteo Donati (born 1995), Italian tennis player
• Piccarda Donati (13th century), sister to Corso and Forese, included as a character in Dante's Divine Comedy
• Robert Donati (1940–1991), American organized-crime figure suspected of masterminding the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
• Silvano Donati (born 1942), scientist, professor of photonics
• Virgil Donati (born 1958), Australian drummer
• Vitaliano Donati (1717–1762), Italian botanist

See also

• Comet Donati
• Donati (crater) named after Giovanni Battista Donati
• Donatus of Evorea, an Albanian saint known as Shën Donati in Albanian.