Marcello

Marcello
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Italian
Origin
Region of origin	Italy
Other names
Variant form(s)	Marcus, Marcellus, Marc
Nickname(s)	Marco, Cello

Last updated March 13, 2025

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