Parente is a surname in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and may refer to:
A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family. Depending on the culture, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations based on the cultural rules.
Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. Italian descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire and, together with Sardinian, is by most measures the closest language to it of the Romance languages. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria. It formerly had official status in Albania, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro (Kotor) and Greece, and is generally understood in Corsica and Savoie. It also used to be an official language in the former Italian East Africa and Italian North Africa, where it still plays a significant role in various sectors. Italian is also spoken by large expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. Italian is included under the languages covered by the European Charter for Regional or Minority languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Romania, although Italian is neither a co-official nor a regional or a traditional language in these countries, where Italians do not represent a historical minority. In the case of Romania, Italian is listed by the Government along 10 other languages which supposedly receive a "general protection", but not between those which should be granted an "advanced or enhanced" one. Many speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both Italian and other regional languages.
Spanish or Castilian, is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Spain and the Americas. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
- Pietro Parente (1891–1986), Italian theologian and cardinal
- Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racecar driver
- Carol-Lynn Parente, executive producer of Sesame Street
- William Parente, controversial New York real estate attorney
- Nildo Parente, Brazilian actor
- Teresa Parente, American actress
- Paulo César Arruda Parente, Brazilian soccer player
- Angelo Parente, former drummer for the band Motionless In White
- Alison Swan Parente, English food educator
Pietro Parente was a long-serving theologian in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, and was made a cardinal on 26 June 1967. At his peak he was regarded as one of the foremost Italian theologians.
Álvaro Parente is a Portuguese professional racing driver. He is currently under contract with McLaren racing their GT cars for several customer teams.
Carol-Lynn Parente is an American television producer, known as the executive producer of the children's educational TV series Sesame Street.
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