Pietro

Pietro

Pronunciation	Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Italian
Name day	June 29
Origin
Region of origin	Italy
Other names
Related names	Peter, Pietra

Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice
• Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death
• Pietro II Candiano (c. 872–939), 19th Doge of Venice, son of Pietro I

A–E

• Pietro Accolti (1455–1532), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• Pietro Aldobrandini (1571–1621), Italian cardinal and patron of the arts
• Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian former footballer
• Pietro di Antonio Dei, birth name of Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448–1502), Florentine painter, illuminator and architect
• Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
• Pietro Auletta (1698–1771), Italian composer known mainly for his operas
• Pietro Baracchi (1851–1926), Italian-born astronomer
• Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700), Italian Baroque painter
• Pietro Belluschi (1899–1994), Italian architect
• Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and cardinal
• Pietro Bernini (1562–1629), Italian sculptor
• Pietro Borghese (1398–1484), also called Pietro della Francesca, Italian painter of the early Renaissance
• Pietro Bianchi (disambiguation)
• Pietro Campilli (1891–1974), Italian economist and politician
• Pietro Carnesecchi (1508–1567), Italian humanist
• Pietro Cascella (1921–2008), Italian painter and sculptor
• Pietro Cataldi (1548–1626), Italian mathematician
• Pietro Crinito (1475–1507), known as Crinitus or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, Florentine humanist scholar and poet
• Pietro Dusina, Italian priest and inquisitor
• Pietro Erardi (1644–1727), Maltese chaplain and painter

F–M

• Pietro Facchetti (1539–1613), Italian painter of the late Renaissance
• Pietro Ferrari (footballer, born 1906), Italian retired footballer
• Pietro Ferraris (1912–1991), Italian footballer
• Pietro Ferrero (disambiguation)
• Pietro Fontana (engraver) (1762–1837), Italian engraver
• Pietro Fontana (engineer), early 19th century Italian engineer and agronomist
• Pietro Germi (1914–1974), Italian actor, screenwriter and director
• Pietro Lanza di Scalea (1863–1938), Italian noble and politician
• Pietro Lesana, Italian bobsledder
• Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764), Italian Baroque composer and violinist
• Pietro Lombardi (architect) (1894–1984), Italian architect
• Pietro Lombardi (wrestler) (1922–2011), Italian wrestler
• Pietro Lombardi (singer) (born 1992), German singer
• Pietro Loredan (1372–1438), Venetian nobleman and military commander on sea and land
• Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni (1721–1782), Austrian painter
• Pietro Magni (sculptor) (1817–1877), Italian sculptor
• Pietro Magni (engineer) (1898–1988), Italian aeronautical engineer
• Pietro Magni (footballer) (1919–1992), Italian footballer and football manager
• Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735–1787), painter from Parma
• Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician
• Pietro Metastasio, pseudonym of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698–1782), Italian poet and librettist

N–Z

• Pietro Negroni (c. 1505–1565), Italian painter of the Renaissance
• Pietro Pastore (1908–1969), Italian footballer and actor
• Pietro Pedranzini (1826-1903), Italian Lieutenant
• Pietro Perti or Peretti (1648–1714), Italian Baroque sculptor and architect
• Peter S. Pezzati (1902–1993), aka Pietro Pezzati, American portrait painter
• Pietro Pezzati (artist) (1828–1898), Italian mural painter
• Pietro Porcinai (1910–1986), Italian landscape architect
• Pietro Scalia (born 1960), Italian-American film editor
• Pietro Scarcella (born 1950), Italian-Canadian mobster
• Pietro Antonio Solari (c. 1445–1493), Italian architect and sculptor
• Pietro Torre (born 2002), Italian fencer
• Pietro or Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1498–1565), Italian religious reformer
• Pietro De Vico (1911–1999), Italian film actor
• Pietro Vierchowod (born 1959), Italian football manager and former player
• Pietro Vinci (c. 1525–1584), Italian composer
• Pietro Ziani (died 1230), 42nd Doge of Venice

Fictional characters

• Pietro Maximoff, fictional Marvel Comics superhero known as Quicksilver
• Pietro, the main character in the PopoloCrois game series

See also

• San Pietro (disambiguation)
• Peter (given name)
• Pietra (disambiguation)