Castiglione (surname)
Castiglione is an Italian and Jewish (from Italy) habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word, from medieval Latin castellio (genitive castellionis) ‘fortification’, ‘small castle’.[1] Castiglione may refer to:
People with the surname
- Godffredo da Castiglione, Pope Celestine IV died Rome, 10 November 1241
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), Italian Renaissance writer and diplomat, best known for The Courtier book
- Giovanni Castiglione (1420-1460), Italian bishop and cardinal
- Giovanni Battista Castiglione (1516–1598), Italian tutor to Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth I
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664), Italian (Genoese) painter and printmaker
- Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiore Salvemini di Castiglione (1704-1791), Italian mathematician
- Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit) (1688–1766), Italian painter and Jesuit missionary
- Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione (1757–1816), Marshal of France and French general
- Jose Pablo Martinez del Rio-Castiglione (fl. 1859), Italo-Mexican nobleman in the court of Maximilian I of Mexico
- Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (1837–1899), Italian courtesan and mistress of Napoleon III
- Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908), Italian painter
- Joe Castiglione (born 1947), Boston Red Sox radio announcer
- Joe Castiglione (athletic director) (born 1957), at the University of Oklahoma
- Giuseppe Castiglione (politician) (born 1963), Italian politician
- Nancy Castiglione (born 1981), Canadian actress active in the Philippines
- Salvatore Castiglione (1620 – 1676), an Italian painter of the Baroque period
Fictional characters
- Francis "Frank" Castle (born Castiglione), fictional Sicilian-American vigilante called the Punisher from Marvel Comic.
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