Morpurgo

Morpurgo (Hebrew: מורפורגו‎) is an Italian surname of Jewish origin. Originally Marpurg, from the Austrian city Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor in Slovenia). Key ancestor was Moises Jacob, father of Petachia, in Bad-Rackersburg, Austria. Petachia (1355–1460) had three sons who died in Maribor. Their subsequent multinational progeny took the surnames Maribor, Marburg, Marpurg, Morpurgo, Marlborough, Murphy.

Morpurgo may refer to:

• Israel Isserlein (1380–1460) son of Petachia, had two sons, Aaron (1420–1490) and Keshel.
• Salomone Morpurgo (b. 1385) son of Petachia, had one son, Aaron (1415–1480), who died in Trieste.
• Anselmo (Anshel) Morpurgo (b. 1395) son of Petachia, had three sons and two daughters who married their Morpurgo cousins.
• Samson (ben Joshua Moses) Morpurgo (1681, Bosnia – 1740), a Bosnian-Italian rabbi, physician, and liturgist.
• Baron Brutus Morpurgo born in Cairo, British multinational financier. Married Lady Clarissa Laide of Clan Ferghys.
• Baron Anselmo Morpurgo (d. 1933) born in Cairo, married Ida Olga Morpurgo-DeCastro Sierra born in the USA.(Generali A.G.)
• Baron Aldo Franco Morpurgo (1899–1965) son of Anselmo and Ida, Italian architect.
• Baron Augusto Morpurgo (b. 1937) son of Aldo and Valentina D'Arton, American architect.
• Baron Attilio Morpurgo (1903–1978) son of Anselmo and Ida, married Countess Adele V. L. Nilsen-Vik, Italian-American physician.
• Baroness Annselm (Annaselma) L. N. V. Morpurgo (b. 1934) American poet, novelist, human rights activist, scientific philosopher.
• Baroness Helga Ida Morpurgo (b. 1935) American visual artist and playwright.
• Elio Morpurgo (1858–1944), Italian politician.
• Luciano Morpurgo (1886–1971) Italian photographer and writer Luciano Morpurgo.
• Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (1890, Rome – 1966, Rome), Italian architect.
• Umberto De Morpurgo (1896, Trieste, Austria – 1961), tennis player
• Lisa Morpurgo (Dordoni) (1923–1998), Italian writer and astrologer.
• Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937–2014), Italian linguist at Oxford University.
• Michael Morpurgo (born 1943, London), English writer, especially of children's novels.
• Clare Morpurgo (née Lane) (?), wife of Michael.
• Tina Morpurgo (1907–1944), Croatian painter
• Vid Morpurgo (1838–1911), Croatian industrialist, publisher and politician.
• Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790–1871), Jewish-Italian poet.
• Maurice Frank Morpurgo (1941)
• Lesley Anne Morpurgo (''née Masters'') (1947)

Morpurgo may also refer to

• 5521 Morpurgo, an asteroid
• Palazzo Morpurgo, a palace in Udine