Cherubino

Cherubino is a male given name and a family name .

Origin and meaning

Cherubino is the Italian word for cherub . The name is derived from the Hebrew "kerubim" ("who prays"). Adapted as Cherubinus in church Latin. The plural is Cherubini.

Well-known namesake

First name

• Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), Italian engraver and painter
• Cherubino Bonsignori (15th century – 16th century), Italian painter
• Cherubino Busatti (also Busatus, died before 1644), Italian composer and organist
• Cherubino Caietano (died 1544), Italian bishop
• Cherubino Comini (1913–), Italian football player
• Cherubino Cornienti (1816–1860), Italian painter
• Cherubino Ghirardacci (1519–1598), Italian historian
• Cherubino Patà (1827–1899), Swiss landscape and portrait painter
• Cherubino Staldi (1911–2002), Italian chess player

Surname

• Pier Luigi Cherubino (* 1971), Italian-Spanish soccer player
• Salvatore Cherubino (1885–1970), Italian mathematician

Fictional characters

• a character from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro
• a character from John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles

See also

• Cherubini