Michelangelo (name)
Michelangelo is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a combination of the Hebrew Michael ("Who is like God?") And the Latin Angelus ( angel , messenger). Mostly it was used in Italy .
Well-known namesake
- Michelangelo Abbado (1900–1979), Italian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- Michelangelo Albertazzi (* 1991), Italian football player
- Michelangelo Amadei (1586–1642), Italian composer
- Michelangelo Anselmi (1491 / 92–1554 / 56), Italian painter and fresco artist
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007), Italian avant-garde film director, author and painter
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian painter, sculptor, builder and poet
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (the Younger) (1568–1646), Italian poet and writer
- Michelangelo Celesia (1814–1904), Italian Benedictine, cardinal and archbishop of Palermo
- Michelangelo Console (1812–1897), Italian botanist
- Michelangelo Crispi (* 1972), former Italian lightweight rower
- Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733), Neapolitan lawyer and composer
- Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692), Italian composer and conductor
- Michelangelo Fardella (1650-1716), Sicilian scholar
- Michelangelo Galilei (1575–1631), Italian composer
- Michelangelo Grancino (around 1605–1669), Italian organist, conductor and composer
- Michelangelo Grigoletti (1801–1870), Italian painter
- Michelangelo Jurlaro (* 1950), Italian filmmaker
- Michelangelo Luchi (1744–1802), Italian cardinal
- Michelangelo Merloi aka Mike Merlo (1880–1924), American politician
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), Italian painter
- Michelangelo Naccherino (1550–1622), Italian sculptor
- Michelangelo Pacetti (1793–1865), Italian landscape painter
- Michelangelo Pergolesi († 1801), Italian decorator of the 18th century
- Michelangelo Picone (1943–2009), Italian Romance studies and literary scholar
- Michelangelo Pistoletto (* 1933), Italian painter, action and object artist and art theorist
- Michelangelo Rampulla (* 1962), Italian football goalkeeper
- Michelangelo Ricci (1619–1682), Italian cardinal and mathematician
- Michelangelo Rossi (1601/02 – after 1670), Italian baroque composer, violinist and organist
- Michelangelo Setola (* 1980), Italian comic artist
- Michelangelo Signorile (* 1960), American writer and broadcaster
- Michelangelo Tamburini (1648–1730), 14th general of the Societas Jesu
- Michelangelo Tilli (1655–1740), Italian doctor and botanist
- Michelangelo Tonti (1566–1622), Italian cardinal
- Michelangelo Riccardo Maria Tiribilli (* 1937), Abbot General of the Olivetans
- Michelangelo Unterberger (1695–1758), South Tyrolean Baroque painter
- Michelangelo von Zois (1874–1945), Austrian lawyer, civil servant, writer and journalist
- Michelangelo Zurletti (* 1937), Italian music critic, conductor and music teacher