Gambino is an Italian surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

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* (1899–1987), Argentine conductor *

Antonella Gambino Antonella Gambino (born 26 March 1990) is an Argentine handball player. She plays for the club Argentinos Juniors and on the Argentina women's national handball team. She defended Argentina at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia ...

(born 1990), Argentine handball player *

Domenico Gambino Domenico Gambino (17 May 1890 – 17 April 1968) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Gambino played Saetta, one of the rival strongman heroes to Maciste. Saetta had his own series of films during the early 1920s. He directed th ...

(1890–1968), Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director * Giuseppe Gambino (born 1968), Swiss football defender *

Lu Gambino Lucien Anthony "Lu" Gambino (September 21, 1923 – July 16, 2003) was an American football running back. He played college football for Indiana University, and after military service in the Second World War, the University of Maryland. While pl ...

(1923–2003), American football player *

Mike Gambino Michael L. Gambino (born July 9, 1977) is an American baseball coach and former infielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions. Prior to accepting the head coaching position at Penn State, he served as an ass ...

(born 1977), college baseball coach *

Raffaello Gambino Raffaello Gambino (18 April 1928 – 26 August 1989) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played seven mat ...

(1928–1989), Italian water polo player * Richard Gambino (1939–2024), American author and educator * Richard J. Gambino (1935–2014), American material scientist * Roberto Gambino (born 1962), Italian architect and politician *

Salvatore Gambino Salvatore Gambino (born 27 November 1983) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, but could play as a striker as well. Career Having joined Borussia Dortmund in 1996, Gambino played in the club's youth teams befo ...

(born 1983), Italian-German football player * Some members of the

Gambino crime family The Gambino crime family (pronounced ) is an Italian American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia. ...

, including: **

Carlo Gambino Carlo Gambino (; August 24, 1902 – October 15, 1976) was a Sicilian crime boss who was the leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York City. Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese i ...

(1902–1976), New York mobster and former boss of the crime family ** , New York mobster and nephew of Carlo Gambino **

Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino (Palermo, 21 May 1941 – Milan, 30 November 1996), also known as ''u tignusu'' (the bald one), was a member of the Mafia and head of the San Lorenzo mandamento. Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino was considered the deputy of Tot� ...

(1941–1996), member of the Mafia and head of the San Lorenzo mandamento **

John Gambino Giovanni "John" Gambino (; August 22, 1940 – November 16, 2017) was an Italian-born American mobster. Born in Palermo, Sicily, he became a made member of the Gambino crime family in 1975 and a capodecina or captain, and head of the crime fami ...

(1940–2017), Sicilian mobster who operated in New Jersey **

Rosario Gambino Rosario "Sal" Gambino (; born January 12, 1942) is an Italian mobster in the Gambino crime family. He became nationally known when he and his brothers set up a multimillion dollar heroin cartel during the 1970s and 1980s. At the turn of the centu ...

(born 1942), Sicilian mobster imprisoned on drug charges **

Thomas Gambino Thomas Francis Gambino (; August 23, 1929 – October 3, 2023) was an Italian-American New York City mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking rackets in the New York City Garme ...

(1929–2023), son of Carlo Gambino and caporegime in the Gambino crime family

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* Childish Gambino, the former stage name of

Donald Glover Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (; born September 25, 1983), also known by his musical stage name Childish Gambino (), is an American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. While he studied at New York University and after working in Derrick ...

(born 1983) *

Gambino Family (group) The Gambino Family was an American hip hop group founded by Master P in 1997, named after the Gambino crime family. The four members of the group were Lil Gotti (after John Gotti), Malachi, Pheno and Reginelli (after Marco Reginelli). Biog ...

, an American hip hop group

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