Grassi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Achille Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
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Alberto Grassi, Italian footballer
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Alex de Grassi, American guitarist
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Bruno Grassi, Brazilian footballer
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Carlo Grassi, Italian cardinal
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Carlo Grassi, Italian partisan
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Claudio Grassi, Italian tennis player
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Davide Grassi, Italian footballer
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Ernesto Grassi, Italian philosopher
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Franz Dominic Grassi, German merchant with Italian descent
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Giacomo di Grassi
Giacomo () is an Italian given name corresponding to English James. It is the Italian version of the Hebrew name Jacob.
People bearing the name include:
* Giacomo Acerbo (1888–1969), Italian economist and Fascist politician
*Giacomo Agostini ...
, Italian fencing master
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Giorgio Grassi
Giorgio Grassi (born 27 October 1935) is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as ''La Tendenza'', associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerg ...
, Italian architect
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Giovanni Antonio Grassi, Jesuit priest and President of Georgetown University
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Giovanni Battista Grassi
Giovanni Battista Grassi (27 March 1854 – 4 May 1925) was an Italian people, Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the Unive ...
, Italian physician and zoologist
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Giuseppe Grassi, Italian politician, member of the
Italian Liberal Party
The Italian Liberal Party (, PLI) was a liberal political party in Italy.
The PLI, which was heir to the liberal currents of both the Historical Right and the Historical Left, was a minor party after World War II, but also a frequent junio ...
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Giuseppe Grassi, Italian cyclist
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Giuseppina Grassi, Mexican professional road cyclist
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Gregorio Grassi
Gregory Mary Grassi, O.F.M., (in Italian language Gregorio Maria Grassi) (13 December 1833 – 9 July 1900) was an Italian Franciscan friar and bishop who is honored as a Catholic martyr and saint.
He is one of the 120 Martyrs of China who we ...
, Italian Franciscan friar and bishop
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Josef Grassi
Josef Grassi (22 April 1757 – 7 January 1838) was an Austrian portrait and history painter. His middle name is usually given as "Maria", although there is evidence that it was actually "Mathias".Michael Lorenz Wien 2012 He is also called "Giuse ...
, Austrian portrait and history painter
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Julio César Grassi, Argentine priest
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Libero Grassi
Libero Grassi (; 19 July 1924 – 29 August 1991) was an Italian clothing manufacturer from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. The businessman wrote an open letter to the l ...
, Italian clothing manufacturer, killed by
the Mafia
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Lucas di Grassi
Lucas Tucci di Grassi (born 11 August 1984) is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in Formula E for Lola Yamaha ABT. In formula racing, di Grassi competed in Formula One in , and won the 2016–17 Formula E Championship with Abt. In endu ...
, Brazilian race-car driver
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Luigi Grassi, Italian footballer
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Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi (born 8 August 1968) is a Swiss former professional footballer, who played as a centre forward. He was part of the Switzerland national team squads at the 1994 World Cup and at the UEFA Euro 1996.
Club career
Grassi was born in C ...
, Swiss footballer
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Mitch Grassi
Mitchell Coby Michael Grassi (born July 24, 1992) is an American singer from Arlington, Texas. Known for his high tenor voice, Grassi came to international attention as a founding performer in two groups—the a cappella quintet Pentatonix, and ...
, Member of the a cappella group ''Pentatonix''
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Nicolò Grassi, also known as ''Nicola Grassi'', Italian painter, active in a late-
Baroque
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or
Rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...
style
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Orazio Grassi
Orazio Grassi (b. Savona 1 May 1583 – d. Rome 23 July 1654) was an Italian Jesuit priest, who is best noted as a mathematician, astronomer and architect. He was one of the authors in controversy with Galileo Galilei on the nature of comets. Hi ...
, Italian Jesuit astronomer and mathematician
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Paolo Grassi, Italian theatrical impresario
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Raymond Grassi, Canadian former ice sledge hockey player
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Santiago Grassi, Argentine swimmer
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Tullio Grassi, Swiss footballer
See also
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De Grassi (disambiguation)
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De Grassi Street, a street in
Toronto, Ontario
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, Canada
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Di Grassi
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Grassi Museum, a building complex in
Leipzig
Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
, Germany, home to three museums: the Ethnography Museum, Musical Instruments Museum, and Applied Arts Museum
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Mount Lawrence Grassi, a mountain located immediately south of the town of
Canmore, in
Alberta's
Alberta is a province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, the Northwest Territories to its north, and the U.S. stat ...
Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rockies () or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains. It is the easternmost part of the Canadian Cordillera, w ...
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Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi (also known as the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky) is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice (Italy), between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.
History First owners
During the 16th ...
, the former estate of the Grassi family located on the
Grand Canal (Venice)
The Grand Canal ( , locally and informally ; , locally usually ) is the largest Channel (geography), channel in Venice, Italy, forming one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
One end of the canal leads into the Venetian Lagoon, ...
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Italian-language surnames