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People with this given name include: * Orazio degli Albizzi (1610–1676), Roman Catholic bishop *

Orazio Alfani Orazio Alfani (c. 1510 – 1583) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in both Palermo and Perugia. He is sometimes referred to as Orazio di Domenico or di Paris Alfani. Born near Perugia, he first trained with his father, ...

(c. 1510–1583), Italian painter *

Orazio Antinori Orazio Antinori (28 October 1811 – 26 August 1882) was an Italian explorer and zoologist. Antinori was born in Perugia (then in the Papal States) and studied natural history in Perugia and Rome. Afterwards he collaborated with Charles Lucien Bo ...

(1811–1882), Italian explorer and zoologist *

Orazio Arancio Orazio "Bimbo" Arancio (born 15 November 1967 in Catania) is a former Italian rugby union player and a current coach and sports director. He played as a flanker. Career Arancio first played at Fiamma Catania, moving to Amatori Catania in 1986/ ...

(born 1967), Italian former rugby union player and current coach and sports director * Orazio Attanasio (born 1959), Italian economist and professor *

Orazio Bacci Orazio Bacci (18 October 1864 in Castelfiorentino – 25 December 1917 in Rome) was an Italian Liberal Party politician who was the 12th mayor of Florence at the time of the Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy (, ) was a unitary state that ...

(1864–1917), Italian politician *

Orazio di Giampaolo Baglioni Orazio di Giampaolo Baglioni (1493 in Perugia – 22 May 1528) was an Italian lord and condottiero. He took over command of Giovanni de' Medici's Black Bands after his death in 1526. Pope Clement VII held him responsible for the unrest in Perugia ...

(1493–1528), Italian aristocrat and condottiero (mercenary commander) *

Orazio Bassani Orazio Bassani (Cento, Ferrara before 1570 - Parma 1615), also known as "Orazio della Viola", was an Italian viola-da-gambist. He was celebrated for his instrumental embellishments of madrigals, a few of which survive in manuscript sources. He wa ...

(died 1615), Italian musician and composer *

Orazio Benevoli Orazio Benevoli or Benevolo (19 April 1605 – 17 June 1672) was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works (e.g., one work featured forty-eight vocal and instrumental lines) of the middle Baroque era. He was born ...

(1605–1672), Italian composer * Orazio Bernardini (1899–1967), Italian admiral * Orazio Filippo Bianchi (1680–1757), Italian lawyer and classical scholar *

Orazio Bianchi Orazio Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Rome. He painted ''Marriage of St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary'' for the church of San Gioseffo in Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and ...

, Italian Baroque painter *

Orazio Antonio Bologna Orazio Antonio Bologna (born 8 June 1945) is an Italian classical philologist, and poet writing in Latin and fabulist of life. Biography Bologna was born in Pago Veiano. He studied at the University of Naples Federico II and graduated in 1975 ...

(born 1945), Italian classical philologist and poet *

Orazio Borgianni Orazio Borgianni (6 April 1574 – 14 January 1616) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso. Borgianni was born in Rome, where he was docu ...

(c. 1575–1616), Italian painter and etcher * Orazio Brunetti (1630–?), Italian engraver and painter *

Orazio Bruni Orazio Bruni (born c. 1630) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period. He was born at Siena. He worked entirely with the graver, and appears to have imitated the style of François de Poilly. He engraved plates from his own designs and others f ...

(born c. 1630), Italian engraver *

Orazio Cambiasi Orazio Cambiasi, also Orazio Cambiaso, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Genoese school of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Cambiasi was born to the painter Luca Cambiaso, who trained him. He specialized in frescos decorati ...

, 16th-century Italian painter *

Orazio Comes Orazio Comes (11 November 1848 – 13 October 1917) was an Italian Botany, botanist. From 1906 to 1917 he directed the Agricultural Higher Institute of Portici, in which, thanks to Vincenzo de Cesati, he began teaching since 1877 as assistant of ...

(1848–1917), Italian botanist *

Orazio Costa Orazio Costa (6 August 1911 – 14 November 1999) was an Italian theatre pedagogist and director. Born Orazio Costa Giovangigli in Rome, Costa graduated at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1937, and after being assistant director ...

(1911–1999), Italian theatre director *

Orazio Cremona Orazio Cremona (born 1 July 1989) is a South African athlete specialising in the shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men ...

(born 1989), South African shot putter *

Orazio Fagone Orazio Fagone (born 13 November 1968) is an Italian sledge hockey player and former short track speed skater who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics, 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics. After a motorcycle accident, he also competed as ...

(born 1968), Italian sledge hockey player and former speed skater *

Orazio Falconieri image:Falconieri front.jpg, 300 px, The Villa Falconieri in Frascati; renovations were commissioned by Orazio Falconieri Orazio Falconieri (died 1664) was an Nobility of Italy, Italian nobleman from Florence; he was the owner of the Villa Falconi ...

(died 1664), Italian nobleman *

Orazio Fantasia Orazio Maurice Fantasia ( or ; born 14 September 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Essendon Football Club with the 55th ...

(born 1995), Australian rules footballer *

Orazio Farinati Orazio Farinati (c. 1559–1616) was a late Mannerist Italian painter. Farinati was born in Verona. He was the principal assistant to his father, the painter Paolo Farinati Paolo Farinati (also known as ''Farinato'' or ''Farinato degli Ube ...

(1559–1616), Italian painter *

Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro (Valentano, February 1532 – Hesdin, 18 July 1553) was the third Duke of Castro. Biography He was the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, and his wife, Gerolama Orsini. He married Diane de France on 14 ...

(1532–1553), husband of Diane de France * Orazio de Ferrari (1606–1657), Italian painter * Orazio Fidani (1610–1656), Italian painter *

Orazio Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi __NOTOC__ Orazio Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi (died 12 October 1645) was a wealthy nobleman and patrician ('patrizio') of Genoa descending from the Fieschi, Counts Palatine of Lavagna, in what is now Liguria. He was appointed Grand Senesch ...

(died 1645), Prince of Belmonte and patrician of Genoa * Orazio Fontana (1510–1571), Italian painter *

Orazio Frezza Orazio Frezza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Naples, He was instructed by Giovanni Battista Benaschi. He afterwards studied the works of Giovanni Lanfranco and Domenichino, whom he imitated with some success. He ...

, 17th-century Italian painter * Orazio Fumagalli (1921–2004), Italian sculptor * Orazio Gaigher (1870–1938), Italian-Austrian painter and illustrator *

Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (; 1563 – 7 February 1639) was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other ...

(1563–1639), Italian painter * Orazio Giaccio, 17th-century Italian composer *

Orazio Giraldi Orazio Giraldi (died 1617) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Comacchio (1592–1617). ''(in Latin)'' Biography On 22 April 1592, Orazio Giraldi was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Comacchio. O ...

(died 1617), Roman Catholic priest * Orazio Giustiniani (1580–1649), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal *

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 ...

(1583–1654), Italian mathematician, astronomer and architect * Orazio Greco, 16th-century Roman Catholic priest *

Orazio Costante Grossoni Orazio Costante Grossoni (Milan, 1867–1952) was an Italian sculptor. Biography Grossoni studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan with Raffaele Casnedi and Ambrogio Borghi and worked in the studio of the sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro. He ...

(1867–1952), Italian sculptor *

Orazio Ludovisi Orazio Ludovisi (July 1561 – 2-30 November 1624) was an Italian nobleman, military commander and patrician of Bologna. During his brother's reign as Pope Gregory XV, he became Commander of the Papal Armies, Roman Noble and 1st Duke of Fiano an ...

(1561–1640), Italian nobleman, military commander, patrician of Bologna; brother of Pope Gregory XV * Orazio Maffei (1580–1609), Roman Catholic cardinal * Orazio Mariani (1915–1981), Italian sprinter *

Orazio Marinali Orazio Marinali (24 February 1643 – 6 April 1720) was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor, active mainly in the Veneto or Venetian mainland. Biography Orazio Marinali was born in Angarano, near Bassano del Grappa, on 24 February 1643. He trained ...

(1643–1720), Italian sculptor *

Orazio Marucchi Orazio Marucchi (1852 - January 1931, Rome) was an Italian archaeologist and author of the ''Manual of Christian Archaeology''. He served as Professor of Christian Archaeology at the University of Rome and director of the Christian and Egyptian mu ...

(1852–1931), Italian archaeologist *

Orazio Michi Orazio Michi "dell'Arpa" (also ''Mihi''; Alife, Campania, 1594Rome, 26 October 1641) was an Italian composer, and, as his nickname "of the harp" suggests, harpist The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual string (music), ...

(1594–1641), Italian composer and harpist * Orazio Minimi (1646–1701), Roman Catholic priest * Orazio Mochi (1571–1625), Italian sculptor * Orazio Annibale della Molara (1585–1643), Roman Catholic bishop * Orazio Di Negro (1809–1872), Italian politician and admiral * Orazio Orazi (1848–1912), Italian painter *

Orazio Orlando Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Naples, Orlando attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica, Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome for two seasons, in 1953 ...

(1933–1990), Italian actor *

Orazio Pannitteri Orazio Pannitteri (born 17 August 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Lumezzane. Club career Born in Catania, Pannitteri started his career on local club Athena Club Paternò and after in Catania. He don ...

(born 1999), Italian footballer * Orazio Pierozzi (1884–1919), Italian World War I flying ace * Orazio Porta, 16th-century painter * Orazio Querci (1875–1970), Italian entomologist *

Orazio Satta Puliga Orazio Satta Puliga (October 6, 1910 – March 22, 1974)Orazio Satta ...

(1910–1974), Italian automobile designer * Orazio Rancati (1940–2023), Italian footballer * Orazio Rapari (1544–1595), Roman Catholic bishop *

Orazio Riminaldi ''Selfportrait'', Uffizi Orazio Riminaldi (5 September 1593 – 19 December 1630) was an Italian painter who painted mainly history subjects in a Caravaggist style. Biography Riminaldi was born and died in Pisa. He was in Pisa first a pupil of ...

(1586–1631), Italian painter * Orazio Romanzi (born 1970), Italian racewalker * Orazio Russo (born 1973), Italian retired footballer *

Orazio Samacchini Orazio Samacchini (20 December 1532 – 12 June 1577) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist style, active in Rome, Parma, and his native city. Biography He was born and died in Bologna. A close friend of Lorenzo Sabbatini, ...

(1532–1577), Italian painter * Orazio di Santis (fl. 1568–1577), Italian engraver * Orazio Schena (1941–2024), Italian footballer * Orazio Schillaci (born 1966), Italian politician * Orazio Schipano (died 1596), Roman Catholic priest * Orazio Silvestri (1835–1890), Italian geologist and volcanologist * Orazio Solimena (1690–1789), Italian painter * Orazio Sorbello (born 1959), Italian footballer and manager *

Orazio Spínola Orazio Spínola (1547–1616) was a Roman Catholic cardinal and member of the Pamphili family. The Cardinal designed to episcopally crown the venerated image of Madonna delle Vigne, promising its people to crown it every year on its centennial ...

(1547–1616), Italian Catholic cardinal * Orazio Svelto (born 1936), Italian physicist, academic and author * Orazio Talami (1624–1708), Italian painter * Orazio Tedone (1870–1922), Italian mathematician and physicist *

Orazio Torriani Orazio Torriani (or Orazio Torrigiani; 1578–1657) was an Italian architect and sculptor who worked in Rome. He was related to architect Nicola Torriani, but their exact relationship is unknown (either brothers, or father/son). Career In 1602 ...

(fl. 1602–1657), Italian architect * Orazio Torsellino (1545–1599), Italian historian and author * Orazio Toscanella (1510–1580), Italian classical philologist and translator *

Orazio Vecchi Orazio Vecchi (6 December 1550 (baptized) in Modena – 19 February 1605) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance. He is most famous for his madrigal comedy, madrigal comedies, particularly ''L'Amfiparnaso''. ...

(died 1605), Italian composer * Orazio Vecellio (c. 1528–1576), Italian painter

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* Giuseppe Orazio Capretti (1641–1725), Italian painter

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* Angelo F. Orazio (1926–2018), American politician

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