The name Orelli can refer to several different people:
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Carlo Orelli (1894–2005) was, until his death, the oldest living Italian veteran of World War I
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Giovanni Orelli
Giovanni Orelli (30 October 1928, in Bedretto, Switzerland – 3 December 2016, in Lugano) was a Swiss poet and writer who worked in Italian and the Ticinese dialect. His cousin Giorgio Orelli was a poet and literary critic.
Life
He studied at th ...
(1928–2016), a Swiss poet and writer
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Johann Caspar von Orelli
Johann Caspar von Orelli (Latin ''Iohannes Caspar Orellius''; 13 February 1787 – 6 January 1849), was a Swiss classical scholar.
Life
He was born at Zürich of a distinguished Italian-speaking family from Locarno which had taken refuge in ...
(1787–1849), a Swiss classical scholar
*Johann Conrad Orelli (1770–1826), the cousin to the preceding, and also a classics scholar
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Hans Konrad von Orelli (1846–1912), a Swiss theologian
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