Caracciolo
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Caracciolo is the surname of a famous noble family of southern Italy.

Its members include:
  • Battistello Caracciolo
    Battistello Caracciolo
    Giovanni Battista Caracciolo was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio....

    , Italian painter
  • Carmine Nicolao Caracciolo
    Carmine Nicolao Caracciolo
    Carmine Nicolao Caracciolo, 5th Prince of Santo Buono, Grandee of Spain was Spanish viceroy of Peru from October 5, 1716 to January 26, 1720....

    , Spanish viceroy of Peru
  • Francesco Caracciolo
    Francesco Caracciolo
    Prince Francesco Caracciolo was a Neapolitan admiral and revolutionist.-Early life and British service:Caracciolo was born in Naples to a noble family. He entered the navy and learned his seamanship under Rodney...

    , Neapolitan admiral and revolutionist
  • Francis Caracciolo
    Francis Caracciolo
    Saint Francis Caracciolo , born Ascanio Pisquizio, was an Italian Catholic priest who co-founded the Congregation of the Minor Clerics Regular with Venerable John Augustine Adorno. He decided to adopt a religious life at the age of 22.-Biography:St Francis Caracciolo was born in Villa Santa Maria...

    , Italian priest
  • Franco Caracciolo
    Franco Caracciolo
    Franco Caracciolo was an Italian conductor. He studied piano and composing at the Conservatoire of S. Pietro a Majella in Naples, and conducting at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome...

    , Italian actor and conductor
  • Giovanni Caracciolo
    Giovanni Caracciolo
    Giovanni Caracciolo, often called Sergianni was an Italian nobleman of the Kingdom of Naples, prime minister and favorite of queen Joan II of Naples....

    , prime minister of the Kingdom of Naples
    Kingdom of Naples
    The Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...

     under Joan II of Naples
    Joan II of Naples
    Joan II was Queen of Naples from 1414 to her death, upon which the senior Angevin line of Naples became extinct. As a mere formality, she used the title of Queen of Jerusalem, Sicily, and Hungary....

  • Carlo Caracciolo
    Carlo Caracciolo
    Don Carlo Caracciolo di Castagneto was the 9th Principe di Castagneto, 4th duca di Melito and an Italian publisher. He created Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, one of Italy's leading publishing groups...

    , Italian-American newspaper publisher and founder of Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso
  • Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, Italian-American designer and socialite
  • Marino Caracciolo, cardinal and diplomat
  • Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo
    Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo
    Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo , known as Niccolo Caracciolo, was an Irish painter.Born in Dublin, he was the only son of Ferdinando Caracciolo, Prince of Cursi, a member of an old Italian family originally from Naples...

    , painter
  • Riccardo Caracciolo
    Riccardo Caracciolo
    Riccardo Caracciolo was an Italian nobleman from the Kingdom of Naples, who was a rival Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.-Biography:Caracciolo was born most likely in Naples, in the first half of the 14th century...

    , rival Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • Rudolf Caracciola
    Rudolf Caracciola
    Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola , more commonly Rudolf Caracciola , was a racing driver from Remagen, Germany. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times...

     (1901-1959), German racing-driver (from a branch in Germany since the 17th century)


Other people with the name include:
  • Alberto Caracciolo
    Alberto Caracciolo
    Alberto Pascual Caracciolo , was an Argentine tango musician, a musical arranger, orchestra director, composer and bandoneón player....

    , Argentinian musician
  • Andrea Caracciolo
    Andrea Caracciolo
    Andrea Caracciolo , is an Italian footballer who plays for Genoa.-Career:His first football appearances were for Sancolombano of Italian Serie D ; later playing for Como and Pro Vercelli, both in professional leagues, before being signed by Brescia, the team in which he made his Serie A debut on 6...

    , Italian footballer
  • Fabio Caracciolo
    Fabio Caracciolo
    Fabio Caracciolo is a Belgian footballer who plays as a striker for Dutch second division side Fortuna Sittard.Caracciolo made his debut in professional football for Dutch Eerste Divisie side MVV in 2001...

    , Belgian footballer of Italian descent
  • Pasqual or Pasquale Caracciolo, author of La gloria del cavallo Venice 1566 ("The Glory of the Horse")
  • Rosa Caracciolo, porn actress
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