Marco (given name)
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Marco is the Italian
version of the personal name "Mark
", and may refer to:
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
version of the personal name "Mark
Mark (given name)
Mark is a common male given name and is derived from old Latin "Mart-kos", which means "consecrated to the god Mars". Marcus was one of the three most common given names in Ancient Rome. See Roman given names.-Acting:* Mark A...
", and may refer to:
Music
- Marco HietalaMarco HietalaMarko Tapani "Marco" Hietala is a heavy metal vocalist and bassist. Internationally, he is most known as the current bassist, male vocalist and composer, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish...
, a Finnish bass guitarist and singer - Marco MengoniMarco MengoniMarco Mengoni is an Italian singer. He rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of Italian talent show The X Factor. The following year he ranked third in the 60th Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Credimi ancora". As of January 2011, he has sold a total of 220,000 copies in Italy...
, italian singer - Marco MinnemannMarco MinnemannMarco Minnemann is a German-born drummer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He lives in Lake Elsinore, California.-Biography:...
, a German drummer
Other fields
- Marco AmeliaMarco AmeliaMarco Amelia, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Milan. He was part of the Italian squad that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.-Early career:Amelia grew up as part of the Roma youth system...
, Italian footballer - Marco AndreolliMarco AndreolliMarco Andreolli is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Chievo Verona. Andreolli has previously played for Internazionale and Roma.-Club career:...
, Italian footballer - Marco Antonio BarreraMarco Antonio BarreraMarco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...
, Mexican professional boxer - Marco Antonio BarreroMarco Antonio BarreroMarco Antonio Barrero Jordán is a retired Bolivian football goalkeeper.-Career:Between 1987 and 1999, Barrero obtained a total number of 32 caps for the Bolivian national team. He also played for several clubs, including Wilstermann, Bolívar, The Strongest and Guabirá.-References:**...
, Bolivian football (soccer) goalkeeper - Marco BiagiantiMarco BiagiantiMarco Biagianti is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Calcio Catania in the Italian Serie A, and on July 9, 2011, was assigned captaincy of the club.-ACF Fiorentina:...
, Italian footballer - Marco BorrielloMarco BorrielloMarco Borriello is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Roma. He has previously played for other Italian clubs, including Milan, Sampdoria, Treviso, Reggina, Empoli, Triestina, and Genoa.-Early career:...
, Italian footballer - Marco BrescianoMark BrescianoMark "Marco" Bresciano is an Australian football player who is currently playing for UAE Pro-League side Al Nasr SC as a midfielder. He represented Australia at all youth levels, including appearances at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship and 2000 Olympic Games...
(born 1980), Australian football (soccer) player - Marco CassettiMarco CassettiMarco Cassetti is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A side Roma, as a center back or right-back. He is a hard working, versatile player who is able to cross the ball well.-Early career:...
, Italian footballer - Marco DelvecchioMarco DelvecchioMarco Delvecchio is an Italian retired footballer. He spent the most of his career at AS Roma where he is still remembered for his ease in scoring against the rivals of SS Lazio in the Derby della Capitale....
, Italian former footballer - Marco di VaioMarco Di VaioMarco Di Vaio is an Italian football striker, who currently plays for Bologna FC. In his long career, Di Vaio has played for the likes of Lazio, Hellas Verona, Bari, Salernitana, Parma, Juventus, Valencia and Monaco...
, Italian footballer - Marco GiampaoloMarco GiampaoloMarco Giampaolo is an Italian association football manager.-Playing career:Born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, but originary from Giulianova, Giampaolo is a former midfielder who played for several Serie C teams, including Giulianova Calcio, Gubbio, Licata and Siracusa, before to make his Serie B...
, Italian football coach - Marco HögerMarco HögerMarco Höger is a German footballer who plays for FC Schalke 04.-Career:Höger began his career in 2005 in Alemannia Aachen's youth academy. In summer 2008, he was promoted to the reserve team where he earned his first senior cap on 17 August 2008 against TSV Germania Windeck in the NRW-Liga...
, German footballer - Marco JaggiMarco JaggiMarco Jaggi is a Swiss professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, known by his ring name Ares , who primarily competes in European and American independent promotions. For much of his career, Jaggi teamed with Claudio Castagnoli and Marc Roudin as part of Swiss Money Holding...
, Swiss pro wrestler - Marco MaterazziMarco MaterazziMarco Materazzi , is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender, and is currently a free agent.At the beginning of his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Premier League side Everton. He spent two periods with Perugia and signed for...
, Italian footballer - Marco MelandriMarco MelandriMarco Melandri is a motorcycle road racer currently racing for the Yamaha World Superbike Team. Melandri is also a former 250cc World Champion in 2002...
, Italian motorcycle racer - Marco MottaMarco MottaMarco Motta is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Juventus.Motta is a former youth international and participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Atalanta:...
, Italian footballer - Marco PastorsMarco PastorsMarco Pastors is a Dutch politician. He is currently political leader of the local party Leefbaar Rotterdam, a member of the city council for Rotterdam and the political leader of Een NL, a Dutch political party at the national level...
, Dutch politician - Marco PaoliniMarco PaoliniMarco Paolini is an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author.- Personal background :Paolini is the son of a railroad engineer from Belluno, Italy. In the 1970s, he moved to Treviso and started working in theatre....
, Italian stage actor - Marco ParoloMarco ParoloMarco Parolo is an Italian professional football player currently playing for the Serie A team A.C. Cesena.-Como & Chievo:...
, Italian fotballer - Marco PoloMarco PoloMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
, Venetian trader and explorer, as well as a children's game similar to Blind Man's BluffBlind man's bluffBlind man's bluff may refer to:* Blind man's bluff , a children's game related to tag* Blind man's bluff , a version of poker* Blind Man's Bluff , a British film... - Marco CastroMarco CastroMarco Castro , in Lima, Peru is an American film director, actor and photographer.-Biography:Born in Lima Peru of a Japanese Spanish descent. He started his career at a very young age studying theatre and performing arts since he was 8 years old...
, Peruvian-American film director, actor (b. 1976) - Marco FuMarco FuMarco Fu Ka-chun , commonly known as Marco Fu, is a professional snooker player from Hong Kong. He currently resides in Happy Valley. He is best known for winning the 2007 Grand Prix, beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final, and for being runner-up in the 2008 UK Championship...
, Hong Kong snooker player - Marco Pierre WhiteMarco Pierre WhiteMarco Pierre White is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur and television personality. He is noted for his contributions to contemporary international cuisine, and his exceptional culinary skills....
(b. 1961), English chef - Marco ReusMarco ReusMarco Reus is a German footballer who currently plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.-Career:...
, German footballer - Marco Tardelli, Italian former footballer
- Marco ScutaroMarco ScutaroMarcos Hernandez "Marco" Scutaro is a Venezuelan professional baseball shortstop with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. A native of Yaracuy State, Venezuela, Scutaro formerly played with the New York Mets , Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays...
, baseball player - Marco SimoncelliMarco SimoncelliMarco Simoncelli was an Italian motorcycle racer. He competed in the Road Racing World Championship for 10 years from 2002 to 2011. He started in the 125cc class before moving up to the 250cc class in 2006. He won the 250cc World Championship with Gilera in 2008. After four years in the...
, Italian motorcycle racer - Marco SimoneMarco SimoneMarco Simone is an Italian former professional football player in the striker or winger position. He most prominently played for AC Milan, with whom he won four Italian Serie A championships, as well as French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco. He played four games for the Italian national...
, Italian former footballer - Marco StorariMarco StorariMarco Storari is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Juventus F.C. as a goalkeeper.After a lengthy spell in Italy's lower leagues, he arrived in Serie A aged 27. Steady performances for Messina prompted his signing by country giants A.C...
, Italian footballer - Marco StrellerMarco StrellerMarco Streller is a Swiss international footballer who plays as a striker for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.-Club career:...
, Swiss footballer - Marco van Basten (b. 1964), Dutch footballer
- Marco WilliamsonMarco WilliamsonMarco Williamson is an English actor born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.Marco is best known for his television role as Julian in the 1995/6 version of The Famous Five shown on HTV from 1995 and on all other ITV regions in 1996 – 1997.He has also appeared in Richard III,...
(b. 1981), English actor
Fictional
- Marco Del Rossi, a character from the Degrassi: The Next Generation series
- Marco Rossi (Metal Slug), a protagonist of the Metal Slug series
- Marco (Shaman King), a character of Shaman King manga and anime.
- Marco Axelbender, a character in the movie Cars
- Marco Super FAV18, a character in the movie Cars
- Marco, a character in the manga/anime One pieceOne Pieceis a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...
- Marco Novak, prominent Hamster, born 2010
See also
- Marc (given name)Marc (given name)Marc is a western European forename , a variation on the Roman name Marcus . This version, originally the Latin form, is spelled in the Latin manner, using a 'c'....
- Marcos (given name)Marcos (given name)Marcos is a male given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Mark. Markos in Greek. Marcos may refer to:-Sports:* Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver* Marcos Armas, Venezuela-born American baseball player* Marcos Assunção, Brazilian football player...
- Marcus (given name)
- Mark (given name)Mark (given name)Mark is a common male given name and is derived from old Latin "Mart-kos", which means "consecrated to the god Mars". Marcus was one of the three most common given names in Ancient Rome. See Roman given names.-Acting:* Mark A...
- MarkoMarko- Places :* Márkó, a village in Hungary* Marko's Monastery, a monastery in the Republic of Macedonia- Surname :* Béla Markó, a Romanian politician and writer of Hungarian ethnicity* Helmut Marko, an Austrian racecar driver* Ida Marko-Varga, a Swedish swimmer...