Mario (given name)
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Mario is the Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Greek form of the Roman name Marius. The Portuguese version of the name is spelt Mário, while the Greek version is spelt Marios. Many notable people and characters are named Mario:
- Mario (entertainer) (born 1986), American R&B singer
- Giovanni Matteo Mario (Giovanni Matteo de Candia 1810–1883), tenor singer
- MarioMariois a fictional character in his video game series, created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo's mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation...
, Nintendo video game character - Mario AertsMario AertsMario Aerts is a professional road bicycle racer since 1997. He has since shifted residence to Molenstede and currently rides for , and has done so since 2005 under the team's various names....
(born 1974), professional cyclist from Belgium - Mario AmayaMario AmayaMario Amaya was an American art critic, museum director, magazine editor and former director of the New York Cultural Center and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia . He was also the chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the founding editor of London’s Art and Artists...
(1933–1986), American art critic - Mario AnčićMario AncicMario Ančić is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His highest international ranking came during the 2006 ATP Tour, when he reached no. 7 in singles...
(born 1984), men's professional tennis player from Croatia - Mario AndrettiMario AndrettiMario Gabriele Andretti is a retired Italian American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR...
(born 1940), American race car driver - Mario ArteagaMario ArteagaMario Alberto Arteaga is a retired professional footballer from Mexico. He played as a forward during his career, and was a member of the Mexico national football team competing at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-References:**...
(born 1970), Mexican footballer - Mario AvellanedaMario AvellanedaMario Avellaneda Soriano is a Spanish race walker.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1974), Spanish race walker - Mario BalotelliMario BalotelliMario Balotelli is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for English team Manchester City and the Italian national team.He started his professional football career at Lumezzane and only played for the first team twice before having an unsuccessful trial at FC Barcelona, and subsequently...
(born 1990), Italian footballer - Mario BataliMario BataliMario Batali is an American chef, writer, restaurateur and media personality. In addition to his classical culinary training, he is an expert on the history and culture of Italian cuisine, including regional and local variations. Batali co-owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles,...
(born 1960), American chef - Mario BeenMario BeenMario Been is a former football professional and football manager from the Netherlands, who is currently the head coach of Genk since 30 August 2011....
(born 1963), Dutch soccer player and manager - Mario BenedettiMario BenedettiMario Benedetti was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet....
(1920–2009), Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet - Mario BerlinguerMario BerlinguerMario Berlinguer was an Italian lawyer and politician. He descended from a noble Sardinian family.Born in Sassari, in his youth he was a follower of the Meridionalist activist Gaetano Salvemini...
(1891–1969), lawyer - Mario BezziMario BezziMario Bezzi was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin. He was also Director of the Turin Museum of Natural History...
(1868–1927), Italian entomologist - Mario BottaMario BottaMario Botta is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano.-Career:...
(born 1943), architect - Mario Caldato, Jr. (born 1961), Brazilian-American record producer and engineer
- Mario CapecchiMario CapecchiMario Renato Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells, with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies...
(born 1937), Italian-American scientist - Mario CaseriniMario CaseriniMario Caserini was an Italian film director, as well as an actor, screenwriter, and early pioneer of film making in the early portion of the 20th century. Caserini was born in Rome, Italy, and was married to early 20th century Italian actress Maria Caserini...
(1874–1920), Italian film director - Mario ChalmersMario ChalmersAlmario Vernard "Mario" Chalmers is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the NBA. He was selected 34th overall in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves...
(born 1986), NBA basketball player - Mario CipolliniMario CipolliniMario Cipollini , often abbreviated to "Cipo", is a retired Italian professional road cyclist most noted for his sprinting ability, the longevity of his dominance and his colourful personality. His nicknames include Il Re Leone and Super Mario...
(born 1967), Italian road cyclist - Mario CondelloMario CondelloMario Condello was an Italian-Australian organized crime figure. Condello, once a lawyer, was a member of the Carlton Crew, who is believed to have been a money launderer for Melbourne's Calabrian mafia...
(1952–2006), Australian gangster - Mario CorsoMario CorsoMario Corso, nicknamed Mariolino, is an Italian former football player and coach. He was a famed left winger notable for his consistency....
(born 1941), Italian football (soccer) player - Mario CuomoMario CuomoMario Matthew Cuomo served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, and is the father of Andrew Cuomo, the current governor of New York.-Early life:...
(born 1932), former governor of New York - Mario del MonacoMario del MonacoMario Del Monaco was an Italian tenor who is regarded by his admirers as being one of the greatest dramatic tenors of the 20th century....
(1915–1982), Italian tenor - Mario DelašMario DelašMario Delaš is a Croatian professional basketball player, currently playing for BC Šiauliai.- Biography :Mario Delaš made his professional debut in KK Split during the 2006-07 season. In January 2010, he signed a contract with BC Žalgiris for the next three-and-half seasons...
(born 1990), Croatian basketball player - Mario DomínguezMario DomínguezMario Domínguez is a Mexican racing driver. He has competed in the CART and CCWS Champ Car series and later the IndyCar Series.-Early career:Domínguez first began racing in 1987 driving go-karts...
(born 1975), Mexican race car driver - Mario DumontMario DumontMario Dumont is a television personality and former politician in the province of Quebec. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec , and the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec , from 1994 to 2009...
(born 1970), Quebec politician - Mario ElieMario ElieMario Antoine Elie is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Currently, he works as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings.-Early life and career:...
(born 1963), former NBA basketball player - Mario FigueroaMario FigueroaMario Figueroa is a retired male professional road racing cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:1999...
(born 1963), Venezuelan road cyclist - Mario FrangoulisMario FrangoulisMario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò". He sings in Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Greek; he is fluent in all 5 languages.-Early life:...
(born 1966), Greek tenor - Mario Gaspar PérezMario Gaspar PérezMario Gaspar Pérez Martínez, simply Mario , is a Spanish footballer who plays for Villarreal CF in La Liga, as a right defender.-Football career:...
(born 1990), Spanish soccer player - Mario GentileMario GentileMario Gentile is a former municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He served as a councillor and city controller in North York, and was also a member of the Metropolitan Toronto council. His political career ended with a criminal conviction in 1994....
, municipal politician in Toronto - Mario GómezMario GómezMario Gómez García is a German footballer who plays as a striker for FC Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga. Gómez joined Bayern after six years in Stuttgart. The fee was a record for a player transferred in the Bundesliga, estimated to be 30–35 million euro...
(born 1985), German football (soccer) player - Mario González (Mexican boxer) (born 1969), Mexican boxer
- Mario González (swimmer)Mario González (swimmer)Mario González Montesinos is a former international breaststroke swimmer from Cuba, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992...
(born 1975), Cuban breaststroke swimmer - Mario JeanMario JeanMario Jean , is a stand up comedian and movie and television actor from Quebec, Canada.He is currently the star of a series based on his life, La Vie Rêvée de Mario Jean . It airs on Télévision de Radio-Canada, the French division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...
(born 1965), stand-up comedian and film and television actor from Quebec - Marios Kaperonis (born 1983), Greek boxer
- Mario KummerMario KummerMario Kummer is a retired track and road racing cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Uwe Ampler, Jan Schur and Maik Landsmann...
(born 1962), East German track and road cyclist and manager - Mario LanzaMario Lanzaright|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
(1921–1959), Italian American opera tenor and actor - Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., better-known as Perez Hilton, celebrity gossip blogger
- Mario LemieuxMario LemieuxMario Lemieux, OC, CQ is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is acknowledged to be one of the best players of all time. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006...
(born 1965), NHL player and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame - Mario LopezMario LópezMario Michael Lopez, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared on several television series, in films, and on Broadway. He is best known for his portrayal of the character A.C. Slater on Saved By The Bell, which he also portrayed as a regular on Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
(born 1973), actor and television host - Mario MagnottaMario MagnottaMario Magnotta was an Italian janitor of a commercial school in L'Aquila.He became an idol in Italy after several prank calls by some former students of the institute were circulated on the Internet.-Biography:...
(1942–2009), Italian janitor, Internet phenomenon - Mario ManninghamMario ManninghamMario Cashmere Manningham is an American football wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Giants in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft...
(born 1986), American football player - Mario Matthias, drummer for the German indie rock band Blackmail
- Mario MaurerMario MaurerMario Maurer is a Thai of German and Chinese descent model and actor. He is best known for his lead roles in the 2007 film, The Love of Siam and the 2010 sleeper hit, First Love .-Biography:...
(born 1988), Thai actor and model - Mario MelchiotMario MelchiotMario Deno Patrik Melchiot is a Dutch football defender who currently plays for Qatari Stars League club Umm Salal. He can play as either a right-back or a central defender, and has also occasionally played in midfield....
(born 1976), Dutch soccer player - Mario MendozaMario MendozaMario Mendoza Aizpuru is a former Major League Baseball infielder. Mendoza, a lifetime 0.215 hitter, is best known as the threshold for batting aptitude, with the "Mendoza Line", meaning a batting average of .200....
(born 1950), baseball player - Mario MijatovićMario MijatovicMario Mijatović is a Croatian football striker who plays for Hoàng Anh Gia Lai, Vietnam.-Career:Mario was interested in soccer since his early childhood. He has previously played for NK Osijek and NK Slaven Belupo in the Croatian Prva HNL and LASK Linz in the Austrian Bundesliga.-References:...
(born 1980), Croatian soccer player - Mario MonicelliMario MonicelliMario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...
(1915–2010), Italian director and screenwriter - Mario MontiMario MontiMario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who is Prime Minister of Italy, as well as Minister of Economy and Finance, since November 2011. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999...
(born 1943), Italian economist and Prime Minister of Italy - Mario MonticelliMario MonticelliMario Monticelli was an Italian chess grandmaster.In 1922, he won in Rome . In 1925, he won in Bologna. In 1926, Monticelli tied for 1st with Ernst Grünfeld in Budapest. In 1929, he took 11th in Budapest . In 1929, he tied for 4-5th in Barcelona...
(1902–1995), Italian chess player - Mario NapolitanoMario NapolitanoMario Napolitano was an Italian chess master.At the beginning of his career, Napolitano took 5th place in Venice in 1928. Then, he won at Milan 1934. He had played many times in the Italian championships and local tournaments – before, during and after World War II...
(1910–1995), Italian chess player - Mario NascimbeneMario NascimbeneMario Nascimbene was one of the best known Italian film soundtrack composers of the 20th Century. His career spanned six decades, during which time he earned several awards for the innovative contents of his composing style...
(1913–2002), Italian film score composer - Mario Pérez Saldivar (born 1939), Mexican long-distance runner
- Mario Pérez ZúñigaMario Pérez ZúñigaMario Pérez Zúñiga is a Mexican footballer currently playing for Estudiantes Tecos in the Primera División de México.-Club:Pérez previously extensively in Mexico, for F.C. Atlas, Club Necaxa, San Luis F.C. and Club América...
(born 1982), Mexican footballer - Mario PiùMario PiùMario Più is a professional disc jockey from Livorno, Italy.His 1999 single, "Communication", also known as "The Communication Song", is notable for being mainly constructed from the interference caused on improperly shielded audio equipment when a GSM mobile telephone rings...
, Italian DJ - Mario PuzoMario PuzoMario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola...
(1920–1999), author known chiefly for his novel The Godfather - Mário SabinoMário SabinoMario Sabino Júnior is a male judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games. In the final he defeated Canada's Nicolas Gill. He represented his native country a year later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:...
(born 1972), Brazilian judoka - Mario Salas (footballer)Mario Salas (footballer)Mario Alfredo Salas Saieg is a former Chilean football midfielder. He obtained a total number of five caps for the Chilean national team, scoring no goals between 1993 and 1997. Salas made his debut on 1993-09-08 in a friendly match against Spain in Alicante.-References:* at National Football Teams...
(born 1967), Chilean soccer player - Mario SalieriMario SalieriMario Salieri, born Mario Altieri, on November 29, 1957 in Naples, is an Italian porn director. He started with semi-amateur films in Amsterdam for the Italian market. Since early 1990s he has directed and written many porn titles with divas like Zara Whites and the Italian actress Selen. He is...
, Italian porn director - Mario SammarcoMario SammarcoMario Sammarco was an Italian operatic baritone noted for his histrionic ability.-Biography:...
(1868–1930), Italian operatic baritone - Mario Sandoval, singer-songwriter member of the Mexican Pop duo Lu
- Mario Santos de MatosMario Santos de MatosMario Santos de Matos or simply Mario is a Belgian football player currently playing for A.F.C. Tubize. He also holds Portuguese citizenship.-External links:...
(born 1988), Belgian footballer - Mario SavioMario Savio""...But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be - have any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product! Don't mean - Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone!...
(1942–1996), American political activist - Mario ScaramellaMario ScaramellaMario Scaramella is an Italian lawyer, self-styled security consultant and nuclear waste expert who came to international prominence in 2006 in connection with the poisoning of the ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko...
(born 1970), Italian lawyer - Mário SoaresMário SoaresMário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE , Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.-Family:...
(born 1924), Portuguese politician and former Prime Minister of Portugal - Mario SoldatiMario SoldatiMario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
(1906–1999), Italian film director - Mario SorrentiMario SorrentiMario Sorrenti is a photographer and director best known for his spreads of nude models in the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar....
(born 1971), Italian American photographer - Mario SperryMario SperryMario Sperry is a Brazilian heavyweight martial artist. His specialty is Brazilian jiu-jitsu, grappling and ground fighting.-Career:Sperry first broke onto the sport Jiu-Jitsu scene in the early eighties...
(born 1966), Brazilian heavyweight martial artist - Mario StanićMario StanicMario Stanić is a former Croatian football midfielder.-Career:He started his career with Željezničar Sarajevo. He was considered to be one of the most talented young players in former Yugoslavia. In 1992, war began and he went to Croatia, where he played for Dinamo Zagreb...
(born 1972), Croatian football (soccer) player - Mario TestinoMario Testino-Early Life:Testino grew up in Lima, the eldest son of a businessman. When he was young he wanted to be a priest. Testino recalls being unpopular at school because of his flamboyance. He was good at math and went on to study economics at Universidad del Pacífico, where his insistence on wearing...
(born 1954), Italian Peruvian photographer - Marios TokasMarios TokasMarios Tokas Greek composer of traditional music born in Limassol, Cyprus. In the 1974 invasion, he fought as a soldier against the Turkish invadors. In 1975 he went to Athens in order to study in the philosophical school. At the same time, he studied in the Ethniko Odio because he wanted to...
(1954–2008), Cypriot songwriter - Mario TremblayMario TremblayMario Tremblay is a former professional ice hockey player and former coach in the National Hockey League...
(born 1956), Quebec professional ice hockey player and coach - Mario VallesMario VallesMario Antonio Valles Velásquez is a male judoka from Colombia, who won the bronze medal in the men's half middleweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004 in Athens,...
(born 1982), Colombian judoka - Mario VazquezMario VazquezMario Adrián Vázquez is a Puerto Rican-American singer from The Bronx, New York City. He competed on American Idol's fourth season, which aired on the FOX network in early 2005.-Early life:...
(born 1977), American Idol 4 contestant and singer - Mario Van PeeblesMario Van PeeblesMario "Chip" Cain Van Peebles is an American director and actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films. He is son of filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles.-Life and career:...
(born 1957), American director and actor - Mario WilliamsMario WilliamsMario Jerrel Williams is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was selected first overall by the Texans in the 2006 NFL Draft...
(born 1985), American football player - Mario WinansMario WinansMario Winans is an American R&B singer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born Mario Brown, he is the son of gospel recording artist Vickie Winans and her first husband, Bishop Ronald Brown. He is also the stepson of his mother's second husband, gospel singer, Pastor Marvin...
(born 1974), R&B singer - Mário ZagalloMário ZagalloMário Jorge Lobo Zagallo is a Brazilian former football player and manager.-Biography:Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born in Maceió, Alagoas, to a family of Lebanese and Italian heritage....
(born 1931), Brazilian football player and coach