Pietro

Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice
• Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death
• Pietro II Candiano (c. 872–939), 19th Doge of Venice, son of Pietro I

A–E

• Pietro Accolti (1455–1532), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• Pietro Aldobrandini (1571–1621), Italian cardinal and patron of the arts
• Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian former footballer
• Pietro di Antonio Dei, birth name of Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448–1502), Florentine painter, illuminator and architect
• Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
• Pietro Auletta (1698–1771), Italian composer known mainly for his operas
• Pietro Baracchi (1851–1926), Italian-born astronomer
• Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700), Italian Baroque painter
• Pietro Belluschi (1899–1994), Italian architect
• Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and cardinal
• Pietro Bernini (1562–1629), Italian sculptor
• Pietro Borghese (1398–1484), also called Pietro della Francesca, Italian painter of the early Renaissance
• Pietro Bianchi (disambiguation)
• Pietro Campilli (1891–1974), Italian economist and politician
• Pietro Carnesecchi (1508–1567), Italian humanist
• Pietro Cascella (1921–2008), Italian painter and sculptor
• Pietro Cataldi (1548–1626), Italian mathematician
• Pietro Crinito (1475–1507), known as Crinitus or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, Florentine humanist scholar and poet
• Pietro Dusina, Italian priest and inquisitor
• Pietro Erardi (1644–1727), Maltese chaplain and painter

F–M

• Pietro Facchetti (1539–1613), Italian painter of the late Renaissance
• Pietro Ferrari (footballer, born 1906), Italian retired footballer
• Pietro Ferraris (1912–1991), Italian footballer
• Pietro Ferrero (disambiguation)
• Pietro Fontana (engraver) (1762–1837), Italian engraver
• Pietro Fontana (engineer), early 19th century Italian engineer and agronomist
• Pietro Germi (1914–1974), Italian actor, screenwriter and director
• Pietro Lanza di Scalea (1863–1938), Italian noble and politician
• Pietro Lesana, Italian bobsledder
• Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764), Italian Baroque composer and violinist
• Pietro Lombardi (architect) (1894–1984), Italian architect
• Pietro Lombardi (wrestler) (1922–2011), Italian wrestler
• Pietro Lombardi (singer) (born 1992), German singer
• Pietro Loredan (1372–1438), Venetian nobleman and military commander on sea and land
• Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni (1721–1782), Austrian painter
• Pietro Magni (sculptor) (1817–1877), Italian sculptor
• Pietro Magni (engineer) (1898–1988), Italian aeronautical engineer
• Pietro Magni (footballer) (1919–1992), Italian footballer and football manager
• Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735–1787), painter from Parma
• Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician
• Pietro Metastasio, pseudonym of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698–1782), Italian poet and librettist

N–Z

• Pietro Negroni (c. 1505–1565), Italian painter of the Renaissance
• Pietro Pastore (1908–1969), Italian footballer and actor
• Pietro Pedranzini (1826–1903), Italian Lieutenant
• Pietro Perti or Peretti (1648–1714), Italian Baroque sculptor and architect
• Peter S. Pezzati (1902–1993), aka Pietro Pezzati, American portrait painter
• Pietro Pezzati (artist) (1828–1898), Italian mural painter
• Pietro Porcinai (1910–1986), Italian landscape architect
• Pietro Scalia (born 1960), Italian-American film editor
• Pietro Scarcella (born 1950), Italian-Canadian mobster
• Pietro Antonio Solari (c. 1445–1493), Italian architect and sculptor
• Pietro Torre (born 2002), Italian fencer
• Pietro or Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1498–1565), Italian religious reformer
• Pietro De Vico (1911–1999), Italian film actor
• Pietro Vierchowod (born 1959), Italian football manager and former player
• Pietro Vinci (c. 1525–1584), Italian composer
• Pietro Ziani (died 1230), 42nd Doge of Venice

Fictional characters

• Pietro Maximoff, a Marvel Comics superhero known as Quicksilver
• Pietro, the main character in the PopoloCrois game series

See also

• San Pietro (disambiguation)
• Peter (given name)
• Pietra (disambiguation)