Castiglione (surname)

Castiglione (Italian: [kastiʎˈʎoːne]) is an Italian habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word, from medieval Latin castellio (genitive castellionis) ‘fortification’, ‘small castle’. People with the surname include:

People with the surname

Godffredo da Castiglione, Pope Celestine IV died Rome, 10 November 1241
Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), Italian Renaissance writer and diplomat, best known for The Courtier book
Giovanni Castiglione (1420-1460), Italian bishop and cardinal
Giovanni Battista Castiglione (1516–1598), Italian tutor to Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth I
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664), Italian (Genoese) painter and printmaker
Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiore Salvemini di Castiglione (1704-1791), Italian mathematician
Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit) (1688–1766), Italian painter and Jesuit missionary
Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione (1757–1816), Marshal of France and French general
Jose Pablo Martinez del Rio-Castiglione (fl. 1859), Italo-Mexican nobleman in the court of Maximilian I of Mexico
Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (1837–1899), Italian courtesan and mistress of Napoleon III
Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908), Italian painter
Pete Castiglione (1921-2010), American baseball player
Joe Castiglione (born 1947), Boston Red Sox radio announcer
Joe Castiglione (athletic director) (born 1957), at the University of Oklahoma
Giuseppe Castiglione (politician) (born 1963), Italian politician
Nancy Castiglione (born 1981), Canadian actress active in the Philippines
Salvatore Castiglione (1620–1676), Italian painter of the Baroque period
Sergio Castiglione (born 1965), Argentine photographer
Sofía Gala Castiglione (born 1987), Argentine actress
Yael Castiglione (born 1985), Argentine volleyball player