Gagliano
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Gagliano is the surname of:
- Alfonso Gagliano (born 1942), a Canadian Liberal Party politician, Quebec MP, Canadian Labour Minister, and Deputy House Leader
- Bob Gagliano, a professional American football player (quarterback)
- Christophe Gagliano, a French athlete and Olympic judo champion
- Frank Gagliano, a playwright and theater professor at West Virginia University
- Joseph Gagliano (1914-1971), a member of the Chicago Outfit crime syndicate
- Marco da Gagliano (1582-1643), an Italian composer
- Nicolò Gagliano (1740-1780), an Italian violin maker
- 18 different violin makers named Gagliano
- Phil Gagliano, a major league baseball player playing for the St. Louis Cardinals
- Pietro Gagliano (born 1979), Canadian graphic designer
- Ralph Gagliano, a major league baseball player
- Sam Gagliano (1907-1993), an American pianist and music professor, trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Sherwood Gagliano (born 1939), a consulting coastal geologist and regional planner
- Ted Gagliano, film post production executive (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the Star Wars trilogy, Titanic)
- Tommy Gagliano, an Italian-American Depression-era Godfather in the New York Mafia
Gagliano can also refer to:
- Gagliano Aterno, a town in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy
- Gagliano Castelferrato, a city in Sicily
- Gagliano del Capo, a town at the "heel" of the Italian "boot"
- The invented name given to the town of Aliano in Carlo Levi's 1945 book Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
- The Battle of Gagliano, fought in Sicily in the 13th century
- The Gagliano Family of Luthiers (violin makers)
- The (Gagliano-)Lucchese crime family, one of the Mafia families of New York
- Gagliano Field baseball stadium built in 1967 as a co-op between the City of Memphis and Memphis State Tigers baseball program (now the University of Memphis)
- The Tony Gagliano Memorial Field Home of the Southwest Tennessee Saluqis Baseball Program
[edit] See also
- Galliano, an alternative spelling
