Brentano

Brentano is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Antonie Brentano, philanthropist
 * August Brentano, bookseller
 * Bernard von Brentano, novelist
 * Christian Brentano, German writer
 * Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist, brother of Bettina von Arnim (born Brentano)
 * Franz Brentano, philosopher, influenced phenomenology and gestalt psychology
 * Franz Funck-Brentano, French historian and librarian
 * Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, politician of the Christian Democratic Union (West Germany)
 * Lorenzo Brentano, politician
 * Lujo Brentano, economist, reformer
 * Marianne Ehrmann-Brentano, novelist
 * Robert Brentano, American historian
 * Theodore Brentano, American attorney, judge, and first U.S. ambassador to Hungary, son of Lorenzo
 * Théophile Funck-Brentano, Luxembourgian-French sociologist