Castiglione (surname)

Castiglione 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

Fictional characters

 * Francis "Frank" Castle (born Castiglione), Sicilian-American vigilante the Punisher from Marvel Comics