Durante
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Durante is an Italian surname and may refer to:
Given name:
- Adriano DuranteAdriano DuranteAdriano Durante was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :1963Adriano Durante was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :1963...
, an Italian professional road bicycle racer - Andrew DuranteAndrew DuranteAndrew Durante is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a central defender and Captain for the New Zealand based A-League club Wellington Phoenix.- Newcastle Jets :...
, an Australian football (soccer) player - Annalisa DuranteAnnalisa DuranteAnnalisa Durante was a 14-year-old Italian girl and an innocent victim of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia. She was killed in the Forcella quarter of Naples, during a clash between two rival Camorra clans. While chatting with a friend and cousin outside her home she was grabbed as a human shield,...
, an Italian murder victim - Anthony DuranteAnthony DuranteAnthony Durante was a professional wrestler best known as "Pitbull #2" as one half of the tag team The Pitbulls, with "Pitbull #1" Gary Wolfe.-WWF:...
, an American professional wrestler - Checco DuranteChecco DuranteChecco Durante was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1931 and 1973. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Signorinette * Vent'anni...
, an Italian film actor - David DuranteDavid DuranteDavid Durante is an American artistic gymnast. He is the 2007 U.S. All-Around champion and was one of the three alternates to the 2008 Summer Olympics. He competed at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and was a member of the 4th-place-finishing American team...
, an American artistic gymnast - Eli DuranteEli DuranteEli Durante is a retired Brazilian association football player who played in the North American Soccer League from 1967 to 1975.In 1967, Durante moved to the United States and signed with the Los Angeles Toros of the National Professional Soccer League. He was the league's third leading scorer...
, a Brazilian football (soccer) player - Francesco DuranteFrancesco DuranteFrancesco Durante was an Italian composer.He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco. Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the...
, an Italian composer - Georgia DuranteGeorgia DuranteGeorgia Durante is the founder and President of Performance Two, Inc. which is one of Hollywood's most relied on stunt and precision driving companies. The expert stunt driving work of Georgia Durante and her drivers have been featured in many television commercials and movies.Georgia is also the...
, an American writer - Giovanni Durante, an Italian painter
- Jimmy DuranteJimmy DuranteJames Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...
, an American entertainer - Mark DuranteMark DuranteMark Durante is a pedal steel guitarist who is currently based in Chicago.Durante began playing guitar in 1968 after being inspired by the fretwork of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Merle Travis. Ten years later, Durante founded a rock combo he named "Public Enemy"...
, an American pedal steel guitarist - Richard DuranteRichard DuranteRichard John Joseph Durante was a Liberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a supervising principal by career....
, a Canadian politician - Viviana DuranteViviana DuranteViviana Durante is an Italian-born English prima ballerina who is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest and most dramatic ballerinas of her time. She was formerly a Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet. She has performed internationally as a Guest Principal, since 2003 predominantly in Japan...
, an Italian-born English prima ballerina
Given name:
- Durante AlbertiDurante AlbertiDurante Alberti was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.He was born in Borgo San Sepolcro. He was active mainly in his native town and Rome, where he arrived during the papacy of Gregory XIII. He was also called Durante del Nero. His father was Romano Alberti. His son Pierfrancesco...
, an Italian painter - Durante Alighieri, an Italian poet
Other use
- The RomanceRomance languagesThe Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
preposition durante - Durante (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Coda di Volpe