Lohengrin Filipello was a Swiss television presenter.

In 1956 Filipello had the honour of hosting the First Eurovision Song Contest staged in Lugano

Lugano

Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, as noted in The Eurovision Song Contest — The Official History by author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor, Filipello was the first and only male presenter to host the compition by himself until Léon Zitrone

Léon Zitrone

Léon Zitrone was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.- Biography :Léon Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia on 25 November 1914. He died on 25 November 1995, in Levallois-Perret ....

 was co-presenter in the 1978 Edition. Filipello was still involved with Eurovision, he provided Swiss commentary for the French Speaking region from 1957 and again from 1964 until 1970. He was also the jury spokesperson for Switzerland in various years.

Filipellio died in 1993.