Lombroso
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Lombroso, Lumbroso, Lumbrozo is a surname, derived from a Sephardi family, members of which lived in Tunis
Tunis
Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

, Marseilles, and Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. The surname may refer to:
  • Giacomo Lumbroso (born 1859, Leghorn), Italian physician.
  • Cesare Lombroso
    Cesare Lombroso
    Cesare Lombroso, born Ezechia Marco Lombroso was an Italian criminologist and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature...

     (1835-1909): An Italian criminologist.
  • Carolina Lombroso (-1944), wife of the Italian partisan Eugenio Calò
    Eugenio Calò
    Eugenio Calò is a national hero of Italy. Born in Pisa to an old Sephardi family, he was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour, Italy's highest honor for heroism. Eugenio Calò was an Italian partisan, second in command of the Pio Borri partisan division that fought the Germans in...

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  • Daniela Lumbroso (born 1961, Tunis), Tunisian-French TV & radio presenter.
  • Henrietta Lumbroso Allen (born in Tunisia), wife of George Allen (football)
    George Allen (football)
    George Herbert Allen was an American football coach in the National Football League and the United States Football League. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.-Early life:...

     and mother of George Allen (U.S. politician)
    George Allen (U.S. politician)
    George Felix Allen is a former United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the son of former NFL head coach George Allen. Allen served Virginia in the state legislature, as the 67th Governor, and in both bodies of the U.S. Congress, winning election to the Senate in 2000...

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  • Isaac Lumbroso
    Isaac Lumbroso
    Isaac Lumbroso was a chief rabbi of Tunis and rabbinical author.He was prominent in Tunisian Jewry, being judge of the community about 1710, an epoch coinciding with the schism which divided the Jews of the city into two camps, native Tunisians and Gournis or Italians...

     (died 1752), chief rabbi of Tunis and rabbinical author.
  • Jacob Lumbrozo
    Jacob Lumbrozo
    Jacob Lumbrozo was a Portuguese-born physician, farmer, and trader resident in the British colony of Maryland, America, in the middle of the 17th century...

    , Portuguese traveller, first Jew to permanently settle in the New World, see List of people from Maryland.
  • Lombroso, an Italian indie band, featuring Taketo Gohara
    Taketo Gohara
    Taketo Gohara is a producer / sound designer who has collaborated with numerous Italian artists such as Vinicio Capossela, Banda Osiris, Mauro Pagani and Cesare Picco along with rock artists - Edda, Lombroso, Marta Sui Tubi, Ministri, Verdena,etc....

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See also

  • Casal Lumbroso, administrative subdivision of Rome
    Administrative subdivision of Rome
    The administrative subdivision of Rome consists of the 19 sub-municipalities of Rome's municipality. Originally, the city was divided into 20 sub-municipalities, but the XIV, what is now the Comune di Fiumicino, voted some years ago to become a full municipality itself and eventually detached from...

  • Mocatta
    Mocatta
    Mocatta is the name of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family originally from Spain known for philanthropy, leadership and sponsorship of arts and letters, particularly in the United Kingdom...

    , Lumbrozo de Mattos Mocatta and Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta, a distinguished ancient Anglo-Jewish family
  • Hachmei Provence
    Hachmei Provence
    The term Hachmei Provence refers to the Jewish rabbis of Provence, a province in southern France, which was a great Torah center in the times of the Tosafists...

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