Cattaneo ( is an Italian surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 81.2% of all known bearers of the surname Cattaneo were residents of Italy (frequency 1:1,232), 9.0% of Argentina (1:7,742), 2.8% of Switzerland (1:4,802), 1.9% of the United States, 1.8% of France (1:59,595) and 1.2% of Brazil (1:290,914).

In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:1,232) only in one region: Lombardy (1:223).

People

• Adelardo Cattaneo (?–1225), Italian cardinal

• Agustín Cattaneo (born 1988), Argentine footballer

• Alberto Cattaneo (born 1967), Italian mathematician

• Annibale Cattaneo (?–1584), Italian Roman Catholic bishop

• Atilio Cattáneo (1889–1957), Argentine politician

• Bartolomeo Cattaneo (1883–1949), Italian archbishop and diplomat

• Bernadette Cattanéo (1899–1963), French trade unionist and militant communist

• Carlo Cattaneo (admiral) (1883–1941), Italian admiral

• Carlo Cattaneo (mathematician) (1911–1979), Italian mathematician

• Carlo Cattaneo (writer) (1801–1869), Italian nationalist, writer and philosopher

• Cristoforo Cattaneo (16th century), Italian humanist author

• Danese Cattaneo (1512–1572), Tuscan sculptor and medallist

• Fausto Cattaneo, Italian physicist

• Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo (1602–1665), painter from Ferrara

• Hernán Cattáneo (born 1965), Argentine musician

• Lazzaro Cattaneo (1560–1640), Italian Jesuit, missionary in China

• Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta (1487–16th century), doge of Genoa

• Matias D. Cattaneo (born 1978), Argentine econometrician

• Mattia Cattaneo (born 1990), Italian professional road cyclist

• Peter Cattaneo (born 1964), British film director

• Pilar Cattaneo (born 2007), Argentine gymnast

• Santo Cattaneo (1739–1819), Neoclassic painter from Brescia

• Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci (1453–1476), noblewoman from Genoa

See also

• Cattaneo Magni RR, a 1930s rocket-powered aircraft

• Gualdo Cattaneo, a small Italian town in Umbria

• Carlo Cattaneo University, an Italian university

• Villa Cattaneo dell'Olmo, historical aristocratic villa in the Cornigliano Campi neighborhood in Genoa, Italy

References