Marcello

Marcello is a common masculine, Italian, given name. It's a variant of Marcellus. The Spanish and Portuguese version of the name is Marcelo, differing in having only one "l", while the Greek one is Markellos.

The name originally means like a hammer. It is originally the adjectival form of Marcus, which means hammer; the -el suffix was in times of archaic Latin the adjectival form.

• Marcello D. Rapp, bass guitarist for American alternative rock band Against All Will
• Marcello Lippi, Italian football manager
• Marcello Malpighi, Italian biologist and physician
• Marcello Mastroianni, deceased Italian actor, famous for starring in films with Sophia Loren

In music:

• Alessandro Marcello, Italian nobleman and dilettante who dabbled in various areas, especially music
• Benedetto Marcello, brother of Alessandro, Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher
• Kee Marcello, former guitarist in the Swedish hard rock band Europe
• Rob Marcello, the current guitarist of the band Danger Danger

In other fields:

• Carlos Marcello, Italian-American mobster