Gallo

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Gallo can refer to:

• E & J Gallo Winery, founded in 1933
  • Ernest Gallo, co-founder
  • Julio Gallo, co-founder
  • Joseph Edward Gallo, brother of Ernest and Julio Gallo
• Gallo language, a regional language of France
• related to Gaul, as in Gallo-Roman culture
• Gallo (beer), from Guatemala
• Gallo Matese, a commune of 761 inhabitants in the province of Caserta, Italy
• Gallo Record Company, a South African record label
• The Gallo river, a tributary of the Tagus

Gallo is also a surname and can refer to:

• American gangsters:
  • Albert Gallo, one of the "Gallo brothers"
  • Joe Gallo, one of the "Gallo brothers"
  • Joseph N. Gallo, consiglieri of the Gambino crime family
  • Larry Gallo, one of the "Gallo brothers"
• Anna Maria Gallo, better known as Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Italian saint
• Diego Gallo, a Uruguayan swimmer
• Fortune Gallo, impressario of the San Carlo Opera Company
• Max Gallo, a French author who wrote a series of novels based on the life of Napoleon I of France
• Robert Gallo, a retrovirus expert and a co-discoverer of AIDS along with Luc Montagnier
• Vincent Gallo, a film director

Popular culture

• Boss Gallo, the Gungan hero and ancestor of Boss Nass who united the Gungan tribes 3000 years before Star Wars: Episode I