Lombroso

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Lombroso, Lumbroso, Lumbrozo is a surname, derived from a Sephardic family, members of which lived in Tunis, Marseilles, and Italy. The two forms of the family name are due to different readings of the Hebrew "לומברוזו", according to [1]. The surname may refer to:

  • Giacomo Lumbroso (born 1859, Leghorn), Italian physician
  • Isaac Lumbroso (?-1752), Chief rabbi of Tunis and rabbinical author
  • Cesare Lombroso (1836-1909): An Italian criminologist. On his father's side he was descended from a family which for many generations had been rich in rabbis and Hebraists.
  • Carolina Lombroso (-1944), wife of the Italian partisan Eugenio Calò.
  • Daniela Lumbroso (born 1961, Tunis), Tunisian-French TV & radio presenter
  • Jacob Lumbrozo, Portuguese traveller, first Jew to permanently settle in the New World, see List of people from Maryland, Jewish history in Colonial America
  • Lombroso, an Italian indie band, featuring Taketo Gohara.

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