Mario (given name)
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Mario is the Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish form of the Roman name Marius. Mario is also a Bulgarian, Croatian and Greek given name. Many famous people and characters are named Mario:
- Mario, the Nintendo mascot
- Mario, an American R&B singer
- Mario Aerts, a professional cyclist from Belgium
- Mario Ančić, a men's professional tennis player from Croatia
- Mario Andretti, an American race car driver
- Mario Batali, an American chef
- Mario Been, a Dutch football (soccer) player and manager
- Mario Benedetti, an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet
- Mario Berlinguer, a lawyer
- Mario Bezzi, an Italian entomologist
- Mario Botta, an architect
- Mario Capecchi, an Italian-American scientist
- Mario Caserini, an Italian film director
- Mario Cipollini, professional road cyclist from Italy
- Mario Condello, an Australian gangster
- Mario Cuomo, a former governor of New York
- Mario del Monaco, an Italian tenor
- Mario Dumont, a Quebec politician
- Mario Elie, a retired basketball player
- Mario Frangoulis, a Greek tenor
- Mario Gentile, a former municipal politician in Toronto
- Mario González, a Mexican boxer
- Mario Jean, a stand-up comedian and film and television actor from Quebec
- Mario Kummer, an East German track and road cyclist and manager
- Mario Lanza, an Italian American opera tenor and Hollywood movie star in the 1950s
- Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., better-known as Perez Hilton, celebrity gossip blogger.
- Mario Lemieux, a former NHL player and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Mario Lopez, an actor and television host
- Mario Matthias, the drummer for the German indie rock band blackmail
- Mario Maurer, a Thai actor and model
- Mario Melchiot, Former Chelsea and Birmingham, Dutch international football (soccer) player
- Mario Mendoza, a former Major League Baseball infielder
- Mario Mijatovic, a Croatian football (soccer) player
- Mario Monicelli, an Italian director and screenwriter
- Mario Monti, a businessman
- Mario Monticelli, an Italian chess player
- Mario Napolitano, an Italian chess player
- Mario Piu, an Italian DJ
- Mario Puzo, an author
- Mário Sabino, a Brazilian judoka
- Mario Salieri, an Italian porn director
- Mario Sammarco, an Italian operatic baritone
- Mario Sandoval, singer-songwriter member of the Mexican Pop duo Lu
- Mario Savio, an American political activist
- Mario Scaramella, an Italian lawyer
- Mario Soldati, an Italian film director
- Mario Sorrenti, an Italian American photographer
- Mario Sperry, a heavyweight martial artist from Brazil
- Mario Stanić, a former Croatian soccer player
- Mario Testino, an Italian Peruvian photographer
- Mario Tremblay, a Quebec professional ice hockey player and coach
- Mario Vazquez, former American Idol 4 contestant and singer
- Mario Williams, an American football player
- Mario Winans, an R&B singer
- Mario Zagallo, a Brazilian football player and coach