Gallo

Gallo can mean:

• related to Gaul, as in Gallo-Roman culture
• Gallo language, a regional language of France
• 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
• San Gallo, Italian name for St. Gallen
• nickname for Italian basketball player Danilo Gallinari of the Denver Nuggets
• Spanish word for Rooster
• A Spanish slang word for marijuana.

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
• Armando Gallo, an Italian journalist and photographer
• Bill Gallo, cartoonist and columnist for the New York Daily News
• Carla Gallo, U.S. actress
• Dean Gallo, U.S. congressman
• Diego Gallo, a Uruguayan swimmer
• Domenico Gallo, an Italian composer and violinist whose works are sometimes mistakenly attributed to Pergolesi.
• E & J Gallo Winery, founded in 1933
  • Ernest Gallo, co-founder
  • Julio Gallo, co-founder
  • Joseph Edward Gallo, brother of Ernest and Julio Gallo
• Fortune Gallo, impresario of the San Carlo Opera Company
• George Gallo, an American film producer
• Mario Gallo, an Italian born Argentine film director
• Max Gallo, a French author who wrote a series of novels based on the life of Napoleon I of France
• Melissa Gallo, now uses the name Melissa Fumero
• Robert Gallo, a retrovirus expert famous for his co-discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
• Vincent Gallo, a film director
• Samuel Sarfati, physician to Pope Julius II, known as Gallo

Popular culture

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

See also

• Galo (disambiguation)