Pippo

Pippo is the diminutive of the Italian name Filippo (less frequently Giuseppe^[1]) and it may refer to:

Pippo Barzizza, Italian Maestro and composer
Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
Pippo Caruso, Italian composer, conductor and music arranger
Pippo Fava, Sicilian writer, investigative journalist, playwright and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia
Pippo Franco, Italian actor, comedian, television presenter and singer
Pippo Inzaghi, Italian former football player
Pippo Maniero, Italian former football player
Pippo Pollina, Italian singer-songwriter
Pippo Pozzato, Italian road racing cyclist
Pippo Psaila, former Malta national football team coach and current Director of Sports of the Malta Olympic Committee
Pippo Tesauro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period
Pippo Torri, Lombard far-left politician
Pippo Starck, German former football player and actor in an IKEA ad.
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Sicilian Tenor

Other

The Italian name of Goofy
A variant of Puss in Boots written by Giambattista Basile
Pippo (airplane), an airplane flown over Northern Italy during World War II
Often is used by Italian programmers as name of dummy variables like in English "foo"

References

↑ As short for Giuseppe, Pippo is most commonly used in Sicily and it comes from a variant of Peppo (itself a variant of Peppe).

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