Aldo

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Aldo comes from the Latin altus and means "the tall one."

Aldo may refer to:

People

• John Aldridge, English-born Irish footballer nicknamed Aldo
• Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo, a trio of Italian comedians and film actors
• Aldo Bentini (born 1948), Italian boxer
• Aldo Brancher (born 1943), Italian politician
• Aldo Busi, (born 1948) Italian writer
• Aldo Buzzi (1910–2009), Italian author and architect
• Aldo Carosi (born 1951), Italian judge
• Aldo Ciccolini (1925–2015), Italian and French pianist
• Aldo Donelli (1907–1994), American football and soccer player
• Aldo Giuffrè (1924–2010), Italian film actor and comedian
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception
• Aldo Lado (born 1934), Italian film director and screenwriter
• Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist
• Aldo Moro (1916–1978), murdered Italian prime minister
• Aldo Nova (born 1956), Canadian musician
• Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1975), Italian poet
• Aldo Richins (1910–1995), Mexican player American football
• Aldo van den Berg (born 1978), South African cricketer
• Aldus Manutius or Aldo Manuzio (1449–1515), Italian humanist scholar, printer and publisher
• José Aldo (born 1986), Brazilian mixed martial artist

Fictional characters

• Aldo, a character in video game Summon Night: Twin Age
• Aldo Cella, a character in an advertising campaign for Cella Wines in the early 1980s, played by James Manis
• Aldo (Planet of the Apes), a gorilla character in the Planet of the Apes series of movies;
• Aldo, the main character in the Italian comic strip Venerdì 12
• Aldo, a minor character in the television series Lost
• Aldo Burrows, a character from the television series Prison Break
• Aldo Kelrast, a character from the comic strip Mary Worth
• Aldo Raine, a character from the film Inglourious Basterds
• Aldo Trapani, the main character of The Godfather: The Game

Other

• Aldo Group, a worldwide chain of shoe stores (heels and boots) founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec in 1972
• Aldo (1910 Automobile), an early American automobile
• Aldosterone in shorthand