Bassano (surname)
Bassano is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Bassano (1829–1913), photographer, founder of companies in London known as:
- Bassano and Davis, of 122 Regent Street (c. 1866)
- Bassano's Studio's Ltd, of 25 Old Bond Street, (1904–1905)
- Bassano Limited, of 25 Old Bond Street (from 1906)
- Bassano and Vandyck Studio, (from 1964)
- Anthony Bassano, musician, son of the above
- Augustine Bassano (1530–1604), composer and lutenist b. Venice (?), d. London
- Cesare Bassano (1584–1648), Italian painter and engraver
- Chris Bassano, cricketer
- Francesco Bassano the Elder (c. 1475–1539), painter
- Francesco Bassano the Younger (1549–1592), painter
- Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558 – c. 1617), a Venetian composer and cornettist
- Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592), painter
- Jeronimo Bassano, a 16th-century Venetian musician who led a family of musicians who moved to the court of Henry VIII of England
- Leandro Bassano (1557–1622), painter
- Louisa Bassano, a 19th-century singer, elder sister of Alexander Bassano
- Peter Bassano, conductor, born 1945, descendant of Anthony Bassano
See also
- Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duc de Bassano (1763–1839), a French statesman
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