Morpurgo

Morpurgo (Hebrew: מורפורגו‎) is an Italian surname of Jewish origin. Originally Marpurg, from the Austrian city Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor in Slovenia) Key ancestor was MOISES JACOB, father of Petachia, in Bad-Rackersburg, Austria. Petachia (1355 - 1460)had three sons who died in Maribor. Their subsequent multinational progeny took the surnames Maribor, Marburg, Marpurg, Morpurgo, Marlborough, Murphy.

Morpurgo may refer to:

• Israel Isserlein (1380-1460) son of Petachia, had two sons, Aaron (1420-1490) and Keshel.
• Salomone Morpurgo (1385 - ) son of Petachia, had one son, Aaron (1415 - 1480) who died in Trieste.
• Anselmo (Anshel) Morpurgo (1395 - ) son of Petachia, had three sons and two daughters who married their Morpurgo cousins.
• Samson (ben Joshua Moses) Morpurgo (1681, Bosnia – 1740), a Bosnian-Italian rabbi, physician, and liturgist.
• Baron Brutus Morpurgo born in Cairo, U.K. multinational financier. Married Lady Clarissa Laide of Clan Ferghys.
• Baron Anselmo Morpurgo ( - 1933)born in Cairo, married Ida Olga Morpurgo-DeCastro Sierra born in the USA.(Generali A.G.)
• Baron Aldo Franco Morpurgo (1899 - 1965) son of Anselmo and Ida, Italian architect.
• Baron Augusto Morpurgo (1937 - ) son of Aldo and Valentina D'Arton, American architect.
• Baron Attilio Morpurgo (1903 - 1978) son of Anselmo and Ida, married Countess Adele V.L.Nilsen-Vik, Italian-American physician.
• Baroness Annselm (Annaselma)L.N.V. Morpurgo (1934 - )American poet, novelist, human rights activist, scientific philosopher.
• Baroness Helga Ida Morpurgo (1935 - ) American visual artist and playwright.
• Elio Morpurgo (1858 – 1944), Italian politician (it).
• Luciano Morpurgo (1886 – 1971) Italian photographer and writer (it).
• Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (1890, Rome – 1966, Rome), an Italian architect (it).
• Umberto De Morpurgo (1896, Trieste, Austria – 1961), tennis player
• Lisa Morpurgo (Dordoni) (1923 – 1998), an Italian writer and astrologer.
• Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937 – 2014), Italian linguist at Oxford University.
• Michael (Andrew Bridge) Morpurgo (born 1943, London), English writer, especially of children's novels.
• Clare Morpurgo (née Lane) (?), wife of Michael.
• Tina Morpurgo (1907 – 1944), Croatian painter
• Vid Morpurgo (1838 – 1911), Croatian industrialist, publisher and politician.

Morpurgo may also refer to

• 5521 Morpurgo, an asteroid
• Palazzo Morpurgo, a palace in Udine