Amedeo

Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo.

People with this name include:

• A number of rulers and nobles associated with the historical region of Savoy
  • Amadeus II, Count of Savoy (r. 1078–1080)
  • Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (r. 1103–1148)
  • Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (r. 1233–1253)
  • Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (r. 1285–1323)
  • Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (r. 1343–1383)
  • Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (r. 1383–1391)
  • Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (r. 1391–1440), better known as Antipope Felix V
  • Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (r. 1465–1472)
  • Amedeo di Savoia (1845–1890), later Amadeo I of Spain
  • Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898–1942)
  • Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943)
• Amedeo Modigliani (a.k.a. Modi) Italian painter and sculptor
• Amedeo Avogadro Italian scientist
• Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este

See also

• Amadeo (disambiguation)
• Amadeus (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Amedeo" for people with the first name Amedeo
• All pages beginning with "Amédéo" for people with the first name Amédéo
• All pages beginning with "Amédée" for people with the first name Amédée
• All pages beginning with "Amadeus" for people with the first name Amadeus
• All pages beginning with "Amadeo" for people with the first name Amadeo