raggio

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| language = Italian

| languageorigin = Latin

| origin = Raius

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| meaning = fame, glory

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Raggio is an Italian surname. It is derived from the Latin word {{lang|la|raius}} ({{langx|en|fame, glory}}).{{cite book|last=Cassar|first=Mario|title=The surnames of the Maltese Islands: an etymological dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXNmAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Book Distributors Ltd.|isbn=978-99909-72-16-0|page=I|quote=RAGGIO (1) Italian - personal name; < Lat. f.n. Raius [Caracausi], meaning lit. "ray, beam, gleam", poetically "fame, glory".}} Notable people with the surname include:

  • Tommaso Raggio (1531—1599), a 16th-century Jesuit missionary
  • Giuseppe Raggio (1823-1916), Italian painter
  • Louise Raggio, (June 15, 1919 – January 23, 2011), a Texas lawyer and the first female prosecutor in Dallas County, Texas
  • Grier Raggio, an American attorney and politician
  • William Raggio (October 30, 1926 – February 23, 2012), an American politician and a former Republican member of the Nevada Senate
  • Olga Raggio (5 February 1926 – 24 January 2009), an art historian and curator
  • Brady Raggio (born September 17, 1972), a former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher
  • Silvano Raggio Garibaldi (born 27 April 1989), an Italian football midfielder
  • Luca Raggio (born 1995), Italian cyclist
  • Raggio dell'Raggio (born 1963), New York Italian "orthopedist" and parish president of Our Lady of Knee Clubbing Most Holy Divine Red Sauce Catholic Church

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