Famous people named Bellucci

Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci (born 1964), from Città di Castello in Umbria, moved from modelling to film in the 1990s. Her roles range from Malèna and Irréversible to the James Bond film Spectre, and she has worked in Italian, French and English.

Art and music

Antonio Bellucci (1654–1726) was a Venetian-trained Baroque painter who worked for the imperial court in Vienna, for Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm in Düsseldorf and in England, where he decorated the chapel of Cannons for the Duke of Chandos. The pianist Giovanni Bellucci (born 1965) is known for recordings of Liszt and Beethoven.

Sport, faith and politics

• Claudio Bellucci (born 1975), striker who played for Sampdoria, Napoli and Bologna.
• Cleto Bellucci (1921–2013), Catholic archbishop of Fermo.
• Maria Teresa Bellucci (born 1972), Italian politician.
• Matteo Bellucci (born 1995), Italian badminton player.
• Carlos Bellucci (1895–1953), Argentine actor.
• Andrew Bellucci (1964–2023), New York pizza maker.

Tennis and medicine

The name has two tennis players from two countries: Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci (born 1987), who reached the top 25 and won several ATP titles, and Italy's Mattia Bellucci (born 2001). Italian footballer Melissa Bellucci (born 2001) and racewalker Sandro Bellucci (born 1955), an Olympic bronze medallist in 1984, add to its sporting record. In medicine, the American ear surgeon Richard Bellucci (1914–2005) designed surgical instruments still known by his name. The philosopher and poet Valentino Bellucci (born 1975) is an Italian philosopher, sociologist and poet. Together they show how far a once regional Italian name has travelled.

What links them

Very little, in family terms. Bellucci grows from bello, "beautiful", an old given name, and in Calabria it can also be a variant of the Arbëreshë names Bellusci and Belluscio, so it arose in separate places. Heraldic arms belonged to particular lines. Our Bellucci coat of arms page explains the name, and Bellucci family history and genealogy suggests where to start research.