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Carlo Acutis

Carlo Acutis, also known as Saint Carlo Acutis, was an Italian teenager who died of leukemia at 15 and was canonized in 2025 as the first millennial saint.

Carlo Barberini

Carlo Barberini (1630–1704) was a Roman prince of the Barberini family who became a cardinal in 1653, serving in the College of Cardinals for over fifty years until his death.

Carlo Buonaparte

Carlo Maria Buonaparte (Charles-Marie Bonaparte), 1746-1785, Corsican lawyer, assessor of Ajaccio, father of Napoleon I; Paoli supporter who submitted to France and secured his children's French schooling.

Carlo Carafa

Carlo Carafa was a Neapolitan nobleman made cardinal by his uncle Pope Paul IV in 1555, holding the government of the Church until 1559; convicted of treason, he was strangled in 1561.

Carlo Dapuzzo

Carlo Dapuzzo is a venture capital investor who spent roughly twenty years as a general partner at Monashees, a Latin American startup firm, backing 99, Rappi, and DogHero.

Carlo De Benedetti

Carlo De Benedetti is an Italian industrialist, born in Turin in 1934, who was chief executive and chairman of Olivetti from 1978 to 1996 and built the holding company CIR.

Carlo Domenico del Carretto

Carlo Domenico del Carretto was an Italian cardinal of the marquises of Finale, created cardinal by Pope Julius II in 1505 and archbishop of Reims and Tours.

Carlo Gambino

Carlo Gambino (1902–1976), Sicilian-born American Mafia boss known as Don Carlo, led New York's Gambino crime family from 1957 to 1976, controlled East Coast rackets, and died of natural causes without significant prison time.

Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg (1939–2026) was an Italian historian, son of writer Natalia Ginzburg, who pioneered microhistory and wrote The Cheese and the Worms about the Friulian miller Menocchio.

Carlo Maria Martini

Carlo Maria Martini, also known as Cardinal Martini, was an Italian Jesuit cardinal and biblical scholar who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1979 to 2002.

Carlo Maria Viganò

Carlo Maria Viganò, Italian archbishop and former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (2011–2016), excommunicated in July 2024 for schism after denouncing Pope Francis and Vatican II.

Carlo Nordio

Carlo Nordio is an Italian politician of the Brothers of Italy party who serves as Minister of Justice in the Meloni government, and a former magistrate.

Carlo Passaglia

Carlo Passaglia (1812–1887) was an Italian Jesuit, later secular priest, who taught dogmatic theology at the Collegio Romano, worked on the Immaculate Conception, and broke with Pius IX.

Carlo Pio

Carlo Pio (1622–1689) was an Italian cardinal of the Pio di Savoia family, created cardinal by Innocent X in 1654 and later bishop of Ferrara.

Carlo Pirzio-Biroli

Carlo Pirzio-Biroli is a London-based private equity executive who co-founded and leads Glendower Capital, a secondaries firm spun out of Deutsche Asset Management in 2017 and rebranded CVC Secondary Partners in 2024.

Carlo Rezzonico

Carlo Rezzonico (1724–1799) was an Italian cardinal and nephew of Pope Clement XIII, created cardinal in 1758 and long-serving camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.

Carlo Rizzuto

Carlo Rizzuto is a life-science venture capitalist and Managing Director at Versant Ventures, based in New York, who helped build companies including Repare Therapeutics and Century Therapeutics.

Carlo Vercellone

Carlo Vercellone (1814–1869) was an Italian Barnabite priest and biblical scholar who edited the Codex Vaticanus for the Holy See and compiled Vulgate textual variants.

Carlo's Bake Shop

Carlo's Bake Shop, also known as Carlo's Bakery, is a family-owned Italian-American bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, founded in 1910 and famous as the setting of Cake Boss.

Carlos A. Giménez

Carlos A. Giménez, born in Cuba in 1954, is a Republican U.S. representative for Florida's 28th congressional district since 2023, previously mayor of Miami-Dade County and Miami's fire chief.

Carlos Abrams-Rivera

Carlos Abrams-Rivera is an American food-industry executive from Puerto Rico who was CEO of Kraft Heinz from 2024 to 2025, then named to lead its North American grocery business.

Carlos Abreu Amorim

Carlos Abreu Amorim is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party who serves as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, speaking on constitutional revision and relations between the Government and the Assembly of the Republic.

Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río

Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río was an Ecuadorian lawyer and Liberal politician who served as president of Ecuador, elected in 1940 amid charges of fraud.

Carlos Alberto Delano

Carlos Alberto Delano, also known as Carlos Délano, is a Chilean businessman who co-founded the Santiago holding company Empresas Penta in 1986 with Carlos Eugenio Lavín.

Carlos Alberto Sicupira (3G Capital)

Carlos Alberto Sicupira, known as Beto, is a Brazilian billionaire businessman born in 1948 who co-founded 3G Capital and, with Jorge Paulo Lemann and Marcel Telles, controls AB InBev.

Carlos Andrés Pérez

Carlos Andrés Pérez was a Venezuelan social-democratic politician of Acción Democrática who served two terms as president of Venezuela, from 1974 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1993.

Carlos Antonio López

Carlos Antonio López (1792–1862), Paraguayan lawyer and statesman, first constitutional president (1844–1862) after Francia; won international recognition of independence, modernized Paraguay, and was succeeded by his son Francisco Solano López.

Carlos Brito (businessman)

Carlos Brito, full name Carlos de Alves Brito, is a Brazilian executive who led AB InBev, the world's largest brewer, as chief executive from 2008 to 2021.

Carlos Castaño Gil

Carlos Castaño Gil, Colombian paramilitary commander (ACCU, AUC, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia), founded the AUC in 1997, led massacres such as Mapiripán and El Aro, and was assassinated by his own men in April 2004.

Carlos Castillo Armas

Carlos Castillo Armas (1914–1957) was a Guatemalan army colonel who led the CIA-backed 1954 coup overthrowing President Jacobo Árbenz, then ruled Guatemala by decree until his 1957 assassination.