Guido
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Guido is a personal name used in German-, Austrian German-, Italian-, Spanish-, and Dutch-speaking cultures. It is a Romanized form of a Germanic name, which corresponds with the Old High German word 'witu', which means 'woods' or 'forest'. It may refer to:
[edit] People
- Guido Karl Anton List, more commonly known as Guido von List
- Jorg Guido Hulsmann, an austrian economist
- Pope Callixtus II, whose given name was Guido, Comte de Bourgogne
- Pope Celestine II whose given name was Guido
- Guido of Arezzo - medieval music theorist
- Guido Fawkes - Gunpowder Plot conspirator
- Guido Grandi - Mathematician
- Guido van Rossum - computer programmer and author of the Python programming language
- Father Guido Sarducci - Saturday Night Live character played by Don Novello.
- Guido Calabresi - Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and former Dean of Yale Law School.
- Guido of Tuscany - Count & Duke of Lucca and Margrave of Tuscany (915 - 929)
- Guido Reni - baroque painter from Bologna
- Daniel Giansiracusa - Australian rules football player nicknamed Guido by his teammates from the Western Bulldogs.
[edit] Other
- GUIDO Music Notation - computer musical notation format
- Guido (slang) - slang term for stereotypical working class Italian-American.
- Guido (Cars) - a fictional anthropomorphic forklift from Pixar's animated feature film Cars.
- Guido - a fictional Microraptor in the direct-to-video animated film The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers.
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[edit] Sources
- Nederlandse Voornamen Databank (Dutch Personal Names Databank)
