title: Ercole (name)
text: # Ercole (name)
  
  Ercole is a masculine given name which is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:
  
  ## Given name
  
  ### A–G
  
  * Ercole dell'Abate (1573–1613), Italian painter
  * Ercole Baldini (1933–2022), Italian road racing cyclist
  * Ercole Bernabei (1622–1687), Italian composer
  * Ercole Boero (1890–1952), Italian water polo player
  * Ercole Bottrigari (1531–1612), Italian scholar and mathematician
  * Ercole Calvi (1824–1900), Italian painter
  * Ercole Cattaneo (1906–date of death unknown), Italian figure skater
  * Ercole Chiaia (c.1850–1905, Italian spiritualist
  * Ercole Consalvi (1757–1824), Italian Cardinal
  * Ercole Coppola (1603–1658), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
  * Ercole Dembowski (1812–1881), Italian astronomer
  * Ercole dei Fedeli (c. 1465–c.1504–21), Italian goldsmith and master sword engraver
  * Ercole Ferrata (1610–1686) Italian sculptor
  * Ercole Gaibara (c. 1620–1690), Italian composer
  * Ercole Gallegati (1911–1990) Italian wrestler and Olympic medalist
  * Ercole Gennari (1597–1658), Italian painter
  * Ercole Gonzaga (1505 1563), Italian Cardinal
  * Ercole Grandi (c.1463–1525), Italian painter
  * Ercole Graziadei (1900–1981), Italian lawyer
  * Ercole Gualazzini (born 1944), Italian cyclist
  
  ### H–Z
  
  * Ercole Lamia (died 1591), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
  * Ercole Lupinacci (1933–2016), Italian bishop
  * Ercole Marelli (1867–1922), Italian engineer and entrepreneur
  * Ercole Antonio Mattioli (1640–1694), Italian politician
  * Ercole Luigi Morselli (1882–1921), Italian writer
  * Ercole Olgeni (1883–1947) Italian rower
  * Ercole Pasquini (ca. 1560–1608 or 1619), Italian composer
  * Ercole Patti (1903–1976), Italian writer and journalist
  * Ercole Procaccini the Elder (1520–1595), Italian painter
  * Ercole Procaccini the Younger (c. 1605–1675 or 1680), Italian painter
  * Ercole Rabitti (1921–2009), Italian football striker and manager
  * Ercole Rangoni (died 1527), Italian Cardinal
  * Ercole del Rio (c.1718–c.1802), Italian lawyer and author
  * Ercole de' Roberti (c.1451–1496), Italian painter
  * Ercole Roncaglia (1886–1965), Italian military officer
  * Ercole Ruggiero (17th century), Italian painter
  * Ercole Sarti (1593–date of death unknown), Italian painter
  * Ercole Setti (c.1530–1618), Italian engraver
  * Ercole Spada (born 1937), Italian automobile designer
  * Ercole Sassonia (1551–1607), Italian physician
  * Ercole Strozzi (1473–1508), Italian poet
  * Ercole Tambosi (died 1570), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
  * Ercole Visconti (1646–1712), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
  
  ### Middle name
  
  * Carlo Ercole Bosoni (1826–1887), Italian composer
  * Pietro Ercole Fava (1669–1744), Italian nobleman
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Christine D'Ercole, American cyclist
  * Francesco Ercole (1884–1945), Italian historian and politician
  * Henry Ercole (died 1764), Maltese philosopher
  
  ## Fictional characters and pseudonyms
  
  * Ercole Ercoli, pseudonym of Italian politician Palmiro Togliatti
  * Ercole Visconti, one of the characters in the Pixar film Luca
  