Brentano
# Brentano

Brentano is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Antonie Brentano, philanthropist
* August Brentano, bookseller
* Bernard von Brentano, novelist
* Christian Brentano, German writer
* Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist, brother of Bettina von Arnim (born Brentano)
* Franz Brentano, philosopher, influenced phenomenology and gestalt psychology
* Franz Funck-Brentano, French historian and librarian
* Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, politician of the Christian Democratic Union (West Germany)
* Lorenzo Brentano, politician
* Lujo Brentano, economist, reformer
* Marianne Ehrmann-Brentano, novelist
* Robert Brentano, American historian
* Theodore Brentano, American attorney, judge, and first U.S. ambassador to Hungary, son of Lorenzo
* Théophile Funck-Brentano, Luxembourgian-French sociologist
