Bassano is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aemilia Bassano (known as Emilia Lanier), first English woman professional poet. Alexander Bassano (1829–1913), photographer, founder of companies in London known as: Bassano and Davis, of 122 Regent Street (c. 1866) Bassano's Studio's Ltd, of 25 Old Bond Street, (1904–1905) Bassano Limited, of 25 Old Bond Street (from 1906) Bassano and Vandyck Studio, (from 1964) Anthony Bassano, musician, son of Jeronimo Bassano Augustine Bassano (1530–1604), composer and lutenist b. Venice (?), d. London Cesare Bassano (1584–1648), Italian painter and engraver Chris Bassano, cricketer Francesco Bassano the Elder (c. 1475–1539), painter Francesco Bassano the Younger (1549–1592), painter Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558 – c. 1617), a Venetian composer and cornettist Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592), a Venetian painter Jeronimo Bassano, a 16th-century Venetian musician who led a family of musicians who moved to the court of Henry VIII of England Leandro Bassano (1557–1622), painter Louisa Bassano, a 19th-century singer, elder sister of Alexander Bassano Peter Bassano (1945–2025), English conductor and trombonist, descendant of Anthony Bassano
See also Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duc de Bassano (1763–1839), a French statesman