Angelo Bongioanni (4 April 1864 – 28 November 1931) was an Italian librarian, literary scholar, and onomastician. Born in Mondovì, he earned a degree in literature at the University of Turin in 1886. Bongioanni died in Susa, Piedmont in 1931. He is known for authoring (1928), the first comprehensive dictionary of Italian names. He was the father of , a soldier who died in World War I and was awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor.
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