Orlando
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Orlando can be:
- Geographically
- In fiction and arts (and/or as borderline fictional character)
- a character in Renaissance and Baroque literature and music.
- an opera seria by Handel;
- a novel by Virginia Woolf;
- a film based on Woolf's novel;
- an early '60s British thriller series for young adults;
- a British indie-pop band of the 1990s
- Orlando (the marmalade cat) is the name of a cat that features in a series of children's illustrated books by Kathleen Hale
- Orlando was the name of a horse that won the Epsom Derby in 1844
- Orlando is a demon and minor character from the Grant Morrison-written comic book The Invisibles
- People
- Surname:
- Vittorio Orlando, an Italian diplomat and politician.
- Tony Orlando
- First name:
- Orlando Bloom; Orlando Gibbons; Orlando Letelier; Orlando W. Wilson; Orlando Cepeda; Orlando Brown; Orlando Bosch; Orlando Bandinelli; Orlando Villas Boas; Orlando Rays; Orlando Llenza; Orlando Smith; Orlando A. Naranjo; Orlando Cabrera; Orlando Reeves; Orlando Ramírez
- Note that there are several names derived from Orlando, like in the many names given to Orlando di Lasso, a.k.a. Orlande de Lassus, Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, etc...
- Pseudonym: