What is "florio"

The Florio family is a prominent entrepreneurial Italian family who started many lucrative activities in Sicily involving above all the exportation of Sicilian products (such as Marsala wine) in the nineteenth century. The family extended its interests to shipping, shipbuilding, fisheries, mining, metallurgy and ceramics.

Florio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• James Florio (born 1937), 49th Governor of New Jersey
• John Florio (1553–1625), linguist and lexicographer
• Massimo Florio, Professor of Public Economics and Chair of Economics of European Integration at the University of Milan
• Michelangelo Florio (1515–1572) Italian Franciscan friar convert to Protestantism, pastor in England and Switzerland, and father of John Florio
• Rudy Florio (born 1950), Canadian football player
• Vincenzo Florio (1883–1959), Italian industrialist and founder of two automobile races