Brentano
Brentano is a 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
- 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
- Lorenzo Brentano, politician
- Lujo Brentano, economist, reformer
- Marianne Ehrmann-Brentano, novelist
- Maximiliane Brentano, dedicatee of some of Beethoven's compositions; also befriended Goethe
- 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
