Adorno is a surname. Adorno family, Italian noble family of Republic of Genoa, Italy Notable people with the surname include: Aldo Adorno, (born 1982), Paraguayan footballer Antoniotto Botta Adorno (1688–1774), high officer of the Habsburg Monarchy and a plenipotentiary of the Austrian Netherlands Francis Adorno (1521–1586), celebrated Italian preacher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), influential German sociologist and philosopher of the Frankfurt School References Italian-language surnames