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Name of Latin origins. Alternatively, it can be used as a shortened form of Aurelio, the Italian equivalent of the Latin Aurelius.

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Lelio Sozzini (1525-1562) was an Italian Renaissance humanist.
Lelio Basso (1903–1978) was an Italian politician and journalist.
Lelio Orsi (c.1508-1587) was an Italian painter.
Lelio Biscia (1575-1638) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.
Lelio Colista (1629–1680) was an Italian composer.
Lelio Dalla Volpe (1720-1749) was an important Bolognese publisher of the 18th Century.
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi (1971- ) is an Italian actor.

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Lelio is a character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1750 play The Treasure.
Leilo is a minor character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1821 novel Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants.
Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie was an 1831 work by French composer Hector Berlioz.
Lélio is a character in the 1722 La Surprise de l'amour by French playwright Marivaux.
Leilo is a character in Carlo Goldoni’s 1750 play Il bugiardo.
Leilo is a character in George Frideric Handel's 1726 opera Scipione.
Leilo is a character in Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's 1782 short play, Le Bon Ménage.