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Brancato is a surname. It may refer to:

Al Brancato (1919–2012), American baseball player
Anthony Brancato (1914–1951), American criminal
Chris Brancato (born 1962), American screenwriter and producer
George Brancato (1931–2019), American football player and coach
Jasper Brancato, American politician
John Brancato, American screenwriter
Lillo Brancato (born 1976), American actor
Anne Brancato Wood (1903–1972), American politician

The name is believed to originate from a word from the Sicilian dialect of Italian meaning white poplar, also known as abele; a vastly inordinate number of the bearers of this surname are specifically of Sicilian origin, as reported by Joseph Fucilla in his 1949 book Our Italian Surnames.