Was Frank Martines of philly mob fame a made guy? He was alledgedly Stanfa's underboss but his last name sounds Spanish or Mexican. Maybe his mother was Sicilian? Not much info out there on the guy.
in southern italy there are some spanish surnames, because south italy was under spain kingdom in the past
there are some people named martines, martinez, lopez etc.
Off the top of my head, prominent Italian footballers who had a parent who wasn't Italian include Christian Panucci (Czech), Riccardo Montolivo (German), and Pietro Vierchowod (Ukrainian); the great Paolo Maldini's family name was originally "Maldic", a Slovene name.
I think of other footballers like Sandro Cois and the great Gianluigi Buffon, and it reminds me of the time in Sopranos that Carmela accused her mother of being happy their name didn't end in a vowel.
