{"id":22757,"date":"2026-04-18T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/father-of-man-who-inspired-super-mario-was-also-named-luigi-researcher-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:37:23","slug":"father-of-man-who-inspired-super-mario-was-also-named-luigi-researcher-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/father-of-man-who-inspired-super-mario-was-also-named-luigi-researcher-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of man who inspired Super Mario was also named Luigi, researcher finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elisabeth Zetland, a senior researcher at MyHeritage, found that the actual Luigi has immigrated to US from Italy<\/p>\n

The Washington state businessman who inspired Nintendo to give the name Mario to its mustachioed, superhero plumber<\/a> did not have a brother named Luigi like the fictional video game star famously does.<\/p>\n

But it has only just been determined that Nintendo may have unknowingly named its mascot\u2019s brother after another of the real-life Mario\u2019s close relatives: his father, Luigi, whose biography evokes that of millions of 20th-century US immigrants from Italy.<\/p>\n

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\nElisabeth Zetland, a senior researcher at MyHeritage, found that the actual Luigi has immigrated to US from Italy
\nThe Washington state businessman who inspired Nintendo to give the name Mario to its mustachioed, superhero plumber did not have a brother named Luigi like the fictional video game star famously does.
\nBut it has only just been determined that Nintendo may have unknowingly named its mascot\u2019s brother after another of the real-life Mario\u2019s close relatives: his father, Luigi, whose biography evokes that of millions of 20th-century US immigrants from Italy. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elisabeth Zetland, a senior researcher at MyHeritage, found that the actual Luigi has immigrated to US from Italy The Washington state businessman who inspired Nintendo to give the name Mario to its mustachioed, superhero plumber did not have a brother named Luigi like the fictional video game star famously does. But it has only just …<\/p>\n

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