Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837, English pantomime actor and clown. He made his debut at the age of three in Robinson Crusoe at Sadler's Wells, London. For many years he performed there and at Drury Lane. By the time he played the clown in his production of Mother Goose at Covent Garden in 1806, he was a legend. The songs he made famous were sung long after his death at the insistence of the gallery.

House of Grimaldi, Genoese family and rulers of Monaco.

Grimaldi may also refer to:

• Grimaldi, Calabria, town in Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
• Grimaldi (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Grimaldi Industri AB, a Swedish holding company
• Grimaldi's Pizzeria, under the famous Brooklyn Bridge
• Grimaldi Scaled Squid, a squid named after the Grimaldi family
• Villa Grimaldi, a detention center in Chile

People with the surname Grimaldi

• Alberto Grimaldi, Italian film producer
• Dan Grimaldi, Italian-American actor
• David Grimaldi, curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
• Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist
• François Grimaldi, member of the House of Grimaldi
• Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter
• Joseph Grimaldi or Iron Legs, English clown
• Michael Grimaldi American painter
• Nicolo Grimaldi or Nicolini, Italian operatic singer
• Ralph Grimaldi, American mathematician
• Rainier Grimaldi, Ship Captain (some say pirate), founder of the Grimaldi Monaco dynasty, sacked Southampton UK in 1338, see House of Grimaldi above

Fictional

• Lisa Miller Grimaldi, character in As the World Turns soap opera
• Luciano Eduardo Grimaldi, character in As the World Turns soap opera, better known as Luke Snyder
• The Grimaldi are a Revenant Family of the Tzimisce Clan of Vampires in White Wolf's fictional World of Darkness.

See also

• Grimoald