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.