43 Italian Ministers of Defence

This Italian Ministers of Defence is a senior member of the Italian Cabinet who leads the Ministry of Defence. The minister is responsible for military and civil defence matters and managing the Italian Armed Forces.

Salvatore "Salvo" Andò is an Italian academic and politician. He is the son of the politician Biagio Andò.

Beniamino "Nino" Andreatta was an Italian economist and politician.

Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Christian Democracy party; he was the sixth longest-serving Prime Minister since the Italian Unification and the second longest-serving post-war Prime Minister, after Silvio Berlusconi. Andreotti is widely considered the most powerful and prominent politician of the so-called First Republic.

Manlio Giovanni Brosio was an Italian lawyer, diplomat, politician and the fourth Secretary General of NATO between 1964 and 1971.

Alessandro Casati was an Italian academic, commentator and politician. He served as a senator between 1923 and 1924 and again between 1948 and 1953. He also held ministerial office, most recently as Minister of War for slightly more than twelve months during 1944/45, serving under "Presidente del Consiglio" Bonomi.

Mario Cingolani was an Italian politician.

Domenico Corcione was an Italian military staff and defence minister of Italy.

Fabio Fabbri is an Italian former politician and lawyer.

Cipriano Facchinetti was an Italian politician.

Arnaldo Forlani, is an Italian politician who served as the 43rd Prime Minister of Italy from 18 October 1980 to 28 June 1981. He also held the office of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defence.

Remo Gaspari was an Italian politician, who was several times minister of the Italian Republic.

Luigi Gasparotto was an Italian lawyer and politician.

Pietro Gazzera was an officer in the Italian Royal Army during World War II, as well as a prewar Italian politician.

Lorenzo Guerini is an Italian politician.

Luigi Gui was an Italian politician and philosopher.

Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa is an Italian politician. He was Minister of Defence in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi. He is the Vice President of the Senate of the Republic in the XVIII Legislature (2018–today).

Lelio Lagorio was an Italian politician who served as the first President of Tuscany from 1970 until 1978.

Vittorio (Vito) Lattanzio was an Italian Christian Democrat politician and physician.

Fermo Mino Martinazzoli was an Italian lawyer, politician and former Minister. He was the last secretary of the Christian Democracy party and the first secretary of the Italian People's Party founded in 1994.

Antonio Martino is an Italian politician, who was the minister of foreign affairs in 1994 and minister of defense from 2001 to 2006. He is a founding member of Forza Italia.

Gaetano Martino was an Italian politician, physician and university teacher.

Sergio Mattarella OMRI OMCA is an Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer, who is serving as the 12th and current president of Italy since February 2015.

Mario Mauro is an Italian politician and a university teacher of history. He is the former minister of Defense, having served in the Letta Cabinet from 2013 to 2014. From 1999 to 2013, he was a member of the European Parliament and he is a member of the Italian movement Communion and Liberation.

Randolfo Pacciardi was an Italian politician, a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI). He was also an officer who fought during World War I and in the Spanish Civil War.

Giampaolo Di Paola is an Italian naval officer who served in the government of Italy as minister of defense from November 2011 to April 2013. He was the Italian military's Chief of Staff from 10 March 2004 to 8 February 2008 and served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2008 to 2011.

Arturo Parisi is an Italian politician, leader of the Ulivist faction of the Democratic Party and four-time member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He was also minister of defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi from 2006 to 2008.

Roberta Pinotti is an Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party. From 22 February 2014 to 1 June 2018 she served as the Italian Minister of Defence in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni.

Giuseppe Codacci Pisanelli was an Italian Christian Democrat politician.

Cesare Previti is a former Italian politician and convicted criminal. He was, with Marcello Dell'Utri, a close friend and right-hand of Silvio Berlusconi and founder of Forza Italia.

Franco Restivo was an Italian politician.

Virginio Rognoni is an Italian politician, who was a prominent member of Christian Democracy. He was several times Interior Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. From 2002 to 2006 he was vice-president of the High Council of the Judiciary.

Attilio Ruffini was an Italian politician.

Adolfo Sarti was an Italian Christian Democrat politician. He repeatedly served as Undersecretary and then as Minister in the Italian governments between the 1960s and 1980s. He was a Deputy in Legislature III (1958–1963), Legislature IV (1963–1968), Legislature V (1968–1972), Legislature IX (1983–1987) and Legislature X (1987–1992), while he was a Senator in Legislature VI (1972–1976), Legislature VII (1976–1979) and Legislature VIII (1979–1983).

Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini is an Italian economist and politician. He is a university professor in applied economics and was chancellor of the Luiss University of Rome (1984–1992). He was President of the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996 and Minister of Defence from 1998 to 2000.

Antonio Segni was an Italian politician and statesman who served as 4th President of Italy from May 1962 to December 1964 and 34th Prime Minister in two distinct terms between 1955 and 1960.

Marcello Soleri was an Italian politician and an officer of the prestigious Alpini infantry corps. He is widely viewed as one of the leading exponents of political liberalism in twentieth century Italy. Soleri was a Member of Parliament between 1913 and 1929. During 1921/22 he served successively as Italian Minister of Finance and as Minister of War. After the fall of Mussolini he returned to government in 1944 as Treasury Minister under "Prime Minister" Bonomi.

Giovanni Spadolini was an Italian Republican politician, the 44th Prime Minister of Italy, the first since 1945 to not be a member of Christian Democrats, and a newspaper editor, journalist and historian.

Mario Tanassi was an Italian politician, who was several times Minister of the Italian Republic. In 1979 he was condemned by the Constitutional Court of Italy for his involvement in the Lockheed bribery scandal.

Paolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader, economist and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus.

Roberto Tremelloni was an Italian economist, academic, businessman and a social democrat politician. He served in different cabinets of Italy.

Elisabetta Trenta is an Italian politician who served as the Italian Minister of Defence in the first government of Giuseppe Conte.

Valerio Zanone was an Italian politician, who was secretary and president of the Italian Liberal Party. He was also a senator of the Democratic Party. He has been mayor of Turin from 1990 to 1992.