This is list of Italian [2] explorers and navigators (Italian : esploratori) in alphabetical order:
- Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846)
- Enrico Alberto d'Albertis (1846–1932)
- Carlo Amoretti (1741–1816)
- Paolo Andreani (1763–1823)
- Orazio Antinori (1811–1882)
- Alberto Maria de Agostini (1883–1960)
- Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494)
- Giacomo Beltrami (1779–1855)
- Scipione Borghese (1871–1927)
- Vittorio Bottego (1860–1897)
- Giacomo Bove (1852–1887)
- Sebastiano Caboto (1474–1557)
- Umberto Cagni (1863–1932)
- Giovanni Caboto (1450–1500)
- Alvise Cadamosto (1432–1483)
- Gaetano Casati (1838–1902)
- Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766)
- Cristoforo Colombo (1451–1506)
- Ambrogio Contarini (1429–1499)
- Niccolò de' Conti (1395–1469)
- Andrea Corsali (1487–?)
- Michele da Cuneo (1448–1503)
- Antonio da Noli (1418–1496)
- Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1185–1252)
- Ardito Desio (1897–2001)
- Alfonso de Tonti (1659–1727)
- Enrico de Tonti (1649–1704)
- Andrea Doria (1466–1560)
- Eusebio Kino (1645–1711)
- Alessandro Malaspina (1754–1810)
- Lancelotto Malocello (1269–1335)
- Reinhold Messner (born 1944)
- Umberto Nobile (1885–1978)
- Juan Bautista Pastene
- Antonio Pigafetta (1491–1530)
- Emanuele Piloti
- Marco Polo (c. 1253–1323)
- Niccolò and Maffeo Polo (c. 1230 – c. 1294, c. 1230 – c. 1309)
- Michele Pontrandolfo (born 1971)
- Matteo Ricci (1552–1610)
- Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933)
- Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà (1852–1905)
- Ermanno Stradelli
- Antoniotto Usodimare
- Giovanni da Verrazzano (1484–1527)
- Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512)
- Ugolino Vivaldi (fl. 1291)
- Vadino Vivaldi (fl. 1291)
- Fiorenza Cannavale