Adolfo Omodeo (Palermo, 18 August 1889 – Naples, 28 April 1946) was an Italian historian and politician, who served as Minister of Public Education of the Badoglio II Cabinet.

He graduated in literature and philosophy at the University of Palermo in 1912, under the guidance of Giovanni Gentile, with a thesis on Jesus and the origins of Christianity, published in 1913.

[1][2][3][4] After the fall of Fascism on 25 July 1943 Omodeo was appointed rector of the University of Naples by the new Education Minister Leonardo Severi, and joined the Action Party.

Aftetwards, from February to April 1945, he volunteered in the Italian Liberation Corps "to set an example" (already in October 1943, as rector of the University of Naples, he had urged his students to follow the example "of the generation that had fought on the Karst and the Piave").

He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and co-director, together with his great friend Luigi Russo, of the literary magazine Belfagor.