Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Nice.

[1] Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis.

He published Ichthyologie de Nice (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (1818–1822).

[2] He is denoted by the author abbreviation Risso when citing a botanical name;[3] the same abbreviation is used for zoological names.

He named 549 marine genera and species.