Antonio Lefebvre d'Ovidio (1913 – 5 February 2011) was an Italian lawyer and businessman, and the founder of Silversea Cruises.
[1][2] Lefebvre worked as a maritime lawyer and taught maritime and commercial law at the Bari University until he became a professor at Bari, Naples and Rome Universities in 1938.
[1][2] Lefebvre began buying cargo ships and ferries in the Adriatic.
[2] His son, Manfredi Lefebvre d'Ovidio, became the chairman and owner of Silversea.
[2] Lefebvre was convicted in 1979 for corruption connected to $1.6 million in bribes Lockheed paid in connection with the Italian Air Force's 1970 purchase of 14 military transport aircraft.