Carlo Formichi (14 February 1871 – 13 December 1943) was an Italian linguist, Anglicist and orientalist, English and Sanskrit Scholar.

He taught at a gymnasium in the Calabria region and after receiving a scholarship he went to the University of Kiel for oriental studies under Paul Deussen and Hermann Oldenberg.

Graduating in 1897 he returned to Naples where he taught Sanskrit philology and spent some time in Vienna and at Bologna under J. G. Bühler.

In the 1920s Kalidas Nag (son-in-law of Ramananda Chatterjee) and Sylvain Levi began to spread an interest in Indology in Europe.

After Tagore made many public statements against fascism, Formichi was forced to write a book explaining his position India e Indiani.