Cristoforo Negri (1809-1896) was an Italian geographer, economist and diplomat.

[1] Following the upheavals of 1848 he fled to Piedmont, where he was appointed to the consular division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Vincenzo Gioberti.

From 1859 he held various government posts in the course of which he visited many cities in the Mediterranean to develop Italian political and economic relationships.

[2] Commenting on the 1867 expedition of the corvette Magenta to the Pacific, Negri pointed out that it was far too heavily loaded with arms and far too short of maps, books and scientific instruments to truly be meant as a voyage of exploration.

He endorsed a plan by the explorer Giacomo Bove to undertake a circumnavigation of Antarctica.