Emilio De Rose (27 March 1939 – 13 June 2018)[1] was an Italian dermatologist and socialist politician who served as the minister of public works for one year in the period 1987–1988.

For most of his career, he was a member of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano; PSDI).

De Rose was born in Marano Marchesato, Cosenza, Calabria, on 27 March 1939.

[2] Within the PSDI, De Rose was a member of the current that advocated reunification with the Italian Socialist Party, and in early 1989 he followed Pier Luigi Romita and Pietro Longo into a new political formation, the Movement of Unity and Socialist Democracy (Movimento di Unità e Democrazia Socialista; UDS), which later that year was absorbed by the PSI.

[4] De Rose was a declared Freemason, being a member of a city lodge named after Franklin D.