Francesco Carnelutti (15 May 1879 – 8 March 1965) was an Italian jurist and lawyer.

Born in Udine, Carnelutti graduated in law at the University of Padua.

The journal he founded in 1924 together with scholar Giuseppe Chiovenda [it], Rivista di diritto processuale civile, together with other works by Chiovenda and Carnelutti, notably the seven volumes of Carnelutti's Lezioni di diritto processuale civile, influenced the Italian legislation, innovating various aspects of the procedural law, and also influenced the law's university teaching.

[2] Carnelutti himself collaborated to the drafting of the Italian Civil Procedure Code in 1940.

[1] After the World War II, Carnelutti's works were increasingly characterized by a mystical vein and by references to Christian values and philosophy.