Francesco Paolo Bonifacio (3 May 1923 – 14 March 1989) was an Italian politician, jurist and academic.

He was one of the youngest full professors of Roman Law at the University of Cagliari, Bari and Naples, a position he held until February 1963, when he was elected by the Italian Parliament as a judge of the Italian Constitutional Court.

In 1964 Bonifacio was awarded Italy's highest honor: the Republic's Grand Cross Knighthood (Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica).

[2] In 1975 Bonifacio was elected to the Italian Senate, and served as Minister of Justice from February 1976 until March 1979.

[3] Bonifacio presided over two Senate commissions which considered and promoted constitutional amendments.