Franco Gabrielli (born 13 February 1960) is an Italian police officer, prefect and civil servant.

He subsequently worked for DIGOS (the Italian anti-terrorist department) in Florence, and later moved to the Servizio centrale di protezione [it], an interforce directorate for police coordination on the national territory.

On 16 December 2006 he was appointed as director of SISDE, a position he held until the service was disbanded the following year and replaced by AISI.

From 2009 to 2010 Gabrielli was vice-commissar for the emergency in Abruzzo, and later was vice-chief of the Protezione Civile department for technical and aerial matters.

On 13 November 2010, he became national director of the Protezione Civile, succeeding Guido Bertolaso after the latter had been involved in bribery scandals.