Gaetano Gifuni (25 June 1932 – 18 August 2018) was an Italian civil servant and politician who served as Secretary General of the President from 1992 to 2006 and as Minister for Relations with the Parliament in 1987.

[1] He is the father of actor Fabrizio Gifuni and uncle of Luigi Tripodi, former head of the Quirinale Estate and Gardens Service.

On 1 January 1959, thanks to the passing of the relative competition, he entered the administration of the Senate of the Republic, of which he was appointed Secretary General on 26 June 1975.

In 2006, on the eve of the inauguration of the new President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, he gave up to continue running the Quirinale machine under the latter's mandate and therefore has been Secretary General emeritus ever since.

According to the accusation, it would have been his signature that allowed his nephew Luigi Tripodi to have the assignment as service accommodation of an illegal house within the Castelporziano estate.