Giovanni Magli (Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, 27 June 1884 – Bari, 28 January 1969) was an Italian general during World War II.

[1][2] In 1911 he fought in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War; he remained there even after the end of the hostilities against Turkey, participating in counterguerrilla operational and receiving, in 1913, a decoration for valor.

He was later transferred, for a year and a half, to the General Staff of the IX Corps in the Upper Cordevole Valley, deserving a mention in despatches.

During this campaign he was slightly wounded, but maintained command of his division, and later replaced for a month the wounded commander of the 37th Infantry Division Modena, deployed in a critical sector of the front, averting a serious crisis and repelling reiterated Greek attacks; for this he was promoted to Major General for war merit in July 1941.

The fighting ended on 4 October 1943, when the last German troops left Corsica for Italy, having lost some 1,400 men killed or captured.