Giuseppe Montalenti (13 December 1904 - 2 July 1990) was an Italian geneticist and zoologist.

His father was a jurist and a magistrate, and his grandfather was a naturalist and an entomologist.

[1] After high school, Giuseppe Montalenti entered the University of Turin, but in 1923, his father was promoted and Giuseppe moved with him to Rome, entering Sapienza University of Rome.

[1] In 1939, he became the head of Zoological Department of Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn.

[1] Moreover, he was a foreign member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Linnean Society of London, New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.