Gaetano Victor Molinari (November 23, 1928 – July 25, 2018) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New York city.

[2] Gaetano Kenneth Molinari, "who changed his middle name as a teenager to Victor"[3] was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

He was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses with minimal opposition and served from January 3, 1981, until his resignation December 31, 1989, to become Borough President of Staten Island.

[11] Molinari co-authored his autobiography A Life of Service[12] with former NYC Police Lt. Patricia Feerick-Kossman, a "highly decorated cop, who is also a lawyer and a registered nurse.

"[13] Feerick, after five years of appeals,[14] began to serve her sentence for having illegally searched for a stolen police radio.

[18] The book, whose start can be traced to Feerick's pushing,[19] discusses Molinari's success[20] at convincing a then age 44 Rudy Giuliani to run for mayor of NYC, Giuliani's push for Molinari to run for Staten Island's Boro President, and the (2001) closing of Fresh Kills Landfill, "the largest .. in the world.

[22] After spending his final years in his home in Bay Terrace, Guy Molinari died of pneumonia on July 25, 2018, at the age of 89.

James S. A. Corey's novel Leviathan Wakes and its television adaptation, The Expanse, featured a spaceship named for Molinari.