Leonardo Ghiraldini (born 26 December 1984) is a retired Italian international rugby union player.

On 21 May 2014, Ghiraldini moved to England to join Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership for the 2014-15 season.

He was in the Italy squad for the 2008 Six Nations Championship, playing as starting hooker in all five games of the tournament.

[3] For the 2010 Six Nations Championship, Ghiraldini was named Italian captain after Sergio Parisse was ruled out of the tournament with an injury.

[4] On 18 August 2019, he was named in the final 31-man squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup[5] and he represented Italy on 107 occasions, from 2006 to 2020.