Massimo Magnani (born 4 October 1951 in Ferrara) is a former Italian marathon runner.

He has the Italian best performance of the 30 km, established in 1982.

Massimo Magnani participated at two edition of the Summer Olympics (1976 and 1980), he has 10 caps in national team from 1974 to 1985.

[1] He was technic commissioner of the Italy national athletics team till 2016.

Massimo Magnani has won 3 times the individual national championship.