Ottavio Giovanni Battista Assarotti (25 October 1753, in Genoa – 24 January 1829) was an Italian philanthropist and founder of the first school for deaf people in Italy.

After qualifying himself for the church, he entered the society of the Piarists, Padri of the "Scuole Pie", who devoted themselves to the training of the young.

In 1801 he heard of the Abbe Sicard's education of deaf people in Paris, and resolved to do something similar in Italy.

[2] This order was poorly attended to until 1811, when it was renewed, and the following year Assarotti, with a considerable number of pupils, took possession of the new school.

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