Paolo Toth (born 29 December 1941 in Zara, Italy)[1] is an Italian scientist and engineer, and an Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the University of Bologna.

He made significant contributions in the areas of vehicle routing, knapsack and other cutting and packing problems, train scheduling, set covering, vertex coloring and, in general, combinatorial optimization.

[8] Toth graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in Electronic Engineering in 1965.

He was an assistant and associate professor of computer science at the University of Bologna from 1968 to 1980.

He is the co-author, with Silvano Martello, of the book Knapsack problems: Algorithms and Computer implementations (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1990)[15] and is also the co-author, with Daniele Vigo, of the book Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and Applications (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2014)[16]