Rocco Benito Commisso[1][2] (Italian pronunciation: [ˈrɔkko komˈmisso];[3] born 25 November 1949) is an Italian-born American billionaire businessman, and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mediacom, the fifth largest cable television company in the US.

Born in [Marina di Gioiosa Ionica,[Calabria]], Italy, Commisso migrated to the United States at age 12.

[4] Commisso attended Mount Saint Michael Academy high school in the Bronx[5] and attended Columbia University on a full undergraduate scholarship where he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 1971 from its School of Engineering and Applied Science.

In 1978, he began working with cable companies and other entertainment enterprises as a part of Chase's corporate financing department.

Commisso took Mediacom public in 2000[11] after which time it grew to become the 8th largest cable operator in the United States with annual revenues of over $1.6 billion.

Commisso served as co-captain of the 1970 team that went 9-4-0 and made Columbia’s first ever appearance in the NCAA men's soccer tournament.

[19] Throughout his college soccer career, Commisso was cited numerous times for his skill and leadership[20][21][22][23][24] culminating in an invitation to try out for the US team for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

[32] At the time, several of the other bids for the team were to shut down the franchise in order to prevent it from remaining a competitive threat in the league.

[33] In January 2025 during the NASL's antitrust lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and Major League Soccer (MLS), it was revealed that Commisso had used sockpuppets to attack leaders of both MLS and the USSF where his activity showed that he compared MLS commissioner Don Garber and then USSF president Sunil Gulati to criminals like convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, made threats to commentator Alexi Lalas after he criticised the NASL, and compared the North American closed league model MLS has instead of promotion and relegation to prostitution.

[37] In the spring of 2020, Commisso led a GoFundMe campaign, Forza e Cuore, to raise over $1 million (€872,000) for hospitals in Florence during the Coronavirus pandemic.

[38] In Fall of 2023, Rocco B. Commisso Viola Park, a state-of-the-art sports training center hosting the ACF Fiorentina men's, women's, youth teams, opened in Bagno a Ripoli in the outskirts of Florence.