Rodolfo Sonego (27 February 1921 – 15 October 2000) was an Italian screenwriter.

He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as A Difficult Life, Il vedovo, and The Traffic Policeman.

Born in Cavarzano, Belluno, Sonego graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin and started an activity as painter and illustrator.

[1] Moved to Rome, he initially collaborated to the screenplays of a number of dramas, working with directors such as Giuseppe De Santis, Alberto Lattuada and Carlo Lizzani.

[1] In 1954 he met Alberto Sordi for the screenplay of the comedy film Il seduttore and from then he started a long collaboration with the actor, writing, sometimes uncredited, over 50 films starred by Sordi.