Salvatore Pelosi (10 April 1906 – 24 October 1974) was an Italian naval officer who fought in World War II.

As commander of the submarine Torricelli he made a gallant last stand against overwhelming British naval forces in June 1940.

Toricelli was on patrol in the Gulf of Aden on 23 June 1940 when she was intercepted by a Royal Navy squadron comprising the destroyers HMS Kandahar, Khartoum, Kingston and the sloop Shoreham off Perim.

[2] Pelosi was awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor for this action, and spent the rest of the war as a POW.

He attended the Istituto di Guerra Marittima, and from December 1949 to August 1951 was commander of Italian Naval Forces in the Trust Territory of Somaliland, before serving as Chief of Staff at the maritime department of the lower Tyrrhenian.