Silvio Pettirossi Pereira (16 June, 1887 – 17 October, 1916) was a Paraguayan airplane pilot and aviation pioneer.

As a young man he firstly moved to Spoleto in Italy where he attended a military school, then to Buenos Aires where he became acquainted with the aviator Jorge Newbery who taught him how to fly.

In 1912, Pettirossi received a scholarship from the Paraguayan government and moved to France where he obtained the title of aviator pilot from the international aeronautic federation.

He made many famous and extraordinary acrobatic flights in Europe, South America and the United States.

On 17October , 1916, while doing an inverted loop, the left wing of his plane broke, and the aircraft crashed to the ground in a ranch owned by the Castell family, in Punta Lara, Buenos Aires Province.