Sofia Fuoco (16 January 1830 in Milan, the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia – 16 June 1916 in Carate Urio, the Province of Como), was an Italian ballerinn, born as Maria Brambilla; her stage name, Fuoco (the mother's family name, given because there was more than one "Maria Brambilla" at the dance school)[1][2] means ″Fire″ in Italian.

In 1846 she danced in Perrot's Pas de Quatre staged in La Scala by Filippo Taglioni.

Choreographer Joseph Mazilier was going to stage his new ballet Betty with Grisi however the ballerina had signed a contract with the Roman Apollo Theater.

Parisian press started to discuss amazing technique and pirouettes of Fuoco before her first performance at the Salle Le Peletier.

The supporters of Marquis de Salamanca (and those of Guy-Stéphan) demonstrated their notion by wearing white carnation flowers in the buttonhole, those who preferred the government (and Fuoco) were wearing red ones, while the ladies had been coiffed à la Fuoco.