Vincent Anthony Ragosta[1][2] (February 12, 1924 – August 9, 2017)[3] was an American lawyer and jurist from Rhode Island.

He attended the University of Rhode Island before being drafted into the United States Army during World War II and was stationed in Okinawa, in preparation to invade Japan, until the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945.

He was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant and continued to graduate from the University of Rhode Island in 1949.

In 1988, he was appointed to the state Superior Court by then-Governor Edward D. DiPrete and later retired from the bench in June 2008.

In 1975 he was awarded the Star of Italian Solidarity with the rank of Knight by the President of Italy Giovanni Leone.