Vincenzo Monaldi (16 April 1899, in Monte Vidon Combatte, Marche – 7 November 1969)[1] was an Italian physician and physiologist.

He fought in the First World War, while he studied, obtaining a military award, the Croce di Guerra.

He gathered international fame and was named member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London and others in Italy and Germany.

He was assistant at the Physiology Institute of Rome, then he went on to Naples as professor and director of "Principe di Piemonte" sanatorium (now "Ospedale Monaldi").

He was elected senator in 1948, holding important positions in government until he became High Commissioner for Hygiene and then became the first Italian Minister of Health in the Fanfani II Cabinet.