| Luigi Vittorio Ferraris | |
| Office: | Italian Ambassador to Germany |
| Term Start: | 1980 |
| Term End: | 1987 |
| Predecessor: | Corrado Orlandi Contucci |
| Successor: | Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi |
| Birth Date: | 20 March 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Roma |
| Death Place: | Senigallia |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Rome |
| Occupation: | Diplomat |
Luigi Vittorio Ferraris (20 March 1928 – 13 November 2018) was an Italian diplomat.
He graduated in law at the University of Rome in 1949, he also studied law in Heidelberg (Germany) and obtained a Diploma in International Law in The Hague in 1951.
In 1952 he entered the diplomatic service, and served as Vice Consul in Newark, New Jersey from 1955 to 1957, as Second Secretary at the Embassy in Ankara from 1957 to 1959, as First Secretary at the Embassy in Sofia from 1959 to 1962, as Counsellor and then First Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Caracas from 1963 to 1967 and as First Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw from 1967 to 1969.[1]
At the Ministry he was also in charge of the Eastern Europe Office and participated in the Helsinki negotiations within the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE).
He was Ambassador of Italy in Bonn from 1980 to 1987.
After his diplomatic career, from 1987 to 2000 he was State Counsellor and from 2000 he was appointed Honorary President of the Council of State. From February to May 1996 he was Under Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first Dini Government.[2]
He is the author of books on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela and Germany and of about 400 essays and articles related to international relations, history of international relations and politics, and Eastern European politics.[3]