Vittorio Catani (17 July 1940 – 23 November 2020) was an Italian science fiction writer. He was born in Lecce and worked in Bari, Italy. He started publishing essays and fiction in 1962. His first novel, "Gli universi di Moras", won the "Urania" in 1990. Some of his works were published for "La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno".