Alessandro Mussolini (11 November 1854 – 19 November 1910) was the father of Italian Fascist founder and leader Benito Mussolini.
He was an Italian revolutionary socialist activist with Italian nationalist sympathies.
Mussolini was a blacksmith by profession.
Mussolini was married to Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher, who became the mother of Benito Mussolini.
Mussolini exercised considerable influence over his son Benito's early political beliefs, even naming his son Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini after three leaders he admired: Benito Juárez, Amilcare Cipriani, and Andrea Costa.