Giuliano Ferrara (born 7 January 1952) is an Italian politician, journalist, and TV presenter. He is the founding editor of Il Foglio.

Ferrara came from a family of communists; his father Maurizio was a senator for the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and the two would remain close, even though his father did not share his rightward shift in the 1980s and 1990s. Ferrara was active in the PCI during his twenties. In 1982, he broke with the party and became vocal as an ex-Communist within the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). As a member of the PSI, he endorsed Franco Carraro as mayor of Rome.^[1]

Influenced by the political philosopher Leo Strauss, Ferrara initially gravitated toward socialism but later moved toward social conservatism. As a member of Forza Italia, he was in the Berlusconi I Cabinet and founded the newspaper Il Foglio in 1996.^[2]

Ferarra is married to writer Anselma Dell'Olio, who fought for women's rights in the feminist movements during the 1960s and 1970s. He has been one of the strongest supporters of Pope Benedict XVI. Although considered by his opponents an atheist, he considers himself a theist.^[5]

In 2003, Antonio Tabucchi wrote an article about bad facts about Ferrara for the French newspaper Le Monde; the article was never published because Ferrara interfered with them publishing it on its own newspaper Il Foglio. He then said that he was happy to have reached the goal of getting that article before Le Monde newspaper. He was condemned for unauthorized publishing and for copyright infringement.^[6]