Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Francesco Paolo Cantelli (20 December 1875, Palermo –21 July 1966, Rome) was an Italian mathematician.

He received his doctorate in mathematics in 1899 from the University of Palermo with a thesis on celestial mechanics and continued his interest in astronomy by working until 1903 at Palermo's osservatorio astronomico cittadino (National Astronomical Observatory), which was under the direction of Annibale Riccò. Cantelli's early papers were on problems in astronomy and celestial mechanics.