← 1950 1949 1948 1951 in Italy → 1952 1953 1954
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events from the year 1951 in Italy.

• President – Luigi Einaudi
• Prime Minister – Alcide De Gasperi

• 20 January – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps causes 240 deaths and 45,000 deaths in Switzerland, Austria, and Italy.^[1]
• 29–31 January – The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival took place at the Casino Municipale in Sanremo, Italy.^[2]
• 21 October – A storm in southern Italy has resulted in the death of over 100 people.
• 20 November – The Po River is experiencing flooding in northern Italy.^[3]
• 24 December – Libya gained independence from Italy, and Idris I was proclaimed as its new King.^[4]

• 16 July – Franco Serantini, Italian anarchist (d. 1972)
• 22 October – Claudio Ranieri, Italian football manager and player

• 13 January – Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1871)
• 28 January – Petar Dujam Munzani, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and reverend (b. 1890)
• 28 February – Giannina Russ, Italian soprano (b. 1873)
• 2 March – Cassiano Conzatti, Italian botanist, explorer and pteridologist (b. 1862)
• 20 April – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
• 23 May – Antonio Gandusio, Italian actor (b. 1875)
• 29 May – Antonio Mosca, Italian painter (b. 1870)
• 28 June – Maria Pia Mastena, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1881)
• 18 July – Ludovico di Caporiacco, Italian arachnologist (b. 1901)
• 3 September – Enrico Valtorta, Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Hong Kong and reverend (b. 1883)
• 10 September – Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
• 9 November – Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi, Italian Roman Catholic layman and blessed (b. 1880)
• 23 November – Enrichetta Alfieri, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1891)
• 19 December – Umberto Cassuto, Italian rabbi and biblical scholar (b. 1883)
• 24 December – Raffaele Rossetti, Italian engineer and military naval officer (b. 1881)