Giovanni da Verrazzano (sometimes also wrongly spelled Verrazano) (1485–1528) is an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.

He is renowned as the first European since the Norse expeditions to North America around CE 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay in 1524.

The bridge over the opening of New York Harbor and a vessel of the Italian navy, a destroyer of the Navigatori class, are among his numerous eponymous honors.