Pietro Russo

Pietro Russo (fl. 1508) was a Sicilian mapmaker.

He was probably born in Messina{{Cite book |last=Astengo |first=Corradino |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt1/Volume3_Part1.html |title=The History of Cartography: Cartography in the European Renaissance |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0226907338 |editor-last=Woodward |editor-first=David |volume=3 |pages=225 |language=EN |chapter=7 |access-date=2022-10-12 |chapter-url=https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt1/HOC_VOLUME3_Part1_chapter7.pdf |chapter-format=PDF}} although it has also been speculated that he was of Mallorcan or Valencian origin.{{Cite book| publisher = CSIC| last1 = Rey Pastor| first1 = Julio| last2 = García Camarero| first2 = Ernesto| title = La cartografía mallorquina| location = Madrid| date = 1960|page=46}} {{cite journal |last1=Sabater Rebassa |first1=Tina |last2=Juan Vicens |first2=Antònia |last3=Garriga |first3=Magdalena Cerdà |title=Las cartas náuticas de la escuela cartográfica mallorquina. Aspectos artísticos y contexto productivo |journal=Hortus Artium Medievalium |date=May 2016 |volume=22 |pages=331–342 |doi=10.1484/J.HAM.5.111354|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/264922 }}

He made portolan charts, three or perhaps four of which are still extant. One of them, signed by pietru russu in Messina on 1 October 1508, is kept at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona.

He was probably the father of Jacopo Russo, another Sicilian mapmaker.