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Giorgio Mortara (Mantua, 1885 - Rio de Janeiro, 1967) -- Economist, demographer, and statistician, active in Italy, Germany (1907-1908), and Brazil (1939-1956).

Born in Italy to an Italian Jewish family, Mortara studied in Berlin between 1907 and 1908 and began his academic career in Italy as professor at the University of Messina from 1909 up 1914 in Rome (1915–24) and Milan (1924–38) and director of the Giornale degli economisti (1910–38). In 1939, after the promulgation of the Racial Laws, he was forced to leave Italy and moved to Brazil where he was technical advisor of the National Census (1939–1948) and the National Council of Statistics (1949–1957). In 1956, he returned to teach at the University of Rome, where he was appointed professor emeritus in 1961. Died in Brazil.