Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (19 June 1417 – 7 October 1468), popularly known as the Wolf of Rimini, is an Italian condottiero and nobleman, a member of the House of Malatesta and lord of Rimini, Fano, and Cesena from 1432.
He is widely considered by his contemporaries as one of the most daring military leaders in Italy and commands the Venetian forces in the 1465 campaign against the Ottoman Empire.