Giovanni Aldobrandini

Giovanni Aldobrandini (1525 – 7 September, 1573) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

A member of the Aldobrandini family, Giovanni Aldobrandini was born in Fano in 1525, the son of Salvestro Aldobrandini, governor of Fano, and Lisa Donati. His younger brother, Ippolito Aldobrandini (1536–1605), became Pope Clement VIII in 1592. He was the uncle of Cardinals Pietro Aldobrandini and Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini.

He was educated at the University of Ferrara, becoming a doctor of both laws on February 9, 1545.

From September 1551 until August 1552, he was governor of Rimini. He was a consistorial lawyer from 1554 to 1556. In 1556, he became an auditor of the Roman Rota.

Ecclesiastically, he was a cleric of Florence and Chaplain of His Holiness. On August 26, 1569, he was elected Bishop of Imola. He was consecrated as a bishop in capella domus suæ solitæ habitationis by Scipione Rebiba, Archbishop of Pisa, on December 8, 1569 with Giulio Antonio Santorio, Archbishop of Santa Severina, and Felice Peretti Montalto, Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti, serving as co-consecrators. He resigned the government of his see sometime before February 9, 1573.