Alessandro Puttinati, also Putinati was an Italian sculptor.
Son of the engraver and medalist Frncesco, he was a pupil and follower of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) in Rome.
Among his best known works are some statues for the cathedral of Milan; the statues of San Carlo and Sant'Ambrogio in San Simpliciano; the Monument to Carlo Porta (1862) which was located in the Giardini di Porta Venezia and was destroyed during the Anglo-American bombing in Milan as well, the one to Garibaldi in Luino (1867), the first dedicated statue to Garibaldi still alive and of the statue of Masaniello (1846) today at the Gallery of Modern Art (1846).