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Luigi Marmiroli (born 21 June 1943 in Fiorano Modenese, Italy) is a designer of Formula One cars and a Technical Director of Alfa Romeo.

Born in a farmhouse located within the area where Ferrari's private Fiorano Circuit was built in the 1970s, after graduating in Mechanical Engineering and working outside the motorsport, he joined Ferrari in September 1970, in the Sports Management Research Department, with the task of gradually introducing electronic computing to support design.

In July 1976, he left Ferrari to found Fly Studio in Modena together with Giacomo Caliri, focusing on the design, calculation, drawing and track management of single-seaters and sports prototypes. This company went on to count Autodelta, Alfa Romeo, Copersucar, Ensign, ATS and Minardi among its clients. Luigi Marmiroli and Giacomo Caliri also became partners of Giancarlo Minardi in 1980 and remaining so until 1983.

In 1983, before the start of the championship, he became Technical Director at Alfa Romeo, partially modifying the already designed 183T and completely designing the 184T for 1984.

In 1985, he joined Lamborghini as Technical Director of the road car design department, remaining there until 1996.

In 1997, he relaunched Fly Studio to offer engineering consulting services for electric vehicles as well.

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