Alejandro Rossi (Alessandro Rossi; 22 September 1932 – 5 June 2009) was a renowned Mexican philosopher, essayist, and literary critic. Acclaimed as an essayist and writer of short stories and literary texts, he was praised by Spanish and Latin American critics for his undoubted originality.

Alejandro Rossi wrote philosophical essays, short stories, articles and books.

Rossi's writing is marked by a rich language that plays with generic definitions.

Rossi was born in Florence, Italy, in 1932, to a Venezuelan mother and Italian father. He left a war-torn Europe for America in 1942. After living for a few years in Caracas, Buenos Aires, and Los Angeles, he finally arrived in Mexico at the age of 19, where he settled and spent the rest of his life.

In 1955 he graduated magna cum laude from the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Faculty of Philosophy, where he also studied his doctoral degree from 1966 to 1968. In 1958 he entered the Institute of Philosophical Investigations [es]. Later he pursued postgraduate studies at Oxford, where he attended Magdalen College in 1960, and at the University of Freiburg in Germany, where he studied under Martin Heidegger and Max Müller.

He received a grant from El Colegio de México from 1957 to 1958.

Rossi was co-founder and co-director of the magazine Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía ("Criticism. Hispanic-American Philosophy Magazine") since 1967, with Luis Villoro and Fernando Salmerón [es].

He was also a writer and member of the editing board for the magazine Plural, where he also had a column from 1973 to 1976.