Giovanni "John" Gambino (Italian: [d?o'vanni gam'bi?no]; August 22, 1940 – November 16, 2017) was an American mobster.
Born in Palermo, Sicily, he became a made member of the Gambino crime family in 1975 and a capodecina or captain, and head of the crime family's Sicilian faction, appointed by family boss John Gotti in 1986, according to Mafia turncoat Sammy Gravano.