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Pietro Ferrero (May 12, 1892, Grugliasco - December 18, 1922, Torino) was an Italian anarchist and trade unionist.
Pietro Ferrero was born in Grugliasco (Torino), 12 May 1892. in 1918 he was hired to FIAT. In 1910 he joined the Social Studies Centre of Barriera di Milano (Torino district), which later turns into Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia.
During World War Ferrero it is active in the CGL against the reformist wing of the union, militating in the revolutionary current. In 1917, together with anarchist comrades of Barriera di Milano, he takes part in the riots of Turin against the employers and the war; in 1919 he was elected secretary of the Turin section of FIOM. April 1920 is active in the strike hands against the unilateral decision of Fiat to shift working hours from standard time to daylight saving time and the events leading occupation of the factories in September 1920, during the Red biennium.
December 18, 1922 after the terrible torture killed by fascist gangs Pietro Brandimarte during the massacre in Torino. Body Ferrero fascists tied to a truck and dragged at full speed through the city streets. After that, Ferrero dumped dead at the foot of the monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II. Mutilated body was taken to the hospital and only in pieces of torn clothes were able to identify Ferrero.
In the name of Pietro Ferrero called the April 30, 1923 the Moscow automobile factory AMO (now ZiL). Name Pietro Ferrero wore 33th battalion of the anarchists during the anti-fascist resistance in Torino.