Emiddio Novi (1 January 1946 – 24 August 2018) was an Italian journalist and politician.

Novi was born in Sant'Agata di Puglia and later moved to Naples, where he served as editor of the Giornale di Napoli. He served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996 for Forza Italia after the Italian Socialist Party had disbanded, then unsuccessfully contested the mayoralty of Naples in 1997, while he sat in the Senate. He served as senator until 2008, and was a member of Naples City Council until 2001. Novi died in a traffic collision in his hometown of Sant'Agata di Puglia on 24 August 2018.^[1]