Leonella Sgorbati was an Italian nun of the Consolata Missionaries who dedicated over thirty years to service in East Africa. Born Rosa Maria Sgorbati in 1940, she focused her ministry on nursing, medical education, and supporting children in Kenya and Somalia. She was known for her fluency in Somali and her work establishing a nursing school in Mogadishu. In 2006, she was killed in Somalia while crossing a road near a hospital where she had been teaching. She is recognized as a blessed martyr in the Catholic Church.