Giovanni Battista Passeri (c. 1610 – 22 April 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Domenichino, while they worked together at Frascati. He painted genre and still life paintings.
Born in Rome, Passeri is also known for his art biography: Lives of the painters scultptors, and architects who practiced in Rome, and died from 1641 to 1673 inclusive, published in 1773. He became director or president of Accademia di San Luca, which once contains his portrait of Domenichino, now in a gallery of Florence.
He died in 1679. His nephew Giuseppe Passeri was a pupil of Carlo Maratta.