Pasquale Buonandi was a Neapolitan puppeteer active between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. He belonged to an important family of puppeteers of the opera dei pupi. His uncle, Filippo Buonandi, was the father-in-law of Francesco Verbale, considered the first author of the cycle of plays about the camorrista, Tore 'e Criscienzo. Pasquale Buonandi opened a theater of the opera dei pupi in Torre del Greco, a commune of the metropolitan city of Naples.