The Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias, Linnaeus 1758), is an apex predator living in almost all the seas of the world, preferring cold-temperate and temperate waters among the 8 and the 25°C. The Great White Shark occurs in both inshore and offshore waters. Known bathymetric range is from just below the surface to just above the bottom down to a depth of at least 1300 m. It is nevertheless present with important populations in only eight areas of the globe: California and Baja California, Mexico, central Chile, New England, Mediterranean Sea, Western South Africa, southern Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The biology and ecology of this shark is still quite misunderstood and it is one of the three elasmobranch species included in CITES Appendix II. It is listed as globally vulnerable in the IUCN red list. This work presents data concerning the spatiotemporal pattern of distribution of great white shark along Italian coasts, collected by international LEM programme database and other contributions. 128 records are reported, from 19th to 21st century. The data analysis includes size, weight and distribution information. Many records come from Sicily, Calabria, Tuscany and Sardinia coasts. The number of records regarding newborns (size between 80 and 155 cm length) is also interesting: it represents about 10% of the total records. Keywords: white shark, Italy 54