Abel Matutes y Juan (born 31 October 1941) is a Spanish former politician who served as Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 6 May 1996 to 2000.

Matutes was born in Ibiza on 31 October 1941 and his early political life was in that region.

In 1982 Matutes left the Senate and became a member of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Parliament, representing the Balearic Islands until 1985.

In 1986, Matutes became a member of the Commission of the European Community (the Delors Commission), where he was in charge of the departments of Credit and Investment, Financial Engineering and Policy for Small and Medium Enterprises, North–South relations, Mediterranean Policy, and Relations with Latin America and Asia.

He is emeritus professor at the University of Santiago de Chile and of the Complutense University of Madrid a member of the Honor Committee of the Royal Institute of European Studies, an honorary member of the Filipino Academy of Spanish Language.