Antonio de León Pinelo (1589–1660) was a historian from the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Pinelo was born in Cordova de Tucuman to a converso family, and educated in the College of the Jesuits of Lima.

Then, he became judge of the tribunal of La Contratacion in Seville, succeeding Gil Gonzalez Davila in 1658 in the post of historian of the Indies.

Antonio de Leon Pinelo maintained at great length that Biblical Paradise was situated in America.

The "cedularios" permitted initiating the compiling works, because they provided order to legal texts.