Benigno Hildebrando Chirinos Sotelo (born 29 May 1950) is a Peruvian labor union leader and politician.

He currently leads the Workers Confederation of Peru and serves as Political General Secretary of the Peruvian Aprista Party since 2017.

[1][2] In 1990, Chirinos was elected to the Peruvian Senate.

He served until 1992 following Alberto Fujimori's self-coup, which effectively dissolved congress.

[3] He never attained public office again.