Benito Villanueva López (April 3, 1877 – January 20, 1908) was a Filipino politician.
[1] He was the ninth child of Eugenio Lopez, one of the wealthiest sugar barons on Negros, and Marcella Felipe.
A few weeks later, Lopez died at the age of 30 at the Mission Hospital in Iloilo from the injuries sustained.
Their eldest son, Eugenio Lopez, owned, among other things, the Manila Chronicle newspaper and was founder and owner of the Chronicle Broadcasting Network, a predecessor of ABS-CBN Corporation.
Their other son, Fernando Lopez, served as mayor of Iloilo City, a member of the Senate of the Philippines, and Vice President of the Philippines for two terms.