Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora (April 20, 1897 in Loja – March 9, 1979 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, diplomat and cultural promoter.

In 1934 he published what many critics consider to be his greatest work, Atahuallpa, a biography of the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire, which has been translated into English and French.

In 1944, he founded the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (House of Ecuadorian Culture) and became its first President.

He published the influential literary magazine Letras del Ecuador under the direction of among others, his nephew Alejandro Carrión.

Though his legacy as a writer can be considered controversial in importance, he stands as Ecuador's foremost promoter of culture.