Cándida Martínez López (born 6 December 1951) is a Spanish historian, university professor, expert in women's history and studies, and politician.

[2] She was the first woman Dean of the University of Granada's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, serving from 1990 to 1996.

[1] At the University of Granada, throughout her teaching career in the area of Women's and Gender Studies, Martínez López has taught classes in the Licentiate and Bachelor's in History programs, in the Postgraduate Expert in Gender Studies program, in the Interuniversity Master's in Culture of Peace: Conflicts, Education and Human Rights, and in the Erasmus Mundus European Master's in Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA).

Since 2015, Martínez López has coordinated the University of Granada's program Women's Doctoral Studies, Discourses, and Practices of Gender.

[6] A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since 1996,[1] Martínez López was a member of the Parliament of Andalusia, and in 2000 she was appointed Councilor of Education of the Regional Government of Andalusia,[1] becoming its Minister of Education from 2004 to 2008.