Camilo Alonso Vega (29 May 1889 – 1 July 1971) was a Spanish military officer and minister.

A childhood friend of Francisco Franco, as a Captain he entered in the Foreign Legion and fought in the Rif War.

[4] In March 1937 he was appointed as commander of the 4th Brigade of the newly organized Mola’s Navarrese division and, he led this brigade in the Biscay Campaign,[5] in the Battle of Brunete in July 1937,[6] in the Battle of Santander in August, and in the Aragon Offensive,[7] and on April 15 he took the town of Vinaròs (in the province of Castellón) cut in a half the Republican held zone.

[9] After the war in January 1940, he became Sub-Secretary of the Ministry of the Army, which included supervising of the concentration camps and later the head of the Civil Guard (1943-1955).

In 1969 he crushed the university demonstrations, because of this, he was nicknamed Don Camulo by the students[11] (a portmanteau of his given name and mule).