Carlos Hernández (born March 8, 1961, in Camagüey, Cuba) is a Cuban-born American politician.

He received a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership from St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens.

[4] In July 2015, the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission made findings that Hernández had lied twice in an October 2011 press conference about high-interest loans of $180,000 to a convicted Ponzi schemer.

[7][8][9] In May 2016, Hernández delivered 145 boxes of coins to a Miami bank that, in turn, transferred the $4,000 to the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission.

[10][11] In September 2019 he decided to cut the pay of The City of Hialeah Firefighters by 6% which, on average, is $500 or more per person.