Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (19 January 1927 – 7 December 1998)[citation needed] was a Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

He was ordained on 24 September 1949 in Santiago and later went on to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1949 to 1953 where he earned a doctorate in canon law.

From 1958 until 1961 he worked in the general curia of his order and pursued further studies in the Vatican Secret Archives.

He was created Cardinal Priest of S. Maria della Scala in the consistory of 26 November 1994 by Pope John Paul II.

He resigned as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile on 16 February 1998, but continued governing the archdiocese as Apostolic Administrator until a successor took possession in April of that year.