Carlos Samuel Quirós Vázquez (November 20, 1932 – January 23, 2022), He was a former Puerto Rico government official who served as Secretary of State from 1981 through 1985.

He was an active member of the YMCA in old San Juan during his adolescent years, where in 1948 and 1949 he was selected to be captain of an intramural basketball team.

In 1968 he accepted a position as executive assistant to the newly elected Mayor of San Juan, Carlos Romero Barcelo.

In 1976 Quirós was appointed by then Governor-elect Romero as Secretary of the Department of Labor, a position he did not get sworn into until his brief term as Mayor of San Juan ended in early January, 1977.

He came out of retirement when he was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as a Director at the United States Agency for International Development in Washington, DC.