María del Carmen Iglesias Cano, 1st Countess of Gisbert, is a Spanish historian.
In this role she has been responsible for the launch of the electronic version of Spain´s dictionary of national biography, the Diccionario biográfico español.
She holds the non-hereditary title Countess of Gisbert, which was bestowed on her by King Juan Carlos.
Iglesias was elected to medalla nº 23 of the Real Academia de la Historia on 16 June 1989 and took up her seat on 4 November 1991.
In 1984, a year after obtaining the professorship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she was appointed tutor to the Infanta Cristina in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.