Carolina Marcial Dorado (1889 – July 25, 1941) was a Spanish educator, writer, and lecturer based in the United States.

[1] Her older brother, José Marcial Dorado, was a journalist and briefly a member of the Spanish parliament; he was also secretary of the American Bible Society for the Caribbean, based in Cuba.

[2][3] Carolina Marcial Dorado was raised by grandparents in Seville, and attended a Protestant girls' school run by American missionary Alice Gordon Gulick.

[18] "It is a joy to find this sane book thoroughly Spanish without running too much to archaic fable or fairy-tale vocabulary," one reviewer commented on a textbook by Marcial Dorado.

"[21] In 1953 Barnard College established a Carolina Marcial Dorado Spanish Scholarship Fund, named in her memory.