Enrique Finot (16 September 1891 – 23 December 1952)[1][2] was a Bolivian historian[3] writer, editor, and diplomat.

[4] He served as foreign minister under Colonel David Toro and during the period of his nationalizing Standard Oil.

[6] He was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on 16 September 1890, son of the French engineer Juan Francisco Finot and the Bolivian Olinfa Oliva.

[8] In 1908 he qualified as a professor of drawing and cartography and dedicated himself to teaching for a few years, during which time he wrote Historia de la pedagogía boliviana.

[9] He entered the diplomatic service in 1917, which took him to Peru, Argentina, the United States and Mexico.