José Felipe Rivero y Lemoine (30 April 1797 – 8 September 1873) was a Spanish politician, governor, minister and military leader who participated in the Battle of Ayacucho and held important public positions in Spain.

[2] He entered, together with his siblings, the Ejército Real del Perú, and in 1812 he was admitted as a cadet in the battalion Ligero del Centro, an infantry corps in which he would carry out his entire military career in Peru and in which in 1824 he would reach the rank of commander and chief of the same in replacement of the Colonel Baldomero Espartero whom the viceroy had sent on commission to Spain.

After the royalist defeat and the loss of Peru, he headed to the Iberian Peninsula in the company of his former chief Espartero.

In 1862 he was appointed Governor and Captain General of the Province of Santo Domingo, which had recently rejoined Spain.

His brother José Claudio, also a former royalist officer but who chose to remain in the new Republic of Bolivia, married the only daughter of the absolutist General Pedro Antonio Olañeta, with whom he had numerous children.