Fernando Arbello (May 30, 1906 – July 26, 1970) was a Puerto Rican jazz trombonist and composer who spent most of his career in America.
Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Eladio Arbelo and Raimunda Cruz, he was the second of seven children and first started on trombone at the age of 12.
Early in the 1930s, he played intermittently with Claude Hopkins for several years, then worked with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson, Lucky Millinder, Billy Hicks, and Fats Waller, before returning to play under Hopkins again near the end of the 1930s.
In 1940, Arbello worked for a few months with Zutty Singleton, then led his own unsuccessful band briefly in 1940–1941.
In 1970, while visiting family in the Bronx, he fell ill and was hospitalized, where he subsequently died of a heart attack.