Fernando Fernandez (December 25, 1906 – November 30, 1988) was a Cuban-born, American champion thoroughbred horse racing jockey, who retired in 1953 as one of winningest riders of his era.

Along with Ruperto Donoso of Chile, and, later, his younger brother Antonio Fernandez, he was among the first Latin American jockeys to find major success in the United States.

He was born in Havana in 1906, and went to work at the nearby Oriental Park Racetrack, in Marianao, as a teenager.Beginning as an exercise rider for trainer Henry "Pepito" Torriente, he took out his jockey's license in 1931.

He was the contract rider for Mexican president Manuel Avila Camacho's Rancho Herradura, and set what was reported to be a world record by winning five consecutive races in a row on one card, for the same trainer[5][6] He also garnered much attention when he flew 7500 miles to Argentina for a single race, having accepted a mount from prominent Cuban businessman and diplomat Eugenio de Sosa, in the prestigious Carlos Pelegrini Handicap.

[citation needed] He rode for many of the days prominent trainers, including Hirsch Jacobs and Moody Jolley, and large stables such as Brookemeade (Isabel Dodge Sloane), Wheatley (The Phipps family) and Cain Hoy (Harry Guggenheim).