Fernando Silva Santisteban (1929–2006) was a Peruvian historian, anthropologist and professor.
He was married to singer, Teresa Guedes, and was the father of the poet, Rocio Silva-Santisteban.
His professional training began at the National University of Trujillo, later to transfer to the Faculty of Arts at the National Major University of San Marcos.
He obtained a PhD in History at twenty years of age in 1959 with a thesis entitled "The Obrajes in the Viceroyalty of Peru."
He died on December 16, 2006, his remains were veiled in the Church of Our Lady of Fatima, in Miraflores, and then cremated, his ashes being scattered in the Santa Apolonia Hills [es] near his hometown.