Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist.

He also wrote an award-winning children's theater script, "El reino misterioso o Tomás y las abejas."

[1] His best-known novel, La virgen de los sicarios, has been translated into English as Our Lady of the Assassins.

The autobiographical/fiction La virgen de los sicarios was made into a full feature film in 2000 and released in the United States as Our Lady of the Assassins.

In April 2007, Vallejo obtained Mexican citizenship and published a letter in which he publicly renounced his Colombian nationality.