Francisco Páez de la Cadena (born 1951 in Madrid) is a Spanish garden historian.
He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is also an Agricultural Engineer specialized in landscape architecture.
He was a garden history and landscape professor at the University of La Rioja.
He has also written fiction (La derrota más hermosa, Debate, 1985, was awarded the Short Novel Sésamo Prize for 1985), and poetry: Cabos sueltos, Cuadernos de la Granada, 2007).
He was an active translator from English from the late-1970s onwards and among his translations into Spanish (more than sixty books) there are novels by V. S. Naipaul (Nobel Prize for Literature 2001), Anthony Burgess, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, scientific works by Francis Crick (1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and Antonio Damasio (Prince of Asturias Award in Science and Technology 2005[2]), and poetry, the so-called "landscape" poems by Cesare Pavese.