Brigadier General Hector E. Pagan (born 1957) is a United States Army officer who is the first Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent to become Deputy Commanding General of the U.S.Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.

He served in Operation Just Cause which was the invasion of Panama by the United States that deposed general, dictator and de facto Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega in December 1989, during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush,[5] and later that same year was deployed to El Salvador.

[1][3] He attended the Army Command and General Staff Course and then served as the executive officer, 1st Bn., 7th SF Group (Airborne).

[4] Upon completion of the U.S. Army War College in 2003, Pagan took command of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Baghdad, Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[3][4] On September 27, 2007, Pagan was promoted to Brigadier General at a ceremony held at the Fort Liberty Officers Club.

Major General James Parker, the commander of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School and Pagan's wife, Elizabeth, pinned the stars on his shoulders.

Pagan retired from the Army after a Change Of Command ceremony held 17 September 2010 between himself and RDML Thomas Brown.