Jesús Arango Cano (21 June 1915 – 9 January 2015) was a Colombian economist, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer.

[4] In the 1940s Arango Cano became consul for Colombia in São Paulo, Brazil[4] and Undersecretary of International Relations.

[3][4] In 1965 Arango published his book Mitos, leyendas y dioses chibchas, about the myths, legends and deities of the Muisca.

Arango published about the Eje Cafetero, the coffee region in central Colombia where he was born.

On 23 May 1980, Arango Cano together with other historians founded the Academia de Historia del Quindío.