José Joaquín Fermandois Huerta (born 23 August 1948) is a Chilean historian and scholar.

A disciple of traditionalist thinkers like Mario Góngora and Héctor Herrera Cajas, he has claimed to be a follower of the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee.

Later, he did postgraduate studies in Germany and Spain, where he obtained a PhD from the University of Seville (1984).

In addition to his work as a historian, he is a frequent columnist for the daily El Mercurio, being considered one of the most influential public intellectuals in Chile.

Through his texts, he has argued with other researchers about the foreign policy of the United States, the Popular Unity and the transformations that the Chilean society lived around the 20th century.