Don José Caro y Széchényi (21 October 1853 – 1936), styled Count of Peña Ramiro, was a Spanish diplomat who served as Spain's ambassador to Japan.

[2] Before his grandparents marriage, his grandfather had been married to, and widowed from, Lady Caroline Meade (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Clanwilliam).

[3][4] His maternal uncle, Count Pál Széchenyi, was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade of Hungary from October 1882 to April 1889.

[5] On 24 June 1897, Caro and his brother-in-law, Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 8th Duke of Sotomayor, the Special Ambassador appointed by the Queen-Regent of Spain for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, attended the State Evening Party at Buckingham Palace.

[11] He used the title, Count of Peña Ramiro, which had previously been used by his uncle, Joaquín Caro y Álvarez de Toledo, who served as the Civil Governor of Madrid and as a member of the Congress of Deputies.