José Joaquín Pesado Pérez (Palmar de Bravo, Puebla, New Spain, 9 February 1801 — Mexico City, 3 March 1861) was a Mexican writer, journalist, poet and politician.

[1] He was born in San Agustín del Palmar, Puebla, in 1801 and died in Mexico City in 1861.

In 1822, he married María de la Luz de la Llave y Segura, and Juana Segura Argüelles twenty years later.

He joined the nineteenth-century literary society the Academia de Letrán.

He was also a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and professor of philosophy.