José María Jimeno Jurío (13 May 1927 – 3 October 2002), was a Basque anthropologist, ethnographer, and priest.

[1] He was born in Artajona and there attended a primary school led by the Misioneros de los Sagrados Corazones [es] until he was twelve.

He carried out several research projects for the magazine Punto y Hora de Euskal Herria .

[2][3] He wrote a series of books on the history of Navarre, customs, languages, traditions and studies toponymic, especially related to Basque-rooted toponymy in Navarra.

[4][5] He was appointed honorary academic of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language Euskaltzaindia in 1991.