José Juan Bautista Pampuro (28 December 1949 – 21 January 2021) was an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party.

He served as Defense Minister under President Kirchner and also as senator for Buenos Aires Province.

He was elected to the Lower House of Congress on the populist Justicialist Party ticket in 1987, and was named Minister of Health and Social Policy for Buenos Aires Province by newly elected Governor Eduardo Duhalde in 1991.

[1] He was named director of the Buenos Aires Provincial Office (each Argentine province maintains one in the nation's capital) in 1993, and remained in the post until being returned by voters to Congress in 1999.

[3] Pampuro retired from the Senate in 2011 with the distinction of being the first man in Argentina to twice be succeeded by women who were first to hold their respective posts: as Defense Minister by Nilda Garré,[4] and as Provisional President of the Senate by Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich.