José Pellicer Gandía (1912–1942) was a Valencian anarchist revolutionary primarily known for commanding the Iron Column during the Spanish Civil War.

Born into a well-off family, after the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic, Pellicer became an anarchist and joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).

He participated in a series of anarchist uprisings throughout the 1930s, establishing defence committees that set the foundation for the militias that would fight in the civil war.

[7] He later joined the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI), within which he participated in a series of anarchist uprisings throughout the mid-1930s, including an insurrectionary strike in Manresa in 1932 and the Revolution of 1934.

[8] Together with 1,000 other men in the column, Pellicer seized weapons from the local army barracks in Valencia and pushed the Nationalists back into Aragon, fighting first in Sarrión, then the Escandón Pass, before the front stabilised outside Teruel.

[10] He also displayed the qualities of a charismatic anarchist thinker,[2] during the Iron Column's time propagandising to the local peasantry in the province of Teruel.

[13] In August 1937,[11] he was arrested by the Servicio de Información Militar (SIM),[13] under the pretext that he had "failed to explain the use of some automobile tyres", and imprisoned in Barcelona until the end of the month.