José Penido Iglesias (born 1894 or 1895) was a Galician anarcho-syndicalist and military commander during the Spanish Civil War.
[3] After the fall of the Northern Front, he returned to the central Republican area, where he held command of the 39th Mixed Brigade[4] and of the 5th Division,[5][6] with which he intervened in the Levante Offensive.
During the immediate postwar years he was one of those responsible for the reconstruction of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in the north, forming part of the clandestine Regional Committee of the CNT of Asturias, León and Palencia – constituted in 1942.
[7] Some time later he was elected foreign delegate of the CNT of the interior, moving to France and settling in Toulouse.
The following year he described himself as an "anarcho-monarchist", a supporter of the restoration, and with Miguel Vazquez y Chamorro he formed a regional committee of Galicia which published the newspaper Solidaridad in Toulouse from 1948 to 1950.