José de la Torre Ugarte y Alarcón (19 March 1786 – 1 September 1831) was a Peruvian lyricist.

He was the son of Estanislao de la Torre Ugarte and García Guerrero and Mercedes Alarcón Manrique and Nestares.

After completing his school studies at San Luis Gonzaga de Ica, he went to the National University of San Marcos, where he held an Arts degree between 1809 and 1812; already graduated from bachelor in canons (canon law of the legal norms that regulate the organization of a church and the discipline of his parishioners), he was authorized to perform forensic practice in 1810, in the study of Antonio Bedoya, but his final exam was left deferred when he died, despite having other teachers later.

During the government of José de la Riva Agüero, he was appointed senior officer of the Ministry of War in 1821.

He moved to Trujillo in 1823, saving himself from being shot by order of Simón Bolívar, thanks to the intervention of Marshal Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente.