Juan Carlos Romero (born 16 November 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and senator, and was Governor of Salta for 12 years.

He studied law and political science at the University of Buenos Aires.

[2] He launched a bid for the presidency ahead of the 2003 general election, though he ran as Carlos Menem's running mate on the Peronist Front for Loyalty ticket.

They narrowly won the first round, but poor polling numbers persuaded Menem and Romero to forfeit the runoff.

[3] Although he had opposed Kirchnerism, he sat in the governing Front for Victory block in the Senate until 20 February 2009 when he announced that he and his fellow Salta Senator, Sonia Escudero, would be leaving the majority block.