Juan Díaz Covarrubias (27 December 1837 – 11 April 1859) was a Mexican writer and poet of liberal ideology.

His father, the poet José de Jesús Díaz, had an artistic influence on him, since it was customary to hold tertulias at the home.

In 1848 he moved with his family to Mexico City and enrolled in the San Juan de Letrán school [es] to study philosophy and Latin.

[2][3] Covarrubias and his friend Mateos died at the paredón (execution wall) in Tacubaya, Mexico City, on 11 April 1859.

[4] The shooting of Díaz Covarrubias and the other Martyrs of Tacubaya was strongly criticized by Francisco Zarco [es] in El Siglo Diez y Nueve.