Juan Manuel Corzo Román (born 3 October 1961)[1] is a Colombian lawyer and politician, currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2002.

A Conservative party politician, he was first elected to Congress as Representative for the Department of North Santander in 1998.

[2][3] On 12 April 1999 Corzo was kidnapped along with the 39 other passengers of an Avianca Fokker flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by a command of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist terrorist guerrilla group, and was held captive for 17 months until his release in September 2000.

[4][5] Juan Manuel was born on 3 October 1961 in Cúcuta to Luis Corzo Ramírez, a lawyer and notary, and his wife Lucila Román.

[1] He is married to Isabel Carmenza Sanmiguel Maldonado, a former Miss North Santander, and together have two children: Silvia and Luis Javier.