José Laureano Pineda Ugarte (4 July 1802 – 17 September 1853) was a Nicaraguan lawyer and politician who, as a Senator in the Legislative Assembly and member of the Democratic Party, was appointed to serve as 7th and later 8th Supreme Director of the State of Nicaragua on three occasions.

originally elected on 1 April 1851, later in dissidence in Honduras after being removed from office as a result of a military coup led by José Trinidad Muñoz, and finally alongside Fulgencio Vega from 11 November the same year.

[1] He was born in Potosí on 4 July 1802, He was son of Pedro Benito Pineda, head of State of Nicaragua (1826-1827) and Juana Rufina Ugarte Selva.

In 1825 he graduated in Law from the Royal University of León, of liberal ideology, from a young age he supported the Independence of Central America from Spain.

He was elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly of 1848 and was one of the few who refused to sign the Treaty of Cuba which was imposed by the British Empire after invading and reaching Lake Nicaragua.