Leopoldo Cintra Frías (born 17 July 1941) is a retired Cuban military officer and political leader.

joined the Column 1 José Martí, which was commanded by Fidel Castro, where he remained until the end of the revolution.

He accompanied Fidel Castro on his journey from the Oriente Province to Havana, in the commonly known Freedom Caravan.

Cintra led a large unit of Cuban tanks in Angola and Ethiopia in the late 1970s and in the early 1980s.

President Raúl Castro promoted him to the post of Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces on November 9, 2011, following the death of General Julio Casas Regueiro.