Luis German Valdés Larralde, MD (March 27, 1923 – August 15, 2012) was a Cuban-American surgeon.

He attended Harvard University surgical pathology fellowship in 1951-1952 at Harvard University Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Free Hospital for Women, Boston Massachusetts, sponsored by the US State Department.

In 1961, Dr. Valdes left Cuba permanently and became a political refugee in the US because of professional and personal harassment and persecution by the Communist Revolution of Fidel Castro.

He immigrated to the United States found work as a Pathologist at Carl Vinson Veterans Affairs hospital and repeated his surgical residency at Vanderbilt University .

He continued his surgical career in Houston, Texas attaining Chief of Staff of Memorial-Hermann Southeast hospital, retiring at the age of 73.