Manuel Buceta del Villar (April 8, 1808 – February 3, 1882) was a Spanish brigadier who served as military governor of Málaga and Melilla.

He was the natural son of María Buceta del Villar; he joined the Popular Militia as a first corporal and participated in the First Carlist War as a first sergeant, standing out from the beginning for his liberal attitude.

But the uprising failed and Miguel Solís Cuetos was shot with others in Carral on 26 April, and Buceta fled disguised as a woman to Portugal.

He played a very active part in the military uprising of July 1854 that determined the triumph of the Progressive Party and the return of Baldomero Espartero to Spain.

He later went to the Caribbean, first to the island of Cuba, and then later, to the nearby country of Dominican Republic, which had come under Spanish administration as of 1861, as Governor of Samaná, where he carried out very important work among the indigenous population.