Manuel Elogio Carpio Hernández (March 1, 1791 – February 11, 1860) was a Mexican poet, theologian, physician, and politician.

He wrote the earliest known literary depiction of the ghost La Llorona in a poem in 1849 and has received praise for his work.

His poems include Mexico, El Popocatépetl, Belshazzar's Feast, The Witch of Endor, The Annunciation, The Virgin at the Foot of the Cross, and Napolean in the Red Sea.

[3][2][4] In Carpio's 14-line poem, a woman named Rosalia was murdered by her husband and becomes a weeping ghost that travels through streets and the riverbank, wearing a cloak.

[2] In 1922, The New International Encyclopedia referred to Carpio as the "most popular Mexican poet of the century", and named Belshazzar's Feast his most important work.