Manuel María Valencia (April 22, 1810 – 1870) was a Dominican lawyer, politician, writer and religious man.

He was president of the first Constituent Congress in San Cristóbal and of the commissioners who drafted the Constitution promulgated on November 6, 1844.

He was born in Santo Domingo on April 22, 1810, son of Esteban Valencia Bruno (1771–1842), and Maria de Belen Lopez Isidoro.

[4] Valencia llegó a ser director del Liceo Nacional de Santo Domingo.

In 1869, in the midst of the Ten Years' War, he abandoned his parish in Jiguaní and decided to join the Cuban independentists.