Manuel Rivero (November 3, 1908 – August 23, 2001), nicknamed "The Golden Flash", was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.

A native of Havana, Cuba, Rivero was a three-year football lettermen at Columbia University from 1930 to 1932.

[4][5][6] Rivero went on to hold a variety of coaching positions at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania from 1933 to 1977.

[7] The school's home gymnasium, Manuel Rivero Hall, is named in his honor.

[8] Rivero died in Rising Sun, Maryland in 2001 at age 92.