María Luisa Pérez-Soba y Baró (29 June 1930 – 8 February 2021) was the first woman agricultural engineer in Galicia and the fifth in Spain.
Her mother, María Luisa Baró Morón, was a teacher and encouraged her daughter's interest for her studies before her death when Pérez-Soba was 12.
As a child she spent a lot of time involved in Galician agriculture, which is thought to have influenced career choice.
[9][2] On 10 November 1961 in Madrid, María Luisa Pérez-Soba married Pedro Fernández Rico, a doctor and agricultural engineer at YRIDA in Coruña.
The couple had three children: Pedro, a commercial technician; Álvaro, an agricultural engineer and secondary school teacher; and Gonzalo, a journalist.