Miguel de Capriles (November 30, 1906 – May 24, 1981) was a Mexican-born American fencer, a President of the FIE, a former dean of the New York University School of Law and one of the world's leading authorities on fencing.

Dr. de Capriles was born in Mexico and came to the United States at the age of 13, with no knowledge of English or fencing.

[1] After serving in World War II as a special assistant in the Justice Department, he returned to N.Y.U.

[1] In 1967, he was appointed vice president and general counsel of the university, and during campus disorders in 1969, he went to court to obtain a permanent injunction forbidding violence on its grounds by radical groups.

won a lawsuit in which a student sought a tuition refund for 19 days of classes canceled during campus uprising in response to the deployment of United States forces in Cambodia.