Juan Niceto de Zamacois y Urrutia (20 March 1820 in Bilbao – 29 September 1885 in Mexico City) was a Spanish journalist, playwright, poet, novelist and historian resident in Mexico.

Juan Niceto de Zamacois y Urrutia was born in Bilbao, Spain.

His father was the founder and director of the Santiago de Vizcaya School of Humanities.

He emigrated to Mexico in 1840, and in 1843 married Mexican María Francisca Rubio y Mateos.

In 1857, due to the Mexican political situation, he returned to Spain, but in 1860 he settled newly in Mexico until the First Spanish Republic.