Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda (Latin American Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo aˈɣire ˈseɾða]; February 6, 1879 – November 25, 1941) was a Chilean political figure, educator, and lawyer who served as the 22nd president of Chile from 1938 until his death in 1941.

Pedro Aguirre Cerda was born on February 6, 1879, in Pocuro, a small village near the city of Los Andes, Chile.

In 1910, he received a government grant to study administrative and financial law at the Sorbonne in Paris and political economy and social legislation at the Collège de France.

As a member of the Radical Party, he was minister of Public Instruction and of the Interior during the administrations of Juan Luis Sanfuentes and Arturo Alessandri.

During the period of military domination, he was persecuted and became an active opposition leader to the government of General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.

Aguirre's government also redistributed some land, encouraged the formation of agricultural settlements, built low-cost housing and schools, and integrated the Marxist parties into the political system.

On July 3, 2018, another statue of him was inaugurated in the center of Santiago, this time in the Plaza de la Constitución, on the corner of Moneda and Teatinos streets.