Pedro Hernáez y Conlu (12 December 1899[1] - 21 June 1978) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, diplomat and Senator.

He attended the Public School of Talisay and San Agustin College of Iloilo, and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from San Juan de Letran College and Bachelor of Laws degree from the Escuela de Derecho in 1921.

There, he served as Chairman of the Committees on Banks and Corporations[1] and was a main author of Commonwealth Act 326, which converted the municipality of Bacolod, Negros Occidental into a chartered city.

[2] In 1941, he was elected to the Philippine Senate as a candidate of the Nacionalista Party but was not sworn in until 1945 due to the Japanese occupation of the country during the Second World War.

During this time, he was also appointed by President Manuel Roxas to the United Nations on 14 October 1946 as one of the Congressional Members of the Philippine Delegation[3] and was later elected vice chairman of the United Nations General Assembly's Economic and Financial Committee, which dealt with postwar reconstruction, on 1 November that year.