Salvador Ponce Lopez (May 27, 1911 – October 18, 1993) was a Filipino writer, journalist, educator, diplomat and statesman.
At UP, he was drama critic for the Philippine Collegian and member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity.
It was during Lopez's presidency that UP students were politically radicalized, launching mass protests against the Marcos regime right from the so-called "First Quarter Storm" in 1970 to the Diliman Commune in 1971.
During the latter, Lopez called on all UP students, faculty, and employees to defend the university and its autonomy from Marcos's militarization, as the military sought to occupy the campus in search of alleged leftists, activists, and other opponents of the regime.
Due to his defense of UP's autonomy and democracy, many considered him a progressive and a militant member of the UP academe.