Ticio Escobar (born February 9, 1947) is a Paraguayan lawyer, academic, author, museum director, and former Minister of Culture of Paraguay.

His father was jurist Jorge H. Escobar, and his mother is María Rosalba Argaña Ferraro.

In 1979 he founded the Museo del Barro (museum of pottery) in Asunción, with the objective to preserve Paraguayan culture.

[1] In 1996 he won a national contest to edit a bill on culture, which was later adopted by parliament as Ley Escobar 3051/06.

[1][2][3][6][7] He was a chairman of the Paraguayan section of the International Association of Art Critics, and has written more than ten books.