Tomás Pío Betancourt (1800 - August 4, 1863) was a Cuban landowner, lawyer, botanist, and the first historian of the town of Camagüey (formerly Puerto Príncipe) in Cuba.

[1] Tomás Pío Betancourt y Sánchez-Pereira was born in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Spanish Cuba around the early 1800s.

[3] He, along with Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros and another landowner, successfully obtained a concession from Miguel Tacón in January 1837 to build a railway from Camagüey to Nuevitas.

Historia de Puerto Príncipe, a foundational work in Camagüey's historiography was written by Tomás Pío Betancourt Sánchez-Pereira and published in 1840.

In the early 1860s, he was a lawyer in the Real Audiencia of Puerto Príncipe, the highest appellate court in Spanish colonies.