Vicente López Tovar (5 September 1909 – 26 December 1998) was a Spanish soldier, politician and anti-Franco guerrilla fighter.

[2] After the Liberation of France Lopez Tovar was decorated with the Legion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.

[4] On 19 October 1944, López Tovar led a force of exiled anti-Franco guerrilla fighters from the Unión Nacional Española (UNE), a military organization formed by the Communist Party of Spain but that included monarchists and other political denominations, across the Pyrenees mountains into the Aran Valley.

Franco was aware of the impending arrival of the troops and pursued a scorched earth strategy that left the UNE with little to capture in the valley outside of the city of Vielha.

López Tovar was forced to hastily retreat back into France across the Pont de Rei.