Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda (November 4, 1921, El Socorro, Santander[1] – September 2, 1999, Bogotá) was a Colombian anthropologist who pioneered work on Colombian family and medical anthropology.
She received her education at the National Pedagogy Institute, the Escuela Normal Superior of Colombia and the National Technology Institute, where she obtained her degree in Anthropology in 1944.
She pursued graduate studies in Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (1953-1954) and, in 1962, she received her PhD in Social Sciences and Economics at the National Pedagogic University.
In 1960, she participated with other intellectuals and professionals, including Orlando Fals Borda, Eduardo Umaña Luna, María Cristina Salazar, Darío Botero Uribe, Carlos Escalante and Tomás Ducay, in the foundation of the first Faculty of Sociology in Latin America.
[3] Recently, in 2015, the Colombian Bank of the Republic chose her image to appear on the $10.000 pesos bill in honor of all her merits.