Fernando Ortiz was a Cuban author.

Fernando Ortiz Fernández (16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban  essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous Cuban culture. Ortiz coined the term transculturation, the notion of converging cultures.