Manuel Urrutia Lleó (December 8, 1901 – 5 July 1981) was a
liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. Urrutia campaigned against the
Gerardo Machado government and the second presidency of
Fulgencio Batista during the 1950s, before serving as
president in the first
revolutionary government of 1959. After only six months, Urrutia resigned his position due to a series of disputes with revolutionary leader
Fidel Castro and emigrated to the United States shortly after.