José Carlos Martínez (29 November 1962 – 7 July 2011) was an Argentine politician, formerly of ARI. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Tierra del Fuego Province. Martínez graduated from the National Technological University and gained a masters at the University of Alcalá, Spain in 1988 and again in 2002. From 1981 until 1985 he worked in the San Roque Hospital in Córdoba. He moved to Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego in 1985, working from the following year in the Río Grande regional hospital. He was elected to be Director of the Provincial Institute of Social Prevision from 1995 until 2001. He then served as Director of the social security organisation IPAUSS. He was active in the trade unions Argentine Workers' Center (CTA) and the Association of State Workers.