Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez (29 December 1947 – 21 May 2012) was a Spanish military who held the rank of a General de División Médico and served as the surgeon general of the Spanish armed medical service, called the . Montero was born in Palencia. He joined the army in the rank of a Teniente in 1972 and held several assignments at the Gómez Ulla Military Hospital. In May 2012, while participating a special NATO medical officials conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Montero Vázquez died suddenly of heart failure. He was 64.