Manuel Fernández y Silvestre (December 16, 1871 – July 22, 1921) was a Spanish general. Silvestre was the son of the lieutenant colonel of artillery Victor Fernández and Eleuteria Silvestre. In 1889 he enrolled in the Toledo Infantry Academy, where he met with the future high commissioner of Spanish Morocco, Dámaso Berenguer. He committed suicide on the battlefield following the disastrous defeat at Annual of 22 July 1921 suffered by the Spanish army under his command.