Fernando Espuelas is an American entrepreneur, author and philanthropist.

Espuelas, considered one of the pioneers of the consumer Internet, is the founder of Starmedia, the first pan-Latin Internet portal, launched in 1996. Starmedia was the first venture-capital backed Latin Internet company and also the first IPO in the Latin Internet industry. By the time Espuelas left Starmedia in 2001, the portal served over 25 million Spanish and Portuguese speakers per month across the Latin world.