| Luis Hierro López | |
| Successor3: | Guillermo Stirling |
| Spouse: | Ligia Almitrán Penza |
| Children: | 4 |
| Alma Mater: | Instituto de Profesores Artigas |
| Office3: | Minister of the Interior of Uruguay |
| Predecessor3: | Didier Opertti |
| Office4: | Senator of Uruguay |
| Term Start4: | 15 February 1995 |
| Term End4: | 15 February 2000 |
| Office5: | President of the Chamber of Representatives |
| Term Start5: | 1 March 1989 |
| Term End5: | 15 February 1990 |
| Office6: | Representative of Uruguay for Montevideo |
| Term Start6: | 14 February 1985 |
| Party: | Colorado Party |
| Successor: | Rodolfo Nin Novoa |
| Office: | 13th Vice President of Uruguay |
| Term Start: | 1 March 2000 |
| Term End: | 1 March 2005 |
| President: | Jorge Batlle |
| Predecessor: | Hugo Fernández Faingold |
| Office2: | Ambassador of Uruguay to Peru |
| Birth Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Term Start2: | 22 March 2021 |
| Term End2: | 7 December 2022 |
| Term Start3: | 2 February 1998 |
| Term End3: | 9 October 1998 |
| Birth Name: | Luis Antonio Hierro López |
| Birth Date: | 6 January 1947 |
| Term End6: | 15 February 1995 |
| Preceded2: | Carlos Barros |
Luis Antonio Hierro López (born June 6, 1947) is a Uruguayan politician and diplomat who served as the 13th vice president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005 under Jorge Batlle.
Born into a political family, his father was Luis Hierro Gambardella, former Minister of Education and Culture and Parliamentarian, while his grandfather, Luis Hierro Rivera, was National Representative. Member of the Colorado Party, Hierro López served as National Representative, Senator and as Ministry of the Interior. He also served as President of the Chamber of Representatives the fifth session of the 42nd Legislature.[1] In November 2020, he was approved by the Senate as Ambassador of Uruguay to the Republic of Peru,[2] and on March 22, 2021 he delivered the credentials to President Francisco Sagasti.[3]
Hierro López was Vice President of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005, under the Presidency of Jorge Batlle. Hierro was the thirteenth person to hold the office, which dates from 1934, when Alfredo Navarro became the inaugural holder.
He was succeeded in 2005 as Vice President by Rodolfo Nin Novoa.
While among the more experienced members of the Colorado Party to have held office, Hierro López has been somewhat eclipsed within the party by the activities of Pedro Bordaberry Herrán, whose 'Vamos Uruguay' grouping (see: Pedro Bordaberry#Formation of Vamos Uruguay) has drawn supporters away from older, more traditional figures such as Hierro López. Both of them are candidates for the Presidency for the Colorado Party in the next elections in 2009,[4] but polls in late 2008, assumed to be broadly accurate, showed Bordaberry as the runaway favourite for the nomination, with Hierro trailing badly. Hierro has also suffered the loss of personal support from among former close party colleagues, including Ope Pasquet Iribarne, who in 2007 endorsed Pedro Bordaberry's 'Vamos Uruguay' grouping.
In June 2009 Interior Minister Daisy Tourné, of the Broad Front Alliance, made a speech in which she referred to Hierro López as a 'donkey' and to former President Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera in terms widely regarded as obscenely indiscreet. The Minister's resignation followed the controversy which ensued.[5]
In an effort to bolster his candidacy, in June 2009 Hierro publicly attempted to discredit fellow candidate Pedro Bordaberry Herrán by suggesting that his surname was a hindrance to his bid for office; in a muted response, Bordaberry – a former government colleague of his – wished him well and recalled that Hierro himself had campaigned for him during municipal elections some years previously.[6]