José Laureano Pineda Ugarte (4 July 1802 in Rivas, Potosí, Rivas – 17 September 1853) was the 26th and 29th President (then called Supreme Director) of Nicaragua from 5 May to 11 August 1851, as dissident from 4 August, and from 11 November 1851 to 1 April 1853.