Juan Kattan-Ibarra is a Chilean author and educator, recognized for his extensive contribution to teaching Spanish as a foreign language. He is the author of numerous Spanish textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries, many of them published by McGraw-Hill, primarily aimed at English-speaking students. Among his best-known works are "Complete Spanish Grammar" and "McGraw-Hill's Spanish Dictionary". He has been a Spanish professor at the university level, including at George Mason University.