José S. Alegría

José S. Alegría (July 17, 1886 – July 29, 1965) was a poet. Alegría was a founding member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and president of the political organization from 1928 to 1930. He was interested in the visual arts and learned some painting techniques from Puerto Rican artist Francisco Oller and from Fernando Díaz Mckenna. He is the father of Ricardo Alegría (1921 – 2011) a scholar, cultural anthropologist and archeologist known as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rican Archaeology".

During the 1930s, Alegría presided over the Casino of Puerto Rico. From 1938 to 1949, he was the director of the magazine "Puerto Rico Illustrado", there he published some of his poems under the name of Raimundo Lucio. He served this role for eleven years, 1938-49. Alegría also served as the president of the Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Periodistas (1943-45), a journalism organization.