Nicolás Rivero y Muñiz

Count Nicolás Lino del Rivero Fernández y Muñiz Cueli was a Spanish noble, made the 1st Count of Rivero by Alfonso XIII. He was a Carlist guerrilla fighter who, after his failure in the Carlist Wars, was forcibly expelled from Spain. He did not remain away for long, sneaking back into Spain and eventually rising to the rank of Comandante and participating in the Battle of Montejurra. However, he soon returned to Cuba where he was made an editor of Diario de la Marina, the oldest newspaper in Spanish colonial America, by the newspaper's creator. He was then promoted to become the newspaper's 13th Director, and transformed it into one of the most important newspapers in the history of Cuba, obtaining the unofficial title of Decano de a Presna (Decan of the Press).

Rivero's first son, Nicolás Rivero Alonso, the 2nd Count of Rivero, became Cuba's first Ambassador to the Holy See in 1935. Rivero's second son, José Ignacio Rivero Alonso, inherited the management of Diario de la Marina and the title of Decan of the Press.

For most of his life, Rivero was only known as Don Nicolás Rivero, and was only given the title of the 1st Count of Rivero several weeks after his death, on August 13, 1919.