Juan Belmonte y García (April 14, 1892-April 8, 1962) was considered the greatest matador of all time, and he revolutionised the art of bullfighting.

Born in Triana, near Seville, Belmonte began his bullfighting career in 1908, touring around Spain in a children's bullfighting group called Los Niños Sevillanos. He killed his first bull on July 24, 1910. As an adult, his technique was unlike that of previous matadors; he stood erect and nearly motionless, and always stayed within inches of the bull, unlike previous matadors, who stayed far from the animal to avoid being gored.

As a result of this daring technique, Belmonte was gored and injured an innumerable number of times.

Belmonte's rivalry with Joselito , another contendor for the appelation "greatest matador of all time", from 1914 to 1920 is known as the Golden Age of Bullfighting, though it was tragically cut short when Joselito was fatally gored on May 16, 1920, at a corrida in which both he and Belmonte appeared.

In 1919, Belmonte fought 109 corridas, a number not achieved by any matator before or since.