José de Vargas Ponce (Cádiz, 10 June 1760 – 6 February 1821) was a Spanish erudite, satirical poet and writer.

He was elected to seat K of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat in March 1814.^[1]

• Praise of Alfonso the Wise, 1782.
• Descriptions of the Islands and Balearic Pithiusas, 1787.
• Declamation on abuses introduced into the Castilian, presented and awarded at the Spanish Academy, 1791.
• Proclamation of a bachelor, 1827, burlesque poem in octaves.
• Dissertation on bullfighting, written in 1807 and published in London, by the Royal Academy of History in 1961.
• Description of Cartagena, Murcia, 1978
• Lucio Marineo Siculus Life
• Abdalaziz and Egilona, neoclassical tragedy.