Juan Caro de Tavira was a Spanish painter, who flourished in the 17th century. He was a native of Carmona and pupil of Francisco de Zurbarán. He died young, but his skill procured him the cross of Santiago from Philip IV of Spain.

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I.: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 235.