Ian Gibson (Dublin, 1939) is an internationally recognized Hispanist and, since 1984, a Spanish citizen. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Among his extensive bibliography, the following stand out: The nationalist repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca (1971), a title that was banned by the Franco regime and that won the Nice International Press Prize in 1972; In search of Jose Antonio (1980), Espejo de España Prize; the biography Federico Garcia Lorca (1985-1987); The outrageous life of Salvador Dalí (1998) Lorca and the gay world (2009) and more recently the novel Prim's sedan, winner of the Fernando Lara Prize (2012).

His latest publication is a biography Luis Buñuel: The Making of a Universal Filmmaker (1900-1938) (2013).

Gibson currently lives in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid, among other good reasons, because it is close to the Spanish Film Archive, which houses the archive of Luis Buñuel.