Julio César Arana del Águila (April 12, 1864 - September 7, 1952) was a Peruvian entrepreneur and politician.

A major figure in the rubber industry in the upper Amazon basin, he is probably best known in the English-speaking world through 's 1909 articles in the British magazine Truth, accusing him of practices that amounted to a terroristic reign of slavery over the natives of the region. A company of which he was the general