Álvaro López García

Álvaro López-García (born 1941) is a Spanish astronomer, professor of astronomy at University of Valencia and director of the Valencia University Observatory.

He is a specialist in astrometry and the dynamics of minor planets, and has discovered numerous of these bodies since the early 1980s, mostly in collaboration with astronomers Henri Debehogne, Rafael Pacheco and Cyril Cavadore.

The main-belt asteroid 4657 Lopez, discovered by Nikolai Chernykh in 1979, was named in his honor.