Claudio López, 2nd Marquess of Comillas

The Marquess of Comillas
Oil on canvas, by Francisco Godoy
Personal details
Born14 May 1853
Barcelona
Died18 April 1925 (aged 71)
Madrid
NationalitySpanish
SpouseMaría Gayón Barrie

Claudio López y Bru, 2nd Marquess of Comillas, GE (1853 in Barcelona 1925 in Madrid), was a Spanish peer, businessman, and immensely rich shipping magnate and landowner. He inherited the companies his father Antonio López y López had founded.

For thirty years, from 1895 to 1925, the Marquess of Comillas dominated Catholic policy-making on labour relations.

Comillas sponsored Antoni Gaudí's trip to Tangier and Tétouan in 1892, where the architect was inspired by Franciscan José María Lerchundi to design a complex for Catholic Missions in Tangier. The project was never realized but was a source of inspiration for Gaudí's lifelong endeavor the Sagrada Família.