Nicolás Palacios Navarro (September 9, 1854 – June 11, 1931) was a Chilean physician and writer born in Santa Cruz, best known for his writings on the "Chilean race" and national identity.
His uncopyrighted 1904 (second edition 1918) book Raza chilena form the ideological backbone of many Chilean Nazi groups.
Palacios witnessed the Santa María School massacre of 1907 writing a key account of it.