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Luisa Sigea de Velasco | |
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 Oil portrait of Luisa Sigea de Velasco, a Spanish humanist | |
| Born | 1522 Tarancón, Province of Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha |
| Died | October 13, 1560 (aged 37–38) Burgos, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet, classicist and intellectual |
| Literary movement | Humanism |
Luisa Sigea de Velasco (1522 in Tarancón – October 13, 1560 in Burgos), also known as Luisa Sigeia, Luisa Sigea Toledana and in the Latinized form Aloysia Sygaea Toletana, was a poet and intellectual, one of the major figures of Spanish humanism, who spent a good part of her life in the Portuguese court in the service of Maria of Portugal (1521–1577), as her Latin teacher. André de Resende wrote the following epitaph for her: Hic sita SIGAEA est: satis hoc: qui cetera nescit | Rusticus est: artes nec colit ille bonas (loosely translated: 'Here lies Sigea; no more need be said; anyone who does not know the rest is an uneducated fool').