José Ignacio Escobar

José Ignacio Escobar Ramírez (6 June 1878 – 24 November 1925) was a Chilean lawyer, writer and politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.

Born in Combarbalá, he was the son of José Ramón de Escobar Castro and Ignacia Ramírez Sierra. He studied at the Seminary of La Serena, Colegio San Agustín and the Instituto Nacional, before studying law at the University of Chile. He qualified as a lawyer on 3 July 1903. He subsequently worked as a lawyer, writer and rentier, and published a collection of his poetry, Flores Silvestres, in 1904.

Escobar served as a municipal councillor of Santiago from 1912 to 1915. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was elected deputy for Santiago for the 1915–1918 legislative period and served on the Permanent Commission of Social Legislation. He later held positions in the party's national leadership.

In 1920, Escobar served as a criminal court judge in Santiago. He died in Santiago on 24 November 1925.