José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (help·info) (born 4 August 1960, Valladolid), better known by his maternal surname Zapatero or ZP, is the current President of the Government of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno de España in Spanish). Zapatero has won two consecutive elections, the first in 2004, and again in 2008, after his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won a plurality of seats in the Spanish Congress of Deputies.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid to Juan Rodríguez y García-Lozano (b. 1928), a lawyer, and María de la Purificación Zapatero y Valero (Valladolid, 1927 - Madrid, 30 October 2000). He grew up in León, where his family originated.

His paternal grandfather, Juan Rodríguez y Lozano (28 July 1893 - Puente Castro, León, 18 August 1936), was a Republican captain executed by Franco's National army a month into the Spanish Civil War for refusing to fight with them. He was betrayed and his whereabouts were revealed by certain PSOE people in Valladolid, before Rodriguez Zapatero was born.