Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia

Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia (March 17, 1805 - July 1, 1906) was a singing and musical educator. After abandoning a career on stage (he was a baritone tenor), Garcia began to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830–48) and the Royal Academy, London (1848–95). Jenny Lind and Mathilde Marchesi were among his pupils.

He (according to some sources) invented the laryngoscope in 1854 and the next year published observations of his own larynx and vocal cords made with a small dental mirror introduced into the throat and using sunlight reflected by another mirror. Garcia was interested in movements connected with the production of the singing voice and did not anticipate the importance of laryngoscopy for medicine.