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Mexicali Mexicali (; ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. The city, seat of the Mexicali Municipality, has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the Calexico–Mexicali metropolitan area is home to 1,000, ...

Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

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* Luis "Abuelo" Álvarez, Mexican archer * Eduardo Auyón, painter

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Norma Enriqueta Basilio de Sotelo Norma Enriqueta "Queta" Basilio Sotelo (15 July 1948 – 26 October 2019), was a Mexican track and field athlete. She was born in Mexicali, capital of Baja California. She came from an athletic family; her father was a cotton farmer. Her Poli ...

, first female Olympic cauldron lighter

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Milton Castellanos Everardo Milton Castellanos Everardo (March 23, 1920 – October 10, 2011) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He served as the Governor of Baja California from 1971 to 1977. He also served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies Directive Board fo ...

Governor of Baja California The governor of Baja California represents the executive branch of the government of the state of Baja California, Mexico, per the state's constitution. The official title is "Free and Sovereign State of Baja California" (''Estado Libre y Soberan ...

, 1971-1977 *

Dino Cazares Dino Cazares (born in 1966) is an American musician, known for being the guitarist and one of the co-founders of industrial metal band Fear Factory. He is also the co-founder of the metal bands Divine Heresy, Asesino, and Brujeria. Cazares popu ...

, musician, former member of heavy metal bands

Fear Factory Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...

, Asesino, and Brujería * David Cortés, MLB player for the

Colorado Rockies The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The team plays its home baseball games at Coors Fie ...

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* Nadir D'Priest, lead singer of 80s glam metal band

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

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Jorge Enríquez Jorge Enríquez García (born 8 January 1991) is a former Mexican professional Association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder. He is an Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tourn ...

, mexican professional football player

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Carlos Girón Carlos Armando Girón Gutiérrez (3 November 1954 — 13 January 2020) was a Mexican diver. He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, winning one medal. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, he finished ninth in the 3 metre s ...

, silver medal winner in diving at the 1980 Olympics

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Lupita Jones María de Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay (, ; born 6 September 1967) is a Mexican television producer, model, actress, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1991. She was the first Mexican contestant to win the crown. Since 1994, Jones ...

, Miss Mexico 1990, Miss Universe 1991

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Denisse López Denisse López Sing (born December 8, 1976) is a retired Mexican gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Mexico ever to qualify for an event final at the World Gymnastics Championships and the Olympic Games. Lopez began gymnastics at the age of ...

, former Olympic gymnast *

Luis Alberto Lopez Luis Alberto Lopez Vargas (born 21 August 1993) is a Mexican professional boxer who has held the IBF featherweight title since December 2022. Professional boxing career Early career Lopez made his professional debut against Francisco Javier Pach ...

, IBF featherweight boxing champion

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José Madueña José Antonio Madueña López (born 29 May 1990) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Liga MX club Mazatlán. Biography Born in Mexicali, Baja California, Madueña began his career in the Tercera División de Méxi ...

, mexican football player * Alexa Moreno, former Olympic gymnast * Los Muecas, mexican ballad group

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Nikki Clan Nikki Clan is a Mexican Pop rock band from Nogales, Sonora and Mexicali, Baja California. It is formed by Yadira Gianola (lead vocals), Alberto Espinosa (bass guitar), José Antonio Dabdoub (guitar), Ángel Yáñez (guitar), and José Carlos F ...

, pop-rock band

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* Azriel Páez, professional boxer, son of Jorge, brother of Jorge Jr. *

Jorge Páez Jorge Adolfo Páez (born October 27, 1965) is a Mexican actor, circus performer and former professional boxer. In boxing he held the WBO and IBF featherweight titles. Paez's nickname of ''"El Maromero"'' is in honor of the somersault (referred ...

, former professional boxer, world champion, actor * Jorge Páez, Jr., professional boxer *

Tony Perezchica Antonio Llamas Perezchica (born April 20, 1966) is a Mexican professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder from -. He is currently the third base coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Bas ...

, former infielder for the

San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New Yor ...

and third base coach for the

Arizona Diamondbacks The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially known as the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The f ...

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Miguel "Meegs" Rascon Coal Chamber is an American nu metal band formed by Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascón in Los Angeles, California in 1993. Prior to Coal Chamber, the two had also created the band She's in Pain, in 1992. The original lineup also consisted of bassist ...

, musician, former member of

Coal Chamber Coal Chamber is an American nu metal band formed by Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascón in Los Angeles, California in 1993. Prior to Coal Chamber, the two had also created the band She's in Pain, in 1992. The original lineup also consisted of bassist ...

Reik Reik is a Mexican pop rock band from Mexicali, Baja California, formed in 2003 by Jesús Alberto Navarro Rosas (lead vocals), Julio Ramírez Eguía (guitar, background vocals), and Gilberto Marín Espinoza (guitar). The group's first five album ...

, Latin Grammy-nominated pop group * René Jaime Amaya Martínez "Rorrito", television host and entertainer

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Daniel Sada Daniel Sada Villarreal (February 25, 1953, in Mexicali, Baja California – November 18, 2011, in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, journalist, and writer, whose work has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish lan ...

, poet and writer *

Raúl Sandoval Edwin Raul Sandoval de la Torre, (born January 5, 1979 in Mexicali, Baja California) is a Mexican actor and singer. Known by his stage name Raúl, he is best known by being in the first generation of La Academia, (Mexican version of American Ido ...

, actor and singer

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Gus Vildósola Gustavo Vildósola Ramos (born May 19, 1953, in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico) is a Mexican off-road racer and entrepreneur. Racing career Gus Vildósola has been in off-road racing since 1968. He started racing in local races in the Mexica ...

off-road Off-roading is the activity of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain. Types of off-roading range in intensity, from leisure drives with unmodified vehicl ...

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Tavo Vildósola Gustavo Vildósola Perez Tejada, better known as Tavo Vildósola, (born February 1, 1982) is a Mexican off-road racer and entrepreneur. Racing career Born in Mexicali, Vildosóla started racing at a very young age. He raced his first official of ...

, off-road racer *

Manuel Vizcarra Manuel Vizcarra was a Mexican judge and founder of the city of Mexicali now the state capital of the state of Baja California (Mexico). In 1901, Manuel Vizcarra was named Justice of the Peace for the town that would become Mexicali. The group o ...

, Mexican judge, founder of Mexicali *

Vazquez Sounds Vázquez (also spelled Vásquez, Vasques), in non-Spanish-speaking countries often spelled as Vazquez or Vasquez, is an originally Galician surname, in use not only in Galicia but all over the Spanish-speaking world. Overview To a lesser extent ...

, musical trio formed by the Vazquez siblings

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Ysaias Zamudio Ysaias Zamudio (born May 10, 1969) is a former professional boxer from Mexicali, Mexico, who resides in Blythe, California, United States. His ring nickname is "Kid Showtime". Professional boxing career Zamudio made his professional boxing debut ...

, former professional boxer

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