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Arts

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Manuel Álvarez Bravo Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes a ...
, photographer; recipient, 1984
Hasselblad Award The Hasselblad Award (in full: Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography) is an award granted to "a photographer recognized for major achievements". History The award—and the Hasselblad Foundation—was set up from the estate ...
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Pita Amor Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet. Biography She was born in Mexico City,"Amor, Guadalupe (1920–)." '' Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', ...
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Alberto Arai Alberto T. Arai (March 29, 1915 – May 25, 1959) was a Mexican architect, theorist and writer, of Japanese descent. Born in Mexico City, the fourth son of a Japanese ambassador in Mexico, Kinta Arai, Alberto T. Arai studied also philosophy, e ...
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Luis Barragán Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín (March 9, 1902 – November 22, 1988) was a Mexican architect and engineer. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. Barragán's buildings are frequently visited by international ...
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Federico Cantú Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. People with the given name Federico Artists * Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ. * Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, ...
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Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of ...
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Max Cetto Max Ludwig Cetto (February 20, 1903 – April 5, 1980) was a German-Mexican architect, historian of architecture, and professor. Life Born in Koblenz, Germany, Max Cetto studied at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Munich and Berlin. ...
, architect, educator and historian * Joaquín Clausell, painter *
Miguel Covarrubias Miguel Covarrubias, also known as José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (22 November 1904 — 4 February 1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. Along with his American colleague Matthew W. Stirling, ...
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José Luis Cuevas José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist, he often worked as a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and printmaker. Cuevas was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism ...
, painter, printmaker * Gelsen Gas,
theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...
director; film director and producer; actor; painter; poet; sculptor and inventor *
Mathias Goeritz Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner (4 April 1915, Danzig, German Empire – 4 August 1990, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter and sculptor of German people, German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, he and his wife, ...
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Jorge González Camarena Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor. He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associat ...
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Saturnino Herrán Saturnino Herrán Guinchard (9 July 1887 – 8 October 1918) was a Mexican painter influential to Latin culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Biography Born a mix of Indigenous Mexican and Swiss descent, Saturnino Herrán was rais ...
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Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biograp ...
, photographer; recipient, 2008 Hasselblad Award * María Izquierdo, painter *
Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, ...
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Arturo Moyers Villena Arturo Moyers Villena (January 2, 1930 – February 3, 2013) was a Mexican muralist and painter, whose work was influenced by David Alfaro Siqueiros. Many of his mural works are exhibited in government buildings or cultural institutions. Life ...
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Gerardo Murillo Gerardo Murillo Cornado, also known by his signature "Dr. Atl", (October 3, 1875 – August 15, 1964) was a Mexican painter and writer. He was actively involved in the Mexican Revolution in the Constitutionalist faction led by Venustiano Carra ...
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Amado Nervo Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor a ...
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Juan O'Gorman Juan O'Gorman (July 6, 1905 – January 17, 1982) was a Mexican painter and architect. Early life and family Juan O'Gorman was born on 6 July 1905 in Coyoacán, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal Distri ...
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José Clemente Orozco José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Sique ...
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Eugenio Peschard Eugenio Peschard Delgado was a Mexican architect. Prior to joining the faculty of the National University in 1940, Peschard was an architect in the Ministry of Communications and Public Works and a member of the Council of Architecture of the Fe ...
, architect * Beatriz Peschard, architect * Guillermo Ríos Alcalá restoration expert and educator *
Antonio Rivas Mercado Antonio Rivas Mercado (26 February 1853 – 3 January 1927) was a Mexican architect, engineer and restorer. His most notable project was the design of the Independence Column in downtown Mexico City. He was the father of Antonieta Rivas Mercado ...
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Arturo Rivera Arturo Rivera (15 April 1945 – 29 October 2020) was a Mexican painter based in Mexico City. Early life and education Rivera was born in Mexico City in 1945. He studied painting at Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City (1963–68) and silk-s ...
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Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...
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Jesusa Rodríguez Jesusa Rodríguez (born 1955, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican theater director, actress, performance artist, social activist, elected Senator of the Morena party and an active promoter of the use of marihuana and other drugs. Active representat ...
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Michel Rojkind Michel Rojkind (born December 18, 1969 in Mexico City) is the founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and according to Forbes Life a representative of a Mexican generation of architects transforming the country. His office was recognized by Arc ...
, architect * Verónica Ruiz de Velasco, figurative artist *
José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (1750–1802) was a Mexican portrait painter known for being the first painter of significance to work in Spanish colonial New Orleans, Louisiana. Biography Salazar was born to Salvador de Salazar and ...
, painter * Sebastián, sculptor *
Javier Sicilia Javier Sicilia (1956, Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist, peace activist and journalist in Mexico. He contributes to various print media such as the Mexico City daily ''La Jornada'' and '' Proceso'' magazine. He was founder and dir ...
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David Alfaro Siqueiros David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with ...
, muralist, painter, printmaker *
Rufino Tamayo Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, ...
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Mauricio Toussaint Mauricio Toussaint is a contemporary artist of French and Mexican descent. Toussaint entered the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara to obtain a degree in architecture (he graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree). During this time, he was ...
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Remedios Varo María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish-born Mexican surrealist artist working in Spain, France, and Mexico. Early life Remedios Varo Uranga was born in Anglès, is a small town ...
, painter * José María Velasco, painter * Abraham Zabludovsky, architect *
Alejandro Zohn Alejandro Zohn (born Alexander Zohn; born 8 August 1930, in Vienna - 2000, in Guadalajara) was a Mexican architect. He was a Holocaust survivor who grew up in Western Mexico. Alejandro Zohn studied at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, gradua ...
, architect


Authors

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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (; 13 November 1834 – 13 February 1893) was a Mexican radical liberal writer, journalist, teacher and politician. He wrote ''Clemencia'' (1869), which is often considered to be the first modern Mexican novel. ...
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Pita Amor Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet. Biography She was born in Mexico City,"Amor, Guadalupe (1920–)." '' Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', ...
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Juan José Arreola Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Lati ...
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Guillermo Arriaga Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award f ...
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Mariano Azuela Mariano Azuela González (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the fi ...
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Caridad Bravo Adams Caridad Bravo Adams (; born on January 14, 1908, in Villahermosa, Tabasco – August 13, 1990 in Mexico City) was a prolific Mexican writer and the most famous telenovela writer worldwide. She was born to a couple of Cuban actors and she wa ...
* Roberto Bravo * Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela *
Emilio Carballido Emilio Carballido (Córdoba, Veracruz, 22 May 1925 – Xalapa, Veracruz, 11 February 2008) was a Mexican writer who earned particular renown as a playwright. Carballido belonged to the group of writers known as the ''Generación de los 50'', ...
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Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gend ...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Sor may refer to: * Fernando Sor (1778–1839), Spanish guitarist and composer * Sor, Ariège, a French commune * SOR Libchavy, a Czech bus manufacturer * Sor, Azerbaijan, a village * Sor, Senegal, an offshore island * Sor River, a river in the Or ...
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Yolanda Vargas Dulché Yolanda Vargas Dulché de la Parra (; July 18, 1926 Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico– August 8, 1999 in Mexico City) was a List of Mexican writers, Mexican writer principally known for the creation of the comic book character of Memín Pinguín and ...
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Salvador Elizondo Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (Mexico City, December 19, 1932 - March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style ...
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José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (November 15, 1776 – June 21, 1827), Mexican writer and political journalist, best known as the author of ''El Periquillo Sarniento'' (1816), translated as ''The Mangy Parrot'' in English, reputed to be the f ...
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Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), ''The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christophe ...
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Martín Luis Guzmán Martín Luis Guzmán Franco (October 6, 1887 – December 22, 1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist. Along with Mariano Azuela and Nellie Campobello, he is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary novel, a genre inspired by the experiences ...
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Guadalupe Loaeza María Guadalupe Loaeza Tovar (born August 12, 1946) is a contemporary Mexican writer, author of many books including ''Las Niñas Bien'', ''Las Reinas de Polanco'', ''Debo, Luego Sufro'' and ''Compro, Luego Existo'', in which she ironizes about ...
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Gregorio López y Fuentes Gregorio is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925–2016), Uruguayan army general and de facto President of Uruguay from 1981 until 1985 * Gregorio Álvarez (historian) (1889–1986), ...
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Ángeles Mastretta Ángeles Mastretta (born October 9, 1949, in Puebla) is a post-boom Mexican author, journalist, actress, and film producer. She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and politica ...
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Carlos Monsiváis Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the country's progressive sectors. ...
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Nezahualcoyotl Nezahualcoyotl may refer to: * Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani), the ruler of Texcoco * Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a city in the State of Mexico * Nezahualcóyotl metro station, in Mexico City * The Nezahualcóyotl Award, a literary prize in Mexico * Nezah ...
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Salvador Novo Salvador Novo López (30 July 1904 – 13 January 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular percept ...
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Fernando del Paso Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He ...
* José Emilio Pacheco * Susana Palazuelos * Alfredo Placencia *
Elena Poniatowska Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska () is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on th ...
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Alfonso Reyes Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of th ...
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José Revueltas José Revueltas Sánchez (November 20, 1914 in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango – April 14, 1976 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, essayist, and political activist. He was part of an important artistic family that included his siblings Silves ...
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Luis J. Rodriguez Luis Javier Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. He was the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Rodriguez is recognized as a major figure in contemporary Chicano literature, identifying himself as ...
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Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo ( ; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel ''Pedro Páramo'', and th ...
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Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (c. 1581 - 4 August 1639) was a New Spain-born Spanish writer of the Golden Age who cultivated different variants of dramaturgy. His works include the comedy ''La verdad sospechosa'' ( es), which is considered a masterpie ...
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Jaime Sabines Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his w ...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II Paco Ignacio Taibo II (born Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo; on January 11, 1949), also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish- Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the ...
* Lourdes Urrea *
José Vasconcelos José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the "cultural " of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities ...
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Agustín Yáñez Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's preside ...


Businesspeople

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María Asunción Aramburuzabala María Asunción Aramburuzabala Larregui (born 2 May 1963) is a Mexican billionaire businesswoman. She is the chairperson of Tresalia Capital, a venture capital firm. As of March 2022, her net worth is estimated at US$6.2 billion. Early life ...
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Jerónimo Arango Jerónimo Julio Arango Arias (1927 — 4 April 2020) was a Mexican billionaire businessman, co-founder of the Aurrerá supermarket chain, with his younger brothers, Manuel and Plácido, known for a long time as three of Mexico's wealthiest men ...
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Emilio Azcárraga Jean Emilio Fernando Azcárraga Jean III (; born 21 February 1968) is a Mexican businessman who currently serves as the chairman of both mass media company Televisa and professional football team Club América. In 1997, at the age of 29, Azcárr ...
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Emilio Azcárraga Milmo Emilio Azcárraga Milmo or Emilio Azcárraga Jr. (September 6, 1930 in San Antonio, Texas - April 16, 1997 outside Miami, Florida) was a Mexican-American businessman and the son of Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and Laura Milmo Hickman. He was educa ...
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Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (2 March 1895, Tampico, Tamaulipas – 23 September 1972, Mexico City) was a Mexican businessman who built an entertainment conglomerate. The son of Basque immigrants Mariano Azcárraga and Emilia Vidaurreta, his ...
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Alberto Baillères Alberto Baillères González (22 August 1931 – 2 February 2022) was a Mexican billionaire businessman. , he had an estimated net worth of US$10.1 billion according to ''Forbes''. He was the chairman of Grupo BAL, and of ITAM. Early life Bai ...
* Raúl Baillères *
Daniel Chavez Moran Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...
* Andrés Conesa *
Juan Domingo Beckmann Juan Domingo Beckmann Legorreta (born July 1967) is a Mexican businessman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of José Cuervo. He also owns 30% of the company, giving him a net worth of US$1 billion, as of 2016. His father Juan Beckmann Vidal ...
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Arturo Elías Ayub Arturo Elías Ayub (born April 27, 1966) is a Mexican businessman, currently Director of Strategic Alliances of Teléfonos de Mexico, CEO of the Telmex Foundation and director of UNO Noticias. Life and career Elías Ayub was born in Mexico Ci ...
* Juan Enríquez *
Eugenio Garza Lagüera Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. In ...
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Eugenio Garza Sada Eugenio Garza Sada (January 11, 1892 – September 17, 1973) was an industrialist in the city of Monterrey, Mexico best known for founding the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) school system in the country. Garza ...
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Philanthropist Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...
* Bernardo Gómez Martínez *
Roberto González Barrera Roberto González Barrera (September 1, 1930 – 25 August 2012) was a Mexican businessman. He was the chairman of Gruma, the largest producer of tortillas and corn flour in the world, and of Banorte, the largest Mexican-owned private bank in Me ...
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Víctor González Torres Víctor González Torres (born July 1, 1947, in Mexico City) is a Mexican pharmaceutical businessman and politician, popularly known as Doctor Simi, the name of the character that represents his chain of companies, collectively called Farmacias ...
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Joaquín Guzmán Joaquín or Joaquin is a male given name, the Spanish version of Joachim. Given name * Joaquín (footballer, born 1956), Spanish football midfielder * Joaquín (footballer, born 1981), Spanish football winger * Joaquín (footballer, born 1982) ...
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Jorge Hank Rhon Jorge Hank Rhon (born January 28, 1956) is a Mexican businessman and owner of Mexico's largest sports betting company, ''Grupo Caliente''. He served from December 2004 to February 2007 as the president of the municipality of Tijuana. He is th ...
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Alfredo Harp Helú Alfredo Harp Helú (born 1944) is a Mexican businessman of Lebanese origin, and as of 2011, with a net worth of $1.5 billion, is according to Forbes the 974th richest person in the world. He is also the cousin of multibillionaire Carlos Slim. ...
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Roberto Hernández Ramírez Roberto Hernández Ramírez (born 1942 in Tuxpan, Veracruz) is a Mexican businessman. He is a former CEO of ''Banco Nacional de México (Banamex)'', Mexico's second largest bank, just after BBVA Bancomer, from Spain. He was a member of the board ...
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Fidel Kuri Grajales Fidel Kuri Grajales (born 24 February 1962) is a Mexican businessman and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He serves as a deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing Veracruz's 15th electoral ...
* Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco * Enrique Molina Sobrino *
Emilio Romano Emilio Romano is a businessman and attorney. He is Managing Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Mexico. He joins the financial firm from Telemundo, where he served as President since 2011. Prior to this, Romano was president and CEO of Grup ...
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Pedro Romero de Terreros Pedro Romero de Terreros (1710–1781), the first Count of Regla, was a mining magnate and philanthropist in 18th century Mexico. Early life Pedro Romero de Terreros was born in Cortegana, Spain, on June 28, 1710, the fifth (of six) child and ...
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Alfonso Romo Alfonso Carlos Romo Garza (born 8 October 1950), known as Alfonso Romo, is a Monterrey businessman, agro-industrialist. He founded the ''Opción Ciudadana'' (Citizen Option) party in 2005. He is the owner of VECTOR Casa de Bolsa, the largest fu ...
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Hector Ruiz Hector de Jesus Ruiz Cardenas (born December 25, 1945) is the chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions, Inc. and former CEO & executive chairman of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Ruiz is the author of ...
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Isaac Saba Raffoul Isaac Saba Raffoul (October 17, 1923 – July 27, 2008) was a Mexican businessman of Syrian Jewish descent; his father emigrated from Aleppo, Syria to Veracruz, Mexico where he started a rag business which the family built on. Isaac Saba Raffou ...
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego (born 19 October 1955) is a Mexican businessman, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail. He is the third rich ...
* Daniel Servitje Montull *
Carlos Slim Carlos Slim Helú (; born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the ''Forbes'' business magazine. He derived his fortune from hi ...
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Antonio Suárez Antonio Suárez Vázquez (20 May 1932 – 6 January 1981) was a professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist from Spain between 1956 and 1965. He is most famous for winning the General classification, overall title and the King of th ...
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Jorge Vergara Jorge Carlos Vergara Madrigal (; 3 March 1955 – 15 November 2019) was a Mexican businessman and film producer. He was the founder of the multi-level marketing company Grupo Omnilife. In addition to its health products business, Grupo Omnilif ...
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Lorenzo Zambrano Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño (27 March 1944 – 12 May 2014) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into one of the largest cement produce ...


Cartoonists

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Lalo Alcaraz Lalo Alcaraz (born April 19, 1964) is an American cartoonist most known for being the author of the comic ''La Cucaracha'', the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip. Launched in 2002, ''La Cucaracha'' has becom ...
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Paco Calderón Francisco "Paco" Calderón (born 1959 in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the ...
* José G. Cruz * Eduardo del Río, ''Rius'' *
Bill Melendez José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008) was an American character animator, voice actor, film director and producer. Melendez is known for working on the Peanuts animated specials, ''Peanuts'' animated specials ...
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José Guadalupe Posada José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (2 February 1852 – 20 January 1913) was a Mexican political lithographer who used relief printing to produce popular illustrations. His work has influenced numerous Latin American artists and cartoonists becaus ...


Musicians, conductors and composers of concert music

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Rubén Albarrán Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega (born February 1, 1967) is a Mexican musician, singer, song writer, music producer, and activist. He is a member and founder of the alternative rock band Café Tacvba. As singer and frontman of Café Tacvba, the arti ...
* Alfonso Mejia-Arias, musician, writer, social activist, politician *
Antonio Aguilar José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Márquez Barraza (17 May 191919 June 2007) was a Mexican singer, actor, songwriter, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter with a dominating career in music. He recorded over 150 albums, which sold 25 mill ...
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Juan Arvizu Juan Nepomuceno Arvizu Santelices (known as Juan Arvizu; Santiago de Querétaro, May 22, 1900 - Mexico City, November 19, 1985), was an acclaimed lyric tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of the Latin American bolero and tango on the internati ...
, lyric tenor * Alejandra Ávalos, singer-songwriter, actress, composer * Ariel Camacho * Natanael Cano *
Felix Carrasco Félix Carrasco-Córdova (born July 29, 1955) is a Mexican-Austrian conductor. He has performed successfully near a hundred different orchestras around the world and has gained international recognition for his extraordinary performances. His se ...
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Nestor Mesta Chayres Néstor Mesta Cháyres (aka Nestor Chaires, Ciudad Lerdo, February 26, 1908 - Mexico City, June 29, 1971) was an acclaimed tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of Spanish songs, boleros and Mexican romantic music on the international concert ...
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Manuel Esperón Manuel Esperón González (August 3, 1911 – February 13, 2011) was a Mexican songwriter and composer.
, composer, musician, conductor * Pedro Fernández, singer-songwriter, actor, composer *
Vicente Fernández Vicente Fernández Gómez (17 February 1940 – 12 December 2021) was a Mexican singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer. Nicknamed "Chente" (short for Vicente), "El Charro de Huentitán" (The Charro from Huentitán), "El Ídolo de México ...
, singer, composer * Horacio Franco, recorder player *
Mike Fuentes Michael Jay Fuentes (born July 11, 1958) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He attended Florida State University, where he was the 1981 recipient of the Golden Spikes Award. Career Fuentes was selected by the Montreal Expos with ...
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Juan Gabriel Alberto Aguilera Valadez (; January 7, 1950 – August 28, 2016), known professionally as Juan Gabriel (), was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. Colloquially nicknamed as Juanga () and El Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel was known for his f ...
, singer * Irma González, operatic soprano *
Saúl Hernández Saúl Alfonso Hernández Estrada (born January 15, 1964), is a Mexican musician, writer, poet, songwriter and the lead singer of Jaguares and Caifanes, two prominent Mexican rock en español bands. Biography Saúl Hernández was born in t ...
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Pedro Infante Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera music singer and actor, whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. His popularity spread across Latin America. Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa ...
singer, composer * Agustin Lara, singer, composer *
Armando Manzanero Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1935 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican Maya peoples, Mayan musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the ...
, singer, composer *
Manuel M. Ponce Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten traditio ...
, musician, composer *
Jaime Preciado Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...
, bassist *
Carlos Miguel Prieto Carlos Miguel Prieto (born 14 November 1965) is a Mexican conductor. He is music director of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and The Orc ...
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Silvestre Revueltas Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor. Life Revueltas was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory ...
, composer, conductor *
Elvira Ríos María Elvira Gallegos Ríos (16 November 1913 – 13 January 1987) was a Mexican singer and actress. One of the most notable performers of Agustín Lara's songs, Ríos was the first Mexican singer who achieved international success through r ...
, singer-songwriter, actress, composer *
Jesús Adrián Romero Jesús Adrián Romero Ibarra is a Mexican musician, author and singer from Hermosillo. Romero is the founder and president of Vástago Producciones, a record label dedicated to the production and distribution of music with a Christian message. ...
, Christian singer-songwriter *
Cesar Rosas Cesar J. Rosas (born September 26, 1954, in Hermosillo, Mexico) is a Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist for Los Lobos. Rosas also participates in the Latin supergroup Los Super Seven. Perhaps the most recognizable member of Los Lobos, Ros ...
, singer, vocalist *
Juventino Rosas José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 18689 July 1894) was a Mexican composer and violinist. Life and career Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato, later renamed Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, and still later into Santa Cru ...
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Paulina Rubio Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes (; born 17 June 1971) is a Mexican singer. Referred to as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, The Golden Girl" and "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Latin Pop", she first achieved recognition as ...
, singer *
Chalino Sánchez Rosalino "Chalino" Sánchez Félix (30 August 1960 – 16 May 1992), was a Mexican singer-songwriter. Posthumously called "El Rey del Corrido", he is widely considered one of the most influential narcocorrido singers of the late 20th century. Cha ...
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Joan Sebastian José Manuel Figueroa Figueroa (April 8, 1951 – July 13, 2015), known professionally as Joan Sebastian (), was a Mexican singer-songwriter. He composed more than 1,000 songs, including compositions for artists such as Bronco, Vicente Fernánd ...
, singer, composer *
Marco Antonio Solís Marco Antonio Solís Sosa (born 29 December 1959) is a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. Born and raised in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán, Solís began his musical career at the age of six, performing part of Los Hermanito ...
, singer, composer *
Thalía Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (; born 26 August 1971), known mononymously as Thalía, is a Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as the " Queen of Latin Pop", she is considered one of the most successful and influential Mexican artists. Havin ...
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Amalia Aguilar Amalia Isabel Rodríguez Carriera (3 July 1924 – 8 November 2021), known professionally as Amalia Aguilar, was a Cuban-Mexican dancer, actress and comedian. Early life Amalia Isabel Rodríguez Carriera was born in Matanzas, Cuba. She and her ...
, actress *
Mauricio Aspe Mauricio Aspe (born Edgar Mauricio Aspe López on July 25, 1973, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor. Biography Career He began as a child model before emerging as an actor at age 17, when he joined the school of acting of Televisa t ...
, actor * Alejandro Felipe, actor *
Antonio Aguilar José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Márquez Barraza (17 May 191919 June 2007) was a Mexican singer, actor, songwriter, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter with a dominating career in music. He recorded over 150 albums, which sold 25 mill ...
, singer * Luis Aguilar, singer *
Pepe Aguilar José Antonio Aguilar Jiménez (born August 7, 1968), better known as Pepe Aguilar, is an American singer. - Accessed on June 17, 2011. From a young age, Aguilar accompanied his parents, Mexican singer-actors Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestr ...
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Elsa Aguirre Elsa Irma Aguirre Juárez (born 25 September 1930) is a Mexican actress. Career At the beginning of her career she was discovered when she was teenager, in a beauty contest held by a cinematographic production company called ''CLASA Films Mund ...
, actress *
Rubén Aguirre Rubén Aguirre Fuentes (; 15 June 1934 – 17 June 2016) was a Mexican actor and comedian. He was best known for his character in Televisa's 1970s television show ''El Chavo del Ocho''. Aguirre also participated in another well known television ...
, comedian, actor *
Damián Alcázar Damián Alcázar (born January 8, 1953) is a Mexican actor and politician, who is best known outside of Mexico as Lord Sopespian in '' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. He was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City. Caree ...
, actor *
Julio Alemán Julio Méndez Alemán (November 29, 1933 – April 11, 2012) was a Mexican actor.Fernando Allende Luis Fernando Allende Arenas (born November 10, 1952) is a Mexican singer, actor, painter, film producer, and film director. Early life Allende was born in Mexico. His father is Mexican, and his mother is from Cuba. Allende's grandfather on his f ...
, actor,
film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
* Ana Alicia, actress * Mario Almada, actor *
Ilean Almaguer Ilean Almaguer (() Born Ilean Almaguer Ochoa on December 20, 1984, in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico) ís a Mexican actress. Life She is best known for her role in the Mexican soap opera " Atrévete a Soñar" playing Catalina (Cata) part ...
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Rafael Amaya José Rafael Amaya Núñez (born 28 February 1977) is a Mexican actor, born in Hermosillo, Mexico. He is best known for his character Aurelio Casillas in the Telemundo series ''El Señor de los Cielos''. Biography Amaya was born in Hermosill ...
, actor * César Amigó, film director *
Adolfo Angel Adolfo may refer to: * Adolfo, São Paulo, a Brazilian municipality * Adolfo (designer), Cuban-born American fashion designer * Adolfo or Adolf Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in Ge ...
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Angélica María Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...
, singer * Alfonso Aráu, actor and director *
Guillermo Arriaga Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award f ...
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screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...
, director and producer *
Ramón Ayala Ramón Covarrubias Garza (born December 8, 1945), known by his stage name Ramón Ayala, is a Mexican singer, composer and songwriter of Norteño music. Discography Studio albums (Ramón Ayala Y Sus Bravos Del Norte) * ''La Pura Maña'' (1971 ...
, singer *
Anahí Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla (born 14 May 1983), known mononymously as Anahí, is a Mexican actress and singer. In 1986, she started her acting career when she was cast on ''Chiquilladas''. After working on many successful telenovelas produ ...
, actress, singer *
Angélica Aragón Angélica Espinoza Stransky (born 11 July 1953), known as Angélica Aragón (), is a Mexican film, television and stage actress and singer. She is daughter of the Mexican composer José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla". She is recognized for her p ...
, actress *
Abraham Ramos Abraham Ramos (born 13 February 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor who has appeared in many telenovelas and television series. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. Career Abraham is the youngest of the four siblings. His first role was ...
, actor *
Aracely Arámbula Aracely Arámbula Jacques (; born March 6, 1975), known professionally as Aracely Arámbula, is a Mexican actress, model, singer, television personality and entrepreneur. Life and career Early life Aracely Arambula Jacques was born in Chihu ...
, actress * Esteban Arce, show host *
Pedro Armendáriz Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings (May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars ...
, actor *
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Pedro Armendáriz Bohr (April 6, 1940 – December 26, 2011), better known by his stage name Pedro Armendáriz Jr., was a Mexican actor. Life and career Pedro Armendáriz Bohr was born in Mexico City to Mexican-American actor Pedro Armendáriz ...
, actor *
Adriana Barraza Adriana Barraza González (born 5 March 1956) is a Mexican actress, acting teacher, and director. In 1999 director Alejandro González Iñárritu cast her as the mother of Gael García Bernal's character in '' Amores perros'', which was nomin ...
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Meche Barba Meche Barba (born Mercedes Barba Feito; September 24, 1922 – January 14, 2000) was an American-born Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the "Rumbera ...
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Ana Bárbara Altagracia Ugalde Mota (born January 10, 1971), better known as Ana Bárbara, is a Mexican singer, actress, television personality and model. She has become a prominent figure within Latin entertainment since her professional debut in 1994 and is ...
, singer *
Katie Barberi Katie Barberi () is a Mexican actress known for her work in telenovelas and for her portrayal of Ursula Van Pelt on ''Every Witch Way''. Career Barberi played "Maria Delucci" in the NBC series ''The Bronx Zoo The Bronx Zoo (also historica ...
, actress *
Alejandra Barros Alejandra Barros (born Alejandra Barros del Campo on August 11, 1971) is a Mexican actress. She is best known for her role in Televisa's telenovela Mariana de la Noche (2003). Biography Barros studied in New York in ''The Lee Strasberg Theat ...
, actress *
Renato Bartilotti Mario Renato Bartilotti Rodríguez (born June 11, 1976, in Villahermosa, Tabasco) is a Mexican actor. Life After enrolling in Televisa's Centro de Educación Artística (CEA), Renato Bartilotti began his career as an actor in the telenovela ''M ...
, actor *
Sergio Basañez Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass * ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film * ''Se ...
, actor *
Kuno Becker Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz (born January 14, 1978) professionally known as Kuno Becker, is a Mexican actor and film director who has worked in telenovelas, Mexican cinema, and U.S. cinema. He is best known for his portrayal of Ruben Berrizabal in ...
, actor *
Lola Beltrán María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz (7 March 1932 – 24 March 1996), known professionally as Lola Beltrán, was a Mexican actress and singer. Beltrán is and was one of Mexico's most acclaimed singers of Ranchera and Huapango music. She made the ...
, singer *
Belinda Belinda is a feminine given name of unknown origin, apparently coined from Italian ''bella'', meaning "beautiful". Alternatively it may be derived from the Old High German name ''Betlinde'', which possibly meant "bright serpent" or "bright linde ...
, actress, singer * Elsa Benítez, model * Agustín Bernal, actor *
Demián Bichir Demián Bichir Nájera (; born 1 August 1963) is a Mexican actor. After starring in telenovelas, he began to appear in Hollywood films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in ''A Better Life''. Personal life Bichi ...
, actor * Jorge Blanco, actor, singer *
Marcela Bovio Marcela Alejandra Bovio García (born October 17, 1979) is a Mexican singer and violinist who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic death metal band MaYaN. In 1995, she joined Hydra, a Mexican metal band, singing and playing violin. In ...
, singer *
Angelique Boyer Angelique Monique-Paulette Boyer Rousseau (born 4 July 1988), simply known as Angelique Boyer, is an actress. Born in France, she has spent most of her life and her entire professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual French and Mexican citize ...
, actress *
Jacqueline Bracamontes Jacqueline Bracamontes Van Hoorde (born 23 December 1979) is a Mexican actress, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza Jalisco 2000, Nuestra Belleza México 2000 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2001. ...
, actress, model *
Olga Breeskin Olga Breeskin Torres (September 22, 1951) is a Mexican violinist, dancer and actress. She was one of the most famous Mexican vedettes in 1970s and 1980s. Since her conversion to Christianity, she has only presented herself as a violinist. Early ...
, vedette *
Claudio Brook Claudio Brook (born Claude Sydney Brook Marnat, 28 August 1927 – 18 October 1995) was a Mexican actor. Life Born in Mexico City, Brook had a prolific career, making around 100 film and television appearances in his 38 years as an actor. ...
, actor * Andrés Bustamante, comedian * Alejandro Camacho, actor and producer *
Jaime Camil Jaime Federico Said Camil de Saldanha da Gama (born 22 July 1973) is a Mexican actor, singer and television personality. He is best known for his roles as Fernando Mendiola in ''La Fea Más Bella'' and Rogelio de la Vega in ''Jane the Virgin'', ...
, singer, actor * Marco Antonio Campos ''Viruta'', comedian, actor * Carmen Campuzano, actress, fashion model *
Itatí Cantoral Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi (born May 13, 1975) is a Mexican actress, singer, dancer, and producer, She is of Spanish and Italian descent. She is best known for her roles as Soraya Montenegro in Televisa's telenovela ''María la del Barrio ...
, actress *
Paty Cantú Patricia Giovanna Cantú Velasco (born 25 November 1983), known professionally as Paty Cantú, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and actress, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the Mexican pop duo Lu. Early life Cantú was bor ...
, singer *
Eduardo Capetillo Eduardo Capetillo Vásquez (born April 13, 1970) is a Mexican actor and singer. Life He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He belongs to the Capetillo family, who have a long tradition of being bullfighters. Being still very young, he partici ...
, actor *
Elpidia Carrillo Elpidia Carrillo (born August 16, 1961) is a Mexican actress and director. Her career includes roles in both Latin American and US film and television. She is best known in the United States for her supporting role in the iconic action film ''Pre ...
, actress *
Yadhira Carrillo Yadhira Carrillo Villalobos (born May 12, 1973) is a Mexican actress, model and beauty queen. Early career Yadhira Carrillo was chosen Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes Mexicana Universal Aguascalientes (until 2016 called Nuestra Belleza Aguasca ...
, actress *
Irán Castillo Irán Castillo Pinzón (born 4 January 1977) is a Mexican actress and singer. Castillo began her career in the 1990s, after roles in telenovelas such as ''Agujetas de color de rosa'', ''Confidente de Secundaria'', and '' Preciosa''. Subseque ...
, actress *
Cristian Castro Christian Sáinz Valdés Castro (born 8 December 1974), known professionally as Cristian Castro or Cristian, is a Mexican pop singer. He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, and nephew of actors Ramón Valdés ...
, singer *
Verónica Castro Verónica Castro (), full name Verónica Judith Sáinz Castro (born 19 October 1952), is a Mexican actress, singer, producer, former model and presenter. She started her career as a television actress, where she met comedian Manuel Valdés, fa ...
, actress, singer *
David Cavazos David Cavazos (born April 19, 1985, in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican singer-songwriter. David Cavazos began composing music at the age of eighteen and later signed with Warner Music Mexico, music label in which he found the support he ...
, singer * Lumi Cavazos, actress *
Christian Chávez José Christian Chávez Garza (, born August 7, 1983), most often known as Christian Chávez is a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor, best known for his role as Giovanni Méndez López in the telenovela '' Rebelde'' and its spin-off pop grou ...
, actor, singer * Sharis Cid, actress *
Fernando Colunga Fernando Colunga Olivares () (born 3 March 1966) is a Mexican actor best known for his work in Mexican telenovelas. Colunga gained international fame for playing Luis Fernando de la Vega in the Mexican soap opera ''Maria la del Barrio''. He is ...
, actor * Ninel Conde, actress, model, singer * Karla Cossío, actress *
Alfonso Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Gre ...
, film director *
Luis de Alba Luis Alba Garcia (born March 7, 1945 in Veracruz) is a Mexican comedian, famous for his character ''El Pirrurris'' (the presumptuous son of a millionaire). He also made other characters such as "El Raton Crispin" (Crispin The Mouse) in which he ...
, actor, comedian *
Rebecca de Alba Rebecca de Alba (born October 26, 1964) is a Mexican model and TV presenter. She studied journalism in Colorado before returning to Mexico where she participated in the Miss Mexico pageant, obtaining second place. She later worked on several te ...
, show host *
Alfonso de Anda Alfonso de Anda aka Poncho de Anda (born July 25, 1974) is a Mexican TV show host. Biography Alfonso de Anda is a popular television host in U.S.-based Spanish-language television. Born in Mexico City, De Anda began his communication carrier i ...
, show host *
José María de Tavira José María de Tavira Bianchi (born September 27, 1983, in Mexico City) is a Mexican film and stage actor. The son of Mexican theatre director Luis de Tavira and Argentine actress Rosa María Bianchi, he began acting on stage with his parent ...
, actor *
Ana de la Reguera Anabell Gardoqui de la Reguera (; born 8 April 1977) is a Mexican actress. She has starred in telenovelas, films, the HBO television series ''Eastbound & Down'' and ''Capadocia'', the Amazon television series ''Goliath'', and the 2006 comedy '' ...
, actress *
Arath de la Torre Arath De La Torre Balmaceda (born March 20, 1975) is a Mexican actor and comedian, best known for his roles in the television series ''Una Familia con Suerte'' as Pancho López and the critically acclaimed and popular novelas ''Soñadoras'' and ...
, actor *
María Antonieta de las Nieves María Antonieta Gómez Rodríguez (born 22 December 1949), more commonly known by her stage name María Antonieta de las Nieves, is a Mexican actress, comedian, singer, and author. Her best remembered role is that of La Chilindrina, one of the ...
, actress *
Kate del Castillo Kate del Castillo Negrete Trillo () is a Mexican-American actress. At the age of 19, del Castillo became known for her lead role in the telenovela ''Muchachitas'' for Televisa in 1991. Afterwards, she continued her career in film and television ...
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* Ana Díaz, singer *
Dolores del Río María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del Río (), was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin Am ...
, actress *
Yolanda del Río Yolanda del Río (born Yolanda Jaen López on May 27, 1955, in Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo) is a Mexican film actress and ranchera singer. Some of her best-known films are '' Caminos de Michoacán'' (1979) and '' La India blanca'' (1982). Born the young ...
, singer *
Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for Be ...
, film director *
Gonzalo de la Torre Gonzalo de la Torre (born February 1, 1977 in Mexico City, Mexico), better known as "Gonzalo", is a Mexican-American singer, songwriter, director and producer. Gonzalo received singer-songwriter of the year at the 2010 Los Angeles Music Awards and ...
, singer, producer *
Eugenio Derbez Eugenio González Derbez (; born September 2, 1961) is a Mexican actor and comedian. He has appeared in many films and television series including '' The Book of Life,The Angry Birds Movie 2 and The Secret Life of Pets.'' In the 2010s, he app ...
, actor, comedian, producer *
Aarón Díaz Aarón Díaz Spencer (born March 7, 1982) is a Mexican-American actor, singer, and model. Early life Aarón Díaz Spencer was born in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico to an Irish-American mother (surname Spencer) and a Mexican father (sur ...
, actor *
Columba Domínguez Columba Domínguez Alarid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican actress, singer, and painter. She is remembered particularly for her performance in the film ''Pueblerina'' (1949). Biography Early life Columba Domínguez Alarid was bo ...
, actress * Susana Dosamantes, actress *
Lila Downs Ana Lila Downs Sánchez (born 9 September 1968 * *) is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporat ...
, singer *
Dulce María Dulce María Espinosa Saviñón (, born 6 December 1985), simply known as Dulce María, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actress and author. Dulce María began her career at age 5, participating in more than 100 TV commercials. At 11 she was pa ...
, actress, singer, composer *
Jean Duverger Jean Duverger (born 5 April 1973 in Cosamaloapan, Veracruz) is a Mexican actor and entertainer. Life and career He is of French-Haitian ancestry. From 1981 to 1983, he studied at the Centro de Educacion Artística. Between 1988 and 1991, he ...
, actor, show host * Elán, singer-songwriter *
Fernando Eimbcke Fernando Eimbcke (born 1970 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Fernando Eimbcke studied film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM (1992–1996). He started his career directi ...
, film director, screenwriter *
Emilio Echevarría Emilio Antonio Echevarría Noriega (born 3 July 1944) is a Mexican actor. Career Echevarría began his acting career in 1978 as a member of the Constitution of Art and Society. He appeared in ''Amores Perros'' as the hitman and ex- guerrilla ni ...
, actor *
Liza Echeverría Liza Echeverría (born Linda Elizabeth Echeverría Gray on August 29, 1972 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, model and television presenter. Telenovelas * ''Luz Clarita'' (1996) as Dana * '' Misión S.O.S.'' (200 ...
, model, show host *
Alfredo Gatica Alfredo Gatica (born 8 February 1988) is a Mexican television actor; best known for his role of Ricardo in the Televisa telenovela ''La vecina'' (2015–2016). His other TV roles include: Orlando in the 2016 telenovela ''Tres veces Ana'', adaptatio ...
, actor *
Luis Gatica Luis Gatica (born February 25, 1961) is a Mexican actor, son of the Chilean singer Lucho Gatica and the Puerto Rican actress Mapita Cortés. He is the uncle of fellow actor Alfredo Gatica. Biography Luis Gatica was born in Veracruz, Mexico. He g ...
, actor *
Erika Buenfil Teresa de Jesús Buenfil López (; born November 23, 1964), commonly known as Erika Buenfil, is a Mexican actress, TV host and singer. She is best known for her lead roles in several successful telenovelas including ''Amor en Silencio'' (1988), ...
, actress * Erick Elías, actor, model *
Evangelina Elizondo Gloria Evangelina Elizondo López-Llera (28 April 1929 – 2 October 2017) was a Mexican actress and singer from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She starred in movies, television and theater. She was an accomplished artist having studied at t ...
, actress *
Emmanuel Immanuel ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל, 'Īmmānū'ēl, meaning, "God is with us"; also romanized: , ; and or in Koine Greek of the New Testament) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the ...
, singer *
Luis Ernesto Franco Luis Ernesto Franco (born December 21, 1983) is a Mexican actor, writer, producer and model. He is known for playing the titular role in seasons three and four of the serie '' Señora Acero''. Filmography Film Television Awards And N ...
, actor *
Lorena Enríquez Lorena Enríquez (born February 22, 1980) is a Mexican actress and hostess. She recently featured in the Mexican soap opera Un Gancho al Corazón. Career Theater *''La Sirenita'' Role: Ariel *''Blanca Nieves y los 7 enanos'' Role: Blanca Nie ...
, actress *
José Guadalupe Esparza José Guadalupe Esparza (born 12 October 1954) is a Mexican singer-songwriter and the frontman of the grupero band Bronco. He was born in Durango, but grew up in the city of Apodaca, Nuevo León, where he attended elementary and high school. ...
, singer *
María Félix María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s an ...
, actress *
Alejandro Fernández Alejandro Fernández Abarca (; born 24 April 1971) is a Mexican singer. Nicknamed as El Potrillo by the media and his fans, he has sold over 20 million records worldwide, making him one of the most successful Hispanic music artists. He is the ...
, singer * Pedro Fernández, singer-songwriter, actor, composer, producer *
Vicente Fernández Vicente Fernández Gómez (17 February 1940 – 12 December 2021) was a Mexican singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer. Nicknamed "Chente" (short for Vicente), "El Charro de Huentitán" (The Charro from Huentitán), "El Ídolo de México ...
, singer *
Juan Ferrara Juan Ferrara (born Juan Félix Gutiérrez Puerta; November 8, 1943) is a Mexican actor. Family Juan is a son of Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the Mexican actress, Helena Rojo. He ...
, actor *
Laura Flores Laura Aurora Flores Heras (born August 23, 1963) is a Mexican actress, hostess and singer. Biography Laura Flores had a hit single "El Alma No Tiene Color" ("The Soul Has No Color"), which was a duet with Marco Antonio Solís taken from the a ...
, actress *
Adriana Fonseca Adriana Fonseca (; born Adriana Fonseca Castellanos March 16, 1979) is a Mexican actress and dancer. She is best known for her roles in Televisa's telenovelas like '' La usurpadora'' as Veronica Soriano (1998), '' Rosalinda'' as Lucy Pérez Rome ...
, actress *
Rubén Fuentes Rubén Fuentes (15 February 1926 – 5 February 2022) was a Mexican classical violinist and composer, who was best known for his contributions to mariachi music. Biography In 1944, Fuentes joined Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán as a violinist a ...
, actor *
Juan Gabriel Alberto Aguilera Valadez (; January 7, 1950 – August 28, 2016), known professionally as Juan Gabriel (), was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. Colloquially nicknamed as Juanga () and El Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel was known for his f ...
, singer, composer * Francisco Gabilondo Soler, "Cri-Cri", songwriter *
Gael García Bernal Gael García Bernal (; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and producer. He is best known for his performances in the films '' Bad Education'', '' The Motorcycle Diaries'', ''Amores perros'', ''Y tu mamá también'', ''Babel'', '' Coco'', ...
, actor *
Sara García Sara García Hidalgo (8 September 1895 – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican actress who made her biggest mark during the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema". During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable grandm ...
, actress *
Eduardo Garza José Eduardo Garza Escudero (born January 10, 1976), also known as Lalo Garza, is a Mexican voice actor and voice director. He is best known for the voice of Josh on Spanish dub of Drake & Josh. Career Born in Mexico City, he gained a B.A. in ...
, voice actor *
Bibi Gaytán Bibi Gaytán (or Biby) (born Silvia Gaytán Barragán on January 27, 1972) is a Mexican singer and actress. Since she was born, she has lived in Villahermosa, Tabasco and she considers herself "Tabasqueña". Career She is the only female among ...
, actress *
Alfredo Gil Alfredo Bojalil Gil (August 5, 1915 in Teziutlán, Puebla – October 10, 1999 in Mexico City), also known by his nickname El güero, was a singer and the creator and principal founding member of the musical trio, Trio Los Panchos. As a member of ...
, singer, guitarist, founding member of
Trio los Panchos Originally, Trio Los Panchos are a '' trío romántico'' formed in New York City in 1944 by Alfredo Gil, Chucho Navarro, and Hernando Avilés. The trio became one of the leading exponents of the bolero and the romantic ballad in Latin America. I ...
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Filippa Giordano Filippa Giordano (born 14 February 1974) is an Italian-born Mexican crossover singer. Biography Giordano was born in Palermo. At the age of nine, she started ballet at the National Academy of Rome (where she moved with her family). Giordano ...
, crossover singer *
Ernesto Gómez Cruz Ernesto Gómez Cruz (born 7 November 1933) is a Mexican prolific actor with more than 154 films.Ernesto Gómez Cruz
at th ...
, actor * Roberto Gómez Bolaños ''Chespirito'', actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter *
Alejandro González Iñárritu Alejandro González Iñárritu (; American Spanish: ; credited since 2016 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the hum ...
, film director *
Edith González Edith González Fuentes (; 10 December 1964 – 13 June 2019) was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for working on multiple telenovelas produced by three different multimedia companies, which included Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo. G ...
, actress * Sherlyn González, actress * Susana González, actress * Ely Guerra, singer-songwriter, musician, composer *
Denisse Guerrero Denisse Guerrero Flores (born August 8, 1980, Los Mochis, Sinaloa) is a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the electropop band Belanova. The band has released five albums since signing to Virus Records an ...
, singer *
Emilia Guiú Emilia Guiú Estivella (March 21, 1922 – February 7, 2004) was a Spanish-Mexican actress who appeared mainly in Cinema of Mexico, Mexican films, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She made over 60 film app ...
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Elizabeth Gutiérrez Elizabeth Gutiérrez Nevárez (born April 1, 1979) is an American actress and model of Mexican descent. She is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas '' El Rostro de Analía'' and '' El fantasma de Elena''. Background Gut ...
, actress *
Alejandra Guzmán Gabriela Alejandra Guzmán Pinal (born February 9, 1968), known professionally as Alejandra Guzmán, and nicknamed "La Reina de Corazones" (The Queen of Hearts) is a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and actress. With more than 30 million album ...
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Enrique Guzmán Enrique Guzmán (born February 1, 1943) is a Venezuelan-born Mexican singer and actor. He is one of the pioneers of Rock & Roll in Mexico, along with César Costa, Angélica María, Johnny Laboriel and Alberto Vasquez, among others. He is als ...
, singer *
Vanessa Guzmán Vanessa Guzmán Niebla (born April 19, 1976, in Mexico City, Mexico), is a Mexican actress and model. She was Nuestra Belleza México in 1995, and represented her country in the 1996 Miss Universe pageant. Biography Vanessa Guzmán was born in M ...
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Laura Harring Laura Elena, Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Martínez Herring; March 3, 1964), known professionally as Laura Harring, is a Mexican-American actress. In 1985, Harring became the first Hispanic woman crowned Miss USA. She later began her a ...
, actress *
Hector Soberon In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
, actor *
Salma Hayek Salma Hayek Pinault ( , ; born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela ''Teresa'' (1989–1991) as well as the ...
, actress *
Plutarco Haza Plutarco Haza (; born 22 June 1972) is a Mexican actor raised in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Haza produced and hosted the children's news show, ''Bizbirije'' on Canal 11. During the show's final year broadcast in 1998, he married the Polish-born Mex ...
, actor * Gaspar Henaine ''Capulina'', actor and comedian *
Saul Hernández Saul (; he, , ; , ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first monarch of the United Kingdom of Israel. His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BCE, supposedly marked the transition of Israel and Judah from a scattered t ...
, singer * Carlos Hernández Vázquez, film director *
Alfonso Herrera Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez (, born 28 August 1983) is a Mexican actor and former singer. Born in Mexico City, Herrera made his television debut in ''Clase 406'' in 2002. In the same year, his made film debut in '' Amar te duele'' and won a MT ...
, actor, singer *
Lorena Herrera Celia Lorena Herrera de la Vega (born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico), known professionally as Lorena Herrera, is a Mexican singer and actress. Biography Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model ...
, actress *
Pedro Infante Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera music singer and actor, whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. His popularity spread across Latin America. Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa ...
, singer, actor *
Mauricio Islas Mauricio Islas (born Juan Mauricio Islas Ilescas, August 16, 1973) is a Mexicans, Mexican actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas produced by Televisa, TV Azteca, Telemundo, and Venevision. Currently, he lives and works in Miami, ...
, actor *
Frankie J Francisco Javier Bautista Jr. (born December 7, 1975), better known by his stage name Frankie J, is a Mexican-American singer and former member of the musical group Kumbia Kings. Born in Mexico, he grew up in San Diego and became a freestyle ar ...
, singer *
Altair Jarabo Altair is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from α Aquilae and abbreviated Alpha Aql or ...
, actress *
Rodolfo Jiménez Rodolfo Jiménez (born 15 August 1972) is a Mexicans, Mexican film and television actor. He is also a Television presenter, television host. Early life Jiménez was born Rodolfo Jiménez Munoz in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Film and televi ...
, actor *
José Alfredo Jiménez José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval (; 19 January 1926 – 23 November 1973) was a Mexican singer-songwriter of rancheras, whose songs are considered the basis of modern Mexican music. Biography Jiménez was born in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, M ...
, singer-songwriter, musician, composer *
José José José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz (17 February 1948 – 28 September 2019), known professionally as José José, was a Mexican singer and actor. Born into a family of musicians, José began his musical career in his early teens playing guitar and sin ...
, singer *
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 Universe 1991 Miss Universe 1991, the 40th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1991 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Lupita Jones of Mexico crowned by Mona Grudt of Norway. Seventy-t ...
* Judith Grace, show host *
Katy Jurado María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress. Jurado began her acting career in Mexico during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In 1951, she was rec ...
, actress * Ines Gomez Mont, television host *
Kalimba Mbira ( ) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and pl ...
, singer *
Natalia Lafourcade María Natalia Lafourcade Silva (; born 26 February 1984) is a Mexican pop-rock and folk singer and songwriter who, since her debut in 2002, has been one of the most successful singers in Latin America. Lafourcade's voice has been categorized a ...
, singer *
Imanol Landeta Imanol Landeta (born Imanol Goenaga Martí on July 23, 1987), more commonly known simply as Imanol, is a Mexican former singer and actor. His acting career started with the film ''Última llamada'' in 1996, and he has appeared in almost a dozen ...
, actor, singer *
Valentino Lanús Valentino Lanús (born May 3, 1975, in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor. Biography Valentino's parents are Margarita and Luis Alberto. Valentino is the second of four siblings, and is also the only male. He began his career as a model, and la ...
, actor *
Norma Lazareno Norma Lazareno (born 5 November 1943) is a Mexican film and television actress.Greene, p. 176. Filmography Televisión * ''La mexicana y el güero'' (2021) - Doña Crucita Rojas * '' Simplemente María'' (2015-2016) - Olivia Aparicio Vda. de ...
, actress *
Ana Layevska Anna Sergeyevna Layevska ( uk, Анна Сергіївна Лаєвська, Anna Serhiyivna Layevsʹka, russian: Анна Сергеевна Лаевская, Anna Sergeyevna Layevskaya; born January 10, 1982), known as Ana Layevska, is a Mexic ...
, actress * Mariana Levy, actress *
Iyari Limon Iyari Pérez Limón (born July 8, 1976) is a Mexican-born American actress, best known for her supporting role as Potential Slayer Kennedy on the television series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Early life Limón was born in Guadalajara, Jalis ...
, actress * Issa Lish, model * Claudia Lizaldi, model *
Patricia Llaca Patricia Llaca is a Mexican actress who has participated both in films, soap operas and TV shows. She is also sometimes credited as Patricia De Llaca. She is best known for her role as Andrea in the film '' La Habitación Azul''. Since 2005, Ll ...
, actress * Xavier López, ''Chabelo'', actor *
Renato López Renato López Uhthoff (March 11, 1983 – November 23, 2016) was a Mexican television presenter, actor and musician. Early life He was born in 1983 in Mexico City, but at an early age his family took him to the United States, where he lived in Mi ...
, musician, show host *
Seidy López Seidy López is a Mexican-American actress and director. López is best known for her starring debut in the critically acclaimed film ''Mi Vida Loca''. She appeared in ''Solo'', the hit film ''Selena'', an episode of '' ER'' directed by Quentin T ...
, actress * Alex Lora, musician, singer-songwriter * Ana Lorena Sánchez, actress * Adriana Louvier, actress *
Karyme Lozano Karyme Lozano (; born Karyme Lucía Virginia Lozano Carreno on April 3, 1978, in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico) is a Mexican actress. She has appeared on three covers of ''Los 50 Mas Bellos'' of ''People en Español''. She has been nominated and wo ...
, actress * Lucero, actress, singer *
Luis Miguel Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...
, singer *
Daniela Luján Daniela Luján (; born Daniela Barrios Rodriguez, 5 April 1988) is a Mexican pop singer and actress. She is considered the "Queen of Telenovelas for Children" for having starred in telenovelas of world success, being: Luz Clarita and El diario ...
, actress, singer *
Ernesto Laguardia Ernesto Laguardia (; born October 5, 1959) is a Mexican actor known for his performances in Mexican telenovelas. Biography Laguardia was born in Mexico City and started as a model while he was in elementary school. His enthusiasm eventually led ...
, actor *
Fernando Luján Fernando Luján (born Fernando Ciangherotti Díaz; August 23, 1938 – January 11, 2019) was a Mexican actor. He was a star of the silver screen in classic mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His father; Alejandro Ciangherotti ...
, actor *
Diego Luna Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander (; born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, director, and producer. He is known for his portrayal of Cassian Andor in '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' and the Disney+ series ''Andor''. Following an early care ...
, actor, director *
Tony MacFarland Tony MacFarland (born Antonio José MacFarland on September 15, 1982, in Puebla, Puebla) is a Mexican actor and show host, who made his first appearance in television in the Mexican edition of the reality show '' Big Brother''. In 2003, he parti ...
, actor * Sara Maldonado, actress, comedian *
Julio Mannino Julio Mannino is a Mexican actor, born in Toluca, Mexico. He appeared on ''La fea más bella'' in 2006 as a supporting actor. Career Reality shows * '' Mi sueño es bailar'' (2012) (Concursante) Telenovela *'' Sueño de amor'' (2016) - Mari ...
, actor *
Patricia Manterola Patricia Manterola (; born Bertha Patricia Manterola Carrión) is a Mexican singer and actress born in Mexico City. Background Patricia Manterola Carrion was born to Jorge Manterola and Maria Dolores Carrion, the second of three children. Her ...
, singer *
Erik Mariñelarena Erik Mariñelarena Herrera (born January 10, 1977) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the founder of E Corp Studio, a production company he established in 2001. Personal life Mariñelarena was born in Mexico City. His mo ...
, film director *
María Elena Marqués María Elena Marqués Rangel (14 December 1926 – 11 November 2008) was a Mexican actress and singer who was a star during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography She was born on December 14, 1926 in Mexico City. She wa ...
, actress * Adalberto Martínez ''Resortes'', comedian and actor *
Karla Martínez Karla Martínez (born May 11, 1976Martínez shines on Univision's morning show ...
, show host *
Ingrid Martz Ingrid may refer to: * Ingrid (given name) * Ingrid (record label), and artist collective * Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid * Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones * 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid * InGrid, the grid computing projec ...
, actress *
Ofelia Medina María Ofelia Medina Torres (born 4 March 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She was married to film director Alex Philips Jr. and actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Biography She was born in Mérida and has four ...
, actress *
Tenoch Huerta Mejia José Tenoch Huerta Mejía (; born 29 January 1981) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in a number of movies in Latin America and Spain, starring in both feature films, short films, and '' Narcos: Mexico'', credited as Tenoch Huerta. He is f ...
, actor *
Bill Melendez José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008) was an American character animator, voice actor, film director and producer. Melendez is known for working on the Peanuts animated specials, ''Peanuts'' animated specials ...
, animator *
Lucía Méndez Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez (born January 26, 1955) is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer. Méndez was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. Career In 2011, Lucía starred in Mexico the telenovela ''Esperanza del Co ...
, actress, singer *
Florinda Meza Florinda Meza García (born 8 February 1949) is a Mexican actress, comedian, television producer, and screenwriter. She is best known as Doña Florinda in ''El Chavo del Ocho'', La Chimoltrufia in ''Chespirito'', and other various roles in '' E ...
, actress *
Jaydy Michel Jaydy Michel Brixon (; born December 20, 1975) is a Mexican actress and fashion model. Early life Born to a Mexican father and an American mother, Jaydy Michel grew up in Puerto Vallarta, although she was born in Guadalajara, the capital of th ...
, fashion model * Miroslava, actress * Maya Mishalska, actress *
Nicky Mondellini Nicky Mondellini (born Nicoletta Edna Mondellini Hammond on July 6, 1966, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian-born Mexican actress and professional ballerina. Early life Mondellini was born to a British mother, Joan Hammond, and an Italian father, Ma ...
, actress *
Ricardo Montalbán Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (; ; November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican and American film and television actor. Montalbán's career spanned seven decades, during which he became known for performances in a var ...
, actor *
Pilar Montenegro Pilar Montenegro (; born María del Pilar Montenegro López on May 31, 1972, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican Latin pop singer and actress. Biography When Montenegro was 10 years old she landed her first acting part in the TV series ''Juguem ...
, actress, singer *
Pablo Montero Pablo Montero (born Óscar Daniel Hernández Rodríguez August 23, 1974) is a Mexican singer and actor. Montero's primary profession is singing, but he also acts regularly in telenovelas produced by Televisa productions in supporting roles. Mont ...
, singer, actor *
Ivonne Montero Ivonne Montero (born Ivonne García Macedo Montero on April 25, 1974) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. She is best known for playing the leading role in ''¡Anita, no te rajes!'' ("Anita, Don't Give Up!") in 2004. Biography She has portr ...
, actress *
Andrés Montiel Andrés Montiel (), is a Mexican actor born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He started acting professionally at age 19, and soon developed solid theatre experience appearing in several plays and notable productions of Hamlet and The Lonesome West. Sin ...
, actor *
Galilea Montijo Galilea Montijo (born Martha Galilea Montijo Torres on June 5, 1973) is a Mexican actress, comedian, model, and TV presenter. She currently hosts ''Hoy'', a morning show of Televisa that airs on Mondays through Fridays in Mexico (on Las Estrellas) ...
, actress * Mario Moreno ''Cantinflas'', actor and comedian *
Bárbara Mori Bárbara Mori Ochoa () (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela '' Rubí,'' one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Sin ...
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Sabine Moussier Sabine Moussier (; born Diana Sabine Moussier August 23, 1966 in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) is a German-Mexican actress who is best known for her villainous roles in Televisa's telenovelas, such as ''El privilegio de amar'', ...
, actress *
Marco Antonio Muñiz Marco Antonio Muñiz (born 3 March 1933) is a Mexican singer from Jalisco, Mexico. Known all over Latin America, he also acted in the 1965 film '' Sinful'' ( Spanish: El Pecador). He belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Early life and car ...
, singer * Evita Muñoz, actress, comedian, singer *
Eduardo Manzano Eduardo Manzano II (born July 18, 1938) is a Mexican comedian, singer, and actor. He is most recognized as one of the "Polivoces" and for his role in '' Una familia de diez'' (2007–present). He is an actor from Golden Age of Mexican cinema Th ...
, actor *
René Muñoz René Muñoz (February 19, 1938 – May 11, 2000) was a Cuban actor and screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico. He is most remembered for his role in the Spanish film ''Fray Escoba''. Biography He was born in Havana, Cuba but ...
, actor *
Úrsula Murayama Úrsula Murayama ( born 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. She currently lives in Spain. Biography and career Murayama is the best known for the role of Jacinta in ''Esmeralda (Mexican TV series), Esmeralda'' (1997). The main he ...
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Ximena Navarrete Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete (born February 22, 1988) is a Mexican actress, TV host, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009. She is the second Miss Universe from Mexico. ...
, model,
Miss Universe 2010 Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific typically used for a girl, for an unmarried woman (when not using another title such as "Doctor" or "Dame"), or for a married woman retaining her maiden name. Originating in the 17th century, it ...
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Chucho Navarro José de Jesús Navarro Moreno, (January 20, 1913 – December 23, 1993), better known by his stage name of "Chucho" Navarro, was a Mexican singer and founding member of the Trio Los Panchos. Chucho Navarro was born in Irapuato, Guanajuato on Jan ...
, singer, guitarist, founding member of
Trio Los Panchos Originally, Trio Los Panchos are a '' trío romántico'' formed in New York City in 1944 by Alfredo Gil, Chucho Navarro, and Hernando Avilés. The trio became one of the leading exponents of the bolero and the romantic ballad in Latin America. I ...
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Guillermo Navarro Guillermo Jorge Navarro Solares, (born July 29, 1955) is a Mexican cinematographer and television director.Scott, A. O. (November 21, 2001). ''The New York Times''The Devil's Backbone (review overview)./ref> He has worked in Hollywood since 199 ...
, cinematographer * Sylvia Navarro, actress *
Patricia Navidad Paty Navidad (; born Ana Patricia Navidad Lara on May 20, 1973) is a Mexican actress and singer. Biography Navidad developed an interest in music before acting, mainly influenced by her father, Jesús. She once was quoted as saying that his ...
, actress *
Jorge Negrete Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (; 30 November 1911 – 5 December 1953) was a Mexican singer and actor. Life and career Negrete was born in the city of Guanajuato and had two brothers and three sisters; his father was a Mexican Army Colonel who ...
, singer, actor * Mónica Noguera, television host, model *
Adela Noriega Adela Amalia Noriega Méndez (; born October 24, 1969), professionally known as Adela Noriega, is a Mexican retired actress. She came to prominence after starring in many teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas produced by Televisa, including '' ...
, actress * Manuel "Manolo" Noriega, stage and film actor *
Nailea Norvind Nailea Norvind (born 16 February 1970) is a Mexican theater, television and film actress. She appeared in the critically acclaimed 1987 film '' Gaby: A True Story''. She also lent her voice to play Princess Kida in the Spanish dubbing of '' At ...
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Ramón Novarro José Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American actor. He began his career in silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box ...
, actor *
Lupita Nyong'o Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (, ; ; born 1 March 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Lupita Nyong'o, several accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award, and nominations for ...
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Ona Grauer Ona Grauer is a Canadian-Mexican actress best known for her portrayal of the Ancient Ayiana and later Emily Young in the science fiction television series ''Stargate Universe'', part of the ''Stargate'' franchise. In the FX show ''Archer ...
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Manuel Ojeda Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of television and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the Hollywood film '' Romancing the Stone''. ...
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Fher Olvera José Fernando Emilio "Fher" Olvera Sierra (born 8 December 1959) is a Mexican rock musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the secondary guitarist, composer, and lead singer for the Mexican rock band Maná, the most successful Latin Ame ...
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Mauricio Ochmann Mauricio Ochmann (born November 16, 1977) is an American-born, Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas, such as ''Amarte Asi'', where he starred as Ignacio "Nacho" Reyes. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film ''Message in a Bottl ...
, actor * Yahir Othon, actor, singer *
Dominika Paleta Dominika Paleta (born Dominika Paleta Paciorek October 23, 1972 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish-Mexican actress. Life and career Paleta's career has included roles in several telenovelas, most notably '' La usurpadora'' (1998). Other productio ...
, actress *
Ludwika Paleta Ludwika Paleta (; born Ludwika Paleta Paciorek on November 29, 1978 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish- Mexican actress. Early life and career Paleta was born in Kraków, Poland in 1978. When her father, the musician Zbigniew Paleta, was off ...
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Andrea Palma Andrea Palma (b. Trapani, 1644 or 1664 – d. 1730) was an 18th-century Italian architect, working in the Baroque style. He is credited with being one of the most notable architects of the Sicilian Baroque movement. His works include the Cat ...
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Joaquín Pardavé Joaquín Pardavé Arce (30 September 1900 – 20 July 1955) was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was best known for starring and directing various comedy films during the 1940 ...
, actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter *
Plankton Man Plankton Man (born Ignacio Chavez, Nashio for short) is a Mexican musician and former founding member of the Nortec Collective. His music is inspired by traditional Mexican music such as the brass banda and the accordion accents of norteño mu ...
, musician *
Sylvia Pasquel Sylvia Pasquel (born Silvia Banquells Pinal, 13 October 1949) is a Mexican actress. Career 1960s At the age of nineteen, Pasquel did her first movie, '' El Despertar del Lobo'' (''The Wolf's Awakening''). That movie was made in 1968, the year i ...
, actress *
Arturo Peniche Arturo Peniche (born Arturo Delgadillo Peniche on May 17, 1962) is a Mexican telenovela actor who became popular in Latin America during the 1990s. He is the brother of actor Flavio Peniche, who appears in the telenovela '' La Traición''. Biogr ...
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Maite Perroni Maite Perroni Beorlegui (born 9 March 1983) is a Mexican actress, singer, songwriter and producer. Perroni gained international fame in 2004 as a member of the Latin Grammy-nominated Latin pop group RBD. As an actress, Perroni's career began ...
, actress, singer *
Silvia Pinal Silvia Pinal Hidalgo (born 12 September 1931) is a Mexican actress. She began her career in the theater, venturing into cinema in 1949. Her film work and popularity in her native country led her to work in Europe (Spain and Italy). Pinal achiev ...
, actress, show host *
Salvador Pineda Salvador Pineda Popoca (born June 16, 1952 in Huetamo, Michoacan, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, who has participated in over 20 Mexican telenovelas and Mexican movies, as well as two Hollywood low budget movies. Born to Mexican politician Salvado ...
, actor * Polo Polo, comedian *
María Antonieta Pons Maria Antonieta Pons (November 6, 1922 in Havana, Cuba – August 20, 2004 in Mexico City) was a Cuban-born Mexican film actress and dancer. She was the first actress in the ''Rumberas films'' in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Golden Age of Mexican ...
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Enrique Rambal Enrique Rambal (8 May 1924 – 15 December 1971) was a Spanish-Mexican actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1952 and 1971. Enrique had married actresses Mercedes Borque and Lucy Gallardo. Selected filmography * '' The Martyr of ...
, actor *
Adal Ramones Adalberto Javier Ramones Martínez (born 3 December 1961) is a Mexican television presenter and comedian who is known for his comments on Mexican and international social life. Ramones was the host of a popular Mexican television show, ''Otro ...
, comedian *
Marco Antonio Regil Marco Antonio Regil (born December 29, 1969) is a Mexican television personality, public speaker and activist. As the host of the Spanish versions of ''Family Feud'' (''100 mexicanos dijeron'' and ''100 latinos dijeron''), ''The Price Is Right'' ...
, television host * Miguel Alejandro Reina, film director *
Diana Reyes Diana Reyes (born November 18, 1979) is a regional Mexican musical artist. Reyes was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. She has released three gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic nu ...
, singer *
Carlos Reygadas Carlos Reygadas Castillo (; born October 10, 1971) is a Mexicans, Mexican filmmaker. Influenced by existentialist art and philosophy, Reygadas' movies feature spiritual journeys into the inner worlds of his main characters, through which themes ...
, film director, winner of the Best Director Award in
Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions I ...
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Cornelio Reyna Cornelio Reyna Cisneros (September 16, 1940 – January 22, 1997), better known as Cornelio Reyna, was a Regional Mexican singer, composer, bajo sextist and actor. He made over 60 recordings of Norteño (music), Norteño and Mariachi music. He wa ...
, singer *
Lalo Ríos Lalo Ríos (7 February 1927 – 7 March 1973) was a Mexican-born American actor best known for his lead role in '' The Ring'' (1952) as Tommy. Biography Lalo Ríos was born on February 7, 1927, in San Miguelito, Sonora, Mexico. At the age of ...
, Mexican-born American actor *
Angélica Rivera Angélica Rivera Hurtado (; born 2 August 1969) is a Mexican singer, model and telenovela actress who, as the wife of Former President Enrique Peña Nieto, was the First Lady of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. Rivera's work as an actress has inclu ...
, actress *
Jorge Rivero Jorge Rivero (born Jorge Pous Rosas; June 15, 1938) is a Mexican actor, with a career spanning two continents (America and Europe), primarily in Spanish-language media. He has been also credited as George Rivers and George Rivero. Early life Ri ...
, actor * Aurora Robles, supermodel *
Enrique Rocha Enrique Rocha (January 5, 1940 – November 7, 2021) was a Mexican actor. He made his debut in the film industry in the film Guadalajara en Verano directed by Julio Bracho in the last decade of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema The Golden Age ...
, actor * Paul Rodriguez, comedian, actor *
Helena Rojo María Elena Enríquez Ruiz (born August 18, 1944), known as Helena Rojo, is a Mexican actress and model. Biography Born in Mexico City, Mexico, she began her career as a model in the 1961. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with ren ...
, actress *
María Rojo María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui, commonly known as María Rojo (; born August 15, 1943 in Mexico City), is a Mexican actress and politician. She was Senator of the Republic in the upper house of Mexican Congress. She debuted during the Gol ...
, actress *
Gilbert Roland Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice no ...
, actor *
Daniela Romo Daniela Romo (born Teresa Presmanes Corona; 27 August 1959) is a Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess. During her career, she has sold 17 million records, making her one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Biography Born Teresa Presman ...
, actress, singer *
Rosa Carmina Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez (born November 19, 1929) is a Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer. She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Orol, and made her debut in Mexican cinema in Orol's film ''A Woman from the East'' in 1946. S ...
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Alessandra Rosaldo Alessandra Rosaldo (born Alejandra Sánchez Barrero; September 11, 1971) is a Mexican actress, singer and dancer. In 2006, she was the winner of the first prize in Televisa Network's, later broadcast in Univision ''Bailando por un Sueño''. As ...
, actress, singer *
Paulina Rubio Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes (; born 17 June 1971) is a Mexican singer. Referred to as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, The Golden Girl" and "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Latin Pop", she first achieved recognition as ...
, singer * Ximena Rubio, actress *
Victoria Ruffo María Victoria Eugenia Guadalupe Martínez del Río Moreno-Ruffo (born May 31, 1962) is a Mexican actress notable for her roles in telenovelas. Biography 1980s Ruffo began her acting career in 1980, starring in supporting roles in teleno ...
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Jorge Salinas Jorge Salinas (born July 27, 1968) is a Mexican television and film actor, best known for his leading roles in telenovelas. Career Salinas then enrolled at Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) in 1990 and after finishing his studies, he recei ...
, actor *
Nora Salinas Nora, NORA, or Norah may refer to: * Nora (name), a feminine given name People with the surname * Arlind Nora (born 1980), Albanian footballer * Pierre Nora (born 1931), French historian Places Australia * Norah Head, New South Wales, headlan ...
, actress *
Carlos Santana Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (; born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of Rock and roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured ...
, musician * Pablo Santos, actor *
Eugenio Siller Eugenio Siller Margain (born April 5, 1981) is a Mexican actor, singer, and model who is best known for starring in popular novelas ''Rebelde'', ''Código Postal'', ''Al Diablo con los Guapos'', '' Mi pecado'', ''Aurora'', ''Una Maid en Manhatta ...
, actor *
Joan Sebastian José Manuel Figueroa Figueroa (April 8, 1951 – July 13, 2015), known professionally as Joan Sebastian (), was a Mexican singer-songwriter. He composed more than 1,000 songs, including compositions for artists such as Bronco, Vicente Fernánd ...
, singer *
Mariana Seoane Mariana Seoane (born Mariana Alejandra Seoane García on June 10, 1976 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. Biography Seoane was born June 10, 1976, from an Argentinian mother and a Cuban-Mexican father, Seoane demons ...
, singer *
Ana Serradilla Ana Isabel Serradilla García (born August 9, 1978) is a Mexican actress starring in TV series such as '' La Viuda Negra'', ''Drenaje Profundo'' and '' Linea nocturna''. She also starred in the Mexican version of '' Desperate Housewives'', '' Ama ...
, actress * Antonio Serrano, director *
Karol Sevilla Karol Itzitery Piña Cisneros (born November 9, 1999) known professionally as Karol Sevilla is a Mexican actress, singer and songwriter. She began her career as a child, in the Latin American telenovela ''La Rosa De Guadalupe'' and she played L ...
, actress, singer *
Camila Sodi Camila Ía González Sodi (; born 14 May 1986) is a Mexican singer, actress and model. She is the niece of the singer and actress Thalía and a member of the Sodi family. Family life Camila Ía González Sodi was born in Mexico City, Mexico ...
, actress *
Sasha Sokol Sasha Marianne Sökol Cuillery (born 17 June 1970) is a Mexican singer, composer, actress and television presenter. Biography Sökol was born in Mexico City. When she was still a toddler, her parents (Michael "Happy" Sökol and Magdalena Cuil ...
, singer *
Fernando Soler Fernando Soler (born Fernando Díaz Pavia; 24 May 1896 – 25 October 1979) was a Mexican actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He was considered one of the most important figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In his career spanning ...
, actor *
Juan Soler Juan Soler Valls Quiroga (born January 19, 1966) is an Argentine-Mexican actor and former model and rugby union footballer. He was married to Argentine actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky with whom he has two daughters. Biography Personal life ...
, actor *
Javier Solís Gabriel Siria Levario (4 September 1931 – 19 April 1966), known professionally as Javier Solís, was a Mexican singer and actor. He specialized in the musical genres of bolero and ranchera. Early life Gabriel Siria Levario was the first of t ...
, singer *
Marco Antonio Solís Marco Antonio Solís Sosa (born 29 December 1959) is a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. Born and raised in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán, Solís began his musical career at the age of six, performing part of Los Hermanito ...
, singer *
Blanca Soto Blanca Delfina Soto Benavides (born 1979) is a Mexican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 1997. Career Soto competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza México in 1997, repre ...
, fashion model *
Gabriel Soto Gabriel Soto Díaz (born April 17, 1975) is a Mexican actor and model. He won the national male pageant El Modelo Mexico, and placed first runner-up in Mister World 1996. He was also a member of the former Mexican boy band Kairo, and acts in te ...
, actor, model *
Karla Souza Karla Susana Olivares Souza (born December 11, 1985) is a Mexican actress known for her roles as Laurel Castillo on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC legal drama series ''How to Get Away with Murder'' and Marina Hayworth on the ABC sitcom ' ...
, actress *
Hugo Stiglitz Hugo Stiglitz López, better known simply as Hugo Stiglitz, (born August 28, 1940, in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor. Stiglitz is perhaps most well known for his film roles in the 1970s and 1980s in Mexico in such horror films as '' Tintorera' ...
, actor * Devin Tailes, singer *
Mark Tacher Mark Tacher Feingold (born September 15, 1977) is a Mexican actor, musician, vocalist, guitarist, and a television host. He began as a television host in 1996, and has starred in a reality show, TV series, and telenovelas including '' La Hija del ...
, actor *
Ana Claudia Talancón Ana Claudia Talancón (born Ana Claudia Talancón Ortiz Tirado; 1 May 1980), is a Mexican actress, TV host, and philanthropist. She first started acting in her home town, Cancún, Quintana Roo. Early life and career Talancón first started st ...
, actress *
Mario Talavera Mario Talavera Andrade (December 13, 1885 – March 27, 1960) was a Mexican musician, tenor, songwriter and conductor. (Spanish) Born and raised in Xalapa, Mario Talavera was the son of Francisco and Sebastiana (née Andrade) Talavera. The yo ...
, songwriter * Amado Tame Shear, Mexican politician *
Tatiana Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe. Variations * be, Тацця́на, Tatsiana * bg, Татяна, Tatyana * germ ...
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Ari Telch Ari Telch (born May 7, 1962) is a Mexican actor best known for his work in telenovelas and the stage. Early life and career Ari Telch Benforado was born to a Jewish family and started acting career with the role of a Jewish boy in ''El violinist ...
, actor * Arleth Terán, actress *
Thalía Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (; born 26 August 1971), known mononymously as Thalía, is a Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as the " Queen of Latin Pop", she is considered one of the most successful and influential Mexican artists. Havin ...
, actress, singer *
Lynda Thomas Lynda Aguirre Thomas (born 21 December 1981), known professionally as Lynda, is a Mexican musician, singer, songwriter and activist. She achieved recognition in her native Mexico during the 1990s and early 2000s. She was signed to EMI Capitol ...
, musician, singer-songwriter * Thelma Tixou, vedette * José Antonio Torres, film director *
Lupita Tovar Guadalupe Natalia Tovar (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016), known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-born American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of '' Drácula'', filmed in Los Angeles b ...
, actress *
Rigo Tovar Rigoberto Tovar García (March 29, 1946 – March 27, 2005), better known as Rigo Tovar, was a Mexican musician, singer and actor. Famous for his cumbias, Tovar infused traditional Mexican and Latin music with modern instruments like the electri ...
, singer-songwriter, composer, actor *
Gloria Trevi Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz (born February 15, 1968), known as Gloria Trevi (), is a Mexican singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, television hostess, music video director and businesswoman known as "The Supreme Diva of Mexican Pop". ...
, singer * Víctor Trujillo / ''Brozo'', actor, comedian *
Emilio Tuero Emilio Tuero Cubillas (5 April 1912 – 22 July 1971), known as Emilio Tuero, was a Spanish-Mexican actor, producer, and singer. He was considered a popular star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Filmography * '' Cri Cri el grillito canto ...
, actor, singer *
Elyfer Torres Elvia Fernanda Torres Pérez most known as Elyfer Torres (born 15 February 1997 in Mexico), is a Mexican actress. Her first major role was in the Telemundo telenovela's ''Betty en NY'' (2019). Although previously she stood out for series like '' ...
, actress *
Christopher Uckermann Christopher Alexander Luis Casillas von Uckermann (born 21 October 1986) is a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He started his acting career when he was only two years old in TV commercials, and became known worldwide after his roles as ...
, actor, singer *
Polo Urías Polo Urías is a Regional Mexican singer from Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico. He specializes in the Norteño-Sax genre. He came to prominence when he performed with his brothers’ band, Los Jilgueros del Arroyo. He then left the group to become the ...
, singer * Germán Valdés, ''Tin Tán'', actor * Ramón Valdés, ''don Ramón'', actor *
Victor Noriega The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...
, actor, singer, model *
Angélica Vale Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
, actress, singer, comedian * Verónica Valerio, singer, harpist and composer *
Sergio Vallín Sergio Vallín Loera (born May 26, 1972) is a Mexican guitarist of the Mexican band Maná. Vallín was born in Mexico City, where he lived for the first ten years of his life until he moved with his family to Aguascalientes, capital of the sta ...
, guitarist *
Pedro Vargas Pedro Vargas Mata (San Miguel de Allende, 29 April 1906 – Mexico City, 30 October 1989) was a Mexican tenor and actor, from the golden age of Mexican cinema, participating in more than 70 films. He was known as the "Nightingale of the Ameri ...
, singer * María Elena Velasco ''La India María'', actress, comedian *
Lorena Velázquez Lorena Velázquez (; born December 15, 1937) is a Mexican actress and former beauty pageant titleholder. Biography Born María de la Concepción Lorena Villar in Mexico City, Velázquez debuted in 1955. She competed in Miss Mexico in 1958 and p ...
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Raúl Velasco Raúl Velasco Ramírez (April 24, 1933 – November 26, 2006) was a Mexican host/ producer of the TV show ''Siempre en Domingo'' (''Always on Sunday'') which is his hallmark contribution to the Latin American world and eventually to other parts o ...
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Lupe Vélez María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944), known professionally as Lupe Vélez, was a Mexican actress, singer and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican ...
, actress *
Julieta Venegas Julieta Venegas Percevault (; born November 24, 1970) is an American-born Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who sings pop-rock-indie in Spanish. She went on to join several bands including Mexican ska band Tijuana No!. Ven ...
, singer-songwriter, composer, musician *
Eduardo Verástegui José Eduardo Verástegui Córdoba (; born May 21, 1974) is a Mexican producer and actor. He was part of band Kairo and later a solo music career, before he started appearing in Mexican telenovelas and eventually feature films like ''Chasing Papi ...
, actor, model *
Carlos Villagrán Carlos Villagrán Eslava (born 12 January 1944) is a Mexican actor, comedian, and former journalist best known for playing Quico in the Televisa sitcom ''El Chavo del Ocho''. Life and career He was a newspaper writer for Mexico City. As a wri ...
, actor * David Villalpando, actor *
Mayrín Villanueva Mayrín Villanueva Ulloa (born 8 October 1970) is a Mexican actress and model. Villanueva has also posed for multiple magazines. She was considered for the role of Julia Montaño in the 2004 telenovela ''Apuesta por un Amor''; the role was eve ...
, actress *
Alicia Villarreal Martha Alicia Villarreal Esparza (born August 31, 1971), known simply and professionally as Alicia Villarreal, is a Mexican singer-songwriter. Villarreal participated in different bands in Monterrey, before becoming the lead singer for Grupo L ...
, singer * Edgar Vivar, actor * Kat Von D, model, musician, tattoo artist *
Eduardo Victoria Eduardo Victoria (Born September 7, 1970, Ciudad de México, D.F. México), is a Mexican actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the t ...
, actor * Gonzalo Garcia Vivanco, actor *
Nena von Schlebrügge Birgitte Caroline "Nena" von Schlebrügge (born January 8, 1941) is a Mexican-born Swedish and American fashion model from the 1950s and 1960s. She started her high-fashion modelling career in London in 1957 and continued in New York City in 1 ...
, fashion model *
Laisha Wilkins Laisha Wilkins Pérez (born 18 May 1976) is a Mexican actress, talk show hostess and producer. Biography She is the daughter of Federico Wilkins, not to be confused with Federico Wilkins, a Televisa producer, and Susana Pérez. Originally s ...
, actress *
Laura Zapata Laura Guadalupe Zapata Miranda ( born July 31, 1956) is a Mexican support telenovela actress, singer, and dancer. She has acted in Televisa productions. Family Born in Mexico City, Zapata is the daughter of Guillermo Zapata Pérez de Utrera (a ...
, actress * Jesús Zavala, actor, singer *
Humberto Zurita Humberto Zurita (, born September 2, 1954) is a Mexican actor, director and producer. Zurita, one of 10 siblings from Torreón, Coahuila, is best known as actor, director and producer of telenovelas. Acting career He made his first stage appea ...
, actor


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Lucas Alamán Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada ( Guanajuato, New Spain, October 18, 1792 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 2, 1853) was a Mexican scientist, conservative statesman, historian, and writer. He came from an elite Guanajuato family and was well-tra ...
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Ramón Alcaraz Ramón Isaac Alcaraz was an officer in the Mexican Army who wrote many books about the Mexican–American War The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States interventio ...
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Francisco Javier Clavijero Francisco Javier Clavijero Echegaray (sometimes ''Francesco Saverio Clavigero'') (September 9, 1731 – April 2, 1787), was a Mexican Jesuit teacher, scholar and historian. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish provinces (1767), he ...
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Francisco del Paso y Troncoso Francisco de Borja del Paso y Troncoso (October 8, 1842 in Veracruz, Veracruz Mexico – April 30, 1916 in Florence, Italy) was an important Mexican historian, archivist, and Nahuatl language scholar. He "was and remains the outstanding major M ...
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Everardo Elizondo Everardo Elizondo Almaguer is a Mexican economist who has worked for private, public, and academic institutions. By senatorial appointment, he served as deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico —the country's central bank— from 1998 to 2008. B ...
* Clara Jusidman * Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea *
Miguel León-Portilla Miguel León-Portilla (22 February 1926 – 1 October 2019) was a Mexican anthropologist and historian, specializing in Aztec culture and literature of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras. Many of his works were translated to English and he was ...
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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (born December 11, 1940)  is a Mexican archaeologist. From 1978 to 1982 he directed excavations at the Templo Mayor, the remains of a major Aztec pyramid in central Mexico City. Matos Moctezuma graduated with a ma ...
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Jean Meyer Jean Meyer Barth (born February 8, 1942) is a French-Mexican historian and author, known for his writings on early 20th-century Mexican history. He has published extensively on the Mexican Revolution and Cristero War, the history of Nayarit, and ...
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Edmundo O'Gorman Edmundo O'Gorman (24 November 1906 in Mexico City – 28 September 1995 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian and philosopher. He is considered as being among the earlier and most influential applicants of historical revisionism to ...
* Alejandro Peschard Fernández *
Armand Peschard-Sverdrup Armand Peschard-Sverdrup is a Mexican political scientist and foreign policy specialist. He founded the policy firm Peschard Sverdrup International in 2004. Prior to his work at PS International, Peschard-Sverdrup was widely recognized as one of ...
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Jacqueline Peschard Jacqueline Peschard Mariscal is a Mexican sociologist who specializes in electoral integrity and democracy studies. She was President Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information from 2009 until 2013. She also served as ...
* Pedro Thomas Ruiz de Velasco *
Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo is a Mexican sociologist and public intellectual of wide renown in Mexico and Spain. He is perhaps most well known for his study of nineteenth-century civic culture in Mexico, ''Imaginary Citizens'', a book that made hi ...
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Intellectuals and writers

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Héctor Aguilar Camín Héctor Aguilar Camín (born July 9, 1946) is a Mexican writer, journalist, and historian, director of ''Nexos'' magazine. ''Nexos'' was fined and banned for two years (2020-2022) from contracts with the Mexican Government (which had provided the ...
* Gabriel Careaga Medina *
Mariano Azuela Mariano Azuela González (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the fi ...
* Edmundo Cetina Velázquez, philosopher *
Daniel Cosío Villegas Daniel Cosío Villegas (July 23, 1898 – March 10, 1976) was a Mexican prominent economist, essayist, historian, and diplomat. Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he receiv ...
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Fernando del Paso Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He ...
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Cervantes Prize The Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( es, Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. History The prize was established in 1975 ...
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Salvador Elizondo Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (Mexico City, December 19, 1932 - March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style ...
* Juan Escoto *
Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), ''The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christophe ...
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Cervantes Prize The Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( es, Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. History The prize was established in 1975 ...
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Jorge Ibargüengoitia Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (January 22, 1928 – November 27, 1983) was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular and critical success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: ''The Dead Girls'', ''Tw ...
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Alfonso García Robles Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained ...
, winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...
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Enrique Krauze Enrique Krauze (Mexico City, September 16, 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: ''Mexico: Biography of Power'', ''Redeemers'', and ''El pueblo soy yo'' (''I a ...
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Mario Ojeda Gómez Mario Ojeda Gómez (10 August 1927 – 1 November 2013) was a Mexican scholar and internationalist. He served as President and later Professor Emeritus at El Colegio de México (1997). He was Mexico's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1995 to 1998. Ojeda ...
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Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...
, winner of the 1990
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Alfonso Reyes Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of th ...
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Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo ( ; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel ''Pedro Páramo'', and th ...
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Moises Saenz Moises or Moisés is a male name common among people of Iberian origin. It is the Spanish, Portuguese and Tagalog equivalent of the name Moses. ;Places * Doctor Moisés Bertoni, a village in the Caazapá department of Paraguay * Moises Padilla, a ...
* Juan Manuel Silva Camarena, philosopher, professor and academic *
José Vasconcelos José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the "cultural " of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities ...
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Gabriel Zaid Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual. Early life He was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, on January 24, 1934, son of Palestinian immigrants, is a Mexican thinker (poet, essayist, economist, businessman, engineer, a ...


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Carmen Aristegui María del Carmen Aristegui Flores (; born January 18, 1964) is a Mexican journalist and anchorwoman. She is widely regarded as one of Mexico's leading journalists and opinion leaders, and is best known for her critical investigations of the Mex ...
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Jesús Blancornelas J. Jesús Blancornelas (November 14, 1936 – November 23, 2006) was a Mexican journalist who co-founded the Tijuana-based ''Zeta'' magazine, known for its reporting on corruption and drug trafficking. His work encompassed an extensive research ...
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Manuel Buendía Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón (24 May 1926 – 30 May 1984) was a Mexican journalist and political columnist who last worked for the daily ''Excélsior'', one of the most-read newspapers in Mexico City. His direct reporting style in his colum ...
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Lydia Cacho Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (born 12 April 1963) is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist. Described by Amnesty International as "perhaps Mexico's most famous investigative journalist and women's rights advocate", Cacho's repor ...
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María Antonieta Collins María Antonieta Collins Flores (born 12 May 1952) is a Mexican journalist, television host and author. She is the winner of four Emmy Awards and the Edward Murrow Award. Biography Collins became known to viewers in her native Mexico as a ...
* Denise Dresser *
Isidro Fabela José Isidro Fabela Alfaro (28 June 1882 – 12 August 1964) was a Mexican judge, politician, professor, writer, publisher, governor of the State of Mexico, diplomat, and delegate to the now defunct League of Nations. Fabela was born in Atla ...
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Giselle Fernández Giselle Fernández (born May 15, 1961) is an American television journalist and anchor for Spectrum News 1. Her appearances on network television include reporting and guest anchoring for ''CBS Early Show'', ''CBS Evening News'', ''Today'', and ...
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Pedro Ferriz de Con Pedro Ferriz de Con (born December 12, 1950) is a Mexican radio and TV news anchor. During the 1990s, he worked for the Multivision Network. In January 2000, he left MVS and went to Grupo Imagen, where he hosted the morning newscast on XEDA-FM ...
* Pedro Ferriz Santacruz *
Ricardo Flores Magón Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón (, known as Ricardo Flores Magón; September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922) was a noted Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. His brothers Enrique and Jesús were also active in politics. Followers of ...
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Joaquín López-Dóriga Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia (born 8 February 1947) is a Spanish Mexican journalist. He started working as a journalist for the daily ''El Heraldo de México'' at the age of 18, and two years later he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky in the televisi ...
* Carlos Loret de Mola *
Adela Micha Adela Micha Zaga (born May 25, 1963) is a Mexican journalist notable for conducting several radio and TV newscasts and pioneering the Big Brother reality show in Mexico. She is a graduate of the Universidad del Nuevo Mundo (currently closed by ...
* Margarita Michelena * Jorge Ramos *
Paola Rojas Paola Rojas (born Paola Rojas Hinojosa; November 20, 1976) is a Mexican television news anchor. Born in Mexico City, Rojas' education started in the fine arts at a very young age. Her father was Jorge Rojas. Biography Rojas' career started at ...
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Javier Solórzano Javier may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Javier, in video game '' Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' * Javier Rios, a character in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. * ''Javier'' (album), a 2003 album by the American singer Javier Colon, known a ...
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Lilly Téllez María Lilly del Carmen Téllez García (born 14 November 1967), professionally known as Lilly Téllez, is a Mexican senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the state of Sonora. She previously worked as a journalist for tele ...
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Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the coun ...


Sports journalists

* José Roberto ''Pepe'' Espinosa *
David Faitelson David Moshé Faitelson Pulido (born November 8, 1968 ) is a Mexican-Israeli sports journalist who currently works for ESPN Deportes. He lives in Southern California and is married and has three daughters.(18 February 2009)Biografía - David Faite ...
* Álvaro Morales * Inés Sainz * Pedro ''El Mago'' Septién * José Ramón Fernández (journalist)


Military, revolutionaries and guerrilla (fighters)

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Juan Aldama Juan Aldama (January 3, 1774 in San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato – June 26, 1811 in Chihuahua) was a Mexican revolutionary rebel soldier during the Mexican War of Independence in 1810. Biography He was also the brother of Ignacio Aldama ...
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Ignacio Allende Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga (, , ; January 21, 1769 – June 26, 1811), commonly known as Ignacio Allende, was a captain of the Spanish Army in New Spain who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement. He attended the secre ...
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Felipe Ángeles Felipe Ángeles Ramírez (1868–1919) was a Mexican military officer and revolutionary during the era of the Mexican Revolution. Having risen to the rank of colonel of artillery in the Federal Army of the Porfiriato, Ángeles was promoted to ge ...
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Lucio Cabañas Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (, 12 December 1938 – 2 December 1974) was a Mexican schoolteacher who became a revolutionary, albeit not a Marxist one. Cabañas regarded Emiliano Zapata as his role model and he never abandoned his Christian faith, a ...
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Porfirio Díaz José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori ( or ; ; 15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico, a total of 31 years, from 28 November 1876 to 6 Decem ...
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Mariano Escobedo Mariano Antonio Guadalupe Escobedo de la Peña (16 January 1826 – 22 May 1902) was a Mexican Army general and Governor of Nuevo León. Early life Mariano Escobedo was born in San Pablo de los Labradores (which is today known as Galeana), ...
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Enrique Gorostieta Enrique Gorostieta Velarde ( Monterrey, 1889 – Atotonilco el Alto, June 2, 1929) was a Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War. Life Born in Monterrey into a prominent Mexican-Basque family, Enrique G ...
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Vicente Guerrero Vicente Ramón Guerrero (; baptized August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831) was one of the leading revolutionary generals of the Mexican War of Independence. He fought against Spain for independence in the early 19th century, and later served as ...
* Rafael Sebastián Guillén, ''Subcomandante Marcos'' *
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Don (honorific), Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753  – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader ...
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Victoriano Huerta José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (; 22 December 1854 – 13 January 1916) was a general in the Mexican Federal Army and 39th President of Mexico, who came to power by coup against the democratically elected government of Francisco I. Madero wit ...
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José Mariano Jiménez José Mariano Jiménez (August 18, 1781 – June 26, 1811) was a Mexican engineer and rebel officer active at the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence. Mariano Jiménez was born in San Luis Potosí. He studied in the Colegio de Miner ...
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Emilio Kosterlitzky Emilio Kosterlitzky (Russian: Эмилио Костерлицкий; 16 November 1853 – 2 March 1928) was a Russian-born Mexicans, Mexican colonel during the Mexican Revolution. He had also served in the Apache–Mexico Wars, Mexican Apache ...
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Antonio López de Santa Anna Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (; 21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,''Handbook of Texas Online'' Retrieved 18 April 2017. usually known as Santa Ann ...
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Ignacio López Rayón Ignacio López Rayón (July 31, 1773 in Tlalpujahua, Intendancy of Valladolid (present-day Michoacán), New Spain – February 2, 1832 in Mexico City) was a general who led the insurgent forces of his country after Miguel Hidalgo's death, dur ...
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Mariano Matamoros Mariano Matamoros y Guridi (August 14, 1770 – February 3, 1814) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary rebel soldier of the Mexican War of Independence, who fought for independence against Spain in the early 19th century. B ...
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José María Morelos y Pavón José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...
* Victoriano "El Catorce" Ramírez *
Leona Vicario María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario Fernández de San Salvador, best known as Leona Vicario (April 10, 1789 – August 21, 1842), was one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican War of Independence. She was dedicated to informin ...
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Pancho Villa Francisco "Pancho" Villa (,"Villa"
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Emiliano Zapata Emiliano Zapata Salazar (; August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the ins ...


Monarchs

* Emperor Agustin I * Emperor Maximiliano I


Politicians

* Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Ríos *
Miguel Alemán Valdés Miguel Alemán Valdés (; 29 September 1900 – 14 May 1983) was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952, the first civilian president after a string of revolutionary generals. His administr ...
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Miguel Alemán Velasco Miguel Alemán Velasco (born 18 March 1932 in Veracruz) is a Mexican politician, businessman and philanthropist. He is a former senator and governor of Veracruz. Alemán Velasco is the son of former Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés ...
* Gilberto Bosques Saldívar * Luis H. Álvarez *
Eduardo Bours José Eduardo Robinson Bours Castelo (born December 17, 1956) is a Mexican businessman who served as governor of Sonora under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI. He is a member of the Robinson Bours family which immigrated from the Uni ...
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Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 a ...
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Heberto Castillo Heberto Castillo Martínez (August 23, 1928 – April 5, 1997) was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist. Castillo was born in Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National ...
* Manuel J. Clouthier *
Cuauhtémoc Cuauhtémoc (, ), also known as Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler (''tlatoani'') of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, making him the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle" ...
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (; born 1 May 1934) is a Mexican prominent politician. The son of 51st President of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas, he is a former Head of Government of Mexico City and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolu ...
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Lázaro Cárdenas Batel Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (born 2 April 1964) is a Mexican politician. He served as governor of Michoacán from 2002 to 2008, representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Prior to his election to that office in 2001, he had represen ...
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río Lázaro is a Spanish or Portuguese-based given name or surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Lázaro (footballer, born 1990), full name Lázaro Vinícius Alves Martins, Brazilian footballer * Lázaro (footballer, born 2002), f ...
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Venustiano Carranza José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was a Mexican wealthy land owner and politician who was Governor of Coahuila when the constitutionally elected president Francisco I. Madero was overthrown in a February ...
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Luis Donaldo Colosio Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (; 10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexic ...
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Porfirio Díaz José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori ( or ; ; 15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico, a total of 31 years, from 28 November 1876 to 6 Decem ...
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Marcelo Ebrard Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (; born 10 October 1959) is a Mexican politician who is serving as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. Affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) since 2018, he was appointed to lead the f ...
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Diego Fernández de Cevallos Diego Fernández de Cevallos Ramos (; born 16 March 1941) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He was a presidential candidate in the 1994 election and President of the Mexican Senate. Life ...
* Marti Batres *
Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elec ...
* Rosa Albina Garavito * José Eleuterio González, José Eleuterio González, ''Gonzalitos'' * Manuel Gómez Morín * Plutarco Elías Calles * Elba Esther Gordillo * Carlos Hank González (politician), Carlos Hank González *
Jorge Hank Rhon Jorge Hank Rhon (born January 28, 1956) is a Mexican businessman and owner of Mexico's largest sports betting company, ''Grupo Caliente''. He served from December 2004 to February 2007 as the president of the municipality of Tijuana. He is th ...
* Enrique Jackson * Benito Juárez * Vicente Lombardo Toledano * Andrés Manuel López Obrador * José López Portillo * Francisco I. Madero * Carlos A. Madrazo * Roberto Madrazo * Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo * Moctezuma Ilhuicamina * Moctezuma Xocoyotzin * Antonio Ortiz Mena * Enrique Peña Nieto * Armando Ríos Piter * Rosario Robles * Carlos Salinas de Gortari *Claudia Sheinbaum * Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, Jesús Silva-Herzog * Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Fidel Velázquez * Ernesto Zedillo * Demetrio Sodi


Religious people

* Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal * Philip of Jesus, Felipe de Jesús, Saint (Martyr) * Juan Diego, Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Saint * Anacleto González Flores, Beatification, Beato, (Martyr) * Rafael Guízar Valencia, Bishop, Saint *
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Don (honorific), Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753  – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader ...
* Javier Lozano Barragán, Cardinal * Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, Saint * Miguel Agustín Pro, Beato, (Martyr) * Norberto Rivera, Cardinal * José Sánchez del Río, Beato (Martyr) *Margarito Bautista, theologian and religious founder


Science and technology


A–L

* José Adem, mathematician * Miguel Alcubierre, theoretical and computational physicist; see Alcubierre drive * Celia Mercedes Alpuche Aranda, infectious diseases researcher * Fernando Altamirano, physician, botanist and naturalist * Miguel Alvarez del Toro, biologist * Carlos Arias Ortiz, biochemist * León Ávalos y Vez, mechanical engineer * Juan Francisco Azcárate, military, aircraft designer and engineer * Albert Baez, physicist * Isidro Baldenegro López, awarded the 2005 Goldman Environmental Prize * Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, biologist * Francisco Barnés de Castro, engineer * Marcos E. Becerra, anthropologist and botanist * Jacob Bekenstein, physicist; contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics; see the Bekenstein bound * Francisco Bolívar Zapata, biochemist and professor * Alberto Bustani Adem, engineer * Edwin Bustillos, awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996 * Juan Ismael Calzada, botanist; credited with the discovery of the elm Ulmus ismaelis * Carlos Canseco, physician and philanthropist * Nabor Carrillo Flores, nuclear physicist, scientific advisor and former president of UNAM *
Heberto Castillo Heberto Castillo Martínez (August 23, 1928 – April 5, 1997) was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist. Castillo was born in Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National ...
, civil engineer and political activist * Ana María Cetto, physicist * Ignacio Chapela, microbial ecologist and mycologist; notable for his work with natural resources and indigenous uprights * Ignacio Chávez Sánchez, physician and cardiologist * Alejandro Corichi, theoretical physics; contributed to the understanding of classical aspects of black holes * Jorge Cuesta, chemist * José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, scientist * Miguel de Icaza, free software programmer; started GNOME * Pablo de la Llave, biologist * Antonio de León y Gama, astronomer, anthropologist and writer * Andrés Manuel del Río, chemist; discovered vanadium * Alfredo Dugès, biologist * Luis Enrique Erro, astronomer * Henry Eyring (chemist), Henry Eyring, chemist * Jefa Fabiana, head of nursing *Carlos Frenk, astronomer; pioneer in simulations of large-scale structure * Héctor García-Molina, database researcher * Ángel María Garibay K, linguist * Francisco Javier González-Acuña, mathematician * Guillermo González Camarena, inventor of the first color television system * Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen, lexicographer, linguist, educator, and poet * Julio César Gutiérrez Vega, physicist * Gastón Guzmán, mycologist and anthropologist * Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, biotechnologist and business director * Guillermo Haro, astrophysicist and astronomer; co-discoverer of Herbig-Haro objects * Alfonso L. Herrera, biologist * José María Lanz, mathematician and engineer * Yolanda Lastra, linguist * Antonio Lazcano, biologist * Jesús León Santos, awarded the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize * José Luis Lezama, scientist * Susana López Charreton, biochemist * Ana María López Colomé, biochemist


M–Z

* Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz, veterinarian * German Martinez Hidalgo, physicist, mathematician, chemist and astronomer * Daniel Mastretta, engineer and Automotive design, car designer * Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez, chemist * Federico Mena, computer programmer * Luis E. Miramontes, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill * Ricardo Miledi, neuroscientist who won the Royal Medal in 1998 * Cristina Mittermeier, photographer and biochemical engineer * José Mariano Mociño, botanist * Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize winner in 1995 * Carmen Mondragón ''Nahui Olin'', model, painter and poet * Manuel Mondragón, General Manuel Mondragón, firearm designer * Rodolfo Montiel Flores, awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000 * Rodolfo Neri Vela, astronaut and scientist * Víctor Neumann-Lara, mathematician * Melchor Ocampo, biologist, politician * Esther Orozco, biologist * Federico Ortiz Quezada, urologist * Antonio Peña Díaz, biochemist * Arcadio Poveda, astronomer; developed a method to calculate the mass of elliptical galaxies * Marco Rito-Palomares, biologist * Diego Rodríguez Da Luz, Diego Rodríguez, mathematician, astronomer, educator and technological innovator * Raúl Rojas, computer scientist and mathematician * Arturo Rosenblueth, physician and physiologist * Reyes Tamez Guerra, immunochemist * Ted Taylor (physicist), Ted Taylor, physicist, nuclear-weapons designer * Fernando Vallejo, biologist, filmmaker and writer * Evangelina Villegas, biochemist *Hilda Villegas Castrejón, surgeon and a pioneer in Electron microscope, electron microscopy * Nora Volkow, physician * Rossana Reguillo, social scientist


Sports


American football

* Isaac Alarcón, NFL, offensive tackle * Raúl Allegre, NFL, placekicker * Rolando Cantu, NFL, offensive guard * Frank Corral, NFL, placekicker * Tom Fears, NFL, wide receiver * Efren Herrera, Efrén Herrera, NFL, placekicker * Victor Leyva, NFL, offensive guard * Marco Martos (American football), Marco Martos, NFL Europe, wide receiver, head coach * Jose Portilla, NFL, offensive tackle * Ramiro Pruneda, NFL, offensive tackle * Aldo Richins, NFL, wingback * Rafael Septién, NFL, placekicker * Joaquin Zendejas, NFL, placekicker * Luis Zendejas, NFL, placekicker * Marty Zendejas, NFL, placekicker * Max Zendejas, NFL, placekicker * Tony Zendejas, NFL, placekicker


Baseball

* Juan Acevedo, MLB, pitcher * Alfredo Aceves, MLB, pitcher * Tavo Álvarez, MLB, pitcher * Alfredo Amézaga, MLB * Bobby Ávila, MLB, second baseman * Luis Ayala (baseball), Luis Ayala, MLB, pitcher * Manny Bañuelos, MLB, pitcher * Nelson Barrera, LMB, infielder / designated hitter * Rigo Beltrán, MLB, pitcher * Vinny Castilla, MLB, third baseman, manager * Humberto Cota, MLB, catcher * Jorge Cantú, MLB, third baseman / first baseman * Luis Cruz, MLB, shortstop * Jorge de la Rosa, MLB, pitcher * Elmer Dessens, MLB, pitcher * Erubiel Durazo, MLB, first baseman * Narciso Elvira, MLB, pitcher * Héctor Espino, LMB & MPL, first baseman, manager * Francisco Estrada, Francisco ''Paquín'' Estrada, LMB, catcher, manager * Marco Estrada (baseball), Marco Estrada, MLB, pitcher * Yovani Gallardo, MLB, pitcher * Jaime García (baseball), Jaime García, MLB, pitcher * Benji Gil, MLB, infielder * Miguel Gonzalez (pitcher), Miguel Gonzalez, MLB, pitcher * Victor González (baseball), Victor González, MLB, pitcher * Teddy Higuera, MLB, pitcher * Arnold León, MLB, pitcher * Esteban Loaiza, MLB, pitcher * Aurelio López, MLB, relief pitcher * Jorge Orta, MLB, second baseman / designated hitter / outfielder * Roberto Osuna, MLB, pitcher * Ramiro Peña, MLB, infielder * Óliver Pérez, MLB, pitcher * Dennys Reyes, MLB, pitcher * Oscar Robles, MLB, infielder * Aurelio Rodríguez, MLB, third baseman * Fernando Salas (baseball), Fernando Salas, MLB, pitcher * Ali Solis, MLB, catcher * Joakim Soria, MLB, relief pitcher * Julio Urías, MLB, pitcher * José Urquidy, MLB, pitcher * Fernando Valenzuela, MLB, pitcher * Christian Villanueva, MLB, third baseman


Basketball

* Gustavo Ayón, National Basketball Association, NBA, Center (basketball), center * Romel Beck, NBA Development League, point guard * Jorge Gutiérrez (basketball), Jorge Gutiérrez, National Basketball Association, NBA, point guard * Horacio Llamas, National Basketball Association, NBA, Center (basketball), center * Eduardo Nájera, National Basketball Association, NBA, Basketball positions#Frontcourt (forwards and center), forward


Martial arts

* Jessica Aguilar, UFC, mixed martial artist * Brandon Moreno, UFC, mixed martial artist * Yair Rodríguez, UFC, mixed martial arts * Irene Aldana, UFC, mixed martial arts * Alexa Grasso, UFC, mixed martial arts


Tennis

* Enrique Abaroa * Bruno Echagaray * Daniel Garza * Lucas Gómez * Santiago González (tennis), Santiago González * Hans Hach Verdugo * Tigre Hank * Luis Herrera (tennis), Luis Herrera * Leonardo Lavalle * Mario Llamas * Jorge Lozano * Francisco Maciel * Juan Manuel Elizondo * Agustín Moreno * Óscar Ortiz (tennis), Óscar Ortiz * Rafael Osuna * Antonio Palafox * Luis Patiño (tennis), Luis Patiño * Raúl Ramírez * Yola Ramírez * Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela * Manuel Sánchez (tennis), Manuel Sánchez * Renata Zarazúa


Boxing

* Saúl Álvarez, Saúl ''Canelo'' Álvarez * Romeo Anaya * Alfredo Angulo, Alfredo ''El Perro'' Angulo * Jorge Arce, Jorge ''Travieso'' Arce * Jose Argumedo, Jose ''Tecuala'' Argumedo * Ricardo Arredondo * Antonio Avelar * Gilberto Keb Baas, Gilberto Keb ''Baby Luis V'' Baas * Marco Antonio Barrera, Marco Antonio ''Baby-Faced Assassin'' Barrera * César Bazán, César ''El Paso'' Bazán * José Becerra * Ray Beltrán, Ray ''Sugar'' Beltrán * Miguel Berchelt, Miguel ''El Alacrán'' Berchelt * Víctor Burgos, Víctor ''El Acorazado'' Burgos * Yori Boy Campas, Luis Ramón ''Yori Boy'' Campas * Miguel Canto * Cruz Carbajal, Cruz ''Chucho'' Carbajal * Chango Carmona * Chucho Castillo, Jesús ''Chucho Castillo * Freddy Castillo * José Luis Castillo * Martín Castillo, Martín ''El Gallo'' Castillo * Hugo Cázares, Hugo ''El Increíble'' Cázares * Julio Ceja (boxer), Julio ''Pollito'' Ceja * Julio César Chávez, Julio César ''El Gran Campeón Mexicano'' Chávez * Julio César Chávez Jr., Julio César ''El hijo de la leyenda'' Chávez Jr * Jesús Chong, Jesús ''El Tigre'' Chong * Julio Cesar Martinez, Julio Cesar ''El Rey'' Martinez * Julio César Miranda, Julio César ''Pingo'' Miranda * Cristóbal Cruz, Cristóbal ''Lacandón'' Cruz * Carlos Cuadras * Pipino Cuevas * Ricardo Delgado (boxer), Ricardo Delgado, Olympic boxing * Juan de la Rosa * Antonio DeMarco * Gamaliel Díaz, Gamaliel ''El Plátano'' Díaz * Julio Díaz (boxer), Julio ''The Kidd'' Díaz * Guty Espadas, Guty ''Puro Yucatán'' Espadas * Juan José Estrada (boxer), Juan José ''Dinamita'' Estrada * Juan Francisco Estrada, Juan Francisco ''El Gallo'' Estrada * Moisés Fuentes, Moisés ''Moy'' Fuentes * Alejandro García (boxer), Alejandro ''Terra'' Garcia * Isidro García (boxer), Isidro ''El Chino'' Garcia * Raúl García (boxer), Raúl ''Rayito'' Garcia * Néstor Garza, Néstor ''El Tigre'' Garza * Alfonso Gómez * Miguel Ángel González (boxer), Miguel Ángel González * Jhonny González * Humberto González * Rodolfo González (boxer), Rodolfo González * Rodrigo Guerrero, Rodrigo ''Gatito'' Guerrero * Pedro Guevara (boxer), Pedro Guevara * Adrián Hernández (boxer), Adrián ''El Confesor'' Hernández * Juan Hernández (Mexican boxer), Juan ''Churritos'' Hernández * Rafael Herrera * Ramón García Hirales * Óscar Larios * Carlos Licona, Carlos ''Mexicanito'' Licona * Rafael Limón, Rafael ''Bazooka'' Limón * Ganigan López, Ganigan ''El Maravilla'' Lopez * Ricardo Lopez (boxer), Ricardo ''Finito'' López * Rodolfo López, Rodolfo ''Rudy'' López * Raúl Macías * Lupe Madera * Hernán Márquez * Juan Manuel Márquez, Juan Manuel ''Dinamita'' Márquez * Rafael Márquez (boxer), Rafael Márquez * Abner Mares * Rodolfo Martínez * Manuel Medina (boxer), Manuel Medina * Javier Mendoza (boxer), Javier ''Cobra'' Mendoza * Juan Meza * Cristian Mijares, Cristian ''El Diamante'' Mijares * Carlos Molina (Mexican boxer), Carlos ''King'' Molina * Fernando Montiel, Fernando ''Cochulito'' Montiel * Diego Morales (boxer), Diego ''Pelucho'' Morales * Erik Morales, Erik ''Terrible'' Morales * Jaime Munguía * Rubén Olivares, Rubén ''Púas'' Olivares * Jorge Páez, Jorge ''Maromero'' Páez * Jackie Nava, Jackie ''Princesa Azteca'' Nava * Emanuel Navarrete, Emanuel ''El Vaquero'' Navarrete * Luis Nery (boxer), Luis ''Pantera'' Nery * Oswaldo Novoa, Oswaldo ''El Gallito'' Novoa * Carlos Palomino * Raúl Pérez (boxer), Raúl Pérez * Lupe Pintor * Daniel Ponce de León * José Quirino, José ''El Gallito'' Quirino * Gilberto Ramírez, Gilberto ''Zurdo de Oro'' Ramírez * José Luis Ramírez * Yori Boy Campas, Luis Ramón "Yori Boy" Campas Medina * Joaquín Rocha * Francisco Rodríguez Jr. * Mario Rodriguez (boxer), Mario ''Dragoncito'' Rodriguez * Tomás Rojas (boxer), Tomás ''Gusano'' Rojas * Antonio Roldán * Gilberto Román * Omar Niño Romero, Omar ''Giant Killer'' Romero * Hugo Ruiz (boxer), Hugo ''Cuatito'' Ruiz * Lauro Salas * Vicente Saldivar * Juan Carlos Salgado, Juan ''Matador'' Salgado * Orlando Salido, Orlando ''Siri Salido * Clemente Sánchez, Clemente ''Xicotencatl Sanchez * Rubén Sánchez León, Rubén ''Yiyo'' Sánchez * Salvador Sánchez, Salvador ''Sal'' Sánchez * Léo Santa Cruz, Léo ''El Terremoto'' Santa Cruz * Giovani Segura, Giovani ''El Guerrero Azteca'' Segura * Laura Serrano * Ulises Solís * Édgar Sosa (boxer), Édgar Sosa * Elwin Soto, Elwin ''La Pulga'' Soto * Humberto Soto, Humberto ''La Zorrita'' Soto * Victor Terrazas, Victor ''Vikingo'' Terrazas * Efren Torres * Ana María Torres * Óscar Valdez * Francisco Vargas (Mexican boxer), Francisco ''El Bandido'' Vargas * Rey Vargas * Israel Vázquez, Israel ''Magnifico'' Vázquez * Miguel Vázquez, Miguel ''El Títere'' Vázquez * Kid Azteca, Luis ''Kid Azteca'' Villanueva * Alfredo Xeque * Alfonso Zamora * Daniel Zaragoza * Carlos Zárate Serna * Juan Zurita


Bullfighters

* Alejandro Amaya * Carlos Arruza * Jaime Bravo * Guillermo Capetillo * Eloy Cavazos * Michelito Lagravere * Rafita Mirabal * Silverio Pérez (bullfighter), Silverio Pérez * Carmelo Torres


Football


A–M


N–Z


Motorsports

* Carlos Contreras (racing driver), Carlos Contreras, NASCAR * Luis Díaz (racing driver), Luis Díaz, Champ Car, CART, American Le Mans Series * Mario Domínguez, CART * Adrián Fernández, CART, American Le Mans Series * Josele Garza, CART * Jorge Goeters, NASCAR * Ricardo González (racing driver), Ricardo González, CART, FIA World Endurance Championship, FIA WEC * Benito Guerra, rallying * Carlos Guerrero, CART * Esteban Gutiérrez, Formula One * Israel Jaitovich, NASCAR, road racing, road racer * Michel Jourdain Jr., CART, NASCAR and rallying * Sergio Pérez, Sergio ''Checo'' Pérez, Formula One * Jo Ramírez, team coordinator Formula One * José Luis Ramírez (NASCAR), José Luis Ramírez, NASCAR * Héctor Rebaque, Héctor Alonso Rebaque, Formula One, CART * Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver), Pedro Rodríguez, Formula One * Ricardo Rodríguez (Formula One), Ricardo Rodríguez, Formula One * Memo Rojas, Rolex Sports Car Series * Moisés Solana, Formula One * Daniel Suárez, NASCAR * Ricardo Triviño, rallying


Olympic and Paralympian athletes

* Raúl Alcalá, bicycle road racing * Daniel Bautista, racewalking * Perla Bustamante, Paralympian, track and field * Ernesto Canto, racewalking * Joaquín Capilla, diving (sport), diving * Alejandro Cárdenas, track and field * Everardo Cristóbal, Everardo Cristóbal Quirino, canoe racing * Nancy Contreras, track cycling * Paola Espinosa, diving * María Espinoza, María del Rosario Espinoza, taekwondo * Víctor Estrada, taekwondo * Adriana Fernández, marathon runner * Álvaro Gaxiola, diving * Carlos Girón, diving * Rodolfo Gómez, marathon runner * Raúl González (racewalker), Raúl González, racewalking * Belem Guerrero, track cycling * Ana Gabriela Guevara, track and field * Salvador Hernandez, Paralympian, track and field * Soraya Jiménez Mendivil, Soraya Jiménez, weightlifter * Brenda Magaña, gymnast * Saúl Mendoza, Paralympian, wheelchair racer * Humberto Mariles, equestrianism, equestrian * Carlos Mercenario, racewalking * Felipe Muñoz, Felipe ''Tibio'' Muñoz, swimming * Rommel Pacheco, diving * José Pedraza (racewalker), José ''Sargento'' Pedraza, racewalker * Guillermo Pérez (taekwondo), Guillermo Pérez Sandoval, taekwondo * Fernando Platas, diving * Maria Teresa Ramírez, swimming * Romary Rifka, high jump * Pilar Roldán, fencing * Iridia Salazar, taekwondo * Oscar Salazar (taekwondo), Oscar Salazar, taekwondo * Mario Santillan, Paralympian, marathon * Juan René Serrano, archery *Roberto Strauss, Olympic swimmer * Rubén Uriza, equestrian * Alberto Valdés, equestrian * Jeny Velazco, Paralympian, track and field * Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hubertus von Hohenlohe, Alpine skiing, alpine skier * José Youshimatz, José Manuel Youshimatz, track cycling * Vanessa Zambotti, judo * Luis Alberto Zepeda Félix, Paralympian, track and field


Wrestling

* Alfonso Dantés, Alfonso Dantés, ''El Tanque'' * Apolo Dantés * Américo Rocca * Atlantis (wrestler), Atlantis * Black Shadow (wrestler), Black Shadow * Blue Demon * Blue Panther * Brazo de Plata, Brazo de Plata / Super Porky * Cavernario Galindo * Cien Caras * Charly Manson * Alberto Del Rio, Alberto Del Rio / Dos Caras Jr. * Dos Caras * Dr. Wagner Jr. * El Brazo * Canek (wrestler), El Canek * El Dandy * El Hijo del Santo * El Santo * Emilio Charles Jr. * Enrique Llanes * Faby Apache * Heavy Metal (wrestler), Heavy Metal * Héctor Garza * Ayako Hamada * Jerry Estrada * L. A. Park * La Parka (wrestler), La Parka * Lady Apache * Latin Lover (wrestler), Latin Lover * Lizmark * Lizmark Jr. * Mari Apache * Máscara Año 2000 * Máscara Sagrada * Mascarita Sagrada * Mil Máscaras * Miss Janeth * Místico, Místico / Sin Cara * Negro Casas * Octagón * Octagóncito (AAA), Octagoncito * Perro Aguayo * Perro Aguayo Jr. * Pierroth Jr. * Pirata Morgan * Rayo de Jalisco Jr. * Rayo de Jalisco Sr. * Ringo Mendoza * Cien Caras, Carmelo Reyes, ''Cien Caras'' * Rito Romero * El Satánico, Satánico * Sexy Star * Shocker (wrestler), Shocker * Scorpio Jr. * Tarzán López * Villano III * Volador Jr. * Zuleyma


Golf

* Ernesto Pérez Acosta (golfer), Ernesto Acosta * Rafael Alarcón (golfer), Rafael Alarcón * Rodolfo Cazaubón * Roberto Díaz (golfer), Roberto Díaz * María Fassi * Óscar Fraustro * Alejandra Llaneza * Gaby López * Lorena Ochoa * Carlos Ortiz (golfer), Carlos Ortiz * Victor Regalado * Violeta Retamoza * José de Jesús Rodríguez * Cesar Sanudo * Esteban Toledo * Sebastián Vázquez (golfer), Sebastián Vázquez


Other sports

* Álvaro Beltrán, racquetball * Carlos Carsolio, mountaineering * Jesús Castañón, horse racing * Victor Espinoza, horse racing * Jose L. Espinoza, horse racing * David R. Flores, horse racing * Martin Garcia (jockey), Martin García, horse racing * Carlos Gracida, polo * Memo Gracida, polo * Mario Gutierrez (jockey), Mario Gutierrez, horse racing * Alberto Harari, horse racing * Paola Longoria, racquetball * Paco Lopez (jockey), Paco Lopez, horse racing * Roberto Mangas, mountaineering * Álvaro Pineda, horse racing * Roberto Pineda, horse racing * Eusebio Razo Jr., horse racing * Samantha Salas, racquetball * Marcel Sisniega Campbell, chess * Carlos Torre Repetto, chess * Sergio Perez,Formula 1


See also

*List of Mexican Americans *List of Mexican British people


References

{{reflist Lists of Mexican people, *