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By US state
By ethnicity

Mexican Americans are Hispanic and Latino Americans who claim "Mexican" as their ethnic ancestry. The list includes, besides of Mexican inmigrants having American citizenship and descendants of them, residents Mexicans who lived in the Mexican Southwest of the current U.S. when this territory was incorporated into U.S. in 1848 and to his inhabitants were given the U.S. citizenship.

This is a list of 'notable Mexican Americans', including original immigrants and setlers of South from United States who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

This list is ordered by surname within section.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Mexican American or must have references showing they are Mexican American and are notable.


Sports

Baseball

Nomar Garciaparra

Boxing

Football

Tony Romo
Mark Sanchez

Golfing

Ice Hockey

Martial Arts

Mia Rosales St. John

Soccer

Carlos Bocanegra
Ramiro Corrales

Wrestling

Eddie Guerrero

Other sports

Pancho Gonzales In Australia (1954)
Tony Alva
Earl Watson

Arts and entertainment

Actors and media personalities

Jessica Alba
Eva Longoria
Dolores del Río
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Katy Jurado
Ricardo Montalbán
Anthony Quinn
Lupe Vélez & Ramón Novarro
Salma Hayek

Directors and filmmakers

Edward James Olmos

Models

Eve Torres

Musicians and music groups

Joan Baez
Linda Ronstadt
Zack De La Rocha
Carlos Santana
Julieta Venegas

Authors and poets

Visual arts

Kat Von D

Journalists

Political figures

Romualdo Pacheco Governor of California
Octaviano Larrazolo, First Latino U.S. Senator
Bill Richardson
Ken Salazar
Romana Acosta Bañuelos
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney

Military figures

General Richard E. Cavazos
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Medal of Honor recipient, Roy Benevidez
Guy Gabaldon

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Scholars and educators

Lauro Cavazos
J. Michael Ortiz

Science and technology

Ellen Ochoa
Jose Hernandez

Civil rights leaders and community activists

César Chávez at a United Farmworkers rally, 1974

Religious figures

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

Hector Barreto

Others

See also

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