List of Mexicans

This article contains a list of well-known Mexicans in science, publication, arts, politics and sports.

Estados Unidos Mexicanos

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Arts

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, photographer; recipient, 1984 Hasselblad Award
Pita Amor, poet
Alberto Arai, architect, theorist and writer
Luis Barragán, architect
Federico Cantú, painter
Leonora Carrington, painter
Max Cetto, architect, educator and historian
Joaquín Clausell, painter
Miguel Covarrubias, painter
José Luis Cuevas, painter, printmaker
Gelsen Gas, theater director; film director and producer; actor; painter; poet; sculptor and inventor
Mathias Goeritz, painter, sculptor and architect
Jorge González Camarena, painter, muralist and sculptor
Francisco Guevara, multidisciplinary artist
Saturnino Herrán, painter
Graciela Iturbide, photographer; recipient, 2008 Hasselblad Award
María Izquierdo, painter
Frida Kahlo, painter
Gerardo Murillo, painter
Amado Nervo, poet
Juan O'Gorman, painter and architect
José Clemente Orozco, muralist, printmaker
Antonio Rivas Mercado, architect and engineer
Arturo Rivera, painter
Diego Rivera, muralist, painter, printmaker
Jesusa Rodríguez, director and performer
Michel Rojkind, architect
Verónica Ruiz de Velasco, figurative artist
Sebastián, sculptor
Javier Sicilia, poet, activist
David Alfaro Siqueiros, muralist, painter, printmaker
Rufino Tamayo, painter, printmaker
Mauricio Toussaint, painter
Remedios Varo, painter
José María Velasco, painter
Abraham Zabludovsky, architect
Alejandro Zohn, architect

Authors

Businesspeople

Cartoonists

Musicians, conductors and composers of concert music

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Pedro Infante

Antonio Aguilar, singer, composer
Alfonso Mejia-Arias, conductor, shakuhachi player
Felix Carrasco, conductor
Manuel Esperón, composer, musician, conductor
Pedro Fernández, singer, actor, songwriter, composer
Vicente Fernández, singer, composer
Horacio Franco, recorder player
Mike Fuentes, drummer
Pedro Infante singer,composer
Jaime Preciado, bassist
Carlos Miguel Prieto
Silvestre Revueltas, composer, conductor
Jesús Adrián Romero, Christian singer-songwriter
Juventino Rosas
Chalino Sánchez
Joan Sebastian, singer, composer
Marco Antonio Solís, singer, composer

Entertainers

A–C

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Ninel Conde

Antonio Aguilar, singer
Luis Aguilar, singer
Pepe Aguilar, singer
Rubén Aguirre, comedian, actor
Damián Alcázar, actor
Julio Alemán, actor
Fernando Allende, actor, film director
Ana Alicia, actress
Mario Almada, actor
Ilean Almaguer, actress
Rafael Amaya, actor
César Amigó, film director
Adolfo Angel, singer
Angélica María, singer
Alfonso Aráu, actor and director
Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter, director and producer
Ramón Ayala, singer
Anahí, actress, singer
Angélica Aragón, actress
Aracely Arámbula, actress
Esteban Arce, show host
Pedro Armendáriz, actor
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., actor
Adriana Barraza, actress
Ana Bárbara, singer
Katie Barberi, actress
Alejandra Barros, actress
Renato Bartilotti, actor
Sergio Basañez, actor
Kuno Becker, actor
Lola Beltrán, singer
Belinda, actress, singer
Elsa Benítez, model
Agustín Bernal, actor
Demián Bichir, actor
Jorge Blanco, actor, singer
Marcela Bovio, singer
Angelique Boyer, actress
Jacqueline Bracamontes, actress, model
Claudio Brook, actor
Andrés Bustamante, comedian
Alejandro Camacho, actor
Jaime Camil, singer, actor
Marco Antonio Campos Viruta, comedian, actor
Carmen Campuzano, actress, fashion model
Itatí Cantoral, actress
Eduardo Capetillo, actor
Yadhira Carrillo, actress
Irán Castillo, actress
Cristian Castro, singer
Verónica Castro, actress, singer
David Cavazos, singer
Lumi Cavazos, actress
Christian Chávez, actor, singer
Sharis Cid, actress
Fernando Colunga, actor
Ninel Conde, actress, model, singer
Karla Cossío, actress
Alfonso Cuarón, film director
Luis de Alba, actor, comedian
Rebecca de Alba, show host
Alfonso de Anda, show host
José María de Tavira, actor
Ana de la Reguera, actress
Arath de la Torre, actor
María Antonieta de las Nieves, actress
Kate del Castillo, actress

D–G

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Dolores del Río

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Francisco Gabliondo Soler

Dolores del Río, actress
Yolanda del Río, singer
Guillermo del Toro, film director
Gonzalo de la Torre, singer, producer
Eugenio Derbez, actor, comedian, producer
Aarón Díaz, actor
Liliana Domínguez, supermodel
Susana Dosamantes, actress
Lila Downs, singer
Dulce María, actress, singer, composer
Jean Duverger, actor, show host
Elán, singer, songwriter
Fernando Eimbcke, film director, screenwriter
Emilio Echevarría, actor
Liza Echeverría, model, show host
Erick Elías, actor, model
Emmanuel, singer
Lorena Enríquez, actress
José Guadalupe Esparza, singer
María Félix, actress
Alejandro Fernández, singer
Pedro Fernández, singer, actor, songwriter, composer, producer
Vicente Fernández, singer
Juan Ferrara, actor
Laura Flores, actress
Adriana Fonseca, actress
Rubén Fuentes, actor
Juan Gabriel, singer, composer
Francisco Gabilondo Soler, "Cri-Cri", songwriter
Gael García Bernal, actor
Sara García, actress
Eduardo Garza, voice actor
Bibi Gaytán, actress
Filippa Giordano, crossover singer
Ernesto Gómez Cruz, actor
Roberto Gómez Bolaños Chespirito, actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter
Alejandro González Iñárritu, film director
Edith González, actress
Sherlyn González, actress
Susana González, actress
Ely Guerra, singer, musician, songwriter, composer
Denisse Guerrero, singer
Emilia Guiú, actress
Elizabeth Gutiérrez, actress
Alejandra Guzmán, singer
Enrique Guzmán, singer
Vanessa Guzmán, actress, model

H–M

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Lucero

Laura Harring, actress
Salma Hayek, actress
Plutarco Haza, actor
Gaspar Henaine Capulina, actor and comedian
Saul Hernández, singer
Carlos Hernández Vázquez, film director
Alfonso Herrera, actor, singer
Lorena Herrera, actress
Pedro Infante, singer, actor
Mauricio Islas, actor
Frankie J, singer
Altair Jarabo, actress
Rodolfo Jiménez, actor
José Alfredo Jiménez, singer, songwriter, musician, composer
José José, singer
Lupita Jones, Miss Universe 1991
Judith Grace, show host
Ines Gomez Mont, television host
Kalimba, singer
Natalia Lafourcade, singer
Imanol Landeta, actor, singer
Valentino Lanús, actor
Norma Lazareno, actress
Ana Layevska, actress
Mariana Levy, actress
Iyari Limon, actress
Claudia Lizaldi, model
Patricia Llaca, actress
Xavier López, Chabelo, actor
Renato López, musician, show host
Seidy López, actress
Alex Lora, musician, singer, songwriter
Adriana Louvier, actress
Karyme Lozano, actress
Lucero, actress, singer
Luis Miguel, singer
Daniela Luján, actress, singer
Fernando Luján, actor
Diego Luna, actor, director
Tony MacFarland, actor
Sara Maldonado, actress, comedian
Julio Mannino, actor
Patricia Manterola, singer
Erik Mariñelarena, film director
Adalberto Martínez Resortes, comedian and actor
Karla Martínez, show host
Ingrid Martz, actress
Ofelia Medina, actress
Bill Meléndez, animator
Lucía Méndez, actress, singer
Florinda Meza, actress
Jaydy Michel, fashion model
Miroslava, actress
Maya Mishalska, actress
Nicky Mondellini, actress
Ricardo Montalbán, actor
Pilar Montenegro, actress, singer
Pablo Montero, singer, actor
Ivonne Montero, actress
Andrés Montiel, actor
Galilea Montijo, actress
Mario Moreno Cantinflas, actor and comedian
Bárbara Mori, actress, model
Sabine Moussier, actress
Marco Antonio Muñiz, singer
Evita Muñoz, actress, comedian, singer
Patricia Muñoz, actress, singer
René Muñoz, actor
Úrsula Murayama, actress

N–R

Ximena Navarrete, model, Miss Universe 2010
Guillermo Navarro, actor
Patricia Navidad, actress
Jorge Negrete, singer, actor
Mónica Noguera, television host, model
Adela Noriega, actress
Manuel "Manolo" Noriega, stage and film actor
Nailea Norvind, actress
Ramón Novarro, actor
Manuel Ojeda, actor
Fher Olvera, singer
Mauricio Ochmann, actor
Yahir Othon, actor, singer
Haley Paige, pornographic actress
Dominika Paleta, actress
Ludwika Paleta, actress
Joaquín Pardavé actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter
Plankton Man, musician
Arturo Peniche, actor
Maite Perroni, actress, singer
Silvia Pinal, actress, show host
Salvador Pineda, actor
Polo Polo, comedian
Anthony Quinn, actor
Enrique Rambal, actor
Adal Ramones, comedian
Marco Antonio Regil, television host
Diana Reyes, singer
Miguel Alejandro Reina, film director
Cornelio Reyna, singer
Angélica Rivera, actress
Jorge Rivero, actor
Aurora Robles, supermodel
Enrique Rocha, actor
Paul Rodriguez, comedian, actor
Helena Rojo, actress
María Rojo, actress
Daniela Romo, actress, singer
Alessandra Rosaldo, actress, singer
Paulina Rubio, singer
Ximena Rubio, actress
Victoria Ruffo, actress

S–Z

Jorge Salinas, actor
Carlos Santana, musician
Pablo Santos, actor
Joan Sebastian, singer
Mariana Seoane, singer
Ana Serradilla, actress
Antonio Serrano, director
Karol Sevilla, actress, singer
Camila Sodi, actress
Sasha Sokol, singer
Fernando Soler, actor
Javier Solís, singer
Marco Antonio Solís, singer
Blanca Soto, fashion model
Gabriel Soto, actor, model
Hugo Stiglitz, actor
Devin Tailes, singer
Ana Claudia Talancón, actress
Mario Talavera, songwriter
Tatiana, singer
Arleth Terán, actress
Thalía, actress, singer
Lynda Thomas, musician, singer-songwriter
José Antonio Torres, film director
Rigo Tovar, singer, songwriter, composer, actor
Gloria Trevi, singer
Víctor Trujillo / Brozo, actor, comedian
Emilio Tuero, actor, singer
Christopher Uckermann, actor, singer
Polo Urías, singer
Germán Valdés, Tin Tán, actor
Ramón Valdés, don Ramón, actor
Angélica Vale, actress, singer, comedian
Sergio Vallín, guitarist
Pedro Vargas, singer
María Elena Velasco La India María, actress, comedian
Raúl Velasco, entertainer and television producer
Lupe Vélez, actress
Julieta Venegas, singer, songwriter, composer, musician
Eduardo Verástegui, actor, model
Carlos Villagrán, actor
David Villalpando, actor
Mayrín Villanueva, actress
Alicia Villarreal, singer
Edgar Vivar, actor
Laisha Wilkins, actress
Laura Zapata, actress
Jesús Zavala, actor, singer
Humberto Zurita, actor

Historians, economists and social scientists

Intellectuals and writers

Héctor Aguilar Camín
Mariano Azuela
Daniel Cosío Villegas
Fernando del Paso
Germán Dehesa
Salvador Elizondo
Carlos Fuentes
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Alfonso García Robles, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982
Enrique Krauze
Mario Ojeda Gómez
Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Alfonso Reyes
Juan Rulfo
Moises Saenz
José Vasconcelos
Gabriel Zaid

Journalists

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Denise Dresser

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Jacobo Zabludovsky

Sports journalists

Military, revolutionaries and guerrilla (fighters)

Politicians

Religious people

Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Cardinal
Felipe de Jesús, Saint (Martyr)
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Saint
Anacleto González Flores, Beato, (Martyr)
Rafael Guízar Valencia, Bishop, Saint
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Javier Lozano Barragán, Cardinal
Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, Saint
Miguel Agustín Pro, Beato, (Martyr)
Norberto Rivera, Cardinal
José Sánchez del Río, Beato (Martyr)

Science and technology

A–L

José Ádem, mathematician
Miguel Alcubierre, theoretical and computational physicist; see Alcubierre drive
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, civil engineer and political activist
Ana María Cetto, physicist
Ignacio Chapela, microbial ecologist and mycologist; notable for his work with natural resources and indigenous right|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, biolologist
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
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
Guillermo Haro, astrophysicist and astronomer; co-discoverer of Herbig-Haro objects
Alfonso L. Herrera, biologist
Jaime Lagunez, cancer and HIV/AIDS researcher
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

German Martinez Hidalgo, physicist, mathematician, chemist and astronomer
Daniel Mastretta, engineer and 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
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, mathematician, astronomer, educator and technological innovator
Raúl Rojas, computer scientist and mathematician
Arturo Rosenblueth, physician and physiologist
Reyes Tamez Guerra, immunochemist
Ted Taylor, physicist, nuclear-weapons designer
Fernando Vallejo, biologist, filmmaker and writer
Evangelina Villegas, biochemist
Nora Volkow, physician
Rossana Reguillo, social scientist

Sports

Baseball

Bobby Ávila, MLB, second baseman
Nelson Barrera, LMB, infielder / designated hitter
Vinny Castilla, MLB, third baseman, manager
Humberto Cota, MLB, catcher
Jorge Cantú MLB, third baseman / first baseman
Elmer Dessens, MLB, pitcher
Erubiel Durazo, MLB, first baseman
Héctor Espino, LMB & MPL, first baseman, manager
Francisco Paquín Estrada, LMB, catcher, manager
Yovani Gallardo,MLB, pitcher
Jaime García, MLB, pitcher
Teddy Higuera, MLB, pitcher
Esteban Loaiza, MLB, pitcher
Aurelio López, MLB, relief pitcher
Jorge Orta, MLB, second baseman / designated hitter / outfielder
Dennys Reyes, MLB, pitcher
Oscar Robles, MLB, infielder
Aurelio Rodríguez, MLB, third baseman
Joakim Soria, MLB, relief pitcher
Fernando Valenzuela, MLB, pitcher

Boxing

Basketball

Gustavo Ayón, NBA, Center
Romel Beck, NBA Development League, point guard
Horacio Llamas, NBA, center
Eduardo Nájera, NBA, forward

Bullfighters

Football

Wrestling

Other sports

Raúl Allegre, NFL, placekicker
Álvaro Beltrán, racquetball
Rolando Cantu, NFL, offensive guard
Eduardo Castañeda, NFL, linebacker
Carlos Carsolio, mountaineering
Frank Corral, NFL, placekicker
Victor Espinoza, horse racing
Tom Fears, NFL, wide receiver
Martin García, horse racing
Carlos Gracida, polo
Memo Gracida, polo
Efrén Herrera, NFL, placekicker
Leonardo Lavalle, tennis
Victor Leyva, NFL, offensive guard
Paola Longoria, racquetball
Jorge Lozano, tennis
Marco Martos, NFL Europe, wide receiver, head coach
Lorena Ochoa, golf
Rafael Osuna, tennis
Antonio Palafox, tennis
Ramiro Pruneda, NFL, offensive tackle
Raúl Ramírez, tennis
Yola Ramírez, tennis
Ron Rivera, NFL, player / coach
Samantha Salas racquetball
Rafael Septien, NFL, placekicker
Marcel Sisniega Campbell, chess
Esteban Toledo, golf
Carlos Torre Repetto, chess
Luis Zendejas, NFL, placekicker
Max Zendejas, NFL, placekicker
Tony Zendejas, NFL, placekicker

References