100 Notable alumni of
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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The National Autonomous University of Mexico is 73rd in the world, 1st in Latin America, and 1st in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National Autonomous University of Mexico sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Carlos Slim
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- business magnateentrepreneurchief executive officercivil engineerphilanthropist
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Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine. He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of December 2023, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranked him as the 11th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $105 billion or about 7% of Mexico's GDP, making him the richest person in Latin America.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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- politicianwriterpolitical scientist
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who is the 65th and current president of Mexico. He previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2000 to 2005.
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Alfonso Cuarón
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- cinematographertelevision actorfilm editortelevision directorfilmmaker
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres, including the family drama A Little Princess (1995), the romantic drama Great Expectations (1998), the coming of age road film Y tu mamá también (2001), the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), science fiction films such as Children of Men (2006) and Gravity (2013) and the semi-autobiographical drama Roma (2018).
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Chespirito
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- writersongwritertelevision actorcomediancomposer
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Roberto Mario Gómez Bolaños, more commonly known by his stage name Chespirito, or "Little Shakespeare", was a Mexican actor, comedian, screenwriter, humorist, director, producer, and author. He is widely regarded as one of the icons of Spanish-speaking humor and entertainment and one of the greatest comedians of all time. He is also one of the most loved and respected comedians in Latin America. He is mostly known by his acting role Chavo from the sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1966-1969 graduated with Licentiate in economy
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician with Spanish citizenship who served as 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he worked in the Secretariat of Programming and Budget, eventually becoming Secretary. He secured the party's nomination for the 1988 general election and was elected amid widespread accusations of electoral fraud.
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Hugo Sánchez
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Hugo Sánchez Márquez is a Mexican former professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward. A prolific goalscorer known for his spectacular strikes and volleys, he is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican footballer of all time. In 1999, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics voted Sánchez the 26th best footballer of the 20th century, and the best footballer from the CONCACAF region. In 2004, Sánchez was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He is the fifth highest scorer in the history of La Liga, the fourth highest scoring foreign player after Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Karim Benzema, and is the seventh highest goalscorer in Real Madrid's history. He scored a total of 562 senior career goals for both club and country in 956 matches.
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Octavio Paz
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- translatorwriterphilosopherlyricistpolitician
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Octavio Paz Lozano 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 the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Verónica Castro
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- singertelevision produceractorrecording artistpresenter
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Verónica Castro, full name Verónica Judith Sáinz Castro (born 19 October 1952), is a Mexican actress, singer, producer, former model and presenter.
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Luis Echeverría
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1940-1945 graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjurist
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Luis Echeverría Álvarez was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, he was Secretary of the Interior from 1963 to 1969. At the time of his death in 2022, he was his country's oldest living former head of state.
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Carlos Fuentes
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- lectureropinion journalistplaywrightprose writerpoet lawyer
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Carlos Fuentes Macías 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 Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999). He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.
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Subcomandante Marcos
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- military personnelpoliticianphilosopher
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Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict, and a prominent anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal. Widely known by his initial nom de guerre Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (frequently shortened to simply Subcomandante Marcos), he has subsequently employed several other pseudonyms: he called himself Delegate Zero during the Other Campaign (2006–2007), and since May 2014 has gone by the name Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (again, frequently with the "Insurgente" omitted), which he adopted in honor of his fallen comrade Jose Luis Solis Lopez, his nom de guerre being Galeano, aka "Teacher Galeano". Marcos bears the title and rank of Subcomandante (or "Subcommander" in English), as opposed to Comandante (or "Commander" in English), because he is under the command of the indigenous commanders who constitute the EZLN's Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee's General Command (CCRI-CG in Spanish).
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Ténoch Huerta
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- film actortelevision actor
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José Tenoch Huerta Mejía 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 featured in Mónica Maristain's book, 30 Actors Made in Mexico. He plays Namor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), in which he is credited as Tenoch Huerta Mejía.
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José López Portillo
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- lawyerwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
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José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. López Portillo was the only official candidate in the 1976 presidential election, being the only president in recent Mexican history to win an election unopposed.
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Claudia Sheinbaum
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1984-1989 graduated with Licentiate in physics
- 1990-1992 graduated with master's degree in energy engineering
- 1993-1995 graduated with doctorate in environmental engineering
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- physicistpoliticianenvironmentalist
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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic. Sheinbaum served as Head of Government of Mexico City, a position equivalent to that of a state governor, from 2018 to 2023. Elected as the candidate of the leftist Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, she was both the first woman and first Jewish person to be elected to the position. She is a candidate for President of Mexico in the 2024 Mexican general election.
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Miguel de la Madrid
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- politicianlawyer
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Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.
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Audre Lorde
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- writerwomen's rights activistuniversity teacherteacherpoet
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Audre Lorde was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents to confronting all forms of injustice, as she believed there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions".
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Édgar Vivar Villanueva
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Édgar Ángel Vivar Villanueva is a Mexican actor and comedian. He is best known for his characters of Señor Barriga and his son Ñoño from El Chavo del Ocho, and El Botija from Los Caquitos and Chespirito.
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Howard Dean
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- physicianstockbrokerpolitician
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Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. Later, his implementation of the fifty-state strategy as head of the DNC is credited with the Democratic victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Afterward, he became a political commentator and consultant to McKenna Long & Aldridge, a law and lobbying firm.
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Miguel Alemán Valdés
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Miguel Alemán Valdés 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.
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Rocky De La Fuente
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Licentiate in mathematics and physics
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra is an American businessman and politician. A perennial candidate, De La Fuente was the Reform Party nominee in the 2016 and 2020 United States presidential elections. He also appeared on his own American Delta Party's presidential ticket in 2016, and on those of the Alliance Party and American Independent Party in 2020.
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José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- lawyereconomistinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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José Antonio Meade Kuribreña is a Mexican politician, economist, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister under Presidents Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto in a variety of portfolios, becoming the first Mexican official appointed to cabinet five times. He was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate in the 2018 presidential election, where he placed third.
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Elena Poniatowska
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- writerjournalist
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Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska (audio), is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
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José Emilio Pacheco
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- translatorwriterliterary criticscreenwritersinger
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José Emilio Pacheco Berny audio was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky
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- journalistlawyernews presenterwriter
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Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski 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 country.
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Ricardo Flores Magón
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- trade unionistmilitary personnelanarchistwriterpolitician
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Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón was a Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. His brothers Enrique and Jesús were also active in politics. Followers of the Flores Magón brothers were known as Magonistas. He has been considered an important participant in the social movement that sparked the Mexican Revolution.
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Omar Fayad
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1981-1985 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Omar Fayad Meneses is a Mexican politician from the state of Hidalgo who has served as a federal deputy and senator. He served as the Governor of Hidalgo from 2016 to 2022. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Gerardo Taracena
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- actor
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Gerardo Taracena is a Mexican film and theatre actor and dancer. He is known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Mexican and Sin Nombre as well as the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was born in Mexico City.
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Ernesto Cardenal
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied in 1942-1946
- Occupations
- Catholic priestpoettranslatorsculptorwriter
- Biography
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Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019.
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Ana Colchero
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- stage actortelevision actorwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Ana Colchero Aragonés is a Mexican actress.
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Luis E. Miramontes
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- chemistuniversity teacherinventor
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Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.
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María Isabel Allende
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- sociologistpolitician
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María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean politician and the youngest daughter of former Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens.
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César Costa
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- television actorfilm actorrecord producercomposerlawyer
- Biography
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César Roel Schreurs, best known as César Costa, is a Mexican actor and rock-and-roll singer.
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Rodolfo Neri Vela
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied in 1970-1975
- Occupations
- politicianastronautengineer
- Biography
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Rodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space.
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Carmen Aristegui
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- journalist
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María del Carmen Aristegui Flores 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 Mexican government. She is the anchor of the news program Aristegui on CNN en Español, and writes regularly for the opinion section of the periodical Reforma. In March 2015, she was illegally fired from MVS Radio 102.5 FM in Mexico City following a report on the conflict of interests by then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, with a state contractor who would have built a millionaire residence for the mandatory and his family. She manages her own news website and hosts an online morning newscast, which is also broadcast on Grupo Radio Centro's XERC-FM.
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Alfonso Reyes
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- writerpoet lawyerdiplomatpoettranslator
- Biography
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Alfonso Reyes Ochoa 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 the greatest authors in Spanish language. He served as ambassador of Mexico to Argentina and Brazil.
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Carlos Monsiváis
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- film criticwriterscreenwriterphilosopherliterary critic
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Carlos Monsiváis Aceves 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. His generation of writers includes Elena Poniatowska, José Emilio Pacheco, and Carlos Fuentes. Monsiváis won more than 33 awards, including the 1986 Jorge Cuesta Prize (named after a fellow writer about whom he wrote a book), the 1989 Mazatlán Prize, and the 1996 Xavier Villaurrutia Award. Considered a leading intellectual of his time, Monsiváis documented contemporary Mexican themes, values, class struggles, and societal change in his essays, books and opinion pieces. He was a staunch critic of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), leaned towards the left-wing, and was ubiquitous in disseminating his views on radio and television. As a founding member of "Gatos Olvidados", Monsiváis wanted his and other "forgotten cats" to be provided for beyond his lifetime.
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Raúl Salinas de Gortari
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- civil engineer
- Biography
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Raúl Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican civil engineer and businessman. He is the elder brother of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the 53rd president of Mexico.
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Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa is a Mexican lawyer and politician who works with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He served as the Mayor of Mexico City from 2012 to 2018. Mancera graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1989, and he was awarded the Gabino Barreda Medal two years later for being the best student of his class. He has a master's degree from the University of Barcelona and the Metropolitan Autonomous University and a Juris Doctor from the UNAM.
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Álvaro García Linera
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Álvaro Marcelo García Linera is a Bolivian politician, sociologist, Marxist theoretician, and former guerilla who served as the 38th vice president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. A member of the Movement for Socialism, in the early 1990s he was a leader of the Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army.
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Pedro Lascuráin
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician who served as the 38th president of Mexico for 45 minutes on 19 February 1913, the shortest presidency in history. The grandson of Mariano Paredes, the 15th president of Mexico, Lascuráin previously served as Mexico's foreign secretary for two terms and was the director of a small law school in Mexico City for 16 years.
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Elena Garro
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- writerprose writerscreenwriterplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Elena Garro was a Mexican screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
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Santiago Creel
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- politicianlawyercivil servant
- Biography
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Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Since 1 September 2021, he has been a federal deputy and the current President of the Congress of the Union and of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies. He served as Secretary of the Interior during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quesada, from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, he was elected Senator to the Congress of the Union and served as President of the Senate of the Republic from 2007 to 2008. In 2016 he served as Constituent Deputy of Mexico City.
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Pina Pellicer
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Josefina Yolanda "Pina" Pellicer López de Llergo was a Mexican actress known in her country for portraying the female lead in Macario (1960), and in the United States as Louisa alongside Marlon Brando in the Brando-directed movie One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
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Rosario Robles
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- politician
- Biography
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María del Rosario Robles Berlanga is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of Social Development in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. She also was substitute Head of Government of the Federal District ("Mayor of Mexico City") when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run for the Mexican presidential election, in 2000. She was the first female Mayor of Mexico City.
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Olga Sánchez Cordero
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero Dávila is a Mexican politician and former jurist. She was the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, and the first woman to ever hold this position. She previously served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Mexico's highest federal court, from 26 January 1995 to 30 November 2015. She currently serves as a Senator and was President of the Senate of the Republic from 2021 to 2022.
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Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
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- journalistlawyerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Porfirio Alejandro Muñoz Ledo y Lazo de la Vega was a Mexican politician. He was one of the founders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and served as Ambassador to Cuba from January 2022 until his death.
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Francisco León de la Barra
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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Francisco León de la Barra y Quijano was a Mexican political figure and diplomat who served as the 36th President of Mexico from May 25 to November 6, 1911 during the Mexican Revolution, following the resignations of President Porfirio Díaz and Vice President Ramón Corral. He previously served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs for one month during the Díaz administration and again from 1913 to 1914 under President Victoriano Huerta. He was known to conservatives as "The White President" or the "Pure President."
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
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- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a civil engineer and prominent social-democrat Mexican 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 Revolution. He ran for the presidency of Mexico three times, and his 1988 loss to the Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari had long been considered a direct result of obvious electoral fraud perpetrated by the ruling PRI, later acknowledged by President Miguel de la Madrid. He previously served as a Senator, having been elected in 1976 to represent the state of Michoacán and also as the Governor of Michoacán from 1980 to 1986.
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Diego Fernández de Cevallos
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Diego Fernández de Cevallos Ramos 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.
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Manuel Bartlett Díaz
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- politicianlawyercivil servant
- Biography
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Manuel Bartlett Díaz is a Mexican politician, and the current director of the public energy company CFE, and former Secretary of the Interior. Bartlett was elected to the Senate of the Republic for the 2000–2006 term, where he became known as one of the most staunch defenders of state ownership of electric utilities. On May 27, 2006, in view of the low possibility of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Roberto Madrazo winning the Presidency, Bartlett declared that he would vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution, to avoid a right-wing victory. Madrazo and the national leader of the PRI, Mariano Palacios, both condemned these declarations, and announced the possible expulsion of Bartlett from the party. Bartlett responded by continuing to speak out against both leaders.
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René Azcárraga Casados
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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René Casados Morales is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas.
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Alan Cranston
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- journalistpoliticianathletics competitor
- Biography
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Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952.
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Rosa María Bianchi
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Rosa María Bianchi is an Argentine-born Mexican actress.
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Luisa María Alcalde Luján
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- politician
- Biography
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Luisa María Alcalde Luján is a Mexican politician. She is the Secretary of the Interior and she was formerly the Secretary of Labor of Mexico, and is affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (formerly to the Citizens' Movement). She was formerly Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the Federal District.
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Adriana Paz
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Adriana Paz is a Mexican actress and dancer. She began her artistic career in Spain, shooting commercials and acting in a play. She was recognized for her role as Toña in the Mexican film Rudo y Cursi (2009) with a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress. She garnered critical praise starring as Miranda in Las Horas Muertas (2013), for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival. She subsequently starred in the TV series Sucedió en Un Día (2010), Capadocia (2010), El Encanto del Aguila (2011), Dios, Inc. (2016), and Vis a vis (2018-2019).
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Ofelia Medina
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- film directorfilm actordramaturgescreenwriteractor
- Biography
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María Ofelia Medina Torres is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She was married to film director Alex Philips Jr. and actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
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Miguel Alcubierre
- Occupations
- theoretical physicistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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Miguel Alcubierre Moya is a Mexican theoretical physicist. Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.
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Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied theatre and Letras ISSN L 0459-1283
- Occupations
- novelistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón 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, Two Crimes, and The Lightning of August. His plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. His work also includes short stories and chronicles and is currently considered one of the most influential writers in Latin American literature.
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Emilio Lozoya Austin
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Emilio Ricardo Lozoya Austin is a Mexican economist and politician. He was the CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) from 2012 to 2016.
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Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz is a Mexican politician and businesswoman. From 2015 to 2018, she served as mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City. From 2018 to 2023, she served as a senator in the LXIV and LXV Legislatures of the Mexican Congress. As a senator, she caucused with the center-right National Action Party but often adhered to progressive politics on social issues such as abortion, drug policies, and social spending. She completed her studies in computer engineering at UNAM's School of Engineering. In 2023, she was nominated as the candidate of the Broad Front for Mexico for the 2024 Mexican presidential election.
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Juan O'Gormann
- Occupations
- architectpainter
- Biography
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Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.
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Miguel de Icaza
- Occupations
- entrepreneurtechnology evangelistcomputer scientistengineerprogrammer
- Biography
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Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
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Alfredo Harp Helú
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Alfredo Harp Helú 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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Alejandro Gertz Manero
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alejandro Gertz Manero is a Mexican lawyer and Attorney General of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of Vicente Fox's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
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Alfonso García Robles
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- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
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José Ángel Gurría
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Licentiate in economics
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- economistinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
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José Ángel Gurría Treviño, also known as Ángel Gurría, is a Mexican economist and diplomat. From 1 June 2006 to 31 May 2021, he was the secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez is a Mexican actor.
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Ricardo Monreal
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- politicianlawyer
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Ricardo Monreal Ávila is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). He is a senator and the Senate Majority Leader, a former Governor of Zacatecas and a former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (and of the Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD) being closely identified during his tenure in that party with former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
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Enrique Krauze
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- historianbusinesspersonwriter
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Enrique Krauze Kleinbort 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 am the people). He has also produced more than 500 television programs and documentaries about Mexico's history. His biographical, historical works, and his political and literary essays, which have reached a broad audience, have made him famous.
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Miguel Alemán Velasco
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Miguel Alemán Velasco 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 (1946–52), the first candidate to run for the presidency from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and first civilian president in the modern era, and Beatriz Velasco Mendoza. Alemán Velasco has been active in both the public and private sectors.
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Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
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- economistpolitician
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Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera is a Mexican economist and elected official, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and a federal deputy since September 1, 2012. He was the president of the Senate during its 2006-2007 session and was reelected to that position for the 2010-2011 term. He served as Governor of Sonora from October 22, 1991 to September 12, 1997. He served two terms as federal deputy. He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 2004-2005. From 2015 to June 2016, he was the president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Jaime Torres Bodet
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- diplomatwriterpoliticianministerpoet
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Jaime Mario Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. He was the second Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1952.
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Pilar Pellicer
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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María del Pilar Pellicer López de Llergo was a Mexican actress. At the 17th Ariel Awards, she won the Ariel Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film La Choca (1974).
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Alfonso Portillo
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- politician
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Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera is a Guatemalan politician who served as President of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.
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Eruviel Ávila Villegas
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- politicianlawyer
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Eruviel Ávila Villegas is a Mexican politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI), and the Governor of the State of Mexico from 2011 to 2017. Before that, he was Mayor of Ecatepec de Morelos twice, from 2003 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2012, and deputy of the State of Mexico's Congress.
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Valeria Luiselli
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- writer
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Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican-American author. She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Fiction, and she was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul in Montreal, Quebec. Luiselli's books have been translated into more than 20 languages, with her work appearing in publications including, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. Her book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel, Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
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Alejandro Luna
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- painteruniversity teacherlighting designerarchitectscenographer
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José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma was a Mexican scenic designer and lighting technician.
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Sergio Aragonés
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- writercomics artistcaricaturist
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Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer.
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John M. Ackerman
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- professorpolitical activist
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John Mill Ackerman Rose is an American-born, naturalized Mexican political activist, TV host, and academic at UNAM.
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Andrés Roemer
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- journalist
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Andrés Roemer Slomianski is a Mexican writer, producer and former ambassador to UNESCO.
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José Horacio Gómez
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopphilosopher
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José Horacio Gómez Velasco is a Mexican-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He became the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California in 2011. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado from 2001 to 2004 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas from 2004 to 2010.
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Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
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- visual artistuniversity teacherdesignercivil servantpolitician
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Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a Mexican late twentieth century architect. He was born in Mexico City. He was persuaded to study architecture by writer and poet Carlos Pellicer.
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Fernando del Paso Morante
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- writerdiplomatcaricaturistpoetpainter
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Fernando del Paso Morante audio was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.
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Nora D. Volkow
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- psychiatristresearcherphysicianinternational forum participant
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Nora D. Volkow is a Mexican-American psychiatrist. She is currently the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Leopoldo Zea Aguilar
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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Leopoldo Zea Aguilar was a Mexican philosopher.
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Beatriz Paredes Rangel
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Licentiate in sociology
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- diplomatpoliticiansociologist
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Beatriz Elena Paredes Rangel is a Mexican politician who served as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She was the first woman to serve as Governor of Tlaxcala and the second woman to serve as a state governor in Mexican history.
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Juan Ignacio Aranda
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Juan Ignacio Aranda is a Mexican actor. He began his training in 1978 in Centro de Arte Dramático (CADAC), also studied in The Cockpit Arts Workshop and in The City Lit (London), in Centro Universitario de Teatro of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and in United States International University in San Diego, California.
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Verónica Merchant
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Verónica Merchant is a Mexican actress who played the role of Mariana Romero Vargas in the Mexican telenovela Corazón salvaje.
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Ricardo Anaya Cortés
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Doctor in political science
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- lawyerpoliticianpolitical scientistsociologist
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Ricardo Anaya Cortés is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member and former president of the centre-right National Action Party (PAN). He held the positions of Federal Deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union in Mexico, President of the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico and leader of the Parliamentary Group of the main opposing party in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico. He held the position of National President of the National Action Party until 9 December 2017, when he resigned to run in the 2018 presidential election for the PAN party in political coalition with the leftist parties Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Citizens' Movement (MC).
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Alfonso Navarrete Prida
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Alfonso Navarrete Prida is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as the Secretary of the Interior in 2018. He previously served as the Secretary of Labor of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
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Esteban Moctezuma
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- economistcivil servantpoliticianbusinessperson
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Esteban Moctezuma Barragán is a Mexican diplomat and politician, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is a member of MORENA. He is a former Senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he pursued peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents. In 2018, he was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as secretary of education. On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated ambassador of Mexico to the United States and confirmed by the Senate on 16 January 2021.
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Julio Frenk
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- ministerphysicianpolitician
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Julio José Frenk Mora is president of the University of Miami and has served in this role since 2015. He is the University of Miami's first Hispanic and native Spanish-speaking president. At the University of Miami, he is also a professor of public health science at the university's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, professor of health sector management at the university's Herbert Business School, and professor of sociology at its College of Arts of Sciences.
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Cristina Pacheco
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- journalist
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Cristina Romo Hernández, better known as Cristina Pacheco, was a Mexican journalist, writer and television personality. While her journalism career began in 1960, continuing with regular columns in La Jornada, she was best known for her work in television, hosting two shows called Aquí nos tocó vivir and Conversando con Cristina Pacheco, both on Once TV since 1980. With these shows, Pacheco interviewed notable people and profiled popular Mexican culture, which included interviews with common people. She received over forty prizes and other recognitions for her work including Mexico's National Journalism Prize and the first Rosario Castellanos a la Trayectoria Cultural de la Mujer Award for outstanding women in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Matilde Montoya
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with 1887
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- obstetrician
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Matilde Petra Montoya Lafragua was the first female physician in Mexico. Initially working as a midwife, she became one of the first women to attend and graduate Medical School, eventually earning her doctorate in 1887. Later she was a surgeon and obstetrician. Montoya played an important role in the social establishment of women's rights and the movements toward unbiased opportunities for education and occupations for women. There is, however, some evidence that a woman named Zenaida Ucounkoff studied medicine in 1877.
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Arturo Montiel Rojas
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- politician
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Arturo Montiel Rojas is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was a governor of the State of México and a federal deputy.
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Carlos Cuarón
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Carlos José Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican screenwriter, film producer, and film director.
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Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
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- lawyercivil servantcolumnistpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Enrique Octavio de la Madrid Cordero is a lawyer, a public official, a columnist and Mexican politician. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Marti Batres
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- politician
- Biography
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Martí Batres Guadarrama is a Mexican politician who is the interim head of government of Mexico City following the resignation of Claudia Sheinbaum. He is also the former President of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District, as well as the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District.
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Susana Alexander
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- stage actortelevision actortelevision producerfilm actor
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Suzanne Ellen Rose Alexander-Katz Kauffmann, commonly known as Susana Alexander, is a Mexican actress, hostess, director, producer, translator, teacher and dancer.
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Teodoro Gonzalez de Jaguar
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- painteruniversity teacherarchitect
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Teodoro González de León was a Mexican architect.
