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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Guillermo del Toro
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- film directormake-up artistfilm producerfilm actorscreenwriter
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1973-1976 graduated with Bachelor of Political Science in political science
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- political scientistwriterpolitician
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2000 to 2005.
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Carlos Slim
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- In 1961 graduated with Bachelor of Science in civil engineering
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- civil engineerchief executive officerentrepreneurbusiness magnatecomputer scientist
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Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business oligarch, 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 July 2025, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranked him as the 18th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$99.1 billion, making him the richest person in Latin America.
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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 energy engineering
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- politicianuniversity teacherphysicistenvironmentalistresearcher
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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first Jewish person to hold the office. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), she previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023. In 2025, Forbes ranked Sheinbaum as the fifth most powerful woman in the world.
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Alfonso Cuarón
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- television directorfilm editortelevision actorcinematographerfilm producer
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTA Awards and one Golden Lion.
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Chespirito
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- composercomediantelevision actorsongwriterwriter
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Roberto Mario Gómez y 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
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- politicianeconomist
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist, historian and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. He is considered the frontman of Mexican neoliberalism, responsible for formulating, promoting, signing and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement. 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 playerassociation football coach
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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, one of the best players of his generation, and one of the greatest strikers 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.
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Octavio Paz
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- philosopherwritertranslatorpoetessayist
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Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, 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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- singerpresenterrecording artistactortelevision producer
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Verónica Judith Sáinz Castro is a Mexican actress and television personality. She began her career in the late 1960s with roles in film and television before rising to prominence as the star of the telenovela Los ricos también lloran (1979), a success that established her as one of the leading figures of the genre. Throughout the 1980s, she continued to build her fame with El derecho de nacer (1981), Rosa salvaje (1987), and Mi pequeña Soledad (1990), the latter of which she also produced.
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Luis Echeverría
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1940-1945 graduated with licentiate in law
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- diplomatjuristpolitician
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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, Echeverría was Secretary of the Interior from 1963 to 1969. He was the longest-lived president in Mexican history and the first to reach the age of 100.
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Tenoch Huerta
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- television actorfilm actor
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José Tenoch Huerta Mejía is a Mexican actor and activist. He has appeared in a number of movies in Latin America and Spain, and has had a starring role in the crime drama Narcos: Mexico (2018–2020). He has since portrayed Namor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and reprised his role in the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday (2026).
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Subcomandante Marcos
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- revolutionarypoliticianpartisanphilosopherauthor
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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), Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (again, frequently with the "Insurgente" omitted) from May 2014 to October 2023, which he adopted in honor of his fallen comrade Jose Luis Solis Lopez, his nom de guerre being Galeano, aka "Teacher Galeano." and since October 2023, Capitán Insurgente Marcos. Marcos bears the title and rank of Capitán (or "Captain" in English), and before that 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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Carlos Fuentes
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- lectureropinion journalistpoetlawyerpoet lawyer
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Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist, essayist and ambassador to France. 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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José López Portillo
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- writerlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
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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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Miguel de la Madrid
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- lawyerpolitician
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Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado was a Mexican politician and lawyer affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.
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Édgar Vivar Villanueva
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied medicine
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- physiciantelevision actorstage actorfilm 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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Audre Lorde
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- feministwriterphilosopherpoetwomen's rights activist
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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 and oppression. She believed that there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children".
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Howard Dean
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- physicianpoliticianstockbroker
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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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David Alfaro Siqueiros
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- military personneluniversity teacherpainterfresco painterprintmaker
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David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he was one of the most famous of the "Mexican muralists".
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Miguel Alemán Valdés
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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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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Mario Molina
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- In 1960 studied chemical engineering
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- university teacherchemistengineer
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Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican-born person to receive a Nobel prize.
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Rocky De La Fuente
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with licentiate in physics and mathematics
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra is an American businessman who has sought elected office. 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
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- economistlawyerpolitician
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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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- novelistshort story writerwriterjournalistpoet
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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 disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape World War II. When she was 18, 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 and both fiction and nonfiction books. Her best-known work is La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral (The Night of Tlatelolco: Testimonies of Oral History, whose English translation was titled 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 "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
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Xóchitl Gálvez
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- engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz is a Mexican politician and businesswoman. From 2015 until 2018, she was mayor of Mexico City's Miguel Hidalgo borough. From 2018 to 2023, she was a plurinominal senator in the Mexican Congress's LXIV and LXV Legislatures. As a senator, Gálvez caucused with the center-right National Action Party but frequently supported progressive politics on social issues such as abortion, drug policy, and social spending. She graduated from the UNAM School of Engineering with a degree in computer engineering. She received the nomination as the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition's nominee for the 2024 Mexican presidential election.
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José Emilio Pacheco
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- novelistessayistpoetliterary critictranslator
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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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Gerardo Taracena
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied drama
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- actor
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Gerardo Taracena was a Mexican actor and dancer. He is known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Violin, and Sin Nombre. He is also known for the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico.
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Ricardo Flores Magón
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- military personneljournalistphilosopherrevolutionarywriter
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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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Adriana Paz
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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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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Omar Fayad
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1981-1985 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Ernesto Cardenal
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied in 1942-1946
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- theologianvisual artistlyricistwriterrevolutionary
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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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María Isabel Allende
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean politician.
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Pedro Lascuráin
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician and lawyer 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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Jacobo Zabludovsky
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- writernews presenterlawyerjournalist
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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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Ana Colchero
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- writertelevision actorstage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Ana Colchero Aragonés is a Mexican actress.
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César Costa
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- composerrecord producerfilm actortelevision actoractor
- 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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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
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- engineerpolitician
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a Mexican politician and civil engineer. A prominent social-democrat and 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 (PRD). He ran for the presidency of Mexico three times, and his loss in the 1988 Mexican general election to Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari had long been considered the result of electoral fraud perpetrated by the ruling PRI, later acknowledged by Miguel de la Madrid, the incumbent president at the time of the election. 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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Luis E. Miramontes Cárdenas
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- university teacherchemistinventor
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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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Pina Pellicer
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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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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Mara Escalante
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- television actorfilm director
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Mara Escalante is a Mexican actress, comedian and singer, best known as the star of the Televisa sitcom María de todos los Ángeles, in which she portrays three roles, including the title role. Escalante's career dates to the mid-1990s.
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Luisa María Alcalde
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- politician
- Biography
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Luisa María Alcalde Luján is a Mexican politician who has served as the president of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) since 2024. She held multiple cabinet positions under Andrés Manuel López Obrador, serving as Secretary of Labor from 2018 to 2023 and as Secretary of the Interior from 2023 to 2024. She has also been elected as a federal deputy in 2012.
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Rodolfo Neri Vela
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied in 1970-1977
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- engineerastronautpolitician
- 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 after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez and the first Mexican astronaut.
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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 60th president of Mexico.
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Carlos Monsiváis
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- film criticjournalisttelevision actorliterary criticphilosopher
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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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Elena Garro
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- screenwriterprose writerwriterjournalistplaywright
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Elena Garro was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. Alongside the works of Juan Rulfo, her first three works: Un hogar sólido (1958), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (1963), and La Semana de Colores (1964), are considered to be among the earliest examples of Magical Realism in Latin American literature. Garro's writing, despite being mostly theatre and fictional prose, borrowed heavily from poetry and its literary elements. Author and biographer Patricia Rosas Lopategui has described Garro's style as "an attempt to rescue the use of everyday language in the form of poetry". Her style has also been compared to that of French writers like Georges Schéhadé, Jean Genet, as well as Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco, due to the surreal nature of her stories. A close friend of Albert Camus, her works were also heavily influenced by his style and philosophy. She was the recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1996.
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Carmen Aristegui
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- journalist
- Biography
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María del Carmen Aristegui Flores is a Mexican journalist and news anchor. 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 conflicts of interest by then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto with a state contractor. The contractor had allegedly built a millionaire residence for the president 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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- lawyerdiplomatphilosopherjuristtranslator
- 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 the Spanish language. He served as ambassador of Mexico to Argentina and Brazil.
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Miguel Ángel Mancera
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa is a Mexican lawyer and politician who has represented the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He served as the head of government of Mexico City from 2012 to 2018.
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Alfonso Durazo Montaño
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- lawyercivil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Francisco Alfonso Durazo Montaño is a Mexican politician who served as chief spokesman and private secretary of President Vicente Fox. Representing the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), he is the current governor of Sonora.
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Santiago Creel
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- civil servantlawyerpolitician
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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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Ofelia Medina
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- film actorfilm directortelevision actorsingeractor
- 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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Manuel Bartlett Díaz
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- civil servantlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel Bartlett Díaz is a Mexican politician, former 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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Francisco León de la Barra
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- lawyerdiplomatjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Francisco León de la Barra y Quijano was a Mexican political figure, diplomat, lawyer and politician 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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Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
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- lawyerjournalistdiplomatpolitician
- 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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Olga Sánchez Cordero
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero Dávila is a Mexican politician and former jurist. She served as Secretary of the Interior under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from 2018 to 2021, the first woman to serve in the position.
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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 President 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 in the 2000 presidential election. She was the first female mayor of Mexico City.
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Alan Cranston
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- athletics competitorpoliticianjournalist
- 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 President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952.
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Diego Fernández de Cevallos
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Diego Fernández de Cevallos Ramos is a Mexican lawyer and 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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Miguel Alcubierre
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- nuclear physicisttheoretical 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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René Casados
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- television actorpolitical analystactorfilm actor
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René Casados Morales is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas.
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Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Studied Letras ISSN L 0459-1283 and theatre art
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- novelistplaywrightwriter
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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. He is considered one of the most influential writers in Latin American literature.
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Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández
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- diplomateconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Ifigenia Martha Martínez y Hernández was a Mexican economist, diplomat, and politician who served as the president of the Chamber of Deputies in 2024.
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Jaime Maussan
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- ufologistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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José Jaime Maussan Flota is a Mexican journalist, television personality, and ufologist. He has promoted claims of supposed alien remains that have turned out to be hoaxes.
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Rosa María Bianchi
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Rosa María Bianchi is an Argentine-born Mexican actress.
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Alejandro Gertz Manero
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Alejandro Gertz Manero is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He served as secretary of public security from 2000 to 2004 during the first part of Vicente Fox's government. In the 2009 mid-term election, he was elected to a plurinominal seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He later served as attorney general under Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum from 2019 until his resignation in November 2025.
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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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Juan O'Gormann
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- painterarchitect
- Biography
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Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.
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Ricardo Monreal
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Monreal Ávila is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). He currently serves as a Deputy in the Mexican Congress, representing a Proportional Representation seat since September 1, 2024. He is also the President of the Political Coordination Board in the Chamber of Deputies. Previously, he was 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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Emilio Lozoya Austin
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- 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. Acussed of receiving bribes from Odebrecht, his case remains in impunity.
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Miguel de Icaza
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- technology evangelistentrepreneursoftware developerprogrammerengineer
- Biography
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Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican-American programmer and activist, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
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Miguel Alemán Velasco
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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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 the 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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Marti Batres
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- politician
- Biography
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Martí Batres Guadarrama is a Mexican politician who is the general director of ISSSTE in the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum. Batres was the substitute head of government of Mexico City following Sheinbaum's departure from the office to run for President of Mexico. 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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Alfonso García Robles
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- politicianwriterlawyerdiplomatjurist
- 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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Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez is a Mexican actor.
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Alejandro Luna
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- university teacherpainterscenographerarchitectlighting designer
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José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma was a Mexican scenic designer and lighting technician.
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Pilar Pellicer
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- television actorfilm directoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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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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Enrique Krauze
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- historianwriterbusinessperson
- Biography
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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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José Ángel Gurría
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- diplomateconomistpolitician
- Biography
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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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Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera is a Mexican economist and elected official, former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a senator from Sonora since September 1, 2024, and a former federal deputy from September 1, 2012, to August 14, 2015. He was the president of the Senate during its 2006 to 2007 session and was reelected to that position for the 2010 to 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 from 2004 to 2005. From 2015 to June 2016, he was the president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Cristina Pacheco
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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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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Ricardo Anaya
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Doctor in political science
- Occupations
- lawyersociologistpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Anaya Cortés is a Mexican lawyer and politician, serving as a senator since 2024. He is 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 centrist parties Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Citizens' Movement (MC).
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Alfonso Portillo
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- politician
- Biography
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Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera is a Guatemalan politician who served as the 45th president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.
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Valeria Luiselli
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- university teachernovelist
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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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Jaime Torres Bodet
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- ministerpoliticianwriterdiplomatpoet
- Biography
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Jaime Mario Emilio 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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Sergio Aragonés
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- caricaturistcomics artistwriter
- Biography
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Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a Spanish-Mexican-American cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer.
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Eruviel Ávila Villegas
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Eruviel Ávila Villegas is a Mexican politician, member of the Ecologist Green Party and federal deputy in the LXVI Legislature. For the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI), he was Governor of the State of Mexico from 2011 to 2017 and 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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José Horacio Gómez
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- philosopherCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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José Horacio Gómez Velasco is a Mexican-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 Auxiliary Bishop of Denver in Colorado from 2001 to 2004 and as Archbishop of San Antonio in Texas from 2004 to 2010.
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Beatriz Paredes Rangel
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with licentiate in sociology
- Occupations
- diplomatsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Beatriz Elena Paredes Rangel is a Mexican politician who served as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 2007 to 2011. She was the first woman to serve as Governor of Tlaxcala and the second woman to serve as a state governor in Mexican history. She unsuccessfully mounted candidacies for Head of the Federal District (Mexico City) in 2006 and 2012.
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Horacio Villalobos
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- television actorstage actortelevision presentertelevision director
- Biography
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Horacio Aquiles Villalobos Velasco is a Mexican TV host and actor, who currently serves on the judging panel of the renowned Mexican reality musical talent TV series La Academia.
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Nora Volkow
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- physicianresearcherpsychiatrist
- Biography
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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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Andrés Roemer
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- journalist
- Biography
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Andrés Roemer Slomianski is a Mexican writer, former ambassador to UNESCO, and fugitive.
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Julio Frenk
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- physicianministerpolitician
- Biography
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Julio José Frenk Mora is a Mexican and American public health scholar and sociologist, currently serving as the 7th chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since January 1, 2025.
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John M. Ackerman
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- university teacherpolitical activist
- Biography
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John Mill Ackerman Rose is an American-born, naturalized Mexican political activist, TV host, and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Esteban Moctezuma
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- civil servanteconomistbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Esteban Moctezuma Barragán is a Mexican diplomat and politician. 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 Zapatista Army of National Liberation (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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Norma Lucía Piña Hernández
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Norma Lucía Piña Hernández is a Mexican lawyer and educator who served as president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation from 2023 to 2025, being the first woman ever to hold that position. She was a member of the Supreme Court from December 2015 to August 2025, when her seat was abolished as a result of the 2024 Mexican judicial reform and she refused to participate in the 2025 Mexican judicial elections.
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Verónica Merchant
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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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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Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman
- Enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Graduated with Master of Science in astrophysics
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- astrophysicistastronomeractorscience communicator
- Biography
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Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman, better known as Julieta Fierro, was a Mexican astrophysicist and science communicator. She was a full researcher at the Institute of Astronomy and professor of the Science Faculty at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was a level-III member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). Since 2004, she was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language.
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Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
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- designeruniversity teachervisual artistarchitecturban planner
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Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a Mexican architect. He was persuaded to study architecture by writer and poet Carlos Pellicer.
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Alfonso Caso
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- anthropologistlawyerarchaeologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alfonso Caso y Andrade was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico.
