26 Notable alumni of
National Polytechnic Institute
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National Polytechnic Institute is 1242nd in the world, 45th in Latin America, and 5th in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from National Polytechnic Institute sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ernesto Zedillo
- Occupations
- authoreconomistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He was the 61st president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Father of Modern Democracy in Mexico, his non-interventionist policy yielded transparent results on the 2000 Mexican general election.
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Guillermo González Camarena
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- engineer
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Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who invented color television.
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Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez is a Mexican actor.
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Raymix
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- electronic musicianmilitary flight engineer
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Edmundo Gómez Moreno, known professionally as Raymix, is a Mexican musician and aerospace engineer. Nicknamed El Rey de la Electrocumbia ("The King of Electrocumbia"), he started his music career in the early 2010s as part of the trance project Light & Wave, alongside two other Mexican musicians. Their song "Feeling the City" was featured on A State of Trance, a radio show Armin van Buuren hosts. In 2013, Raymix participated in an educational internship at NASA, where he contributed to the development of a satellite.
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Salomón Jara Cruz
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- politician
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Salomón Jara Cruz is a Mexican politician. Currently affiliated with National Regeneration Movement (Morena), he previously belonged to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Since December 2022, he is the governor of Oaxaca.
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Ruy Pérez Tamayo
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- university teacherpathologistphysician
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Ruy Pérez Tamayo was a Mexican medical pathologist, immunologist, researcher, science communicator and academic.
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Raúl Rojas
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- computer scientisteconomistuniversity teachermathematician
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Raúl Rojas González is a Mexican emeritus professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, and a renowned specialist in artificial neural networks. The FU-Fighters, football-playing robots he helped build, were world champions in 2004 and 2005. He is now leading an autonomous car project called Spirit of Berlin.
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Cuitlahuac Garcia
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- teachermechanical engineerpolitician
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Cuitláhuac García Jiménez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) who currently serves as Governor of Veracruz. Previously, he represented Veracruz's tenth district as a federal deputy in the 63rd session of Congress.
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Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
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- ministerpoliticiansurgeon
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Jesús Kumate Rodríguez was a Mexican physician and politician. He served as the Secretary of Health during the presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
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Esther Orozco
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- teacherpoliticianbotanistcitizenVocera de Salinas Priego
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María Esther Orozco Orozco is a Mexican chemist, bacteriologist, parasitologist and teacher. Her research has been the mechanisms by which Entamoeba histolytica causes disease. She is currently the Minister of International Cooperation in Science and Technology at the Mexican Embassy in France.
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Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine
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- 1919-2005 (aged 86)
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- trade unionistpolitician
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Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine was a Mexican trade union leader and a long-serving legislator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He presided over the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) from July 21, 1997, until his death at the age of 86.
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Héctor García Cobo
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- photographerphotojournalist
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Hector Garcia Cobo was a Mexican photographer and photojournalist who had a sixty-year career chronicling Mexico's social classes, Mexico City and various events of the 20th century, such as the 1968 student uprising. He was born poor but discovered photography in his teens and early 20s, deciding to study it seriously after his attempt to photograph the death of a coworker failed. He was sent to the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas by magazine director Edmundo Valdés who recognized García's talent. Most of García's career was related to photojournalism, working with publications both inside and outside of Mexico. However, a substantial amount of his work had more artistic and critical qualities. Many of these were exhibited in galleries and museums, with sixty five individual exhibitions during his lifetime. This not only included portraits of artists and intellectuals (including a famous portrait of David Alfaro Siqueiros at Lecumberri Prison) but also portraits of common and poor people. He was also the first photojournalist to explicitly criticize Mexico's elite, either making fun of them or contrasting them to the very poor.
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Jesús Ortega Martínez
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- politician
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Jesús Ortega Martínez is a Mexican centre-left politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He has served in the lower and upper house of the Mexican Congress. He was elected president of the PRD in 2008. He served as president until he was succeeded by Jesús Zambrano Grijalva in 2011.
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Francisco Luna Kan
- Enrolled in National Polytechnic Institute
- 1946-1951 graduated with physician
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- politicianphysician
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Francisco Epigmenio Luna Kan was a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Yucatán from 1976 to 1982.
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José Guadalupe Osuna Millán
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- politician
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José Guadalupe Osuna Millán is a Mexican economist and politician member of the National Action Party (PAN) who served as Governor of Baja California.
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Víctor Bravo Ahuja
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- politician
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Víctor Bravo Ahuja was a Mexican politician and academician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the administration of Luis Echeverría (1970–76), as Governor of Oaxaca (1968–70) and as Director General (1951–55) and then Rector (1955–58) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).
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Reyes Tamez
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- politicianimmunologist
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Reyes Tamez Guerra is a Mexican immunochemist and politicians. He is a former Secretary of Education for the State of Nuevo León, a former president of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) and a former Secretary of Education in the cabinet of Vicente Fox (2000–2006).
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Miguel Borge Martín
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- politician
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Miguel Borge Martín is a Mexican politician member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Between 1987 and 1993 he served as governor of the state of Quintana Roo. Prior to his election as governor, he held a seat in the Senate, representing his home state.
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Luis de la Peña
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- physicist
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Luis Fernando de la Peña-Auerbach known as Luis de la Peña is a Mexican physicist, born in Mexico City in 1931. He is a researcher of the Institute of Physics and professor of the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Presidency of Mexico.
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José Manuel del Río
- Enrolled in National Polytechnic Institute
- Graduated with licentiate in economy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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José Manuel del Río Virgen is a Mexican politician affiliated with Convergence who served in the lower house of the Congress from 2000 to 2003 and again from 2006 to 2009.
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Eugenio Méndez Docurro
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- engineerpolitician
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Eugenio Méndez Docurro was a Mexican engineer and politician. He served as the Secretary of Communications and Transportation from 1970 to 1976 during the administration of former President Luis Echeverría. He also served as the director of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) from 1959 until 1962, as well as the first director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) upon its creation on December 29, 1970.
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Javier Bolaños Aguilar
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- politician
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Edmundo Javier Bolaños Aguilar is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party (PAN). He served as a federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the first district of Morelos, and was additionally the President of the Chamber of Deputies for part of the second year of the legislature, in 2016 and 2017.
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Verónica Cruz Sánchez
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- human rights defender
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Verónica Cruz Sánchez is a Mexican human rights defender. She was the first Mexican to be awarded the Defender of Human Rights award from Human Rights Watch. In 2006, she was awarded the honor for her work with women's right to access legal and medical services. She brings public awareness to the situation of predominantly uneducated, indigenous and impoverished women who are imprisoned for abortion and miscarriage in Mexico. Cruz has worked to decriminalize and destigmatize women's decisions over their bodies and reproductive rights. She is founder of Las Libres, an organization dedicated to the defense, guarantee and respect of human rights for women in the state of Guanajuato and across Mexico.
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Suzanne Guité
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- sculptorpaintertextile artist
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Suzanne Guité RCA was a Canadian artist who lived in Percé, Quebec.
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Cuauhtémoc de Anda Gutiérrez
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- politician
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Cuauhtémoc Anda Gutiérrez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as a deputy in the 51st Congress, representing the 23rd district of the Federal District, and the 54th Congress, representing the 31st district of the State of Mexico.
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Ryah Ludins
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- printmakermuralistpainterwriterart educator
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Ryah Ludins was a Ukrainian-born American muralist, painter, printmaker, art teacher, and writer. She made murals for post offices and other government buildings during the Great Depression and also obtained commissions for murals from Mexican authorities and an industrial concern. Unusually versatile in her technique, she made murals in fresco, mixed media, and wood relief, as well as on canvas and dry plaster. She exhibited her paintings widely but became better known as a printmaker after prints such as "Cassis" (1928) and "Bombing" (about 1944) drew favorable notice from critics. She taught art in academic settings and privately, wrote and illustrated a children's book, and contributed an article to a radical left-wing art magazine. A career spanning more than three decades ended when she succumbed to a long illness in the late 1950s.
