28 Notable alumni of
University of Guadalajara
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The University of Guadalajara is 1696th in the world, 70th in Latin America, and 9th in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the University of Guadalajara 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
- Occupations
- film directormake-up artistfilm producerfilm actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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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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Valentín Gómez Farías
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- politicianphysician
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José María Valentín Gómez Farías was a Mexican physician and liberal politician who became president of Mexico twice, first from 1833 to 1834, during the period of the First Mexican Republic, and again from 1846 to 1847, during the Mexican–American War.
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Aristóteles Sandoval
- Enrolled in the University of Guadalajara
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz was a Mexican politician belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018.
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Pedro Vélez
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- lawyerphilosopherjudgepolitician
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José Pedro Antonio Vélez de Zúñiga was a Mexican politician and lawyer. In the aftermath of a successful coup against president Vicente Guerrero, he was placed at the head of a triumvirate that briefly led the Mexican government during the last days of 1829.
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Agustín Yáñez
- Enrolled in the University of Guadalajara
- In 1929 graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- ministerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's presidency. He is the author of numerous books and the recipient, in 1952 as member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, in 1973, of the Premio Nacional de las Letras. Al filo del agua (On the Edge of the Storm) is considered his most important work, according to the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 By Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, page 616.
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Manuel Cuevas
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- fashion designer
- Biography
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Manuel Arturo José Cuevas Martínez Sr. is a Mexican fashion designer best known for the garments he created for prominent rock and roll and country music acts.
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Daniel Chavez Moran
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Daniel Jesús Chávez Morán is a Mexican real estate developer and the founder of Grupo Vidanta, a real estate consortium which operates over 30 hotels in Latin America. He is also the founder of the Delia Moran Vidanta Foundation and the Vidanta Foundation, two non-profit philanthropic organizations.
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Ignacio Vallarta
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- judgepoliticianlawyerdiplomatminister
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Ignacio Luis Vallarta Ogazón was a Mexican jurist and governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco (1872–1876). His baptismal name was José Luis Miguel Ignacio Vallarta Ogazón.
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Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña
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- civil servantlawyerdiplomatpolitician
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Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña is a Mexican politician who belongs to the National Action Party (PAN). He has been municipal president of Guadalajara, governor of Jalisco from 2001 to 2006 and, from 1 December 2006, to January 2008 he served as secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. Since 2024 he sits in the Senate for the state of Jalisco.
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Antonio Echevarría García
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- politician
- Biography
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Antonio Echevarría García is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as Governor of Nayarit from 2017 to 2021, and is affiliated with the National Action Party.
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Emilio González Márquez
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- politician
- Biography
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Emilio González Márquez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). He served as Governor of Jalisco. from 2007 to 2013
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Raúl Padilla López
- Enrolled in the University of Guadalajara
- Graduated with licentiate in history
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Raúl Padilla López was a Mexican professor and academic. He was the rector of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) from 1989 to 1995. He was also president of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and had control of cultural and diverse infrastructure of the UdeG, such as a soccer club (Leones Negros), travel agencies and hotels. Padilla López died at his home on 2 April 2023 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had an older son and daughter. He married in 2016, and had twins. He was 68 years old.
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Efraín González Luna
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- politician
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Efraín González Luna was a Mexican politician and lawyer who was one of the founders and leaders of the National Action Party (PAN). He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1952 presidential election, making him the party's first presidential candidate. A devout Catholic and a Christian democrat, he played an important role in establishing the party's ideology and its connections to the Catholic Church.
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Fernando González Gortázar
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- painterwritersculptorarchitecturban planner
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Fernando González Gortázar was a Mexican architect, sculptor, and writer, considered to be one of the most influential Mexican architects of the 20th century.
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Rossana Reguillo
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- senior lecturerhuman rights defenderanthropologist
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Rossana Reguillo is a Mexican academic known for researching social norms, human emotions and the relationship between communication, culture, and politics in Latin America and how it is affected by drug trafficking. She currently holds a professor position at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Additionally, she has served as a visiting professor at New York University and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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Aurora Jiménez de Palacios
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- lawyerpolitician
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Aurora Jiménez de Palacios was a Mexican lawyer and politician who became the first female federal deputy in Mexico.
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Ximena Puente de la Mora
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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Ximena Puente de la Mora is a Mexican lawyer, academic, and researcher who will serve as a proportional representation federal deputy in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Prior to being a federal deputy, she was a commissioner of the Federal Institute of Information Access (Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información; IFAI) from 2014 to 2016. After the General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information took effect, this became the National Institute of Transparency, Information Access, and Personal Data Protection (Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales; INAI), of which she remained president through 2017 and commissioner through March 2018. She holds a degree in law from the University of Colima, a master's in legal sciences from the University of Navarra in Spain, and a PhD in law from the University of Guadalajara.
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Itzcóatl Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla
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- politicianeconomist
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Itzcóatl Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla is a Mexican academic, economist and politician from Movimiento Ciudadano who was elected to serve as a federal deputy in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the 28th rector of the Universidad de Guadalajara. He was also a federal deputy in the LVI and LX Legislatures.
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Rebeca Uribe
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Rebeca Mondragón Uribe was a Mexican poet of the postmodernist movement. She gave recitations of her poems at the Teatro Degollado de Guadalajara (1913–1942). She also worked as the social secretary of actress María Félix from 1945 to 1949.
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Salvador Caro Cabrera
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- politician
- Biography
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Salvador Caro Cabrera is a Mexican politician from the Citizens' Movement (MC) who formerly belonged to the Labor Party (PT). In the 2009 mid-terms he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Jalisco's 11th district for the PT during the 61st session of Congress.
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Jorge Arana Arana
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- politician
- Biography
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Jorge Arana Arana is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In the 2009 mid-terms he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Jalisco's 7th district during the 61st session of Congress.
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Jesús Alberto Cano Vélez
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Jesús Alberto Cano Vélez is a Mexican economist and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora.
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Jesús Casillas Romero
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jesús Casillas Romero is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. He currently serves as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco, and previously served in the Congress of Jalisco.
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María Serrano Serrano
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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María Serrano Serrano is a Mexican politician and member of the Partido Acción Nacional ("National Action Party", PAN).
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Jose Manuel Gomez Vazquez Aldana
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- architect
- Biography
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José Manuel Gómez Vázquez Aldana was a Mexican architect. He designed residential projects in the United States and Latin America, and was founder of the international architecture studio Gómez Vázquez International.
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Ave Barrera
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ave Barrera is a Mexican writer. She was born and raised in Guadalajara. She studied Hispanic Literature at the University of Guadalajara; she has also studied at Complutense University in Madrid. She has worked as an editor, copywriter and ghostwriter.
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Miguel Ángel Aguayo López
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- politician
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Aguayo López is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Mexican party PRI. He currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Colima.
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Raúl José Mejía González
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Raúl José Mejía González is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
