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Arts
- See also List of Mexican artists
- Pita Amor, a poet
- Alberto Arai, an architect, theorist and writer
- Luis Barragán, an architect
- Federico Cantú, a painter
- Leonora Carrington, a painter
- Max Cetto, an architect, educator and historian
- Heberto Castillo, civil engineer
- Miguel Covarrubias, a painter
- Mathias Goeritz, a painter, sculptor and architect
- Francisco Guevara, multidisciplinary artist
- Frida Kahlo, a painter and wife of Diego Rivera
- Gerardo Murillo, a painter
- Juan O'Gorman, a painter and architect
- José Clemente Orozco, a muralist
- Antonio Rivas Mercado, an architect and engineer
- Diego Rivera, a muralist and husband of Frida Kahlo
- Michel Rojkind, an architect
- Fernando Romero, an architect
- Verónica Ruiz de Velasco, a figurative artist
- Sebastián, a sculptor
- David Alfaro Siqueiros, a muralist
- Rufino Tamayo, a painter
- Mauricio Toussaint, a painter
- Remedios Varo, a painter
- José María Velasco, a painter
- Abraham Zabludovsky, architect
- Alejandro Zohn, an architect
- Gelsen Gas, a theater director, film director, film producer, actor, painter, poet, sculptor and inventor
- Claudia Madrazo, an educator and artist
Authors
Business people
Cartoonists
- Lalo Alcaraz
- Paco Calderón
- José G. Cruz
- Falcón
- José Hernández
- Magú
- Bill Meléndez
- Naranjo
- Eduardo del Río "Rius"
- José Guadalupe Posada
- Jhonen Vasquez
Musicians and composers of concert music
- Alondra de la Parra
- Miguel Bernal Jiménez
- Julián Carrillo
- Luis Herrera de la Fuente
- Manuel de Elías
- Manuel de Zumaya
- Rodolfo Halffter
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Cristian Castro
- Enrique Diemecke
- Julio Estrada
- Hernando Franco
- Blas Galindo
- Horacio Franco
- Eduardo Hernández Moncada
- Mario Lavista
- Angela Peralta
- Francisco Araiza
- Carlos Miguel Prieto
- Francisco López Capillas
- Fernando de la Mora (tenor)
- José Pablo Moncayo
- Manuel M. Ponce
- Silvestre Revueltas
- Juventino Rosas
- Chalino Sanchez
- Carlos Santana
- Jorge Mester
Entertainment
- See also List of Mexican voice actors
Historians, economists and social scientists
- Lucas Alamán
- Ramón Alcaraz
- Max Cetto
- Francisco Javier Clavijero
- Edmundo O'Gorman
- Jesus Salmeron
- Pedro Thomas Ruiz de Velasco
- Silvio Zavala
Intellectuals and writers
Main article: List of Mexican writers
- Héctor Aguilar Camín
- Mariano Azuela
- Daniel Cosío Villegas
- Fernando del Paso
- Salvador Elizondo
- Carlos Fuentes
- Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- Enrique Krauze
- Lorenzo Meyer
- Mario Ojeda Gómez
- Octavio Paz
- Alfonso Reyes
- Juan Rulfo
- José Vasconcelos
- Gabriel Zaid
Journalism
- Javier Alatorre
- Carmen Aristegui
- Lydia Cacho
- María Antonieta Collins
- Giselle Fernández
- Carlos Loret de Mola
- Ricardo Flores Magón
- Jorge Ramos
- María Elena Salinas
- Lilly Téllez
- Jacobo Zabludovsky
Militars, revolutionaries and guerrilla (fighters)
- Porfirio Díaz
- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
- Victoriano Huerta
- Agustín de Iturbide
- Emilio Kosterlitzky
- José María Morelos y Pavón
- Antonio López de Santa Anna
- Francisco "Pancho" Villa
- Emiliano Zapata
- Ignacio Zaragoza
Politics
See also: List of Presidents of Mexico See also: List of Mexican state governors
Religion
- Saint Juan Diego
- Javier Lozano Barragán
- Juan Soldado
- Miguel Agustín Pro
- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
- Don Miguel Ruiz
- Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara
Science and technology
- José Ádem, mathematician
- Miguel Alcubierre, theoretical and computational physicist, see Alcubierre metric
- Albert Baez, physicist
- Jacob Bekenstein, physicist, contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics; see the Bekenstein bound
- Carlos Canseco González, physician and philanthropist
- Nabor Carrillo Flores, soil mechanics expert, nuclear physicist, scientific advisor and former president of UNAM
- Ignacio Chapela, microbial ecologist and mycologist, notable for his work with natural resources and indigenous rights
- Ignacio Chávez Sánchez, physician and cardiologist
- Alejandro Corichi, theoretical physics, contributed to the understanding of classical aspects of black holes
- José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, scientist
- Miguel de Icaza, free software programmer, started GNOME
- Pablo de la Llave, the first to systematically study the orchids of the state of Michoacán.
- Andrés Manuel del Río, chemist who discovered vanadium
- Carlos Frenk, astronomer, pioneer in simulations of large scale structure
- Julio César Gutiérrez Vega, physicist
- Luis Enrique Erro, astronomer
- Francisco Javier González-Acuña, mathematician
- Guillermo González Camarena, inventor of one of the first color television systems
- Luis Herrera Estrella, molecular biologist, has made pioneering contributions to the development of genetically engineered plants
- Guillermo Haro, astrophysicist and astronomer, co-discoverer of Herbig-Haro objects
- Miguel León-Portilla, anthropologist and historian
- José Luis Lezama, scientist
- Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, chemical bacteriologist
- Luis E. Miramontes, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill
- Mario J. Molina (Nobel Prize winner, 1995)
- Marcos Moshinsky, theoretical physicist
- Rodolfo Neri Vela, astronaut
- Víctor Neumann-Lara, mathematician
- Alejandro Obregón, mechanical engineer; see Obregon (pistol)
- Esther Orozco, biologist
- Federico Ortiz Quezada, urologist
- Federico Mena Quintero, computer programmer
- Santiago Ramírez, psychoanalist
- Marco Rito-Palomares, biologist
- Arturo Rosenblueth, physician and physiologist
- George Rosenkranz, biochemist
- Reyes Tamez Guerra, immunochemist
- Ted Taylor, physicist, nuclear weapons designer
- Evangelina Villegas, biochemist
Sports
Baseball
Boxing
Basketball
Football (soccer)
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