Notable Alumni of National Autonomous University of Mexico [Sorted List]

1. Norma Lucía Piña Hernández

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer judge

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...

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2. Verónica Merchant

1963-. (aged 63)

film actor actor television actor

Verónica Merchant is a Mexican actress who played the role of Mariana Romero Vargas in the Mexican telenovela Corazón salvaje.

3. Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman

1948-2025 (aged 77)

astrophysicist astronomer actor science communicator

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...

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4. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez

1919-2013 (aged 94)

designer university teacher visual artist architect urban planner

Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a Mexican architect. He was persuaded to study architecture by writer and poet Carlos Pellicer.

5. Alfonso Caso

1896-1970 (aged 74)

anthropologist lawyer archaeologist university teacher

Alfonso Caso y Andrade was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico.

6. Esteban Moctezuma

1954-. (aged 72)

civil servant economist businessperson politician

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...

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7. Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera

1952-. (aged 74)

politician economist

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...

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8. Cristina Pacheco

1941-2023 (aged 82)

journalist writer

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...

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9. Valeria Luiselli

1983-. (aged 43)

university teacher novelist

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...

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10. Jaime Torres Bodet

1902-1974 (aged 72)

minister politician writer diplomat poet

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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11. Sergio Aragonés

1937-. (aged 89)

caricaturist comics artist writer

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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12. Beatriz Paredes Rangel

1953-. (aged 73)

diplomat sociologist politician

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...

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13. Horacio Villalobos

1965-. (aged 61)

television actor stage actor television presenter television director

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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14. Nora Volkow

1956-. (aged 70)

physician researcher psychiatrist

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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15. Julio Frenk

1953-. (aged 73)

physician minister politician

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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16. John M. Ackerman

1973-. (aged 53)

university teacher political activist

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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17. Miguel Alemán Velasco

1932-. (aged 94)

businessperson politician

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...

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18. Marti Batres

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

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...

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19. Alfonso García Robles

1911-1991 (aged 80)

politician writer lawyer diplomat jurist

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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20. Alejandro Luna

1939-2022 (aged 83)

university teacher painter scenographer architect lighting designer

José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma was a Mexican scenic designer and lighting technician.

21. Pilar Pellicer

1938-2020 (aged 82)

television actor film director actor film actor

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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22. José Ángel Gurría

1950-. (aged 76)

diplomat economist politician

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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23. Rosa María Bianchi

1948-. (aged 78)

film actor television actor stage actor

Rosa María Bianchi is an Argentine-born Mexican actress.

24. Alejandro Gertz Manero

1939-. (aged 87)

lawyer politician

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...

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25. Alfredo Harp Helú

1944-. (aged 82)

businessperson

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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26. Juan O'Gormann

1905-1982 (aged 77)

painter architect

Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.

27. Miguel de Icaza

1972-. (aged 54)

technology evangelist entrepreneur software developer programmer engineer

Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican-American programmer and activist, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.

28. Ofelia Medina

1950-. (aged 76)

film actor film director television actor singer actor

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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29. Manuel Bartlett Díaz

1936-. (aged 90)

civil servant lawyer politician

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...

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30. Francisco León de la Barra

1863-1939 (aged 76)

lawyer diplomat judge politician

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...

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31. Porfirio Muñoz Ledo

1933-2023 (aged 90)

lawyer journalist diplomat politician

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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32. Olga Sánchez Cordero

1947-. (aged 79)

lawyer judge politician

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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33. Alan Cranston

1914-2000 (aged 86)

athletics competitor politician journalist

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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34. Miguel Alcubierre

1964-. (aged 62)

nuclear physicist theoretical physicist

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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35. René Casados

1961-. (aged 65)

television actor political analyst actor film actor

René Casados Morales is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas.

36. Jorge Ibargüengoitia

1928-1983 (aged 55)

novelist playwright writer

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....

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37. Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández

1925-2024 (aged 99)

diplomat economist politician

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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38. Jaime Maussan

1953-. (aged 73)

ufologist writer journalist

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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39. Pina Pellicer

1934-1964 (aged 30)

film actor actor television actor

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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40. Mara Escalante

1968-. (aged 58)

television actor film director

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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41. Luisa María Alcalde

1987-. (aged 39)

politician

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...

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42. Rodolfo Neri Vela

1952-. (aged 74)

engineer astronaut politician

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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43. Raúl Salinas de Gortari

1946-. (aged 80)

civil engineer

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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44. Carlos Monsiváis

1939-2010 (aged 71)

film critic journalist television actor literary critic philosopher

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...

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45. Elena Garro

1920-1998 (aged 78)

screenwriter prose writer writer journalist playwright

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...

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46. Carmen Aristegui

1964-. (aged 62)

journalist

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...

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47. Alfonso Reyes

1889-1959 (aged 70)

lawyer diplomat philosopher jurist translator

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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48. Miguel Ángel Mancera

1966-. (aged 60)

lawyer politician

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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49. Santiago Creel

1954-. (aged 72)

civil servant lawyer politician

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...

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50. Jacobo Zabludovsky

1928-2015 (aged 87)

writer news presenter lawyer journalist

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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51. Ana Colchero

1968-. (aged 58)

writer television actor stage actor film actor

Ana Colchero Aragonés is a Mexican actress.

52. César Costa

1941-. (aged 85)

composer record producer film actor television actor actor

César Roel Schreurs, best known as César Costa, is a Mexican actor and rock-and-roll singer.

53. Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano

1934-. (aged 92)

engineer politician

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...

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54. Luis E. Miramontes Cárdenas

1925-2004 (aged 79)

university teacher chemist inventor

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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55. Gerardo Taracena

1970-2026 (aged 56)

actor

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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56. Ricardo Flores Magón

1873-1922 (aged 49)

military personnel journalist philosopher revolutionary writer

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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57. Adriana Paz

1980-. (aged 46)

film actor television actor stage actor

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...

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58. Omar Fayad

1962-. (aged 64)

lawyer politician

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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59. Ernesto Cardenal

1925-2020 (aged 95)

theologian visual artist lyricist writer revolutionary

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...

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60. Pedro Lascuráin

1856-1952 (aged 96)

diplomat lawyer politician

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...

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61. Miguel de la Madrid

1934-2012 (aged 78)

lawyer politician

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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62. Édgar Vivar Villanueva

1948-. (aged 78)

physician television actor stage actor film actor

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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63. Audre Lorde

1934-1992 (aged 58)

feminist writer philosopher poet women's rights activist

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...

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64. Howard Dean

1948-. (aged 78)

physician politician stockbroker

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...

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65. David Alfaro Siqueiros

1896-1974 (aged 78)

military personnel university teacher painter fresco painter printmaker

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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66. Miguel Alemán Valdés

1900-1983 (aged 83)

diplomat lawyer politician

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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67. Mario Molina

1943-2020 (aged 77)

university teacher chemist engineer

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...

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68. Elena Poniatowska

1932-. (aged 94)

novelist short story writer writer journalist poet

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...

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69. Xóchitl Gálvez

1963-. (aged 63)

engineer businessperson politician

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...

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70. José Emilio Pacheco

1939-2014 (aged 75)

novelist essayist poet literary critic translator

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...

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71. Claudia Sheinbaum

1962-. (aged 64)

politician university teacher physicist environmentalist researcher

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...

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72. Alfonso Cuarón

1961-. (aged 65)

television director film editor television actor cinematographer film producer

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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73. Chespirito

1929-2014 (aged 85)

composer comedian television actor songwriter writer

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...

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74. Carlos Salinas de Gortari

1948-. (aged 78)

politician economist

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...

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75. Hugo Sánchez

1958-. (aged 68)

association football player association football coach

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...

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76. Octavio Paz

1914-1998 (aged 84)

philosopher writer translator poet essayist

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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77. Verónica Castro

1952-. (aged 74)

singer presenter recording artist actor television producer

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...

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78. Luis Echeverría

1922-2022 (aged 100)

diplomat jurist politician

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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79. Tenoch Huerta

1981-. (aged 45)

television actor film actor

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...

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80. Subcomandante Marcos

1957-. (aged 69)

revolutionary politician partisan philosopher author

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...

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81. Carlos Fuentes

1928-2012 (aged 84)

lecturer opinion journalist poet lawyer poet lawyer

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...

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82. Andrés Manuel López Obrador

1953-. (aged 73)

political scientist writer politician

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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83. Carlos Slim

1940-. (aged 86)

civil engineer chief executive officer entrepreneur business magnate computer scientist

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...

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84. Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez

1967-. (aged 59)

film actor television actor stage actor

Juan Manuel Bernal Chávez is a Mexican actor.

85. Rosario Robles

1956-. (aged 70)

politician

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...

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86. José Horacio Gómez

1951-. (aged 75)

philosopher Catholic bishop Catholic priest

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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87. Alfonso Durazo Montaño

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer civil engineer politician

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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88. Guillermo del Toro

1964-. (aged 62)

film director make-up artist film producer film actor screenwriter

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...

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89. Diego Fernández de Cevallos

1941-. (aged 85)

lawyer politician

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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90. Enrique Krauze

1947-. (aged 79)

historian writer businessperson

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,...

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91. Emilio Lozoya Austin

1974-. (aged 52)

businessperson politician

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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92. Andrés Roemer

1963-. (aged 63)

journalist

Andrés Roemer Slomianski is a Mexican writer, former ambassador to UNESCO, and fugitive.

93. José Antonio Meade Kuribreña

1969-. (aged 57)

economist lawyer politician

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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94. Rocky De La Fuente

1954-. (aged 72)

entrepreneur politician

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...

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95. Ricardo Monreal

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer politician

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...

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96. Ricardo Anaya

1979-. (aged 47)

lawyer sociologist political scientist politician

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...

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97. Eruviel Ávila Villegas

1969-. (aged 57)

lawyer politician

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...

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98. Alfonso Portillo

1951-. (aged 75)

politician

Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera is a Guatemalan politician who served as the 45th president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.

99. María Isabel Allende

1945-. (aged 81)

politician sociologist

María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean politician.

100. José López Portillo

1920-2004 (aged 84)

writer lawyer university teacher politician

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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