List of Famous people born in Baja California, Mexico
Jaime Munguia
Jaime Aarón Munguía Escobedo is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBO junior middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of September 2019, he is ranked as the world's best active junior middleweight by BoxRec, fifth by The Ring magazine and seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Brandon Moreno
Brandon Carrillo Moreno is a Mexican mixed martial artist. He currently competes as a flyweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional mixed martial artist since 2011, Moreno has competed for Legacy Fighting Alliance and on The Ultimate Fighter. As of November 17, 2020, he is #1 in the UFC flyweight rankings.
Lupita Pallás
Lupita D'Alessio is a Mexican singer and actress. She is nicknamed La Leona Dormida.
Marco Antonio Regil Pérez
Marco Antonio Regil is a Mexican television personality, public speaker and activist. As the host of the Spanish versions of Family Feud, The Price Is Right, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, and Generation Gap, Regil is a constant fixture in Latin households.
Esteban Loaiza
Esteban Antonio Loaiza Veyna [lo-EYE-sa] is a Mexican retired professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Oakland Athletics, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Loaiza was the American League's (AL) starting pitcher in the 2003 All-Star Game. That year, he led the AL in strikeouts.
Diego De La Hoya
Diego de la Hoya Villegas is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC-NABF and WBO-NABO super bantamweight titles between 2017 and 2019. As an amateur he represented Mexico, winning the 2011 Mexican National Championships and competing at the 2012 Youth World Championships. He is the cousin of former boxer Oscar De La Hoya.
Héctor Herrera
Héctor Miguel Herrera López is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Atlético Madrid and the Mexico national team.
Érik Morales
Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012. He is the first Mexico-born boxer in history to win world titles in four different weight classes, having held the WBC super bantamweight title from 1997 to 2000, the WBC featherweight twice between 2001 and 2003, the unified WBC and IBF super featherweight titles in 2004, and the WBC super lightweight title from 2011 to 2012.
Indira Vizcaíno Silva
Indira Vizcaíno Silva is a Mexican politician from the Morena political party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Colima. As of 1 November 2021, she is the governor of Colima. She is the daughter of Arnoldo Vizcaíno.
Fátima Molina
Fátima Ileana Molina Vargas artistically known as Fátima Molina is a Mexican actress and singer, best known her role as Lidya Corona in the Telemundo's series La Doña (2016–2017), followed by her debut as the protagonist in the Sony Pictures Television's series Tres Milagros (2018). In films she has stood out for I Dream in Another Language, for which she was nominated at the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress.