List of Famous people born in Chiapas, Mexico
Bibi Gaytán
Bibi Gaytán is a Mexican singer and actress. Since she was born, she has lived in Villahermosa, Tabasco and she considers herself "Tabasqueña".
Rutilio Escandón
Rutilio Cruz Escandón Cadenas is a Mexican lawyer and politician from Chiapas. He is affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement MRN and is the current Governor of Chiapas. Before becoming governor, he represented Chiapas as a senator of the LVIII and LIX and as a federal deputy in the LX Legislature.
Elba Esther Gordillo
Elba Esther Gordillo Morales is a Mexican politician who has been the leader of the 1.4-million-strong National Education Workers' Union, the largest labor union in Latin America, since 1989. She was formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party until 2005, when she left and founded the New Alliance Party, which is currently led by Luis Castro Obregón.
Zoé Robledo Aburto
Zoé Alejandro Robledo Aburto is a Mexican politician member of the National Regeneration Movement. He was serving as a Undersecretary of Government since December 2018, but on May 22, 2019 was named director of the Mexican Social Security Institute, after the resignation of Germán Martínez Cázares.
Manuel Velasco Coello
Manuel Velasco Coello is a Mexican politician and a member of PVEM. He served as the Governor of Chiapas from 2012 to 2018. He was the first PVEM politician to become a governor. Prior to his governorship, he served as a state deputy, Federal deputy and Senator, each time becoming the youngest person to ever hold such office.
K'inich Janaab' Pakal
Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, also known as Pacal, Pacal the Great, 8 Ahau and Sun Shield, was ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology. He acceded to the throne in July 615 and ruled until his death. During a reign of 68 years—the fifth-longest verified regnal period of any sovereign monarch in history, the longest in world history for more than a millennium, and still the second longest in the history of the Americas—Pakal was responsible for the construction or extension of some of Palenque's most notable surviving inscriptions and monumental architecture. Pakal is perhaps best-known in popular culture for his depiction on the carved lid of his sarcophagus, which has become the subject of pseudoarchaeological speculations.
Julio Domínguez
Julio César "Cata" Domínguez Juárez is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Cruz Azul.
Irma Serrano
Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro is a Mexican pop-folk-singer of chanson, songwriter, actress, politician and vedette. Famous for her "tantalizing," "untamed spitfire" voice, she is one of the most noted performers of the ranchera and corrido genres; she was nicknamed La Tigresa de la Canción Ranchera and later known simply as "La Tigresa". At the same time, she developed a film career of more than a dozen films.
Janaab Pakal III
Janaab Pakal III, also known as 6 Cimi Pakal,, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He acceded to the throne in November, 799. He was probably last ruler of Palenque and his glyph name comes from blackware vase found in the residential quarter of city.
Eraclio Zepeda
Eraclio Zepeda was a Mexican writer, poet and politician.