List of Famous people born in Hidalgo, Mexico
Raúl Jiménez
Raúl Alonso Jiménez Rodríguez is a Mexican professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Mexico national team as a forward.
Cesar Millan
César Felipe Millán Favela is a Mexican-American dog trainer with over 25 years of canine experience. He is widely known for his Emmy-nominated television series Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, which was produced from 2004 to 2012 and is broadcast in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza is a Mexican jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who won the Triple Crown in 2015 on American Pharoah. He began riding in his native Mexico and went on to compete at racetracks in California. He has won the Kentucky Derby three times, riding War Emblem in 2002, California Chrome in 2014, and American Pharoah in 2015. He also won the Preakness Stakes three times, in those same years and with the same horses. He was the first jockey in history to enter the Belmont Stakes with a third opportunity to win the Triple Crown; his 2015 victory made him the oldest jockey and first Hispanic jockey to win the award.
Fray Tormenta
Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez is a Mexican priest who supported an orphanage for 23 years as a lucha libre wrestler. While performing, he wore a red and yellow mask and used the ring name Fray Tormenta. He made only sporadic in-ring appearances in the 2000s before retiring completely from wrestling in July 2011, but still wears his mask even in his duties as a priest. Fray comes from the latin Fraire, which translates to brother. Some religious groups in Latin America put Fray before their religious name.
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. He was Governor of Hidalgo until April 2011.
Omar Fayad
Omar Fayad Meneses is a Mexican politician from the state of Hidalgo who has served as a federal deputy and senator. He is currently the Governor of Hidalgo after winning the 2016 gubernatorial election. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Claudia Islas
Elizabeth Islas Brasdefer is a Mexican telenovela actress who is better known as Claudia Islas. She is very famous for her beauty and was called "Mexican Brigitte Bardot" in the past.
Juana Barraza
Juana Barraza is a Mexican serial killer and former professional wrestler dubbed La Mataviejitas sentenced to 759 years in prison for killing between 42 and 48 elderly women. The first murder attributed to Mataviejitas has been dated variously to the late 1990s and to a specific killing on 17 November 2003. The authorities and the press have given various estimates as to the total number of her victims, with estimates ranging from 24 to 49 deaths.
Ricardo Ahued Bardahuil
Ricardo Ahued Bardahuil is a Mexican politician affiliated with National Regeneration Movement. He currently serves as a senator representing Veracruz in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. From 2009 to 2012, he was a deputy in the LXI Legislature as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In October 2018, the director of the Morena party in Veracruz, Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevara, criticized Ahued for making remarks about the water supply in Xalapa, noting that Ahued was not a member of the party despite being in its Senate caucus.
Rogelio Chávez
Rogelio Alfredo Chávez Martínez is a professional Mexican footballer who plays for Arka Gdynia. He was awarded a Balón de Oro of best side defender while playing for Cruz Azul in the Clausura 2009.