List of Famous people born in Mexico

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Famous People
Names and Surnames

Canelo Goat Alvarez

Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán
Last Name Alvarez
Born on July 18, 1990 (age 32)
Born in Mexico, Jalisco
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán, better known as "Canelo" Álvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer who has won multiple world championships in four weight classes, including light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight. He is the fourth Mexican boxer to become a world champion in four weight classes. He is currently a unified super middleweight world champion, having held the WBA (Super), WBC and Ring magazine titles since 2020.

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Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez
First Name Salma
Last Name Hayek
Born on September 2, 1966 (age 56)
Born in Mexico, Veracruz
Height 156 cm | 5'1

Salma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American film actress and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991, Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in films such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West, and Dogma.

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Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

First Name Miguel
Last Name Gallardo
Born on January 7, 1946 (age 77)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, commonly referred to by his alias El Jefe de Jefes, is a convicted Mexican drug lord. He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s, the cartel controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.

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Benjamín Arellano Félix

First Name Benjamín
Last Name Félix
Born on March 12, 1952 (age 71)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Benjamín Arellano Félix is a former Mexican drug lord who founded and led the Tijuana Cartel or "Arellano-Félix Organization” until his arrest in March 2002.

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Enedina Arellano Félix

First Name Enedina
Born on April 12, 1961 (age 61)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Enedina Arellano Félix de Toledo is a Mexican drug lord who leads the criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel.

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Frida Kahlo

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón
First Name Frida
Last Name Kahlo
Born on July 6, 1907
Died on July 13, 1954 (aged 47)
Born in Mexico, Mexico City

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain.

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Ismael Zambada García

First Name Ismael
Last Name García
Born on January 1, 1948 (age 75)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Ismael Zambada García is a Mexican suspected drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate based in Sinaloa, Mexico. Before he assumed leadership of the entire cartel, he served as the logistical coordinator for its Zambada-García faction, which has overseen the trafficking of cocaine and heroin into Chicago and other US cities by aircraft, narcosubs, container ships, go-fast boats, fishing vessels, buses, rail cars, tractor trailers, and automobiles.

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Dulce María

First Name Dulce
Born on December 6, 1985 (age 37)
Born in Mexico

Dulce María Espinosa Saviñón de Álvarez is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actress and author.

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Carmen Salinas Lozano

First Name Carmen
Last Name Lozano
Born on October 5, 1933 (age 89)
Born in Mexico, Coahuila

Carmen Salinas Lozano is a Mexican actress and politician associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

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Rafael Caro Quintero

First Name Rafael
Last Name Quintero
Born on October 24, 1952 (age 70)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Rafael Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug lord who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the late 1970s. He is also the founder and current suspected leader of the newly formed Caborca Cartel based in Sonora. He is also the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, the founder and former leader of the defunct Sonora Cartel.

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Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo

First Name Ernesto
Last Name Carrillo
Born on February 26, 1942 (age 81)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, commonly referred to by his alias Don Neto, is a convicted Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, a defunct criminal group based in Jalisco. He headed the organization alongside Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. Fonseca Carrillo was involved with drug trafficking since the early 1970s, primarily in Ecuador, and later moved his operations to Mexico.

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Héctor Luis Palma Salazar

First Name Héctor
Last Name Salazar
Born on August 25, 1962 (age 60)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Héctor Luis Palma Salazar is a former Mexican drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. After the brutal murder of his young family ordered by rival cartel members, Palma engaged in a string of vicious crimes to avenge his lost ones. Palma was arrested on June 23, 1995, and extradited to the United States where he served a jail sentence until June 2016. He was then deported back to Mexico and charged with a double homicide for having murdered two Nayarit police officers back in 1995. Palma is currently incarcerated at the Altiplano Prison, near Mexico City.

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Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri
First Name Luis
Last Name Miguel
Born on April 19, 1970 (age 52)
Born in Puerto Rico

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer, often referred to as El Sol de México, which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". He is widely regarded as the most successful artist in Latin American history, having successfully performed in a wide range of musical styles, including pop, ballads, boleros, tangos, jazz, big band and mariachi. Luis Miguel is also recognized as the only Latin singer of his generation to not crossover to the Anglo market during the "Latin Explosion" in the 1990s.

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Vicente Carrillo Fuentes

First Name Vicente
Last Name Fuentes
Born on October 16, 1962 (age 60)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, commonly referred to by his alias El Viceroy, is a Mexican suspected drug lord and former leader of the Juárez Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. The cartel is based in Chihuahua, one of the primary transportation routes for billions of dollars' worth of illegal drug shipments entering the United States from Mexico annually. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords until his capture in 2014.

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Sergio Pérez

First Name Sergio
Last Name Pérez
Born on January 26, 1990 (age 33)
Born in Mexico, Jalisco
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Sergio Pérez Mendoza, nicknamed "Checo", is a Mexican racing driver who races in Formula One for Red Bull Racing, having previously driven for Sauber, McLaren, Force India and Racing Point. He won his first Formula One Grand Prix at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, breaking the record for the number of starts before a race win at 190.

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Jorge Leyva

Vicente Carrillo Leyva
First Name Jorge
Last Name Leyva
Born on July 19, 1976 (age 46)
Born in Mexico

Vicente Carrillo Leyva is a Mexican drug lord and a leader in the Juárez Cartel.

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Andrés Manuel López Obrador

First Name Andrés
Last Name Obrador
Born on November 13, 1953 (age 69)
Born in Mexico, Tabasco

Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current president of Mexico who took office on 1 December 2018.

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Yair Rodríguez

First Name Yair
Last Name Rodríguez
Born on October 6, 1992 (age 30)
Born in Mexico, Chihuahua
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Yair Raziel Rodríguez Portillo is a Mexican professional mixed martial artist who is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) where he competes in their featherweight division. He has been with the UFC since 2014 after winning The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America tournament. As of October 19, 2020, he is #4 in the UFC featherweight rankings.

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Guillermo del Toro

First Name Guillermo
Last Name Toro
Born on October 9, 1964 (age 58)
Born in Mexico, Jalisco
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist. He is best known for the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.

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Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o Buyu
First Name Lupita
Born on March 1, 1983 (age 40)
Born in Mexico
Height 162 cm | 5'4

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang' Nyong'o and Dorothy Ogada Buyu, Nyong'o was born in Mexico City, where her father was teaching, and was raised in Kenya from age one. She attended college in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree in film and theatre studies from Hampshire College.

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