List of Famous people born in Nuevo León, Mexico

Guadalupe Robledo was a Mexican professional wrestler, best known by the ring name of Jose Lothario. He performed for such promotions as the NWA and the WWF.

Omar Ortiz Uribe is a former Mexican football goalkeeper and convicted kidnapper. He made his debut in 1997 with Club de Fútbol Monterrey among others.

Montserrat Oliver is a Mexican fashion model, business entrepreneur, actress, and talk-show host.

Carlos Alberto Rodríguez Gómez is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX club Monterrey and the Mexico national team.

Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into one of the largest cement producers in the world by the time of his death. Zambrano also financed several cultural initiatives across Latin America and chaired, from 1997 to 2012, the board of trustees of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), one of the largest private universities in the region. He also co-owned Axtel, an important Mexican telecommunications company.

Luis Alfonso Rodríguez Alanís is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Liga MX club Tigres UANL and the Mexico national team.

Bianca Marroquín is a Mexican musical theatre and television actress known as the first Mexican actress to have a starring role on Broadway and one of the youngest actresses to play Roxie Hart in a Broadway production of Chicago.

Fabiola Guajardo is a Mexican actress, model, author and musician, known for having competed in Nuestra Belleza Nuevo León 2007 finishing as the first runner up and being finalist on the National pageant of Nuestra Belleza Mexico in 2007.

Aldo de Nigris Guajardo is a Mexican former professional footballer and current assistant manager of Liga MX club Monterrey.

Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz is Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Nuevo León from 2009 to 2015. He was linked by Operation Tornado prosecution to legal proceedings against him for embezzlement, property crimes, abuse of authority and unjust enrichment among 14 other public servers, deputies and former deputies as well as relatives and partners of the politician. For that reason he was held in preventive custody on January 26, 2017.