List of Famous people born in Nuevo León, Mexico

Israel Sabdi Jiménez Nañez, known as Israel Jiménez, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays for Liga MX club Mazatlán. He is popularly known by his nickname "Piloto". He is an Olympic gold medalist.

Estefanía Villarreal is a Mexican actress best known for her performance in the Mexican telenovela Rebelde as Celina Ferrer.

Enrique Gorostieta Velarde was a Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War.

Lydia Nayeli Rangel Hernández, known professionally as Nayeli Rangel, is a Mexican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tigres UANL and the Mexico women's national team.

Eugenio Garza Lagüera was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. In February 2008 he was laureated with the Business Social Responsibility Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan institution created by the U.S. Congress within the Smithsonian Institution.

María Cristina Díaz Salazar is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She is a former municipal president (mayor) of Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Today, she is senator for the state of Nuevo León.

Raúl Salinas Lozano was a Mexican economist. He was a former Secretary of Agriculture, Mexican Ambassador to the Soviet Union and father of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Lumi Cavazos is a Mexican actress. Cavazos won Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil’s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of "Tita" in Like Water for Chocolate. The film received the attention of US film critics and moviegoers, and facilitated her entry into the American film industry. She subsequently relocated to Los Angeles.

Eva Gonda de Rivera is a Mexican billionaire heiress and businesswoman. Along with her daughters, she owns a major stake in the FEMSA beverage corporation, which operates convenience stores and bottling plants across Mexico and Latin America.