Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He is perhaps best known in the US for his roles in two Hollywood films, the title role in "Zorba the Greek" and his Oscar-winning performance in "Viva Zapata!", while in the rest of the world he is associated with his role of the brutish circus strongman Zampanò in Federico Fellini's "La strada".

General Álvaro Obregón Salido was President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. Born in "Hacienda de Siquisiva", in Navojoa, Sonora, to an Irish-Mexican ranching family, he entered politics in 1911 with his election as mayor of the town of Huatabampo. At the time, he supported President Francisco I. Madero against a revolt led by Pascual Orozco.

Vicente Fox Quesada was the President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He was elected in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Álvaro Obregón in 1920. The 2000 election was also significant because it was the first presidential election since the end of the Mexican Revolution to be considered clean and fair. He was elected with 42 percent of the vote, …

Juan O'Gorman, was a Mexican artist, both a painter and an architect. O'Gorman was born in Coyoacán, Mexican Federal District, a suburb within greater Mexico City, to an Irish father, Cecil Crawford O'Gorman (a painter himself) and a Mexican mother. In the 1920s he studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos, the Art and Architecture school at National University, Mexico. He became a well known architect, worked on the new Bank Of Mexico building, …

William Lamport (1615-1659) was an Irish-born Catholic adventurer who according to at least one historian gained a nickname of "El Zorro", the Fox, due to his exploits in Mexico. The attribution of the nickname, however, is disputed.

Edmundo O'Gorman (* November 24 1906 in Mexico City - + September 28 1995 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian and philosopher. He was the brother of architect Juan O'Gorman and the son of painter and mining engineer Cecil Crawford O'Gorman who arrived in Mexico from Ireland in 1895. He was also the grandson of Charles O'Gorman, the first British consul to Mexico City and later married a Mexican citizen.

Alejo Bay was born in Alamos, Mexico in 1891 and was a famous Irish Mexican political leader.

Chino Moreno (born Camilo Wong Moreno June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is the lead singer and back-up guitarist in Deftones and Team Sleep. Moreno was born in Sacramento, California to a Mexican father and a Mexican/Irish/Native American/Chinese mother; the latter being the origin of his Spanish nickname "Chino" (a nickname given to Latinos with Asian features), which means "Chinese" in Spanish. He was the third of five children.

Rómulo O'Farril was a multi-millionaire Mexican businessman. He founded the newspaper "Novedades" and owned the first commercial TV station (XHTV, Canal 4) through his company Televisión de México and was the honorary consul of Ireland in Mexico. He later partnered with engineer Guillermo González Camarena and businessmen Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and Miguel Alemán Valdés to create the company "Telesistema Mexicano, S.A." (currently Televisa).

Justo Sierra Méndez, was a prominent Mexican writer, journalist, poet and political figure of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was the son of Mexican novelist Justo Sierra O'Reilly, who is credited with inspiring his son with the spirit of literature. Sierra moved to Mexico City at the age of 13 in 1861, the year of his father's death, and also, coincidentally, the year of the French intervention in Mexico.

Leonora Carrington (born April 6 1917 in Clayton Green, Lancashire, England) is a British-born Mexican novelist and surrealist painter. Her father was a wealthy industrialist, her mother was Irish. She also had an Irish nanny, Mary Cavanaugh, who told her Gaelic tales. Leonora had three brothers. Places she lived as a child included Crookhey Hall.

Philip Crosthwaite (December 27, 1825-February 19, 1903) was an early settler of San Diego, California and Rosarito, Baja California.

Justo Sierra O'Reilly, Mexican novelist and historian; father of Mexican author and political figure Justo Sierra Méndez. Sierra O'Reilly was born in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatán; His father-in-law Santiago Méndez Ibarra was the governor there in 1847, in the middle of the Mexican-American War (in which the state of Yucatán declared its neutrality) and at the outbreak of the Caste War of Yucatán.

Dolores Creel Miranda is a Mexican politician. She has served as the National Coordinator of the Special Projects Unit (UPX) of the Mexican Council for Culture and the Arts from 2001 to 2004 period. Her concern was to continue the historical development of the Arts in Mexico, directing the UPX, an Organization dedicated to support the production, display and distribution of Artistic works that use experimental digital technology.

Hugo Oconór(Hugh O'connor) was a military governor of Northern Mexico(including what is now known as Texas),appointed by the Spanish viceroy of New Spain in 1767. He served until 1770 when failing health led him to be transferred to the Yucatan Peninsula, where he served until his death in 1797 at the age of 45. The order to the left reads:

Andrew Ernest Joseph (Andy) Thompson, MSW (born December 14, 1924) is a former Canadian politician. Thompson was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and later served as a Senator. He was first elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1959 Ontario election as a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party in the Toronto riding of Dovercourt.

Judith Grace González Hicks is a well-known Mexican television personality. Born to a Mexican father and an Irish-American mother, Judith Grace became the first woman from her native state of Nuevo Leon to win the national title of Miss Mexico in 1981 and represented her country in Miss Universe 1981. Until 1997 no woman from Nuevo Leon, Mexico had won the national title since 1981. She currently hosts her own talk show, "Casos de Familia" (Family Stories), …

John Holloway (born 1947) is a lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and has a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a teacher at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of Puebla. His 2002 book, "Change the World Without Taking Power", …