- South Park Mexican
South Park Mexican (born Carlos Coy, October 5, 1970 in Houston, Texas) is a rapper, currently incarcerated for child molestation. His stage name derives from the South Park neighborhood in which he was raised. - Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (July 61907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was married to Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera. She is widely known for her self-portraits often expressing her physical pain and suffering through symbolism. In the last three decades she has gained admiration in Europe and the US. In 2002, … - Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Mexican/American actress, Daytime Emmy-winning director, and an Emmy-nominated tv and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants. [1] - Pancho Villa
Doroteo Arango Arámbula – better known as Francisco Villa or, by the nickname for Francisco "Pancho". Pancho Villa was one of the foremost leaders of the Mexican Revolution and provisional governor of the state of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Villa mostly operated in the northern theatre of the war, centering on Chihuahua, in the north of Mexico. - Sam Houston
Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793-July 26, 1863) was a 19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier. Born in Virginia, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor. Although a slaveowner and opponent of abolitionism, he refused, due to his unionist convictions, … - Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera, (full name "Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez") was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Diego Rivera is perhaps best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. - Mack 10
Dedrick Rolison (born August 9, 1971) is an American gangsta rapper and actor best known by his stage name Mack 10. Born in the city of Inglewood, California, he is of African American,Puerto Rican and Mexican American descent. He was a member of the hardcore rap trio known as the Westside Connection, along with Ice Cube and WC, and was consequently involved in Ice Cube's feud with Cypress Hill. He has sold 2.4 million albums as solo artist and label owner. - Carlos Mencia
Ned Arnel Mencía, better known by his stage name Carlos Mencia, is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He is currently the host of his own show on Comedy Central, "Mind of Mencia". - Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born on April 19, 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-Mexican pop singer of Italian and Spaniard decent that was raised in Mexico. He is best known for his crooning vocals and romantic ballads. He has been the most popular singer in Latin America since the early 1980s. He has set world records that go unrivaled in Latin Music. - El Vez
El Vez (born 1960) is the stage name of Robert Lopez, a Mexican-American rock and roll artist, who performs and records original material and covers classic rock songs. Mixing the styles of Elvis Presley and many other American rock artists with his own Latin-American heritage and music, he is known for expressing revolutionary views through his the satire and humor in his songs. Lopez's main persona and style is very similar to Elvis Presley, … - Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for one six-year term that will end in 2012 without the possibility of re-election. He is affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN), a mostly conservative organization with a tendency toward more liberal economic ideas, and linked through Manuel Espino to the neo-fascist movement El Yunque, … - Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter popular in Latin America for his salsa music and salsa monga ballads. - Aleks Syntek
Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña (Born September 29th, 1969 in Mérida), better known as Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and producer. - Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas, born in Long Beach, California, on November 24, 1970, is a successful Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award winning Mexican singer and songwriter of Spanish-language rock and pop music. Venegas, who grew up in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, began studying music at the age of eight and went on to join several bands, including Tijuana No!, before starting a career on her own. In addition to singing and writing her own songs, … - Dick Morris
Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948 in New York City) is an American political author, newspaper columnist, and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant. Morris is best known for managing Bill Clinton's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President of the United States. His tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election, … - Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20 1947), known simply as Carlos Santana or Santana, is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, the Santana Blues Band, going mostly under the title "Santana," which created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz fusion. - Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio Dosamantes (born June 17 1971) is a Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican singer and actress. - Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South. - Alaska
Alaska (born Olvido Gara Jova, in Mexico City) is a Spanish singer, famous in Spain and Latin America. Her father was a Spaniard exiled during the Spanish Civil War and her mother a Cuban exiled by Castro. Some years before Francisco Franco died, her parents decided to move back to Spain. Alaska was a big fan of Lou Reed, T-Rex, etc, but David Bowie was her biggest influence. She even told her mother that she would love to be a boy just to be gay. - Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an Mexican-American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. Rodriguez shoots and produces many of his films in Texas and Mexico. - Burrito
Burrito is an kids favorite in Arena Coliseo Monterrey. He's a takeoff of the Donkey from the Shrek movies, and always gets pushed a new one is released. He's mostly an opening match guy. - Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León was President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. - Lorena Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa (born in Guadalajara on 15 November 1981) is a Mexican golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and is currently the number one ranked woman golfer in the world. She is regarded as the best Mexican golfer of all time. She was only the second Mexican to become a member of the world's leading women's golf tour, where she quickly became one of the the tour's top players, becoming the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world. - Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless (born 1953) is an American chef who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. He is, perhaps, best known for his PBS series "Mexico: One Plate at a Time" and the Food Network series "Iron Chef America". Bayless was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, into a family of restaurateurs specializing in the local barbecue. Having begun his culinary training as a youth, … - Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of cancer. - David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a painter and muralist known for his social realism work. His notable projects include his collaborative mural at the Mexican Electricians' Union (1939-40), "From Porfiriato to the Revolution" at the Museum of National History (1957-55), "March of Humanity" and the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros on Avenida Insurgentes (1965-71), … - Subcomandante Marcos
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (allegedly born June 19, 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico), also known as Delegado Cero (Delegate Zero) in matters concerning the Other Campaign, describes himself as the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) but, due to his prominence in the EZLN, he is considered by many to be one of its main leaders. - Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter born in Oaxaca de Juárez, México, of Mestizo parents. In his paintings, Tamayo expressed what he believed was the traditional Mexico and did not follow the more politically based paintings that many of his contemporaries such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Oswaldo Guayasamin and David Alfaro Siqueiros did. Tamayo and another artist, Lea Remba, were the first artists to create a new type of printed artwork called "mixografía". - Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as the author of numerous screenplays, dramas, and short stories; however, Fuentes is best known for his novels, which use complex and innovative narrative techniques to probe Mexican history. Born in 1928 in Panama City, the son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes was raised in Washington, D.C. Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. - Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional boxer and former world WBC Super Featherweight champion. Barrera, whose brother Jorge Barrera is also a boxer, had a successful amateur boxing career where he won 55 out of 58 bouts, and then he turned professional. Barrera is a member of an affluent Mexico City family. - Glenn Spencer
Glenn Spencer is a anti-illegal immigration activist who advocates greater vigilance in securing the United States–Mexico border against Mexicans and illegal immigration. He calls for maximum deportation efforts for all illegal immigrants, and supports an English only government language policy. Spencer is the founder of the American Border Patrol group based in Sierra Vista, Arizona. - Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a cardiologist who worked for the United Nations' IAEA sector for many years. He has three siblings, Alfredo, Carlos and Cristina; and two half sisters, Christina and Elisa. - Miguel de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado was President of Mexico, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from 1982 to 1988. De la Madrid studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Public Administration at Harvard University in the United States. He worked for Mexico's central bank and taught law at the UNAM before securing a position at the treasury in 1965. Between 1970 and 1972 he was employed by Pemex, … - Pepe Aguilar
Pepe Aguilar is an American singer of Mexican decent who sings ranchera music. He is the son of the legends of Mexican show-business Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre. His height: 6' 5" inch Aguilar was born during a difficult period in his father's career. He is the uncle of la jodona Antonio Aguilar, who is also a singer and an actor, was not selling his albums well or being hired for films in Mexico, so the Aguilar family emigrated, … - Lila Downs
Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures. Downs, is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sanchez and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. states in California as a teen, … - José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a Mexican social realist painter who specialized in bold murals. Orozco was fond of the theme of the human versus the mechanical. He was also a genre painter and lithographer. Orozco studied in Mexico City at the San Carlos Academy. With Diego Rivera, he was a leader of the Mexican Renaissance. - Pedro Infante
José Pedro Infante Cruz, better known as Pedro Infante, is perhaps the most famous actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and idol of the Mexican people, together with Jorge Negrete or Javier Solís. He was born on November 18, 1917 at Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He was raised as a child in Guamúchil. He died on April 15, 1957 at Mérida, Yucatán, during a flight that he piloted himself to Mexico City. - Diego Luna
Diego Luna (born Diego Luna Alexander on December 29, 1979) is a Mexican actor. Luna was born in Mexico City. His mother, Fiona, died during a car accident when he was only two years old. She had worked in the film industry and had made sure that this was a life Luna would be immersed in. He soon became involved in his father's passion, entertainment - his father is the most acclaimed living theatre, cinema and opera set designer in Mexico. - Luis Rey
Luis V. Rey (b.1955) is a Spanish-Mexican artist and illustrator, a 1977 graduate of the San Carlos Academy, (UNAM). He is best known for his innovative work in the field of dinosaur visualization, for example in conjunction with Robert Bakker, promoting awareness of the developing evidence for feathered dinosaurs. He is an active member of the SVP (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) and of the Dinosaur Society (UK). He also works in portraiture and makes political pieces, … - Brad Will
Bradley Roland Will (1970-2006) was a U.S. anarchist, documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers' strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca.
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