Famous Natives listed represent a very small sampling of potential choices.

• Juan Ruiz de Alarcon playwright, dramatist
• Pedro Armendariz actor
• Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena inventor color-wheel type television
• Juana Ines de la Cruz scholar, poet, author
• Alfonso Cuaron film director, producer
• Juana Inez de la Cruz poet, writer
• Andres Manuel Del Rio scientist
• Lila Downs singer, songwriter
• Ana Guevara olympic medalist, track and field athlete
• Salma Hayek actress
• Miguel Hidalgo leader mexican war of independence "father of the nation"
• Benito Pablo Juarez five-time president of mexico
• Frida Kahlo artist
• Agustin Lara composer
• Luis E. Miramontes chemist, co-inventor progestin
• Moctezuma II aztec ruler
• Mario J. Molina chemist, nobel laureate
• Ricardo Montalban actor
• Lorena Ochoa professional golfer
• Octavio Paz poet, diplomat, nobel laureate
• Anthony Quinn actor
• Alfonso Reyes author, philosopher, diplomat
• Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes "Cantinflas" actor, producer, screenwriter
• Diego Rivera artist
• Alfonso Garcia Robles diplomat, nobel laureate
• Hugo Sanchez football player, coach
• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna political leader, military general, president
• Carlos Slim business magnate, philanthropist
• Thalia singer
• Fernando Valenzuela baseball player
• Consuelo Velazquez concert pianist, songwriter "Besame mucho"
• Guadalupe Victoria first president of mexico
• Rolando Villazon opera singer
• Francisco "Pancho" Villa mexican revolutionary general
• Emiliano Zapata leader in mexican revolution

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