19.4196° N, 99.1454° W
MEXICO CITY
Most Famous People Born in Mexico City, Mexico
- Notable people
- 4,319
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1959
- Most distinctive
- Wrestler 8.1×
One of the largest cities in the world, and one of the most camera-ready. Mexico City's distinctive professions are wrestlers and boxers at the top — the lucha libre and prizefighting tradition — alongside an actor and film-director share that is among the highest of any non-American city in the dataset. The pre-Columbian and colonial centuries leave only a thin tail; almost everything happens after the Revolution.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Mexico City Is Known For
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Actor is Mexico City's biggest profession — 18% of all notables (772).
Mexico City over-indexes on wrestler — 8.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Mexico City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1930s Clear ×
José Emilio Pacheco
1939 - 2014
Fernando del Paso
1935 - 2018
Carlos Monsiváis
1938 - 2010
Alfonso Arau
Born 1932
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Born 1934
Ricardo Legorreta
1931 - 2011
Jacqueline Andere
Born 1938
Javier Solís
1931 - 1966
Pina Pellicer
1934 - 1964
Robert Graham (sculptor)
1938 - 2008
Salvador Elizondo
1932 - 2006
José Luis Cuevas
1931 - 2017
Rafael Osuna
1938 - 1969
Margo Glantz
Born 1930
Jorge Lavat
1933 - 2011
Carlos Prieto (cellist)
Born 1937
Sergio Jiménez
1937 - 2007
Pilar Pellicer
1938 - 2020
Ana Ofelia Murguía
Born 1933
Enrique Metinides
Born 1934
Felipe Cazals
Born 1937
René Cardona Jr.
1939 - 2003
Helen Escobedo
1934 - 2010
Héctor Bonilla
Born 1939
Leonardo Nierman
Born 1932
Roberto Cobo
1930 - 2002
Rosie Reyes
Born 1939
Alfonso Portugal
1934 - 2016
Guillermo Bonfil
1935 - 1991
Ariadna Welter
1930 - 1998
Lilia Carrillo
1930 - 1974
Héctor Ortega
1939 - 2020
Horacio Gómez Bolaños
1930 - 1999
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
1931 - 2019
Jesús Silva Herzog Flores
1935 - 2017
Miguel Mancera
Born 1932
Juan López Moctezuma
1932 - 1995
Gustavo Esteva
Born 1936
Lorena Velázquez
Born 1937
Mario Moya Palencia
1933 - 2006
Arturo Gómez-Pompa
Born 1934
Gloria Contreras Roeniger
1934 - 2015
Carlos Mijares Bracho
1930 - 2015
Luis de la Peña
Born 1931
Víctor Yturbe
1936 - 1987
Beatriz Sheridan
1934 - 2006
René Drucker Colín
1937 - 2017
Raúl Macías
1934 - 2009
Arturo Warman
1937 - 2003
Alejandro Gertz Manero
Born 1939
Dina de Marco
1937 - 1998
Yolanda Varela
1930 - 2009
Antonio Mota
1939 - 1986
Leonorilda Ochoa
1939 - 2016
Pilar Roldán
Born 1939
Alfredo del Águila
1935 - 2018
Jaime Belmonte
1934 - 2009
Samuel Gitler Hammer
1933 - 2014
Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
1939 - 2008
Mario Orozco Rivera
1930 - 1998
Héctor Suárez
1938 - 2020
Josefina Zoraida Vázquez
Born 1932
Olegario Vázquez Raña
Born 1935
Carlos Llano Cifuentes
1932 - 2010
Mario Vázquez Raña
1932 - 2015
Sergio Bustamante
1934 - 2014
Teresa del Conde
1938 - 2017
Francisco Corzas
1936 - 1983
Freddy Fernández (actor)
1934 - 1995
Fernando Solana
1931 - 2016
Antonio Jasso
1935 - 2013
José Luis Lamadrid
Born 1930
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca
1932 - 2009
Narciso Busquets
1931 - 1989
Manuel de Elías
Born 1939
Alejandro Luna
Born 1939
María de Lourdes (singer)
1939 - 1997
Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty
Born 1934
F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Born 1936
Miguel Gutiérrez (Mexican footballer)
1931 - 2016
Alfredo Hernández (footballer)
Born 1935
León Chávez Teixeiro
Born 1936
Álex Phillips junior
1935 - 2007
Alfonso Mejía
Born 1934
Rafael Llano Cifuentes
1933 - 2017
Marysole Wörner Baz
Born 1936
Yolanda Lastra
Born 1932
Aline Pettersson
Born 1938
Gualberto Castro
1934 - 2019
Arturo Azuela
1938 - 2012
Luis Ortiz Macedo
1933 - 2013
Carlos Calderón de la Barca
1934 - 2012
Mariano Azuela Güitrón
Born 1936
Daniel Cazés
1939 - 2012
Guillermo Ortiz Camargo
1939 - 2009
Moisés Solana
1935 - 1969
Héctor Quintanar
1936 - 2013
Alberto Baillères
Born 1931
Jaime Salazar
1931 - 2011
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
Born 1933
Onésimo Cepeda
Born 1937
Rubén Galindo
Born 1938
Adriana Roel
Born 1934
Annabelle Gutiérrez
Born 1932
Rocío Sagaón
1933 - 2015
José Estrada (director)
1938 - 1986
Luis Couturier
Born 1937
Martha Mijares
1938 - 2018
Guillermo Zarur
1932 - 2011
Octavio Novaro
1939 - 2018
Graciela Salicrup
1935 - 1982
Alfredo Joskowicz
1937 - 2012
Alma Delia Fuentes
1937 - 2017
Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez
1936 - 2012
Liza Willert
1939 - 2009
Ricardo García Sainz
1930 - 2015
Beatriz Zamora
Born 1935
Eugenio Cobo
Born 1937
Isabel Fraire
1934 - 2015
Nacho Méndez
Born 1939
Malena Doria
1933 - 1999
Maty Huitrón
1936 - 2019
J. Francisco Serrano Cacho
Born 1937
Federico Ling Altamirano
1939 - 2014
Alberto Baeza
Born 1938
Lourdes Canale
1934 - 2012
Rafael Heredia
Born 1937
Lourdes Guerrero
1938 - 1997
José Luis Calderón Cabrera
1930 - 2004
Lucero Isaac
Born 1936
Martha Navarro
Born 1937
Andrés Casillas de Alba
Born 1934
Luis Grajeda (basketball)
1937 - 2019
Alfredo Leal Kuri
1930 - 2003
Rosa Furman
1930 - 1999
Bernardo Bátiz
Born 1936
Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
1932 - 2018
Sam Herman
Born 1936
María Eugenia Ríos
Born 1935
Edmundo de Alba Alcaraz
Born 1938
Angelina Peláez
Born 1939
Margarita Peña Muñoz
1937 - 2018
Marcela Del Río Reyes
Born 1932
Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández
Born 1930
Gelsen Gas
1933 - 2015
Jorge Antonio Aldrete
Born 1937
Fernando Walls
1931 - 2005
Tinieblas
Born 1939
Mario Tovar González
1933 - 2011
Pablo Garrido
Born 1938
Teresa Serrano
Born 1936
Miguel Sabido
Born 1937
Eliezer Ronen
1931 - 2016
Graciela Döring
1939 - 2018
José Medel
1938 - 2001
Brigitte Boehm
1938 - 2005
José Bolaños
1935 - 1994
Margo Su
1930 - 1993
Marco Antonio Dorantes García
1936 - 2012
María Idalia
1931 - 2019
Elena Urrutia
1932 - 2015
Esperanza Brito de Martí
1932 - 2007
Gabriel Goldschmied
Born 1939
Antonio Enríquez Savignac
1931 - 2007
Javier Jiménez Espriú
Born 1937
Jaime Bravo
1932 - 1970
Leopoldo García-Colín
1930 - 2012
José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti
Born 1937
Héctor Martínez Arteche
1934 - 2011
Carlos Flores Marini
Born 1937
Francisco Colmenero
Born 1932
Alberto Dallal
Born 1936
Javier Taboada
Born 1935
Jacinto Brito
1938 - 1968
Yolotl González Torres
Born 1932
Javier Bonilla
Born 1937
José Luis Tellez
Born 1938
Memo Luna
Born 1930
Thelma Nava
1932 - 2019
Ricardo Alaníz Posada
Born 1937
Rafael del Río
1937 - 2002
Roberto Salinas Price
1938 - 2012
Luis Muciño
Born 1936
Renate Zoepffel
Born 1934
Salomón Laiter
1937 - 2001
Tara Parra
Born 1932
Luis Estrada Martínez
1932 - 2016
Paloma Cordero
1937 - 2020
Germán Ohm
Born 1936
Anilú Elías
Born 1937
Arthur J. Dommen
1934 - 2005
Cuauhtémoc Anda Gutiérrez
Born 1938
Iván García Solís
Born 1936
Noemí Quezada
1939 - 2003
Salvador Contreras-Balderas
1936 - 2009
Espectro I
1939 - 1993
Francisco Contreras
Born 1934
René Campero
Born 1934
María Clara Zurita
Born 1936
Agustín de Anda
1933 - 1960
Guillermina Higareda
1939 - 2005
Jaime Augusto Shelley
1937 - 2020
José Sierra (Fußballspieler)
Born 1931
Alfonso González Archundía
Born 1934
Pedro Ojeda Paullada
1934 - 2012
Eugenia Avendaño
1930 - 2003
Luis Alberto Rico
Born 1938
Jaime Ortiz Lajous
Born 1932
Juan Guerrero Sánchez
1936 - 1970
Carlos Ruiz Mejía
1939 - 1995
Eduardo Pesqueira Olea
Born 1937
Leticia Gómez
Born 1936
Alejandro Gaxiola
Born 1939
Teresa E. Rohde
1933 - 1992
Yuyú
1932 - 2012
Jorge Zuñiga Campos (locutor)
Born 1932
Víctor Hermosillo Celada
Born 1939
Enrique Marroquín
Born 1939
Alida Vázquez
Born 1931
Roy Heenan
1935 - 2017
Alicia Aguilar
1930 - 2005
Miguel Reyes Razo
Born 1939
Raúl Páramo Ortega
Born 1935
Sergio Escobedo
1931 - 2009
Jesús Elizondo
1930 - 2009
Enrique Marroquin
Born 1939
Roberto Retolaza
Born 1930
Guillermo Aguilar Álvarez Mazarrasa
1932 - 1997
Miguel Covián Pérez
1930 - 2009
Héctor Abaunza
Born 1938
Graciela Arroyo
1934 - 2005
Fernando Macotela
Born 1938
Víctor Hermosillo y Celada
Born 1939
Maestro Armando Ortega
1936 - 1973
Mónica de Neymet
Born 1936
Margarita Villaseñor
1934 - 2011
Jorge Castillo (rower)
Born 1939
Sigfrido Paz Paredes
1938 - 2012
Mario Pani (sport shooter)
Born 1936
Guillermo Prieto Fortún
Born 1935
Linda Béjar
Born 1937
Rafael Carpio
Born 1937
Florentino Quintanar
Born 1934
Theodore E. Gildred
1935 - 2019
Manuel Méndez (diseñador)
1930 - 2014
Blanca Barrón
Born 1934
Helga Diederichsen
Born 1930
Eulalia Martínez
Born 1939
Electa Arenal
1935 - 1969
Jesús Mercado Rodríguez
Born 1939
Tita Valencia
Born 1938
Graciela Abascal
1939 - 2020
José Marcos Aguilar Moreno
Born 1934
Edilberto Buenfil Montalvo
Born 1938
Donald C. MacKenzie
Born 1930
Luis Esteva
Born 1935
Esveida Bravo Martínez
Born 1932
Omar Martínez Legorreta
Born 1935
Olga Pellicer Silva
Born 1935
Daniel Galán Méndez
Born 1936
Pepín González
Born 1932
Jorge Morelos
Born 1931
Fernando Dávila
Born 1930
Juan Manuel Lemus
Born 1934
Manuel Cañibe
Born 1930