Famous Mexican people. List of famous people from Mexico: Artists, Musicians, Leaders, etc.
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A prominent leader inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more. A brilliant achiever is endowed with a deep sense of purpose, a sense of autonomy, wisdom and a transcendental sense of the good. Mexico is proud to see many great names rise on its land, not only great achievers and leaders, but also writers and scientists, singers and actors, world famous inventors, who made a great contribution to the development of our civilization. They are simply remarkable individuals and have one thing in common: are not easy to stereotype. These people of purpose made a difference in our world. We are happy to present to you some brief stories of notable Mexican people who inspired the world.
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Famous Mexicans
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano is considered as being one of the most prestigious, prominent and controversial poets of Spanish American literature in the second half of the twentieth century, a literary giant of contemporary Mexico. He was a Nobel-Prize-winning poet, writer, essayist, diplomat, editor and publisher. His poetic corpus expresses powerfully the belief that poetry constitutes "the secret religion of the modern age." As a master prose stylist, Paz wrote also a prolific body of essays.
His greatest achievement was in 1990, when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity". Octavio Paz was named honorary doctor at Harvard University in 1980. His prizes include also the Cervantes award in 1981 - the most prestigious award of the Hispanic world - and the famous American Neustadt Prize in 1982.
Luis Miramontes
Was a brilliant Mexican chemist known as the co-inventor of the progestin used in one of the first two oral contraceptives. Luis Miramontes is considered one of the best chemist of all times and his extensive scientific contribution, includes numerous publications and almost 40 national and international patents in different fields such as organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, petrochemistry, atmospheric chemistry and polluting agents.
The name of Luis Miramontes appeared next to Pasteur, Edison, Bell, the Wright brothers. The contraceptive pill was denominated three times in 2000 as one of the most important inventions of the last 2000 years, by a group of distinguished personalities, including several Nobel laureates.
Guillermo González Camarena
Camerana was a Mexican engineer and inventor of the color television. Displaying rare ingenuity, Camarena invented and received a patent for color television transmission system known as the Chromoscopic adapter for television equipment. González Camarena sent his first color transmission on August 31, 1946 from his lab in the offices of The Mexican League of Radio Experiments, at Lucerna St. #1, in Mexico City.
Anthony Quinn
Was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican actor, as well as a painter and writer. Quinn’s signature role was as Zorba in the hit musical Zorba The Greek and the performance in Federico Fellini's La strada secured his position as an international star.
Quinn’s role in Viva Zapata! won him his first Oscar and the second Best Supporting Actor Oscar arrived after portraying the painter Gaugin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life. Anthony Quinn played many other important roles over the course of his 60-year career: Lawrence of Arabia, Lust for Life, Barabbas, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Mohammad, Messenger of God, The Shoes of the Fisherman, and The Guns of Navarone.
Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez
The talented Mexican Richard Gonzales was the World No. 1 tennis player for an unequalled 8 years in the 1950s and early 1960s. He has a first-class service of great speed and good control and was noted for this powerful service and strong court play. During that period, he played as a professional. He won twice also the United States Championships. The tempestuous Gonzales was considered, prior to the Open era, by many observers to be the greatest player in the history of tennis.
Thalia
Ariadna Thalía Sodi y Miranda, commonly known as Thalía, is the “Latin Pop Diva", “Queen of Telenovelas”, is a reigning force in Latin entertainment due to her highly successful soap operas and music albums. Thalia is one of the most awarded and internationally recognized artists by selling more than 20 million albums worldwide. Every new released album solidifies her position as one of Latin pop’s most powerful voices.
Diego Rivera
Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera had a profound effect on the international art world. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New York City. Among his many contributions, Rivera, this precociously gifted artist, is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture and his large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance.
Rivera's murals have created a visual memory of Mexico's historic past. Rivera's most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos that can be seen at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan. His great body of work reflects cultural changes taking place during the turbulent twentieth century.
Mario J. Molina
Molina is one of the most prominent precursors to the discovering of the Antarctic ozone hole. He was jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with chemists Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland “for his work in atmospheric chemistry concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.” Molina made pioneering contributions to explaining how ozone is formed and decomposes through chemical processes in the atmosphere.
Benito Juarez
Was a Zapotec Amerindian, Mexican liberal statesman and national hero who served five terms as President of Mexico. He is revered by Mexicans as one of their greatest and most beloved leaders, because during the French occupation of Mexico, Juarez refused to accept the rule of the Monarchy or any other foreign nation, and established Mexico as a constitutional democracy. He resisted the French occupation, by overthrowing the Empire, and restoring the Republic. Juarez installed numerous social changes and made notable efforts in order to modernize Mexico and improve the lives of the Mexican people.
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez is one of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses with Mexican origin. She is also a director and television and film producer. Salma Hayek performed in more than thirty films. Salma produced and starred in Frida, which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Widely considered one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood since legendary Dolores Del Rio, Salma Hayek is known for bringing a fiery presence and striking beauty to the screen.