Mexico City, Mexico

Mexican painter known for her autobiographical portraits, self-portraits, and works exploring identity, gender, and pain through a blend of realism and fantasy

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker renowned for avant-garde surrealist cinema that blended dreamlike imagery with sharp political and social commentary

Mexican revolutionary, army officer, and politician who served as the 51st president of Mexico and implemented massive land reform and oil industry expropriation

Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat renowned for his influence on the Latin American Boom and works such as The Death of Artemio Cruz

President of Mexico, known for leading the Liberal victory in the Reform War and the Second French intervention, and as the first Indigenous president

Mexican muralist whose large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art

Celebrated Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer best known for the novel Pedro Páramo and the collection El Llano en llamas, deeply influencing Latin American literature

Mexican chemical engineer and Nobel laureate who co-discovered the danger of CFCs to the ozone layer and the Antarctic ozone hole

Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his tireless work on disarmament and nuclear-weapon-free zones

Iconic Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter, celebrated as the most accomplished comedian in Latin America and Spain

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate, one of the 20th century's most significant authors, known for blending the fantastic and realistic in his works