Fernando Ortiz Arana (born 26 October 1944) is a Mexican politician and long serving legislator affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Born in Santiago de Querétaro, Ortiz Arana is the son of José Ortiz Antañana, a real estate agent, and Virginia Arana Morán. He graduated from the Autonomous University of Querétaro in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in law.
He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1963 and chaired it in the late 1990s. He has also served three terms as a federal congressman, as the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1991, one term as a senator and has run unsuccessfully for governor in 1997 and in 2003.
Source: Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.