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List of Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans are residents of the United States who are of Mexican descent. The list includes Mexican immigrants and those who lived in the southwestern United States when the territory was incorporated in 1848.

Sports

American football

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Football (soccer)

Golf

Ice hockey

Mixed martial arts

Wrestling

Other sports

Arts and entertainment

Actors and media personalities

Directors and filmmakers

  • Elisa Marina Alvarado – American director
  • Guillermo del Toro (born 1964) – film director
  • Félix Enríquez Alcalá (born 1951) – television and film director
  • Natalia Almada (born 1974) – documentary filmmaker
  • Robert Alvarez (born 1948) – animator, television director, and writer
  • John A. Alonzo (1934–2001) – influential cinematographer, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner
  • Michael Arias (born 1968) – anime filmmaker based in Japan
  • Eva Aridjis (born 1974) – film director, screenwriter, TV writer
  • Roberto Benabib (born 1959) – television writer, producer, and film director, Emmy Award nominee
  • J. Robert Bren (1903–1981) – screenwriter and producers, wrote 30 films between the '30s and '50s
  • Edward Carrere (1906–1084) – art director, Academy Award winner and two-time nominee
  • Natalie Chaidez (born 1950) – writer and producer, Emmy Award nominee
  • Fernanda Coppel – screenwriter and playwright
  • Julio Hernández Cordón (born 1975) – director and screenwriter
  • Terri Doty (born 1984) – animation voice actress, voice director, and writer
  • Mike Elizalde (born 1960) – special makeup effects artist, Academy Award nominee
  • Moctezuma Esparza (born 1949) – producer, Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee
  • Carlos López Estrada (born 1988) – music video, commercial, and film director
  • Hampton Fancher (born 1938) – producer and screenwriter
  • William A. Fraker (1923–2010) – cinematographer, director, and producer, six-time Academy Award nominee
  • Nick Gomez (born 1963) – American film director
  • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (born 1972) – film and television director, two-time Emmy Award nominee
  • Neal Jimenez (born 1960) – screenwriter and film director
  • Emile Kuri (1907–2000) – set decorator, won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction
  • William Douglas Lansford (1922–2013) – screenwriter, film producer, and author
  • Paul Lerpae (1900–1989) – special effects artist, Academy Award nominee
  • Jenée LaMarque (born 1980) – writer and director
  • Bill Melendez (1916–2008) – animator, director, and producer, eight-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee
  • Steven C. Melendez (born 1945) – animator, director, and producer, Emmy Award winner (son of Bill Melendez)
  • Linda Mendoza (born 1950) – television and film director
  • Lindsay Mendez (born 1983) – Tony Award-winning actress
  • Adrian Molina (born 1985) – screenwriter, storyboard artist, and animation director, Emmy Award nominee
  • Sylvia Morales (born 1943) – director, writer, and producer, Emmy Award nominee
  • Gregory Nava (born 1949) – director, producer and screenwriter, Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee
  • Tony Olmos – screenwriter, filmmaker and musician
  • Edward James Olmos (born 1947) – director and actor, Emmy and Golden Globe winner
  • Roberto Orci (born 1973) – screenwriter and producer
  • Manuel Perez (animator) (1914–1981) – animator and animation director
  • Polish brothers – screenwriters and producers
  • Lourdes Portillo (1943–2024) – Academy Award-nominated filmmaker
  • Georgina Garcia Riedel – filmmaker and scriptwriter
  • Jonas Rivera (born 1971) – producer with Pixar films, Academy Award winner
  • Robert Rodríguez (born 1968) – director, producer and screenwriter
  • Phil Roman (born 1930) – animation director, founder of Film Roman animation studio, six-time Emmy Award winner
  • Bernardo Ruiz – documentary filmmaker
  • Craig Saavedra (born 1963) – producer and director, two-time Tony Award nominee
  • Victor Salva (born 1958) – filmmaker
  • Jesús Salvador Treviño (born 1946) – television director, three-time Emmy Award nominee
  • Jose Luis Valenzuela – theater and film director
  • Jeff Valdez (born 1956) – producer, writer, and studio executive
  • Luis Valdez (born 1940) – playwright and director
  • Chris Weitz (born 1969) – writer, producer, director; grandmother was Mexican actress Lupita Tovar
  • Paul Weitz (born 1965) – writer, producer, director; grandmother was Mexican actress Lupita Tovar
  • Rudy Zamora (1910–1989) – animator and animation director, Emmy Award nominee
  • Alfonso Cuarón (born 1961) – film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter

Models

Musicians, singers and music groups

Authors and poets

Visual arts

Dance

  • Michael Balderrama (born 1973) – choreographer, Broadway dancer, and producer
  • Corky Ballas (born 1960) – ballroom dancer, holds several Latin dance championship titles
  • Mark Ballas (born 1986) – Emmy nominated choreographer, dancer, and musician
  • Evelyn Cisneros (born 1958) – ballerina, instructor
  • René Elizondo Jr. (born 1962) – dancer, music video director
  • Rosa Ramirez Guerrero (born 1934) – founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group
  • Cynthia Harvey (born 1957) – former American Ballet Theatre and Royal Ballet principal dancer, artistic director of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School
  • Tina Landon (born 1963) – choreographer who has worked with numerous musical performers
  • José Limón (1908–1972) – influential dancer and choreographer, active between 1929 and 1969
  • Nicholas Magallanes (1922–1977) – principal dancer for the New York City Ballet
  • Viktor Manoel (born 1957) – choreographer, writer, and actor
  • Tony Meredith (born 1958) – ballroom dancer, choreographer, and US Latin dance Champion
  • Tina Ramirez (1929–2022) – dancer and choreographer, founder of Ballet Hispanico, the leading Hispanic dance company in the United States.
  • Maclovia Ruiz (1910–2005) – dancer with the San Francisco Ballet in the 1930s
  • Eva Tessler (born 1955) – director, playwright, and dancer

Drag performers

Journalists

Political figures

Military

Singers

Scholars and educators

Science and technology

Civil rights leaders and community activists

  • Lucy G. Acosta (1926–2008) – civil rights activist
  • Gaylon Alcaraz (born 1970) – community organizer, human rights activist
  • Lupe Anguiano (born 1929) – civil rights activist
  • Lorena Borjas (1960–2020) – Mexican-born American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York
  • Norma V. Cantu (born 1954) – civil rights lawyer and college professor
  • Carlos Cadena (1917–2001) – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
  • Adelfa Botello Callejo (1923–2014) – civil rights lawyer
  • José Tomás Canales (1877–1976) – civil rights activist and politician active during the early 1900s, played key role in the foundation of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
  • Aurora Castillo (1914–1998) – environmental activist
  • Sal Castro (1933–2013) – civil rights activist and educator
  • Ernesto Chacon (born 1938) – Latino and low income civil rights activist

Religious figures

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

  • Manuel Abud – media, television, and cable executive
  • Linda G. Alvarado (born 1951) – president and chief executive officer of a large commercial and industrial general contracting firm, co-owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.
  • María Elena Avila (born 1953) – entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader in California
  • Michael Ball – fashion mogul
  • Hector Barreto Jr. (born 1961) – 21st Administrator of the US Small Business Administration
  • Emilio Diez Barroso – chairman and CEO of NALA Investments, a private investment holding company
  • Xochi Birch – computer programmer and entrepreneur
  • Adolfo Camarillo (1864–1958) – businessman, wealthy landowner, and philanthropist
  • Juan Camarillo Jr. (1867–1936) – businessman, wealthy landowner, and philanthropist
  • Jovita Carranza (born 1949) – President & CEO of the JCR Group, a consulting firm; former Deputy Administrator for the United States Small Business Administration
  • Rudy Chapa (born 1957) – track runner and businessman
  • Anna Maria Chávez (born 1968) – CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA
  • Chicano Roy (Roy Suarez Garcia) (1945–2003) – motorbike builder and inventor
  • Maria Contreras-Sweet (born 1955) – 24th Administrator of the Small Business Administration, former executive chairwoman and founder of ProAmérica Bank, and California Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
  • Mike Curb (born 1944) – record company executive, NASCAR car owner, and former Lieutenant Governor of California.
  • William Davila (1931–2014) – first Mexican-American president of a large supermarket chain
  • Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016) – chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services
  • Juan Enríquez (born 1959) – Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, academic, and speaker
  • Tavo Hellmund (born 1966) – former racing driver and promoter
  • Enrique Hernandez Jr. (born 1955) – business executive, president, and chief executive officer of Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc., and a director of Wells Fargo and McDonald's
  • Traci Des Jardins (born 1967) – restaurateur and award-winning chef
  • Ninfa Laurenzo (1924–2001) – restaurateur
  • Bismarck Lepe – information technology CEO and product manager
  • Ignacio E. Lozano Sr. (1886–1953) – founder of La Opinión, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the US
  • Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. (born 1927) – newspaper publisher, ambassador, and corporate director
  • José I. Lozano (born 1954) – executive vice-president of Impremedia LLC
  • Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968) – entrepreneur, author, and activist, best known as the Founder and CEO of KIND LLC.
  • David Martinez (born 1957) – managing partner
  • Mariano Martinez (entrepreneur) (born 1944) – inventor, entrepreneur, and restaurateur
  • Emilio Azcárraga Milmo (1930–1997) – CEO, media mogul
  • Richard Montañez – best known for claiming to have invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos
  • Kate and Laura Mulleavy (born 1979, born 1980) – fashion designers
  • Oscar Munoz (executive) (born 1960) – CEO of United Airlines
  • Hugo Morales (radio) – radio executive
  • Arturo Moreno (born 1946) – businessman and owner of the Los Angeles Angels
  • Rick Owens – fashion designer
  • George Paz – CEO of Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy benefit management organization in the US.
  • Dan Peña (born 1945) – financial analyst on Wall Street
  • Lisa Garcia Quiroz (1961–2018) – media executive, launched People en Español
  • Emiliano Reyes (born 1984) – American business executive, humanitarian activist, and Wikipedia author
  • Emilio Romano – managing director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Mexico
  • John Romero (born 1967) – video game developer, co-founder of id Software
  • Rosa Rios (born 1965) – 43rd and current treasurer of the United States, businesswoman, executive, and entrepreneur.
  • Louis Ruiz (born 1953) – creator of Ruiz Foods, Inc. (Largest Latino owned company in California)
  • Leslie Sanchez (born 1971) – founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based market research and consulting firm
  • Tony Sanchez (born 1943) – businessman, philanthropist, and Democratic politician
  • Felix Tijerina (1905–1965) – restaurateur, activist, and philanthropist
  • Solomon Trujillo (born 1951) – CEO and businessman
  • Louis Verdad – fashion designer
  • Sam Zamarripa (born 1952) – entrepreneur, author, and public official
  • Sergio Zyman (born 1945) – marketing executive

Historical figures

Food

  • Gustavo Brambila (born 1953) – winemaker in the Napa Valley
  • Pati Jinich (born 1972) – Emmy nominated chef, TV personality, cookbook author
  • Aarón Sanchez (born 1976) – chef and television personality
  • Marcela Valladolid (born 1978) – chef and television host
  • Traci Des Jardins – American chef and restaurateur
  • Claudette Zepeda – award-winning, San Diego-based chef and culinary entrepreneur won the "Battle Chocolate" in

Other

  • Andre “Big A” – mechanic known for changing his last name to a blank character to protest the Vietnam War
  • Blaire White (born 1993) – YouTuber, political commentator, Internet personality
  • Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952) – American poet and writer of Apache and Chicano descent
  • Johnny Canales (born 1947) – talk show host
  • Gregorio Cortez (1875–1916) – Mexican-born and a folk hero to the border communities of the United States and Mexico
  • Nick Fuentes (born 1998) – far-right political commentator and live streamer
  • Mark Hugo Lopez (born 1967) – Director of Hispanic Research at the Pew Research Center
  • Oscar Ozzy Lusth (born 1981) – 1st runner-up on Survivor; Cook Islands
  • Jair Marrufo (born 1977) – professional soccer referee
  • Edmund McMillen (born 1980) – video game designer and artist
  • Raul Melgoza (1975–2020) – fashion designer
  • Cesar Millan (born 1969) – TV personality, dog trainer, and author
  • Carmen Osbahr (born 1962) – puppeteers Rosita in the children's series Sesame Street
  • Albert Pissis (1852–1914) – architect who introduced the Beaux-Arts architectural style to San Francisco
  • Richard Ramirez (1960–2013) – serial killer
  • Dionicio Rodriguez (1891–1955) – architect
  • John Romero (born 1967) – American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry; co-founder of id Software
  • Baldomero Toledo (born 1970) – professional soccer referee
  • Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born 1973) – drug lord
  • Luis Velador (born 1964) – two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner
  • Eric Volz (born 1979) – entrepreneur, author, and managing director of an international crisis resource agency
  • Eduardo Xol (born 1966) – mostly known for his work as a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

See also

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