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List of people from Morelos

The following are people who were born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in the Mexican state of Morelos:

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Actors, entertainers, and film-makers

  • Lilia Aragón (1938–2021, born in Cuautla) was a Mexican film, television and stage actress.
  • Socorro Avelar (1925–2003) was a Mexican actress who was born in Cuernavaca.
  • Martha Mariana Castro (born in Cuautla in 1966) is a Mexican actress. She was married to actor Fernando Luján (1939–2019), with whom she has a son, Franco Paolo Ciangherotti.
  • Ana Bertha Espín (b. in Tehuixtla in 1956) is a Mexican actress. Amor real (2004) and La que no podía amar (2012).
  • Abraham Enzástiga Menes is the director of the Jojutla Symphony Orchestra, which he founded in 2016.
  • Virginia Fábregas García (1871–1950) was a Mexican film and stage actress active in the early 20th-Century born in Yautepec. She appeared in films between 1931 and 1945. There is a street in Cuernavaca and a school in Yautepec named for her.
  • María Félix (1914–2002), was a Mexican actress who lived in Cuernavaca. She had an opulent, cobalt-blue and papaya-colored villa on Avenida Palmira, along with five other houses. It is known as the Casa de las Tortugas (House of the Turtles) and has Louis XV beds, is adorned with silk brocades, Venetian mosaics, Talavera urns, marble fireplaces, sixteenth-century Spanish armor, Italian gilded chairs, and portraits of her created by Antoine Tzapoff.
  • Emilio Fernández (1904–1986) filmed Puebito (1962) in Olintepec, Ayala.
  • Helen Hayes (1900–1993) was an American actress who had a home in Cuernavaca.
  • Katy Jurado (1924–2002), was a Mexican and Hollywood actress of film, television, and theater.
  • (b. 1973, Cuernavaca), singer for rock band Zoé best known for spreading fake news about COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Armando Manzanero (b. Mérida, 1935—d. 2020), Mexican musician and songwriter, had a home on Calle 16 de Septiembre, Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca.
  • Charles Mingus (1922–1979) was an American jazz musician who died in Cuernavaca on January 5, 1979.
  • Mariano Moreno Cantinflas (1911–1993) was a Mexican entertainer who had a home in Cuernavaca.
  • Renata Notni (b. 1995 in Cuernavaca) is a Mexican actress and model.
  • Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 1926 – 2009 actress (En la palma de tu mano), born in Tabasco, died in Cuernavaca.
  • Salvador Quiroz (1892–1956) was a Mexican film actor born in Cuautla. He appeared in 22 movies, including Michael Strogoff (1944), Crime and Punishment (1951), and Pablo and Carolina.
  • Claudio Reyes Rubio (b. 1964 in Mexico City, d. 2017 in Cuernavaca), TV director (Televisa).
  • Carlos Reygadas (born 1971) is a Mexican filmmaker who has shot movies in Morelos. and lives in Tepoztlan.
  • Sofía Sisniega (b. 1989 in Cuernavaca) is a Mexican actress, best known for her role as Sofia López-Haro in the 2013 Mexican adaptation, '.
  • Chavela Vargas (1919 – August 5, 2012) was a Costa Rican singer who lived in Cuernavaca.
  • Jack Wagner (1891–1963) was an American filmmaker. In 1945 Wagner and friend John Steinbeck visited Cuernavaca, which inspired the latter to write both a book and a screenplay about Emiliano Zapata.
  • Rosemarie Bowe Stack (1932 – 2019) was an American model, best known for her appearances in several films in the 1950s who lived in Villa del Sole, Cuernavaca.

Arquitectos, urbanistas y desarrolladores

Nadia Samir Rincón, a Mexican classical architect and traditional urbanist. Chair of INTBAU Mexico. She holds a Master of Urban Design - minor in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, (she received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Urbanism) and a degree in architecture and in landscape from Universidad La Salle. She has worked with Fairfax & Sammons Architects and participated in CSCA Cambridge. Her Cuauhnáhuac: City of Eternal Spring project has been presented at INTBAU World Congress, Otlichno Forum, Culturas Constructivas, and will be presented at the Congress for the New Urbanism in Arkansas.

Athletes

Football

Other sports

Criminals

  • Daniel Arizmendi López (born 1958) is a convicted Mexican kidnapper responsible for at least 18 kidnappings in Mexico. He was nicknamed El Mochaorejas ("The Ear Chopper").
  • Arturo Beltran Leyva (1961—2009) was Number 3 on the Mexican government's Most Wanted List when he was killed by the Navy at his home in the "Altitude" apartments in Cuernavaca on December 16, 2009.
  • Amado Carrillo Fuentes (1956—1997) was a drug lord knows as El Señor de los Cielos (the Lord of the Skies). Born in Sinaloa, Carrillo Fuentes owed a good deal of his infamy to alleged ties to Governor Jorge Carrillo Olea.
  • Sam Giancana (1908—1975) was a Chicago mobster who lived in Cuernavaca while he was on the lam from both the FBI and the mob, (1966–1974).

Farmers, landowners, entrepreneurs, investors

After the Spanish conquest and until the early 20th century, land ownership was centered largely on haciendas. Based on the Constitution of 1915, General Alvaro Obregon established the Ley de Ejidos in 1920 which essentially established communal ownership of rural lands.

  • Eugenio J. Cañas (?-1923), brought running water and electricity to Cuernavaca; surveyed the border between Morelos and Puebla
  • José de la Borda (c. 1699–1778) was a Spanish miner who made a fortune in Taxco, Guerrero. In 1760 he built a large mansion in Cuernavaca.
  • Manuel de la Borda (baptized 1727–1791) was the son of José de la Borda. Born in Taxco, he became a priest and was in Cuernavaca in 1777, when he built the chapel of Guadalupe next to his father's mansion. In 1778 he initiated the transformation of the mansion into a botanical garden. Today the Borda Garden is a public park and museum.
  • Alberto Gómez was born in Tepecoacuilco, Guerrero. He was a rice farmer in Jojutla who won a medal at the 1900 Paris exhibition for the "Best rice in the world."
  • Dwight Morrow (1873–1931) was an American businessman and diplomat. He had a home called Casa de Manaña in Cuernavaca and hired Diego Rivera to paint the murals on the Palace of Cortes.
  • Pedro Cortes Ramirez de Arellano (died 1629) was the grandson of Hernán Cortés. He owned the Hacienda of San Nicolás in Pantitlán, Tlayacapan.
  • Rosalia Del Socorro Castillon was born in Cuernavaca. Castillon has built her family's business, De Antaño Azucarillos into the most famous sweet shop in Morelos. It is a franchise operation that has recently opened in Guatemala. They sell fruit/based salad dressing, jellies, and jam.
  • Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (1532–1589) was born in Cuernavaca. He was the legitimate son of Hernán Cortés and Doña Juana de Zúñiga. He founded and owned several haciendas.
  • Rose Eleanor King (b. in India, 1865) and Norman Robson King (d. 1907 in Mexico City) were British subjects who first arrived in Cuernavaca in 1905. They established their residence in Mexico City, but after her husband's death, Ms. King returned to Cuernavaca to live. In 1910 she purchased the Hotel Bella Vista, which hosted Francisco I. Madero, Felipe Ángeles, Huerta, the Guggenheim family, and others, only to abandon it in 1914. She returned to Cuernavaca in 1916 where she later died. She was the author of Tempest Over Mexico: A Personal Chronicle.
  • Claudia Ríos is the administrative manager of La Walfaria franchise. Founded in 2003, there are nine franchises in Mexico, one in Ecuador, one in Guatemala, and one in Honduras.
  • Ricardo Sánchez (b. 1798) from Guadalajara, Jalisco, moved to Jojutla on March 15, 1830, and in 1836 he introduced the cultivation of brown rice. He later became the first municipal president.

Military figures

Political figures

Religious figures

Royalty

Scientists and inventors

Visual artists

  • David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974) was a Mexican muralist who lived and worked in Cuernavaca. His former studio is now a museum located in a public park named for him.
  • (1950-2022) Mexican painter, muralist, and sculptor who lived in Cuernavaca most of his life. His work includes the murals at the "Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación" building, the mural in the "Edificio Cauduro" in La Condesa, Mexico City, the murals at the Insurgentes metro station in Mexico City, and "Historia en el Cabús", which is permanently exhibited at Los Pinos in Mexico City. He died at his home in Cuernavaca.
  • Lizette Arditti was born in Mexico City in 1947 and has lived in Tepoztlan since 1977.
  • Robert Brady (1928–1986) was an American art collector and heir to the Mayflower Movers fortune. He bought and restored the former bishop's residence in Cuernavaca, which today houses the Robert Brady Museum.
  • Enrique Cattaneo y Cramer (born February 9, 1946) was born in Mexico City and lives in Cuernavaca. He teaches at the UAEM.
  • Cristina Cassy, Mexican painter who won the 3rd place medal in the Salon de Oro in Madrid, Spain, in 1960, lives in Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca.
  • Jorge Cázares Campos (b. Cuernavaca November 20, 1937, d. Cuernavaca January 11, 2020) landscape painter, studied at the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos where he taught since 1976
  • Rafael Coronel, 87, painter (b. 1931 in Zacatecas, d. 2019 in Cuernavaca)
  • Vicente Gandia Sanz (1935–2009) was born in Barcelona, Spain, and died in Cuernavaca.
  • Alfredo Guati Rojo (1918–2003) was a Mexican painter who lived in Cuernavaca as a child.
  • Paula Lazos (1940–2010) was a Mexican painter who was born in Cuernavaca and who studied at the UAEM.
  • Joy Laville, (b. 1923 in U.K., died 2018; nationalized Mexican painter and sculptor who lived in Jiutepec.
  • Liliana Mercenario Pomeroy was born in Mexico city in 1955 and has lived in Cuernavaca since 1994. She teaches at the UAEM.
  • Wolfgang Paalen (1907-1959), Austrian-Mexican surrealist painter who lived and worked in Tepoztlàn during his last Mexican period (1954–59).
  • Sebastián Ortega (1628-?), religious painter Cuernavaca. "Notario de la Inquisición" in 1643
  • Yolanda Quijano is a Mexican painter and sculptor who lives in Cuernavaca.
  • María Luisa Reid (born in 1943 in Zacatepec) is a Mexican sculptor.
  • Eduardo del Río "Ruis" (1934–2017) was a cartoonist and writer born in Zamora, Michoacan and who lived in Las Palmas, Cuernavaca and in Tepoztlán.
  • Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a Mexican muralist. He lived in Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca from 1951 to 1957.
  • John King Edward Spencer (b. U.K. 1928 - d. Cuernavaca 2005), best known for designing the stone/iron fence of the church of the Reyes Magos in Tetela del Monte, Cuernavaca. Upon his death he donated his home to the city of Cuernavaca as the Casona Spencer cultural center.
  • Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) was a Mexican painter. Calle 5 de Mayo, where he lived in Cuernavaca, was renamed in his honor after his death.
  • Roger von Gunten (born 1933) was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1933. In 1957 he traveled to Cuernavaca and became a Mexican citizen in 1980. He lives in Tepoztlan.

Writers, educators, and journalists

  • José Agustín (born 1944) is a Mexican writer who lives in Cuautla.
  • Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893). Author of El Zarco, set in Yautepec de Zaragoza between 1861 and 1863.
  • Agustín Aragón León (1870–1954) was an educator who founded the Revista Positiva. He was born in Jonacatepec.
  • Pedro Castera, 20th century novelist (Carmen), which takes place in Cuernavaca.
  • María Isabel Cacalpotitla (?-1560), woman who taught Nahuatl to the Augustinians of Ocuituco.
  • Lucio Carpanta, Nahutl teacher and author from Xoxocotla, Morelos
  • Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama (1880–1967) was born in San Luis Potosí. He was an agrarian leader during the Mexican Revolution who supported the Plan de Ayala. He encouraged the establishment of schools in Jantetelco and Zacualpan de Amilpas.
  • Isidro Fabela (1882–1964) was a writer, journalist, and diplomat who was born and died in Cuernavaca.
  • Erich Fromm (1900–1980). Psychoanalyst and humanist who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956 to 1976.
  • Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1824–1894) was a Mexican philologist and historian who published the newspaper La Voz de Morelos in defense of the state in 1873.
  • Juan Antonio Lobato (18th century) writer from Tetecala, provincial leader of the Mercedarians.
  • Miguel López de Nava (b. in Jonacatepec1858-1942), poet and musician
  • Sergio Jimenez Bénitez, novelist from Xoxocotla, Morelos
  • Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) was an English writer who lived in the Casa de la Bola in Cuernavaca. He wrote Under the Volcano, a novel set in Quauhnahuac on the Day of the Dead in 1938.
  • Juan Francisco Miranda (1720-1759), Jesuit writer born in Atlacomulco, died in Rome
  • Celia Muñoz Escobar (b. in Cuernavaca 1912-1976), educator, poet, and writer. There is a street in Cuernavaca named after her.
  • (1939–2014), poet who was born in Mexico City, lived most of her life in Switzerland because of her participation in the student movement in 1968, and who died in Cuernavaca.
  • Manuel Mazari Puerto (1891–1935) was born in Jojutla. He was a homeopathic doctor, writer, and historian (Bosquejo Histórico del Estado de Morelos).
  • Gerardo Horacio Porcayo Villalobos (born 1966 in Cuernavaca), is a Mexican science fiction and fantasy writer. Porcayo's novel, La primera calle de la soledad (Solitude's First Road) is an example of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.
  • Musito Primo (b. in Jantetelco, 1839-?), Indigenous writer famous for a comedy.
  • Alfonso Reyes (1889–1959) was a humanist and writer who lived in Cuernavaca, 1947–1959. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
  • Armando Salgado, (1938-2018), photojournalist who captured the Corpus Christi massacre of 120 students in 1971.
  • René Orta Salgado (ca. 1969 – May 13, 2012) was former Mexican journalist, lawyer, and political activist for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was killed in Cuernavaca during the election season of 2012; the murder could have been linked to his past in journalism and the Mexican drug war.
  • Alma Karla Sandoval (born 1975) is a poet born in Zacatepec. She writes for La Jornada Morelos and works as a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Morelos Campus.
  • Arnulfo Soriano, an indigenous poet from Xoxocotla
  • John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was an American writer. He visited Cuernavaca in 1945, where he was inspired to co-write the screenplay for Viva Zapata with Jack Wagner
  • Gutierre Tibon (1905-1999) was an Italian-Mexican author who lived in Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca, from 1959 until his death at 93 in 1999.
  • José Urbán Aguirre (b. Cuautla, January 13, 1888), elementary school teacher in eastern Morelos (1906-1930) and politician (1930-1958)
  • Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French writer who described Cuernavaca in his short story A Drama in Mexico (1851).

Other

  • Daniela Álvarez (born in Cuernavaca in 1993) is a Mexican beauty pageant titleholder who won the title at the "Nuestra Belleza Mexico" pageant in 2013. She represented Mexico at the Miss World 2014 beauty pageant held on December 14, 2014 in London.
  • Chicomoyollotzin Pilliciuatzin, wife of Tlaltecatzin, tlatoani of Cuauhnáhuac.
  • Chichimecacihuatzin I, wife of Moctezuma I, daughter of Cuauhtototzin
  • Samir Flores Soberanes (1989 – February 19, 2019) was born in Amanalco, Temoac. He was a radio announcer and activist murdered in his hometown during the leadup to the referendum on construction of the thermoelectric plant in Huexca, Yecapixtla.
  • The Jojutla crater was discovered on Mars in 2006 by astronomer Andres Eloy Martínez Rojas.
  • Modesta Lavana Pérez (1929–2010) was an indigenous Nahua healer and activist from the town of Hueyapan. She was recognized as an important activist for indigenous rights and women's rights in Morelos, where she worked as a healer and as a legal translator of the Nahuatl language for the state of Morelos.
  • Roberto Francisco Miranda Moreno (born 1955 in Morelos) is a Mexican General officer who served as the last chief of the Estado Mayor Presidencial (EMP), the institution charged with protecting and safeguarding the President of Mexico and the First Lady of Mexico. The institution was disbanded on December 1, 2018 by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
  • Graciela Soto Cámara (born in Cuernavaca) is a model who represented Mexico in Miss International 1999 in Tokyo.

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