Luis Alberto Urrea is a Latin American writer known as one of the most prominent Latino writers. Urrea is the recipient of the Lannon Literary Award, an American Book Award, and a Colorado...
Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially...
José David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in...
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures...
Alex Sánchez is a Mexican-American author of award-winning novels for teens and adults. His first novel, Rainbow Boys , was selected by the American Library Association , as a “Best Book...
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. Octavio Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solórzano...
Jorge Germán Castañeda Gutman (born May 24, 1953) is a Mexican politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2000 – 2003). Castañeda was born in Mexico City. He...
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎermo aˈrjaɣa]; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a...
Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple...
Alurista is the nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia (born August 8, 1947), is a Chicano poet and activist. Urista was born in Mexico City and attended primary school in Morelos...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican photographer. Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4, 1902. He came from a family of artists and...
Rosario Castellanos (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the second world war...
Marta Randall is a science fiction writer. In addition to writing numerous science fiction novels and short fiction, Marta Randall has edited for New Dimensions and Nebula Awards...
José Emilio Pacheco Berny (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of...
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez in Guanajuato, Gto. He was a...
Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (Guanajuato, Mexico, January 22, 1928 - Madrid, November 27, 1983), was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular (though not always...
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎermo ðel ˈtoɾo ˈɣomes]; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known...
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with...
Francisco Jimenez is a writer.
Juan Rulfo was a Mexican novelist, short story writer, and photographer. One of Latin America's most esteemed authors, Rulfo's reputation rests on two slim books, the novel...
Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648/51 – 17 April 1695), fully Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar, poet of the Baroque school, and nun...
Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889, Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959, Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. Alfonso Reyes parents were Bernardo Reyes and Aurelia...
Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (July 17, 1876 – April 12, 1954) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and writer. His pen name for his political essays was "Lic. Blas Urrea"; the more literary works...
Professor Howard Everest Hinton, FRS (24 August 1912 - 2 August 1977) was a British entomologist. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of insects and was inordinately fond of beetles. He...
Cesar Millan (born August 27, 1969) is a professional dog trainer widely known for his television series The Dog Whisperer, now in its sixth season and broadcast in more than eighty...