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18 unusual facts about Mexican people


1908–09 Mexican Primera División season

It was the first Mexican championship title for British Football Club (Mexico City), whose players were almost

Alexander, Margrave of Meissen

Prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe (German: Alexander Prinz von Sachsen-Gessaphe Polish: Aleksander książę Saskogessapski; born Alexander de Afif 12 February 1954), is the adopted heir of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, and a businessman with Lebanese, Mexican and German roots.

Big Brother México

Before its debut, the idea of being watched twenty-four hours a day by a camera was shocking to some in Mexican society.

Carlos Obregón Santacilia

Carlos Obregón Santacilia (1896–1961) was a Mexican architect.

Christian Jimenez

Christian Jimenez (born November 3, 1986 in San Dimas, California) is an American soccer player of Mexican descent.

Don Diamond

Although he often played a Spaniard/Mexican or Native American, Diamond's father, Benjamin Diamond, emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1906 with his parents.

Esperanza Baur

Esperanza Baur Díaz (c. 1924 – March 11, 1961) was a Mexican actress, and was the second wife of John Wayne.

Juan Jose Warner

As Mexico had controlled California since Mexican independence in 1821, Warner became a naturalized Mexican citizen and changed his name to Juan Jose Warner.

Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional

Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional is the second live album by Mexican singer Lucero, released on 26 September 2007 by EMI.

María Bonita

María bonita (English: Pretty María) is the seventh studio album by Mexican pop singer Manuel Mijares.

Mexican people

Although the city of Puebla has grown so far as to almost absorb it, the town of Chipilo remained isolated for much of the 20th century.

Mexican People's Party

In 1976 the opponents of the PPS party leadership had formed the 'National Committee to Defend the Popular Socialist Party' in Tepic.

Minerva Mena

Minerva Mena (September 11, 1930 – December 10, 2004) was a Mexican actress and university professor.

Mondragón rifle

It was designed by Mexican artillery officer general Manuel Mondragón and it was the one of the first semi-automatic rifles to see combat use.

Rector Major of the Salesians

Between 1888 and 2010 there have been nine successors of Don Bosco, seven of them of Italian nationality, one Argentine and one Mexican.

Telde

The real marvels are inside the building: the statue of Christ on the main altar, made from corn dough by the Tarasco Mexican Indians, brought here before 1550, the Flemish Gothic main altar, which dates back to before 1516, and the triptych of the Virgin Mary, brought from Flanders, also in the 16th century, depicting five religious scenes.

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

Along the way, he is mistaken for a Mexican bandit and is pursued by a corrupt sheriff who is in pursuit of the bandit's hidden fortune.

Tooner Ville Rifa 13

Tooner Ville Rifa 13, also known as The VILLE or VILLAINS GANG for short, is a Mexican street gang located in Los Angeles county.


A Voluntad del Cielo

A Voluntad del Cielo peaked at number two in the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart, being held from the top of the chart by Amada Más Que Nunca by Mexican singer Daniela Romo.

Andrés Muciño

Enrique Andrés Muciño Castro (born on December 27, 1991 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico) is a Mexican pianist.

Benito Castro

Arturo "Benito" Castro Hernandez (born June 5, 1946, in Mexico City, Mexico), is a Mexican musician, singer, song-writer, actor, imitator, most famous as a comedian, and as a member of Los Hermanos Castro (The Castro Brothers).

Black Nazarene

The statue was made by an anonymous Mexican sculptor, and the image arrived in Manila via galleon fromAcapulco, Mexico, sometime in the first decade of the 1600s.

Cándido Ramírez

Cándido Saul Ramírez Montes (born June 5, 1993 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican footballer.

Carlos María Abascal Carranza

Carlos María Abascal Carranza (born Mexico City, June 14, 1949 - Mexico City, December 2, 2008) was a Mexican lawyer and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.

Cristina Eustace

Cristina Eustace (born as Cristina Yasmin Rascón Meléndez on May 25, 1979 in the city of Chihuahua) is a Mexican singer better known for being the winner of the fifth season of Objetivo Fama, a Puerto Rican television singing talent contest in the form of a reality show, broadcast by Telefutura in USA and by Univision Puerto Rico.

Daniela Bobadilla

Daniela Bobadilla (born April 4, 1993) is a Mexican-born Canadian actress who most recently was featured in Mr. Troop Mom with George Lopez, portraying his daughter, Naomi, as well as in an episode of Smallville.

Eme 15

Eme 15 (also stylized as EME XV and M-15) was a Mexican-Argentine Latin pop band composed of the six lead actors from the 2012 Nickelodeon Latin America television series Miss XV.

En Vivo: Gira Pata de Perro

En Vivo: Gira Pata de Perro is a live album released by Mexican rock band Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio.

Francisco Villanueva

Francisco Villanueva (born September 24, 1985 in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico) is a Mexican boxer in the Light Middleweight division and is the former WBC Mundo Hispano Light Middleweight Champion.

Gary Conklin

Subjects have included the late American writer and composer Paul Bowles, in Paul Bowles in Morocco, which is as much about the North African country as it is about Bowles; Gore Vidal while running for U.S. Senate in 1982; the American painter Edward Ruscha, and the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.

Gilberto Keb Baas

Gilberto Keb Baas (born October 21, 1977 in Hunucmá, Yucatán, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Flyweight division.

Héctor Fajardo

Héctor Fajardo Navarrete (born November 16, 1970, in Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico) is a former Mexican major league baseball player.

José Manuel Cruzalta

José Manuel Cruzalta Cruz (born April 8, 1978 in Tenancingo, Estado de México), is a retired Mexican football defender.

José Salgado Fernández

José Enrique Salgado Fernández (born June 10, 1989 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer and the current North American Boxing Association Super Flyweight Champion.

Juan Alberto Rosas

Juan Alberto Rosas (born November 28, 1984 in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer and the former IBF Super Flyweight champion.

Juan Molinar Horcasitas

Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas (born 18 December 1955 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician and academic.

Juan Ricardo Roldán

Juan Ricardo Roldán Trujillo (born 31 March 1986 in Lagos de Moreno) is a Mexican football goalkeeper.

Juana Barraza

Mexican producer Pedro Torres brought the story to television on an episode of the 2010 Mexican Television series Mujeres Asesinas 3 that is being produced by Televisa.

Kevin Chaurand

Kevin Henry Chaurand Peasland (born 29 March 1995) is a Mexican footballer who plays as forward for Club Celaya.

Laveen Elementary School District

County records indicate that school classes were held in the Laveen area as early as 1884 in the homes of early Mexican and Mormon settlers.

Lucía Maya

Lucía Maya (born 1953 in Santa Catalina Island, California) is a Mexican painter, sculptor and lithographer whose work has been displayed at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon and the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art.

Luis Amezcua Contreras

Luis Ignacio Amezcua Contreras, along with his brothers Adán and Jesús, was a leader of the Colima Cartel, a Mexican methamphetamine and precursor drug smuggling organization.

Manuel Mariano Martínez

Manuel Mariano Martínez (born March 6, 1992 in Tlalnepantla de Baz, México, Mexico) is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.

Martin Ángel Martínez

Martin Ángel Martínez Velarde (born February 12, 1991 in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.

Mauricio Barcelata

Mauricio Barcelata Pinedo (b. 5 January 1970 in Alvarado, Veracruz) is a Mexican actor and TV host.

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946) is a convicted Mexican drug lord who formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s, and controlled almost all of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.

Miguel Rascón

Miguel Rascón (born August 20, 1972 in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico) better known by the stage name Meegs, is a rock guitarist of Chinese and Mexican descent.

Miguel Santana

Among the fighters he lost to during that phase of his career were Tracy Spann, James McGuirt, Todd Foster, Santos Cardona, Stephan Johnson, Glenwood Brown, Willy Wise (who would go on to beat Chávez and lose to the Mexican fighter in a rematch) Ray Oliveira and, in Santana's last fight, Wilfredo Negron.

Miss Sánchez

The track "Frida y sus Flores" (Frida and her flowers) pays tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

Narcisista por excelencia

Narcisista por excelencia (English: Narcissist by excellence) is a rock song by the Mexican Avanzada Regia band Panda.

Omar Rayo

The museum was designed by Mexican architect Leopoldo Gout and opened with a collection of 2,000 of Rayo's artwork and some 500 other Latin American artists' works.

Pablo César Cano

Pablo César Cano García (born October 4, 1989, in Tlalnepantla, México, Mexico), is a Mexican professional boxer and the interim WBA World Light Welterweight Champion.

Ricardo Castillo

Ricardo Edgar Castillo (born June 7, 1979 in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Featherweight division and the former NABF Featherweight Champion.

Saúl Lisazo

His first telenovela break came in 1990, when Mexican actress Lucía Méndez insisted that he would be her partner in her new novela, "Amor de Nadie", which became a major hit across Latin America.

Sauto Theater

Considered the most elegant and functional of 19th-century Cuban theatres, it has become a symbol of the city, so much so that the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera once said, "I recognize Matanzas by the Sauto."