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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

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").[26]
  • 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.[27]
  • 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.[28]
  • 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).[29]

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.[30][31]

  • Eugenio J. Cañas (?-1923), brought running water and electricity to Cuernavaca; surveyed the border between Morelos and Puebla[32]
  • 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.[33]
  • 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.[34]
  • 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."[35]
  • 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.[36][37]
  • Pedro Cortes Ramirez de Arellano (died 1629) was the grandson of Hernán Cortés. He owned the Hacienda of San Nicolás in Pantitlán, Tlayacapan.[38]
  • 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.[39][40]
  • 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.[41]
  • 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.[42]
  • 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.[39][43]
  • 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.[44][45]

Military figures

Cuernavaca Palacio Cortes
Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca built by Indigenous.
Photo of Emiliano Zapata (right) and his brother Eufemio (left).
  • Pedro Ascencio Alquisiras (?-1820), Insurgente who died in Tetecala, December 28, 1820[32]
  • Colonel Francisco Ayala (d. 1812) was the first Insurgent leader in Morelos state. His hometown, Ciudad Ayala, is named for him.[46]
  • General Vicente Aranda (died 1926) was born in the hacienda of Cuauchichinola and joined the Zapatista forces in March 1911 under the orders of General Lorenzo Vásquez. He participated in the capture of Jojutla and Tlaquiltenango, on March 24, 1911. In 1921 he was elected Federal Deputy for the first district of the State of Morelos. Later he was municipal president of Jojutla and died there on July 22, 1926. There is a town named for him in the municipality of Jojutla.[47]
  • Leonardo Bravo (general officer) (1764–1812) was an Insurgent who fought at the Siege of Cuautla with brothers Miguel and Victor, as well as his son, Nicolas Bravo.[48]
  • Nicolás Bravo (1786–1854), Insurgent, fought at Siege of Cuautla, president of Mexico three times between 1839 and 1846.[49]
  • Félix María Calleja del Rey (1755–1828). Born in Medina de Campo, Spain, Calleja arrived in New Spain in 1789. He became an able fighter for the Royalist cause, defeating Miguel Hidalgo in San Jerónimo Aculco in 1811 and stopping Jose Maria Morelos's offensive in 1812. He was Viceroy from 1813 to 1816.[50]
  • Sidronio Camacho was a Zapatista general who killed Eufemio Zapata in Cuautla in 1917 and then joined Venustiano Carranza.[51]
  • Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) was a Spanish Conquistador (1519–1521) who lived in Cuernavaca from 1530 to 1540 and built the Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca. He was named Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca in 1529.[52]
  • María Estrada (c. 1475 or 1486 – between 1537 and 1548) was a Spanish woman who participated in the expedition of Hernán Cortés to Mexico in 1519–24. The Dominican historian Diego Durán claims that she led a force of conquistadors into the area around Popocatépetl, where she defeated the Nahua Indians of Hueyapan, charging head first and screaming "Santiago!"[53]
  • Genovevo de la O (1876–1952) was born in Santa María Ahuacatitlán, Cuernavaca. He joined the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and joined Zapata in 1911. He won the Siege of Cuernavaca (1914) and was elected Governor of Morelos.[54]
  • Maria Fermina Rivera (died 1821) was born in Tlaltizapán. Guerrilla of the troops of Vicente Guerrero, died on the battlefield.[55][56][57]
  • Hermenegildo Galeana (1782–1814) was an Insurgent who fought at the Siege of Cuautla.[58]
  • General Julián González Guadarrama (1890–?) was born in the town of Mazatepec on November 30, 1890. He joined the Mexican Revolution in Chontalcoatlán in March 1911 under the command of General Joaquín Miranda of the forces of General Ambrosio Figueroa. Julián González died in Cuernavaca after dedicating himself to agriculture in the same municipality.[59][60]
  • Rubén Jaramillo (1900–1962) was a military and peasant leader born in Tlaquiltenango who was gunned down by federal police in Xochicalco.[61]
  • Gildardo Magaña Cerda (1891–1939 in Mexico) was born in Zamora, Michoacán. In 1911 he moved to Morelos and in 1916 he became chief of staff to Emiliano Zapata. On September 4, 1919, in Huautla, Morelos, Magaña was proclaimed the leader of the Liberation Army of the South.
  • Mariano Matamoros (1770–1814) was the priest of Jantetelco who fought at the Siege of Cuautla.[62] The Cuernavaca Airport is named for him.
  • Narciso Mendoza (1800–1888) or theNiño artillero (Child Gunner). During the Siege of Cuautla in 1812, 12-year-old Mendoza lit and fired a cannon at Spanish troops to protect the barrio of San Diego, Cuautla.[63] There are several monumements to him, including streets, schools, neighborhoods, and statues (in Cuautla and Las Palmas, Cuernavaca.)
  • Mixcoatl Camaxtl was a warrior and the father of Quetzalcóatl in Amatlán.[64]
  • Otilio Montaño Sánchez (1887–1917) was a Zapatista general born in Villa Ayala. He was a co-author of the Plan de Ayala. He was executed as a traitor to Zapata.[65]
  • José María Morelos y Pavón (1765–1815) was a priest who led the Siege of Cuautla (September–May 1812). He was held prisoner in the Palacio de Cortes (November 1815). The state was named after him in 1869.[66][67]
  • Felipe Neri Jiménez (1884–1914) was a soldier and general in the Mexican Revolution. He was born in the neighborhood of Gualupita, in Cuernavaca. He became part of Zapata's ruling Revolutionary Junta in May 1913. He was killed in January 1914, by the Zapatista forces of Antonio Barona Rojas while returning from a campaign in Tepoztlan.[68]
  • Amador Salazar Jimenez (1868–1916) was a cousin of Emiliano Zapata who became a revolutionary general. He was born in Cuernavaca and is buried in Tlaltizapán.[69]
  • Tezcapotzin, warrior from Cuauhnáhuac who caught Cuautzinten, tlatoani of Xiutepec.[32]
  • Pablo Torres Burgos (1877–1911) was born in Ciudad Ayala. Torres Burgos founded the liberation club called Melchor Ocampo in 1909 and became a general in 1911. He is remembered for the phrase, "Down with the haciendas! Long live the people!"[70]
  • Tzontecomatl, leader of Tlahuica groups of the Chicomostoc tribe who first arrived in Cuauhnáhuac[32]
  • Leondro Valle (1833–1861) was born on February 27, 1833, in Mexico City[71] and grew up in Jonacatepec.[72] He fought at the Battle of Calpulalpan. He was executed on June 23, 1861.[73]
  • Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) was the leader of the southern army during the Mexican Revolution He was born in Anenecuilco and assassinated in Chinameca, both in Ayala. He is buried in Cuautla.[74]
  • Eufemio Zapata (1873–1917) was Emiliano Zapata's brother and a participant in the Mexican Revolution. He was killed by Sidronio Camacho in Cuautla.[75]

Political figures

Cuauhtemoc Blanco in Chicago in 2009 during his time with the Chicago Fire
Tezcacohuatzin's grandson Moctezuma I
See also: Governor of Morelos and List of heads of state of Mexico

Religious figures

Sergio Méndez Arceo, bishop of Cuernavaca, exiting his cathedral in 1970
  • Bernardino Álvarez de San Hipólito, founder of the Hospital de la Santa Cruz in Oaxtepec[32]
  • Agustina Andrade (1695-?), discovered the Virgen de Tlaltenango on August 30, 1720[32]
  • Domingo de la Anunciación (16th century), evangelizer of Tepoztlán who destroyed the ídol of Ometochtli de Tepoztlán[32]
  • Fray Jorge de Avila (ordained 1526, died 1547) was an Augistinian monk who founded monasteries in Atlathucan, Tlayacapan, Ocuituco, Yecapixtla, and Totolapan. All these monasteries are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.[96]
  • Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos (b. 1816 in Zamora, Michoacán), Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863–1864) (d. 1891 in Oacalco, Yautepec)[97]
  • Diego Durán (c. 1537 – 1588) was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain. Durán became vicar at the convent in Hueyapan (1581).[98]
  • Jacobo Grinberg (born 1946; disappeared December 8, 1994) is/was a shaman who frequently studied in Tepoztlan and mysteriously disappeared in Cuernavaca.[99]
  • Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was a Catholic priest & philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Rancho Tetela in 1965.[100][101]
  • Gregorio Lemercier (1912-1987), founder of the monastery of Santa María de la Resurrección in Santa María Ahucatitlán[32]
  • Baltasar López Bucio (born 1938) is a Catholic priest. He was a promoter of Liberation Theology and a follower of bishop Sergio Mendez. As the pastor of the church in Tlatenango, Cuernavaca, he commissioned Roberto Martínez García to paint a mural that reflected that tradition of veneration of the Virgin Mary at the old church (said to be the oldest church in continental America). The mural includes Emiliano Zapata, Diego Rivera, Hernán Cortés, and Baltasar on pilgrimage to the church.[102] Later he served as pastor of the parish in Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca.[103]
  • Manuel Pío López Estrada (1891–1971). Priest born in Jojutla, 6th bishop of Veracruz, and first archbishop of Xalapa (1939–1968).[104]
  • José Agapito Mateo Minos Campuzano (1852–1938), priest and historian from Jojutla.
  • Sergio Méndez Arceo (1907-1991) was a bishop of Cuernavaca, 1953–1982. He was a leading proponent of Liberation Theology.[105]
  • Florencio Olvera Ochoa, (1933–2020), Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca (2002–2009).[106]
  • Ozomatzintentli, lord of Cuauhnáhuac, shaman[32]
  • Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete (1856–1920) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Cuernavaca (1898–1911) and an Archbishop of Monterrey. He is best known for his work as an archaeologist.[107]
  • Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926–1993) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca (1983–1987) and an archbishop and cardinal of Guadalajara (1987–1993).[108]
  • Antonio de Roa (1491-?), Augustinian monk who lived in Totolapan. He walked on coals and left the Christ of Totolapan.[32]
  • Angelo de San Alberto, Dominican friar who built the aqueduct of Santo Domingo Tlaquiltenango in 1760[32]

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.[130]
  • Rafael Cauduro (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.[131][132]
  • 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.[112]
  • Enrique Cattaneo y Cramer (born February 9, 1946) was born in Mexico City and lives in Cuernavaca. He teaches at the UAEM.[133]
  • Cristina Cassy, Mexican painter who won the 3rd place medal in the Salon de Oro in Madrid, Spain, in 1960, lives in Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca.[9]
  • 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[134][135]
  • Rafael Coronel, 87, painter (b. 1931 in Zacatecas, d. 2019 in Cuernavaca)[136]
  • Vicente Gandia Sanz (1935–2009) was born in Barcelona, Spain, and died in Cuernavaca.[132]
  • 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.[132]
  • Joy Laville, (b. 1923 in U.K., died 2018; nationalized Mexican painter and sculptor who lived in Jiutepec.[137]
  • Liliana Mercenario Pomeroy was born in Mexico city in 1955 and has lived in Cuernavaca since 1994. She teaches at the UAEM.[132]
  • Wolfgang Paalen (1907-1959), Austrian-Mexican surrealist painter who lived and worked in Tepoztlàn during his last Mexican period (1954–59).[138]
  • Sebastián Ortega (1628-?), religious painter Cuernavaca. "Notario de la Inquisición" in 1643[32]
  • Yolanda Quijano is a Mexican painter and sculptor who lives in Cuernavaca.[139]
  • María Luisa Reid (born in 1943 in Zacatepec) is a Mexican sculptor.[140]
  • 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.[17][141]
  • Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a Mexican muralist.[142] He lived in Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca from 1951 to 1957.[7]
  • 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.[citation needed]
  • Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) was a Mexican painter.[142][143] 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.[132][144]

Writers, educators, and journalists

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

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.[32]
  • Chichimecacihuatzin I, wife of Moctezuma I, daughter of Cuauhtototzin[32]
  • 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.[167]
  • The Jojutla crater was discovered on Mars in 2006 by astronomer Andres Eloy Martínez Rojas.[168]
  • 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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