Irish Immigration To Mexico - Notable Irish Mexicans

Notable Irish Mexicans

  • Anthony Quinn, actor
  • William Lamport, the real-life Zorro
  • Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico during 1920-1924.
  • Juan O'Donojú, viceroy of New Spain
  • José Antonio Meade, Secretary of Finance of Mexico es:José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
  • Rómulo O'Farril, founder of newspaper Novedades
  • Juan O'Gorman, architect
  • Edmundo O'Gorman, writer
  • Hugh O'Connor, Spanish governor of Texas from 1767 to 1770
  • Alejo Bay, governor of Sonora from 1923 to 1927
  • Joaquín Philip Meade y Sáinz Trápaga, historian.
  • Michael Wadding, Jesuit priest and missionary
  • Judith Grace, television hostess
  • Lindi Ortega, Canadian singer of Mexican-Irish descent.
  • Cristina Fink, retired high jumper of Irish, German, Dutch descent.
  • Margo, Mexican actress and dancer of Irish descent.
  • Pablo O'Higgins, American-Mexican artist, muralist and illustrator of Irish descent.
  • Carlos Gallardo, Mexican actor, producer and occasional screenwriter and director to a Mexican father and an Irish mother.
  • Tomas O'Horan, Mexican lawyer, magistrate and senator of Irish descent.
  • Sara Ramirez, Mexican-American singer/songwriter and actress to her mother was half Mexican and half Irish-American.
  • Jon Riley, born-Ireland, Mexican Army and founder Saint Patrick's Battalion for Mexico.
  • Justo Sierra O'Reilly, Mexican novelist and historian of Irish descent.
  • John Holloway, Irish-born Mexican lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and philosopher currently living in Mexico.
  • Álvaro Obregón Tapia, Mexican politician of Irish descent.
  • Dolores Creel Miranda, Mexican artist of Irish descent.
  • Daniel Chavez Moran, Mexican businessman of Irish descent.
  • Philip Crosthwaite, born in Ireland, was an early settler of San Diego, California and Rosarito, Baja California.
  • Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Mexican writer of Irish-American descent.
  • Barry Nicols, DJ/MC aka Chuck Barry, DJ Smokedog

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