Scholars and Educators
- Rodolfo Acuña - historian and professor
- Elsa Salazar Cade - entomologist/science educator
- Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena - grammarian, scholar, and author
- Lauro Cavazos - U.S. Secretary of Education (1988–1990)
- Francisco G. Cigarroa - chancellor of the University of Texas System and president of the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.
- Miguel Angel Corzo - CEO and President of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
- Jose Cuellar - professor of Chicano studies
- Robert R. Davila - president of Gallaudet University
- Alicia Gaspar de Alba - historian, scholar, author
- Roberta Fernández - novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocateprofessor
- Francisco Gil-White - anthropologist and educator
- Jonathon J. Andrew Muñoz - philosopher and educator
- Laura E. Gómez - President of the Law and Society Association and a Professor of Law and American Studies at the University of New Mexico
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña - Performance Artist, Author, Activist and Educator
- Juan Gómez-Quiñones - professor, historian, poet and activist
- José Ángel Gutiérrez - professor and attorney
- Arturo Islas - professor of English and novelist
- J. Michael Ortiz - President of Cal Poly Pomona
- Arnulfo Trejo - writer, college professor and literary activist
- Francisco Vázquez - scholar and public intellectual
- Erv Wilson - music theorist
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