Scientists from Mexico City

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first Jewish person to hold the office. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), she previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023. In 2025, Forbes ranked Sheinbaum as the fifth most powerful woman in the world.

Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)

Mexican physician, researcher, professor and public official - Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion

Mexican-Israeli physicist

Mexican theoretical physicist (born 1964)

Mexican botanist, botanical collector, university teacher and director of the botanical garden at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1901-2001)

Mexican astronomer (1913–1988)

Mexican-British-German cosmologist

Mexican astrophysicist

Mexican astronomer

Mexican diplomat

Mexican virologist specialized in rotaviri.

American theoretical nuclear physicist (1925–2004)

Mexican physicist

Mexican physicist

Mexican scientist

Mexican astronomer, docent and researcher

Mexican microbiologist

Mexican physicist

Mexican astrophysicist

Mexican physicist

Mexican scientist, investigator and journalist

Mexican scientist

Mexican surgeon and environmental activist

Mexican biochemist laureated with the 1991 Prince of Asturias Award

Mexican physicist

Mexican ichthyologist (1943-2011)

Mexican physicist

Mexican scientist and engineer (1911–1967)