The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Mexico
This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 2 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 39th most number of Biologists behind Turkey, and Portugal.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Biologists of all time. This list of famous Mexican Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Lucas Alamán (1792 - 1853)
With an HPI of 48.64, Lucas Alamán is the most famous Mexican Biologist. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada (Guanajuato, New Spain, 18 October 1792 – Mexico City, Mexico, 2 June 1853) was a Mexican scientist, conservative statesman, historian, and writer. He came from an elite Guanajuato family and was well-traveled and highly educated. He was an eyewitness to the early fighting in the Mexican War of Independence when he witnessed the troops of insurgent leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla sack Guanajuato City, an incident that informed his already conservative and antidemocratic thought. He has been called the "arch-reactionary of the epoch...who sought to create a strong central government based on a close alliance of the army, the Catholic Church and the landed classes." He has been considered the founder of the Conservative Party. He has been compared to Metternich, and was one of the prime voices advocating for the establishment of a monarchy in Mexico. According to historian Charles A. Hale, Alamán was "undoubtedly the major political and intellectual figure of independent Mexico until his death in 1853 ... the guiding force of several administrations and an active promoter of economic development."
2. Helia Bravo Hollis (1901 - 2001)
With an HPI of 43.25, Helia Bravo Hollis is the 2nd most famous Mexican Biologist. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Helia Bravo Hollis (30 September 1901 – 26 September 2001) was a Mexican botanist and a researcher in the Faculty of Science at UNAM.
3. Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez (b. 1969)
With an HPI of 38.62, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez is the 3rd most famous Mexican Biologist. His biography has been translated into 39 different languages.
Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez is a Mexican epidemiologist, author, and public health official who has served as head of the Undersecretariat of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Mexican Secretariat of Health since 2018. Since January 2020, he has also been the spokesman and one of the lead members of the federal governments response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Mexican biologists born between 1792 and 1969. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Mexican biologists include Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez. The most famous deceased Mexican biologists include Lucas Alamán, and Helia Bravo Hollis. As of April 2024, 1 new Mexican biologists have been added to Pantheon including Helia Bravo Hollis.
