Mexico
7 profiles with fame based in Mexico
Mexico — figures with Russian and Soviet roots
This page documents 7 notable figures based in Mexico whose biographies connect to the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, or the states that succeeded them — through birth, parentage, or earlier ancestry. Each profile is sourced and records the specific origin and connection.
Claudia Sheinbaum
President of Mexico since October 2024, the first woman in the office; her paternal grandparents were Lithuanian Jews who emigrated to Mexico
Jacobo Zabludovsky
Mexico City-born son of Polish Jewish immigrants; anchor of Televisa's 24 Horas (1970–1998)
Marcos Moshinsky
Kyiv-born Mexican physicist; Prince of Asturias Award laureate (1988)
Angelina Beloff
Painter and printmaker born in St Petersburg in 1879; in Paris from 1909, in Mexico from 1932, where she taught, made puppet theatre and co-founded the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana
Jacobo Kostakowsky
Violinist and composer born in Odessa in 1893 who settled in Mexico in 1925; father of the painter Olga Costa
Olga Costa
Mexican painter born Olga Kostakowsky in Leipzig in 1913 to parents from the Russian Empire; La vendedora de frutas (1951), National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1990)
Vlady (Vladimir Kibalchich)
Painter born in Petrograd in 1920, son of the writer Victor Serge; in Mexico from the 1940s, muralist of the Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada