1962 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo López Mateos
• Interior Secretary : Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
• April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established.
• May 23: Rubén Jaramillo is assassinated in Morelos by the Mexican Army.

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1962

  Sport

• 1961–62 Mexican Primera División season
• 1962 Mexican Grand Prix
• Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis Cup
• 1962 World Modern Pentathlon Championships are held in Mexico City.

  Births

• April 24 — Juan Manuel Carreras, Governor of San Luis Potosí starting 2015.
• May 7 — Ari Telch, soap opera actor
• May 13 — Eduardo Palomo, actor
• May 17 — Arturo Peniche, soap opera actor
• May 31 — Victoria Ruffo, soap opera actress
• June 24 — Claudia Sheinbaum, scientist and Mayor of Mexico City starting 2018
• August 7 – Miroslava Breach, journalist .
• August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
• August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
• August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico
• August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
• September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
• October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician ; Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021

  Deaths

• May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated