1951 in Mexico

Events in the year 1951 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Miguel Alemán Valdés
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Agustín García López
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón
 * Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Salvador Urbina

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Edmundo Gámez Orozco
 * Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
 * Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
 * Coahuila: Raúl López Sánchez/Ramón Cepeda López
 * Colima: Jesús González Lugo
 * Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
 * Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
 * Guerrero: Baltazar R. Leyva Mancilla/Alejandro Gómez Maganda
 * Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Vicente Aguirre del Castillo
 * Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
 * State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo Vélez/Salvador Sánchez Colín
 * Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
 * Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz
 * Nayarit: Gilberto Flores Muñoz
 * Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto
 * Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia
 * Puebla: Carlos I. Betancourt/Rafael Ávila Camacho
 * Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra
 * San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres
 * Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce
 * Sonora: Ignacio Soto
 * Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
 * Tamaulipas: Raúl Garate/Horacio Terán
 * Tlaxcala: Rafael Avila Bretón/Felipe Mazarraza
 * Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
 * Yucatán: José González Beytia/Humberto Esquivel Medina
 * Zacatecas: José Minero Roque

Events

 * The Faustino Miranda Botanical Garden is founded under the trusteeship of Dr. Faustino Miranda.
 * March 9: The Mexico City trolleybus system starts operating.

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1951

Sport

 * 1950–51 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Azules de Veracruz México win the Mexican League.
 * November 12: C.F. La Piedad founded.

Births

 * January 6 – Fishman (wrestler) (d. 2017)
 * January 31 — Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto, Governor of Hidalgo 1999-2005
 * February 3 — Felipe Muñoz, swimmer
 * April 8 – Joan Sebastian, singer-songwriter (7 Latin Grammy Awards and 5 Grammy Awards, (d. July 13, 2015)
 * August 11 – Carlos Alvarado Perea, progressive rock musician (d. January 13, 2020)
 * August 14 — Dulce María Sauri Riancho, politician (PRI); first female Governor of Yucatán Governor of Yucatán
 * October 22 — Carlos Frenk, cosmologist
 * November 17 — Eduardo Ibarrola Nicolín, Mexican-born diplomat )
 * November 26 – Óscar Lara Aréchiga, politician (PRI) (d. 2017).
 * December 27 – Ernesto Zedillo, economist and politician (PRI); 54th President of Mexico (1994-2000)
 * Date unknown
 * Emilio Alvarado Badillo, photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic (ITESM, State of Mexico) (d. 2017).
 * Saúl Montoya Beltrán, baseball player; (d. 2018).
 * Curro Rivera Agüero, bullfighter; (d. 2001).