1954 in Mexico

Events in the year 1954 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Jose Angel Ceniceros
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: José María Ortiz Tirado

Governors
Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)


 * Aguascalientes: Benito Palomino Dena
 * Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
 * Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
 * Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
 * Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
 * Colima: Jesús González Lugo
 * Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
 * Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
 * Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
 * Hidalgo: Quintín Rueda Villagrán
 * Jalisco: Agustín Yáñez
 * State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
 * Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
 * Morelos: Rodolfo López de Nava
 * Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
 * Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco
 * Oaxaca: Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado/Manuel I. Manjardín/José Pacheco Iturribarría
 * Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
 * Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
 * San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
 * Sinaloa: Rigoberto Aguilar Pico
 * Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
 * Tabasco: Manuel Bartlett Bautista/Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
 * Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
 * Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
 * Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
 * Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo
 * Zacatecas: José Minero Roque
 * Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

 * The Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque is established in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
 * The Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores is founded.
 * June 24/26: Hurricane Alice (June 1954)
 * December 8: The Autonomous University of Chihuahua is founded.

Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rosaura Zapata and Erasmo Castellanos Quinto

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1954.

Sport

 * 1953–54 Mexican Primera División season.
 * 1954 Carrera Panamericana.
 * The 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games are held in Mexico City.
 * The United States defeat Mexico in the Americas Zone final of the Davis Cup.
 * The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League.
 * February 7: Club Celaya is founded.
 * August 28: Club Universidad Nacional is founded.

Births

 * January 26
 * Sebastián Ligarde, Mexican-American actor
 * Jorge Hernández Andrés, businessman and bullfighter (d. 2018).
 * February 20 — Jorge Torres López, politician (PRI) and Governor of Coahuila in 2011
 * May 13 — Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2005-2006
 * June 24 – Juan González Gómez ("Juan Cotz"), painter from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas (d. 2017).
 * June 28 — Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, Governor of Puebla 2005-2011
 * July 11 — Alejandro Camacho, actor and producer
 * July 26 — Leonardo Daniel, actor and director
 * September 2 — Humberto Zurita, actor, director, and producer.
 * October 17 – Herón Escobar, politician (PT), deputy (2009-2012); (d. October 24, 2016).
 * November 3 – Carlos Girón, silver medal-winning diver in the 1980 Olympics. (d. January 13, 2020)
 * Date unknown

Deaths

 * March 30: Agustín Aragón León politician and philosopher (b. 1870)