1955 in Mexico

Events in the year 1955 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): José Ángel Ceniceros
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada/Roberto Gómez Maqueo
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Vicente Santos Guajardo

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Benito Palomino Dena
 * Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
 * Campeche: Manuel López Hernández/Alberto Trueba Urbina
 * Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez/Jesús Lozoya Solís
 * Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
 * Colima: Jesús González Lugo/Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
 * Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
 * Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya/J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
 * Guerrero: 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/Raúl Rangel Frías
 * 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 organization known as El Yunque was allegedly formed in this year.
 * The Querétaro Intercontinental Airport is established.
 * The Sonora Institute of Technology was founded as Justo Sierra Institute (Instituto Justo Sierra)
 * July 4: 1955 Mexican legislative election.
 * September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).
 * 21–30: Hurricane Janet.
 * December: Club de Yates de Acapulco opens its doors.

Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Erasmo Castellanos Quinto

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1955

Sport

 * 1954–55 Mexican Primera División season.
 * The 1955 Pan American Games take place in Mexico City.
 * The Tigres del México win the Mexican League.

Births

 * January 19 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor
 * January 26 – Lucía Méndez, soap opera actress, model, and singer
 * May 11 – María Sorté, actress and singer
 * May 22 – Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, Governor of Baja California 2013-2019
 * May 25 – Andrés Mora, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame), (d. June 12, 2015).
 * June 2 – Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila, anthropologist (d. 2008)
 * July 26 – Rogelio Ortega Martínez, educator and interim Governor of Guerrero 2014–2015
 * August 14 – Carlos Medina Plascencia, educator and Governor of Guanajuato 1991 – 1995
 * September 21 – Rogelio Padilla, sociologist, activist for children's rights, founder of MAMA, A.C. (d. 2018)
 * October 15 – Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico City (2000-2021); d. January 18, 2021
 * December 10 – Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Governor of Guanajuato 2000-2006
 * December 18 – Juan Molinar Horcasitas, politician (PAN), (d. May 20, 2015).
 * December 28 – Enrique Moreno, Mexican-American lawyer (d 2019).

Deaths

 * July 9 – Adolfo de la Huerta, 38th President of Mexico (b. 1881)
 * October 13 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)