1956 in Mexico

Events in the year 1956 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: Roberto Gómez Maqueo
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Vicente Santos Guajardo

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
 * Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
 * Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
 * Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
 * Chihuahua: Jesús Lozoya Solís/Teófilo Borunda
 * Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
 * Colima: Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
 * Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez/Francisco González de la Vega
 * Guanajuato: 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/David Franco Rodríguez
 * Morelos: Rodolfo López de Nava
 * Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
 * Nuevo León: Raúl Rangel Frías
 * Oaxaca: José Pacheco Iturribarría/Alfonso Pérez Gasca
 * Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
 * Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
 * San Luis Potosí: Manuel Álvarez
 * Sinaloa: Rigoberto Aguilar Pico
 * Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
 * Tabasco: Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
 * Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
 * Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
 * Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull /Antonio María Quirasco
 * Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo
 * Zacatecas: José Minero Roque/Francisco E. García
 * Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

 * The Chemical Society of Mexico is formed.
 * April 30: The opening of the Torre Latinoamericana.

Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gerardo Murillo ("Dr. Atl")

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1956

Sport

 * 1955–56 Mexican Primera División season
 * The Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
 * Mexico participate at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
 * Establishment of the Mexican Center League.
 * January 1: Club de Futbol Ballenas Galeana Morelos is founded.

Births

 * March 23 — Fidel Demédicis Hidalgo was a federal senator from Morelos (2012-2018)
 * April 21 — Ángel Aguirre Rivero, constitutional Governor of Guerrero 2011–2014 and interim Governor of Guerrero 1996–1999
 * May 8 — Javier Álvarez, composer (d. 2023)
 * June 8 — René Juárez Cisneros, Governor of Guerrero 1999-2005 and current federal Senator (d. 2021)
 * June 15 — Francisco Olvera Ruiz, Governor of Hidalgo 2011–2016
 * June 22 — Manuel Saval, soap opera actor (Simplemente María (1989 TV series)) (d. 2009)
 * July 31 — Laura Zapata, Mexican telenovela actress, singer and dancer
 * August 15 – Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, engineer, architect, teacher, historian, painter, artist, and Catholic priest, best known for being the creator of "The Boat of the Faith" (d. April 18, 2016).
 * September 8 – Ricardo Torres Origel, Mexican politician (PAN) Deputy (2000-2003) and Senator (2006-2012) from Guanajuato (d. April 24, 2016).
 * October 13 — Ana Bertha Espín, actress
 * October 19 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician from the State of Mexico (d. 2018).
 * Date unknown — Rosario Robles, politician, acting Mayor of Mexico City 1999-2000