1962 in Mexico

Events in the year 1962 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Adolfo López Mateos
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea
 * Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico/Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
 * Secretary of Welfare: Javier Barros Sierra

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

 * Aguascalientes
 * Luis Ortega Douglas (until November 30)
 * Enrique Olivares Santana (starting December 1)
 * Baja California: Eligio Esquivel Méndez
 * Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
 * Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
 * Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda/Práxedes Ginér Durán
 * Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
 * Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
 * Durango: Francisco González de la Vega/Rafael Hernández Piedras/Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
 * Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
 * Guerrero: Arturo Martínez Adame
 * Hidalgo: Oswaldo Cravioto Cisneros
 * Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado
 * State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz
 * Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez/Agustín Arriaga
 * Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
 * Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
 * Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
 * Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca/Rodolfo Brena Torres
 * Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
 * Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
 * San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
 * Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
 * Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
 * Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
 * Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
 * Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
 * Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco/Fernando López Arias
 * Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/José Rodríguez Elías
 * Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
 * Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

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.

Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza Montoya

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 (d. 2003)
 * 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 (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua) (d. 2017).
 * August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
 * August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
 * August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico (2006-2012)
 * August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
 * September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
 * October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021

Deaths

 * May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated (b. 1900)