1936 in Mexico
Events in the year 1936 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Lázaro Cárdenas
- Interior Secretary : Silvestre Guerrero
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Eduardo Hay
- Communications Secretary : Francisco J. Múgica
- Education Secretary : Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
- Secretary of Defense : Manuel Ávila Camacho
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
- Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
- Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
- Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
- Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
- Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
- Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
- Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
- Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
- Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
- Jalisco: Everardo Topete
- State of Mexico: Eucario López
- Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
- Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
- Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
- Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
- Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
- Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
- Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
- San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
- Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
- Sonora: Ramón Ramos
- Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
- Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
- Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
- Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
- Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
- Zacatecas: Matías Ramos
Popular culture
Sports
- Mexico wins a total of three bronze medals at the Summer Olympics.
Film
- Allá en el Rancho Grande, directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández; beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Births
- 6 January – Rubén Amaro Sr., Mexican professional baseball player
- 23 February — Manuel Bartlett, politician
- 8 March – Mario Hernández, film director and screenwriter
- 15 April – José Becerra, boxer
- 23 April — Víctor Cervera Pacheco, politician ; Governor of Yucatán 1984–1988 and 1995–2001
- 8 May – Víctor Yturbe, singer
- 19 September – Juliana González Valenzuela, Mexican philosopher
- 8 October – Rogelio Guerra, actor
- 27 October – Enrique Canales, technologist, editor, political analyst, painter, and sculptor
- Date unknown
- *Mario Stern, composer and académic.