Amparo Barbra Cisneros

Amparo Barba Cisneros was part of the first generation of chemical engineers from Mexico’s National School of Chemical Sciences, and completed her professional exams in 1943.

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María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías

María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Mexican woman to receive a degree in architecture, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Academia de San Carlos (the National School of Architecture) in 1937.

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Dolores del Río

Mexican actress Dolores del Río is considered the first Latin American woman to become a major film star, with a career that lasted from the 1920s Hollywood silent films into the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the ‘40s and ‘50s and later expanding into television and theater.

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