Mauricio Fernández Garza

Mauricio Fernández Garza (2 April 1950 – 22 September 2025) was a Mexican politician, businessman, and collector with direct ties to the wealthy and prominent Fernández Ruiloba family, owners of PYOSA (Pigmentos Y Oxidos SA). He served as mayor of San Pedro Garza García, a former senator, and a former member of the board of directors of Grupo Alfa, a Monterrey-based chemical, food, and auto-parts producer. He is well known for his art contributions to Nuevo León.

Fernández Garza graduated with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University (U.S.), specialized in economics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, and received a master's degree in business administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.

He was the founder and president of Comercializadora de Puros, Uniser (Havana, Cuba), Artesanarte, and the Museo del Ojo in García, Nuevo León. In June 2005, he sold one of his companies, Especialidades Cerveceras, S.A. (the maker of Casta premium beer), to Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA), the world's second-largest Coca-Cola bottler.

Fernández Garza ran for governor of Nuevo León in 2003. He defeated former treasurer Fernando Elizondo Barragán in the National Action Party's state primaries (56.5% to 20.8%) but lost the gubernatorial election to Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate José Natividad González Parás.

He ran for mayor of San Pedro Garza García in 2009 and won the election. His administration began on 31 October 2009. His successor as mayor of San Pedro Garza García was independent candidate Miguel Treviño de Hoyos.

Fernández Garza died of mesothelioma on 22 September 2025, at the age of 75.