1981 in Mexico

• President: José López Portillo
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

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• President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

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• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo/Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
• Campeche: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez
• Chiapas: Oscar Ornelas
• Chihuahua: Francisco José Madero González
• Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
• Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa/Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo/Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
• State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
• Michoacán: Adán Augusto López Hernández
• Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
• Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría García
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
• Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross/Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
• Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou/Enrique Cárdenas González
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González

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• September 13 — By presidential decree, the Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones opens its doors in Churubusco.{{cite web|title=Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones|url=http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=49|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721001857/http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=49|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 21, 2009|language=Spanish|trans-title=National Intervention Museum|website=INAH|accessdate=June 8, 2019}}
• October 8 – Tropical Storm Lidia strikes {{convert|23|mi|km|abbr=on}} south of Los Mochis, with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). Heavy rainfall associated with the cyclone caused moderate damage in northwestern Mexico, and at least seventy-three deaths can be attributed to the storm.{{cite journal|last=Gunther|first=Emil B.|title=Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones of 1981|journal=Monthly Weather Review|date=July 1982|volume=110|issue=7|pages=839–851|doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1982)110<0839:ENPTCO>2.0.CO;2 |bibcode = 1982MWRv..110..839G |doi-access=free}}
• November – The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico is founded by a merger of four parties.Barry Carr, "Mexican Communism 1968–1981: Eurocommunism in the Americas?" Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (May 1985), 201–228.

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Alvarez Barret

• List of Mexican films of 1981.

• 1980–81 Mexican Primera División season.

• August 6 — José Ron, soap opera actor
• December 5 – Adan Canto, actor (d. 2024 in the United States)
• December 21 – Lynda Thomas, singer-songwriter and producer
• Date unknown — Miriam Rivera, transgender model (d. 2019).

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