Ramón Alva de la Canal
 Ramón Alva de la Canal (b. Mexico City August 29 1892 – d. Mexico City April 4 1985) was a Mexican painter illustrator and educator one of the pioneers of the Mexican muralism movement.He was born Ramón Pascual Loreto José Alva de la Canal on August 29 1892 in the Tacubaya now a neighborhood of Mexico City. He received his artistic training at the Academy of San Carlos and then at the Escuela de Pintural al Aire Libre in Coyoacán under Alfredo Ramos Martínez.