Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City, February 22, 1926) is a Mexican philosopher and historian, a leading expert in Nahuatl thought and literature. Since 1988 he is emeritus researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, received the Belisario Domínguez Medal in 1995, and from March 23, 1971 is a member of the National College, institution whose income presentation titled History and historians in the old Mexico and was received with speech Agustín Yáñez