| Alonso Lujambio | |
| Office1: | Secretary of Public Education |
| Term Start1: | 6 April 2009 |
| Term End1: | 16 March 2012[1] |
| President1: | Felipe Calderón |
| Predecessor1: | Josefina Vázquez Mota |
| Successor1: | José Ángel Córdova Villalobos |
| Office2: | Senator of the Senate of Mexico |
| Term Start2: | 29 August 2012 |
| Term End2: | 25 September 2012 (died in office) |
| Birth Date: | 2 September 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Death Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Party: | National Action |
| Alma Mater: | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Yale University |
| Occupation: | Academic and politician |
Alonso José Ricardo Lujambio Irazábal[2] (2 September 1962 – 25 September 2012) was a Mexican academic and politician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.[3]
Lujambio served as member of the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), as advisor to the United Nations, and as an academic at the Ibero-American University, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico (ITAM), where he chaired the undergraduate program in Political Science.[4]
On 11 November 2011, Lujambio was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, following a hospitalization for acute renal failure.
On 29 August 2012, Lujambio took protest as Senator, at which he was assisted in a wheelchair.[5]
On 25 September 2012, Senator Alonso Lujambio died after complications from cancer.[6] [7]