Ricardo González Gutiérrez known as Cepillín (Spanish pronunciation: [sepiˈʝin]) (February 7, 1946 – March 8, 2021)[2] was a widely beloved Mexican clown as well as a singer, TV host and actor.

[2] Cepillín also helped younger artists to acquire fame such as singer Yuri, who took a role in his movie Milagro en el circo [es] ("Miracle in the circus"), and Salma Hayek, to whom he gave the opportunity in the masterpiece Aladdin as Jasmine.

[2] On April 12, 2018, Cepillín uploaded a video where he endorsed Andrés Manuel López Obrador for president in the 2018 Mexican presidential election.

[2] Ricardo González Gutiérrez was admitted to a hospital in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, on February 28, 2021, because of intense back pain.

His son, Ricardo González Jr., said that his father had a respiratory arrest from which the doctors managed to "get him out of"; however, he reported that "he was already very deteriorated" and he had a failed kidney.