Francisco Epigmenio Luna Kan (3 December 1925 – 23 November 2023) was a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Yucatán from 1976 to 1982.
Luna Kan was born on 3 December 1925 in the town of Noc Ac [es] in the municipality of Mérida.
[1] He earned his medical degree from the National Polytechnic Institute's Higher School of Rural Medicine, writing his thesis on epidemiology and social characteristics of tubercular patients, before earning a master's degree in health sciences.
[clarification needed] Luna Kan was the first person of pure Maya ancestry to govern the state since the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.
[citation needed] After his term as governor Luna Kan resigned from the PRI and joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).