Jesús María Tarriba Unger (born 1 September 1962) is a Mexican physicist and financial risk management expert who is the First Gentleman of Mexico.

Born to Jaime Tarriba Rodil, and Beatriz Unger Ferreia, his father was originally from Culiacán and his mother from Mazatlán.

In 1977, at the age of 15, he moved to Mexico City to study at a private high school.

[10] He completed his studies at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),[11] where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics in 1988, a master's degree in 1989  and a doctorate in Physical Sciences in 1994, with the thesis: " Optical and magnetic response of systems with interfaces ".

During his training, he also completed a doctoral stay at the University of California at Irvine, which earned him the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, awarded by the Mexican Academy of Sciences, for the best doctoral thesis.