Sergio García Ramírez (1 February 1938 – 10 January 2024) was a Mexican jurist and politician who served as a judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1997 to 2009.

[1] Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, García Ramírez undertook his university studies at the school of law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.

Although he was never elected to public office, he occupied different positions under the PRI regime and served in the cabinet of President José López Portillo as Secretary of Labor (1981–1982) and then in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid as Attorney General (1982–1988).

[2] In 1988 he lost the PRI internal bid for the party presidential candidacy against Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

García Ramírez died in Mexico City on 10 January 2024, at the age of 85.