Fernando Ortiz Arana

Fernando Ortiz Arana (born October 26, 1944 in Santiago de Querétaro) is a Mexican politician and long serving legislator affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Ortiz Arana is the son of José Ortiz Antañana, a real estate agent, and Virginia Arana Morán. He graduated from the Autonomous University of Queretaro in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in law.

He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1963 and chaired it in the late 1990s. He has also served three terms as a federal congressman, one term as a senator and has run unsuccessfully for governor in 1997 and in 2003.