Ramón Isaac Alcaraz

Ramón Isaac Alcaraz (3 June 1823 – 8 April 1886) was a Mexican poet, writer and liberal politician.

Alcaraz was born in Chucándiro, Michoacán, in 1823. He earned a law degree in Morelia, Michoacán, and, by 1836, was continuing his studies in Mexico City, where he joined the , a leading literary society of the time.

After fighting in the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848, a work that President Antonio López de Santa Anna deemed "offensive to the republic", ordering its first edition seized and burned.

Alcaraz was elected to the 1856–57 Constituent Congress, where he served on the industry committee.

Following the restoration of the republic, he served as the director of the National Museum from 1867 to 1876 and was appointed director of the Academia de San Carlos in 1869. He was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language in 1880.

Ramón Alcaraz died in Mexico City in 1886.