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Santiago Creel
Secretary of the Interior
In office December 1, 2000 – June 1, 2005
President	Vicente Fox
Preceded by	Diódoro Carrasco
Succeeded by	Carlos Abascal
Born	December 11, 1954 (1954-12-11) (age 55) Mexico City
Political party	National Action Party (PAN)
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University of Michigan.
Profession	Lawyer Politician

Santiago Creel Miranda (born on 11 December 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican senator representing the right-of-center National Action Party who served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox.

Descendant of the Creel-Terrazas family and son of René Creel Luján, one of the founders of the National Action Party,^[1] Creel received a bachelor's degree in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and subsequently did graduate work at Georgetown University and earned a master's degree at the University of Michigan.^[2] His career highlights include running for Head of Government of the Federal District in 2000 (a race he narrowly lost to Andrés Manuel López Obrador). He was later appointed to the cabinet by President Vicente Fox to serve as Secretary of the Interior, a position he held from December 2000 to June 2005.

On June 1, 2005, Creel presented Fox with his resignation in order to seek his party's candidacy for the 2006 presidential election. Creel's main contender for the PAN's candidacy was Felipe Calderón who won the primary elections and went on to become the incumbent President of Mexico.

In 2006 Santiago Creel won a proportional representation seat in the Senate to serve during the 60th and 61st Legislatures (2006-2012) and led the PAN Senate delegation until June 2008.

In 2008 he admitted that he is the father of actress Edith González's daughter, Constanza.

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