Juan Pío Pérez
Juan Pío Pérez Bermón (1798–1859) was a Mexican intellectual, philologist, researcher of Maya culture and mayor of the city of Mérida from 1848 to 1853. Pío Pérez studied Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula. His most significant contributions to the field was his Dictionary of the Mayan Language and interpretations of various fragments of the Chilam Balam.