Nezahualcoyotl (, , meaning "Coyote in fast" or "Coyote who Fasts") (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a philosopher, warrior, architect, poet and ruler (
tlatoani) of the city-state of
Texcoco in
pre-Columbian Mexico. Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding
the Spanish Conquest, Nezahualcoyotl was not
Mexica; his people were the
Acolhua, another Nahuan people settled in the eastern part of the
Valley of Mexico, settling on the eastern side of
Lake Texcoco.