89 Notable alumni of
San Juan de Letran College
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San Juan de Letran College is 652nd in the world, 132nd in Asia, and 5th in the Philippines by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 89 notable alumni from San Juan de Letran College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Emilio Aguinaldo
- Occupations
- autobiographermilitary personnelrevolutionarypolitician
- Biography
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Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy QSC CCLH PMM KGCR was a Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who was the first president of the Philippines from 1899 to 1901, and the first president of an Asian constitutional republic. He led the Philippine forces first against Spain in the Philippine Revolution (1896–1898), then in the Spanish–American War (1898), and finally against the United States during the Philippine–American War (1899–1901). He is regarded in the Philippines as having been the country's first president during the period of the First Philippine Republic, though he was not recognized as such outside of the revolutionary Philippines.
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Manuel L. Quezon
- Enrolled in San Juan de Letran College
- Studied secondary education
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina GCGH KGCR, also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the entire Philippines and is considered the second president of the Philippines after Emilio Aguinaldo (1899–1901), whom Quezon defeated in the 1935 presidential election. Quezon City, a city in Metro Manila and Quezon Province, are named after him.
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Apolinario Mabini
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- autobiographerpoliticianjudgediplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic. He is regarded as the "utak ng himagsikan" or "brain of the revolution" and is also considered as a national hero in the Philippines. Mabini's work and thoughts on the government shaped the Philippines' fight for independence over the next century.
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Vic Sotto
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- television presentercomposerfilm producercomediantelevision actor
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Marvic Valentin "Vic" Castelo Sotto, popularly known as Bossing, is a Filipino actor, comedian, and television personality. Prolific in film and television in the Philippines since the 1970s, he is known for playing comedic roles in television sitcoms and films. He is also one of the three pioneer hosts of Eat Bulaga! together with his elder brother Tito Sotto and Joey De Leon.
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Marcelo H. del Pilar
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- politicianwriterjournalist
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Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán, commonly known as Marcelo H. del Pilar and also known by his nom de plume Pláridel, was a Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason. Del Pilar, along with José Rizal and Graciano López Jaena, became known as the leaders of the Reform Movement in Spain.
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Sergio Osmeña
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sergio Osmeña Sr. CCLH was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946 and as the first vice president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He served the shortest term as president of the Philippines, lasting for only 1 year and 300 days. He was vice president under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's sudden death in 1944, Osmeña succeeded him at age 65, becoming the first vice president to succeed to the Philippine presidency and the oldest person to assume it until Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 at age 71. He was the founder of the Nacionalista Party.
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Tito Sotto
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- bowleractorcomediantelevision actorsongwriter
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Vicente "Tito" Castelo Sotto III is a Filipino politician and television personality who has served as the 32nd president of the Senate since 2025, a position he previously held from 2018 to 2022. Sotto has been a senator since 2025, having previously also served in the role from 1992 to 2004 and from 2010 to 2022. He is the longest-serving Philippine senator in history, and is the only one elected for five non-consecutive terms.
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Jose Maria Sison
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- revolutionarywriterpolitician
- Biography
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Jose Maria Canlas Sison, also known as Joma, was a Filipino writer, poet, and activist who founded and led the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy—which would be known as National Democracy. His ideology was formed by applying Marxism–Leninism-Maoism to the history and circumstances of the Philippines.
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Chavit Singson
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- politician
- Biography
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Luis Crisologo "Chavit" Singson is a Filipino businessman and politician who last served as the mayor of Narvacan, Ilocos Sur from 2019 to 2022. He was also the governor of the province of Ilocos Sur, starting from 1972 until 1986, again from 1992 until 2001, again from 2004 to 2007, and again from 2010 until 2013. He was also the Deputy National Security Adviser for the Philippine government (2008).
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Eddie Gutierrez
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- comedianactor
- Biography
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Eddie Gutierrez, is a Filipino actor and former matinee idol.
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Terrence Romeo
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Terrence Bill Vitanzos Romeo is a Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Terrafirma Dyip of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He plays both the point guard and shooting guard positions.
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Severino Reyes
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- playwright
- Biography
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Severino Reyes y Rivera was a Filipino writer and playwright. He used the pen name Lola Basyang. He was nicknamed "Don Binoy".
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Antonio Molina
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- composer
- Biography
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Antonio Jesús Naguiat Molina was a Filipino composer, conductor and music administrator. He was named a National Artist of the Philippines for his services to music. He was also known as the "Claude Debussy" of the Philippines due to his use of impressionist themes in music.
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Bienvenido Lumbera
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- university teacherlibrettistpoet
- Biography
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Bienvenido L. Lumbera was a Filipino poet, critic and dramatist. Lumbera is known for his nationalist writing and for his leading role in the Filipinization movement in Philippine literature in the 1960s, which resulted in his being one of the many writers and academics jailed during Ferdinand Marcos' Martial Law regime. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications in 1993, and was proclaimed a National Artist of the Philippines for literature in 2006. As an academic, he is recognized for his key role in elevating the field of study which would become known as Philippine Studies.
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Fernando Lopez
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- ministerentrepreneurpolitician
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Fernando "Nanding" Hofileña Lopez Sr. KGCR was a Filipino statesman. A member of the influential López family of Iloilo, he served as vice president of the Philippines under Presidents Elpidio Quirino from 1949 to 1953 under the Liberal Party and Ferdinand Marcos from 1965 to 1972, under the Nacionalista Party. He was also the chairman of ABS-CBN Corporation from 1986 to his death in 1993.
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José Burgos
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- Catholic priestwriter
- Biography
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José Apolonio Burgos y García was a Filipino Catholic priest, accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the 19th century. He was tried and executed in Manila along with two other clergymen, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, who are collectively known as the Gomburza.
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Mariano Ponce
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Mariano Ponce y Collantes commonly known as just Mariano Ponce was a Filipino physician, writer, statesman, and active member of the Propaganda Movement. In Spain, he was among the founders of La Solidaridad and Asociación Hispano-Filipino. Among his significant works was Efemerides Filipinas, a column on historical events in the Philippines which appeared in La Oceania Española (1892–1893) and El Ideal (1911–1912). He wrote Ang Wika at Lahi (1917), a discussion on the importance of a national language. He also served as Bulacan's representative to the Philippine Assembly from 1909 to 1912.
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Benigno Aquino, Sr
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- politician
- Biography
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Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao was a Filipino politician who served as speaker of the National Assembly of the Japanese-sponsored puppet state in the Philippines from 1943 to 1944. He was the Director-General of KALIBAPI, a political party established during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
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Ramon Tulfo
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- columnisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Ramon "Mon" Teshiba Tulfo Jr. is a Filipino TV host, radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist.
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Artemio Ricarte
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- Spanish teacherrevolutionary
- Biography
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Artemio Ricarte y García was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine–American War. He is regarded as the Father of the Philippine Army, and the first Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (March 22, 1897- January 22, 1899) though the present Philippine Army descended from the American-allied forces that defeated the Philippine Revolutionary Army led by General Ricarte. Ricarte is notable for never having taken an oath of allegiance to the United States government that occupied the Philippines from 1898 to 1946.
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German Moreno
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- actorcomediantelevision actor
- Biography
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German Molina Moreno, also known as Kuya Germs ( Tagalog: [kujɐ dʒɛɾms] or [dʒɚms]) and dubbed as "The Master Showman", was a Filipino television host, presenter, actor, comedian, talent manager, producer, writer, and director.
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Isabelo de los Reyes
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- journalistlinguistpoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino, also known as Don Belong, was a prominent Filipino patriot, politician, writer, journalist, and labor activist in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the original founder and proclaimer of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, the first-ever Filipino independent Christian Church in history in the form of a nationalist church, which was proclaimed in 1902. He was also the founder and first president of the first-ever labor union federation in the Philippines, the Unión Obrera Democrática. He is popularly known today as the "Father of Philippine Folklore", the "Father of the Philippine Labor Movement", and the "Father of Filipino Socialism".
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Samboy Lim
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Avelino "Samboy" Borromeo Lim Jr., nicknamed "The Skywalker", was a Filipino professional basketball player of the Philippine Basketball Association and the national team in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Pío Valenzuela
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Pío Valenzuela y Alejandrino was a Filipino physician and revolutionary leader. At the age of 22, he joined the society of Katipunan, a movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution. Together with Andrés Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto, they formed the secret chamber of the society called Camara Reina or Kamara Negra. He took charge of the publication of Ang Kalayaan, Katipunan's official publication. He was the one who tried to convince the exiled José Rizal to join the revolutionary movement.
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Wendell Ramos
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- modeltelevision actoractorcomedian
- Biography
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Carlino Xavier Reyes Ramos is a Filipino actor. He is best known as one of the original cast members of the GMA Network comedy show Bubble Gang.
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Mariano Gomes
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- writerpriest
- Biography
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Mariano Gómes de los Ángeles, often known by his birth name Mariano Gómez y Custodio or Mariano Gomez in modern orthography, was a Filipino Catholic priest who was falsely accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the 19th century. He was placed in a mock trial and summarily executed in Manila along with two other clergymen collectively known as the Gomburza. Gomes was the oldest of the three priests and spent his life writing about abuses against Filipino priests.
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Salvador Medialdea
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Salvador "Bingbong" Campo Medialdea is a Filipino lawyer and former government official. He served as the Executive Secretary from 2016 to 2022 in the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. He previously served as Presidential Assistant for Political Affairs and president of the National Livelihood Development Corporation under President Joseph Estrada.
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Gregorio Aglipay
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- lawyerCatholic priestpoliticianAglipayan priestAglipayan deacon
- Biography
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Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán was a Filipino former Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War who became the first head and leader of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), the first-ever wholly Filipino-led independent Christian Church in the Philippines in the form of a nationalist church.
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Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
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- historianbotanist
- Biography
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Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho was a Filipino physician, historian and politician of Spanish and Portuguese descent who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the First Philippine Republic in 1899.
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Manuel Tinio
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- politician
- Biography
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Manuel Tinio y Bundoc was the youngest General of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, and was elected Governor of the Province of Nueva Ecija, Republic of the Philippines in 1907. He is considered to be one of the three "Fathers of the Cry of Nueva Ecija", along with Pantaleon Valmonte and Mariano Llanera.
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José María Panganiban
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- journalistlinguist
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Jose Ma. Panganiban y Enverga was a Filipino propagandist, linguist, and essayist. He is one of the main writers and contributors for La Solidaridad, writing under the pen names "Jomapa" and "J.M.P."
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Lourd de Veyra
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- singersongwriterjournalistactivistmusician
- Biography
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Lourd Ernest Hanopol de Veyra is a Filipino musician, emcee, poet, journalist, TV host, broadcast personality and activist who became famous as the vocalist of the Manila-based jazz rock band Radioactive Sago Project.
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Diosdado Peralta
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- judge
- Biography
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Diosdado "Dado" Madarang Peralta is a Filipino lawyer and jurist who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from January 13, 2009, to October 22, 2019. He is the third Sandiganbayan presiding justice to be appointed to the high tribunal.
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Santiago Alvarez
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- politician
- Biography
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Santiago Virata Álvarez was a revolutionary general and a founder and honorary president of the first directorate of the short-lived earlier Partido Nacionalista which existed from 1901 to 1907. Also known as Kidlat ng Apoy (En: Lightning of Fire; Fiery Lightning) because of his inflamed bravery and dedication as commander of Cavite's famous battles (particularly that in Dalahican), he was celebrated in present-day Cavite City as the Hero of the Battle of Dalahican.
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Willie Miller
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Willie V. Miller Jr. is a Filipino professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for the Converge FiberXers of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He last played for the Pilipinas MX3 Kings of the ASEAN Basketball League. He has started at the point guard position but also played the shooting guard position. Miller has won four PBA championships and two PBA Most Valuable Player Awards.
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Pedro Peláez
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- Catholic priestwriter
- Biography
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Pedro Pablo Peláez y Sebastián was a Filipino Catholic priest who favored the rights for Filipino clergy during the 19th century. He was diocesan administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila for a brief period of time. In the early 19th century, Peláez advocated for the secularization of Filipino priests and is considered the "Godfather of the Philippine Revolution." His cause towards beatification has been initiated, and he is designated with the title "Servant of God."
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Cayetano Arellano
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- judge
- Biography
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Cayetano Simplicio Arellano y Lonzón was a Filipino jurist who served as the first Chief Justice of the Philippines from 1899 to 1920.
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Felipe Agoncillo
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- ministerpoliticianlawyerdiplomatjurist
- Biography
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Don Felipe Agoncillo y Encarnación was the Filipino lawyer representative to the negotiations in Paris that led to the Treaty of Paris (1898), ending the Spanish–American War and achieving him the title of "outstanding first Filipino diplomat."
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Eulogio Rodriguez
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- politician
- Biography
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Eulogio "Amang" A. Rodriguez, Sr. was a Filipino politician who twice served as President of the Senate of the Philippines. He was known for vehemently confronting corruption during the administration of Carlos P. Garcia, alleging he held a list of corrupt officials close to the president which the media dubbed the "White Paper".
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Richard Gordon
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Juico Gordon is a Filipino lawyer and politician who most recently served as a Senator from 2016 to 2022, and previously from 2004 to 2010. He has been the chairman and CEO of the Philippine Red Cross since 2004.
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Raymond Almazan
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Raymond Canaria Almazan is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Meralco Bolts of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He is nicknamed Rock N' Roll.
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Vicente Lukbán
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- politician
- Biography
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Vicente Lukbán y Rilles or Vicente Lucbán Rilles was a Philippine general in the Philippine Republican Army and politician who served as the governor of Tayabas (now Quezon) from 1912 to 1916.
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Alfrancis Chua
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- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Alfrancis P. Chua is a Filipino sports executive and former basketball player and coach. He is currently the team manager of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the sports director of San Miguel Corporation (SMC), overseeing the professional sports teams of the SMC group (Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, the San Miguel Beermen, and the Magnolia Hotshots).
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Mariano Llanera
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- Cabeza de BarangayGobernadorcillomilitary personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Mariano Núñez Llanera was a Filipino revolutionary general from Cabiao, Nueva Ecija who fought in his aforementioned home province, and also in the neighboring provinces of Bulacan, Tarlac, and Pampanga. He is considered one of the "three Fathers" (the main instigators/ commanders) of the Cry of Nueva Ecija, along with Pantaleon Valmonte and Manuel Tinio.
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J.C. Intal
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Christopher Antonio "JC" Intal is a Filipino former professional basketball player. He played for four teams during his career in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He is married to television host and model Bianca Gonzalez.
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Ramil Hernandez
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- politician
- Biography
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Ramil Laurel Hernandez is a Filipino politician who has served as the representative for Laguna's second district since 2025. A member of Lakas–CMD, he previously served as the 18th governor of Laguna from 2014 to 2025 and as vice governor from 2007 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2014.
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Ladislao Diwa
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- politician
- Biography
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Ladislao Diwa y Nocon was a Filipino patriot who was among the founders of the Katipunan that initiated the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896.
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Juan Sumulong
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- lawyerjournalistjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Juan Marquez Sumulong Sr. was a Filipino former revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, educator and politician from the province of Rizal. He was the president of the opposition party which ran against Manuel L. Quezon's Nacionalista Party in the 1941 presidential election of the Philippine Commonwealth. He is also the maternal great-grandfather of former President Benigno Aquino III.
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Jaime C. de Veyra
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- historianjournalistlinguistpolitician
- Biography
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Jaime Carlos de Veyra y Díaz was a Resident Commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Philippine Islands from 1917 to 1923 and Governor of Leyte from 1906 to 1907.
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Teodoro Kalaw
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- ministerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Teodoro Manguiat Kalaw, Sr. was a Filipino scholar, legislator, and historian in Spanish language.
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Pedro Abad Santos
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pedro Abad Santos y Basco was a Filipino Marxist politician. He founded the Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PSP) or Philippine Socialist Party in 1932. He ran for several local elections but never won. He also ran for president in the 1941 Philippine presidential election, but later withdrew, weeks before the election. Luis Taruc of the Hukbalahap Rebellion was under his tutelage and was his right-hand man.
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Vicente Liem de la Paz
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Vicente Liêm de la Paz was a Tonkinese (present day northern Vietnamese) Dominican friar venerated as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church along with other Vietnamese Martyrs in 1988.
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Roi Sumang
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shej Roi Sumang is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Titan Ultra Giant Risers of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
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Jesús Balmori
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Jesús Balmori y Rivera was a Filipino Spanish language journalist, playwright, and poet.
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Vicente Madrigal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vicente María Epifanio López Madrigal was a Spanish Filipino businessman, industrialist and politician. Madrigal died at home in New Manila, Quezon City, under the care of his youngest daughter, Maria Luisa.
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Jay-R Reyes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jay-R C. Reyes is a Filipino former professional basketball player who last played for the Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
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Andres Narvasa
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Andres dela Rosa Narvasa was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from December 1, 1991, to November 30, 1998.
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Edilberto Evangelista
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Edilberto Evangelista was a Filipino civil engineer and a revolutionary.
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Gustavo Tambunting
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gustavo Alonzo Suarez Tambunting is a Filipino politician and businessman who served as the representative for 2nd District of Parañaque from 2022 to 2025. He also previously served in the same position from 2013 to 2019. He was also a councilor of the same city from 1988 to 1995 and again from 2001 to 2007. He was Vice Mayor of Parañaque from 2007 to 2013.
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Ramón Avanceña
- Years
- 1872-1957 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Ramón Avanceña y Quiosay was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He served from 1925 to 1941, when he resigned at the beginning of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. He was from Arevalo, Iloilo City.
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Pablo Ocampo
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pablo de León Ocampo Sr. was a Filipino lawyer, nationalist, a member of the Malolos Congress, inaugural holder of the office of Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress alongside Benito Legarda and a member of the 2nd Philippine Legislature. He gave his service to his country and helped to bring about the peaceful transition of the Philippines from being a colony of Spain for more than 300 years (1565 to 1898) to what would later become the American Commonwealth of the Philippines.
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Victorino Mapa
- Occupations
- ministerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Victorino Montaño Mapa was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and later, as the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American colonial Insular Government.
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Henry Lim Bon Liong
- Years
- 1951-2024 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Henry Lim Bon Liong was a Filipino businessman who was the chief executive officer of Sterling Paper Group of Companies, S.P. Properties, Inc., SL Agritech Corporation and was a member of the governing council of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) from 2005 to 2007.
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Mamerto Natividad
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Mamerto Natividad y Alejandrino was a haciendero and a Filipino military leader who led numerous successful battles during the Philippine Revolution against the Spaniards. He is credited with establishing army headquarters at Biak Na Bato, which today is a national park because of its historical significance. Together with Jose Clemente Zulueta, he wrote the proclamation entitled “To The Brave Sons of the Philippines”, which called for the expulsion of the friars from the Philippines. He was a signatory to the Biak Na Bato convention, but a steadfast dissenter to the Treaty of Biak Na Bato, which asked for peace and reforms. He preferred independence.
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Pedro Guevara
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Guevara y Valenzuela, was a Filipino soldier, lawyer, legislator, and Spanish-language writer who became Resident Commissioner of the Philippines during the American occupation.
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Bryan Faundo
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Bryan C. Faundo is a Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Imus SV Squad of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).
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Lito Banayo
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Angelito "Lito" Tan Banayo is a Filipino politician with the Nationalist People's Coalition. He was appointed Chairman and Representative of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office, the de facto embassy of the Philippines in Taiwan, by President Rodrigo Duterte on June 30, 2016. Formerly the Postmaster General under Cory Aquino and then head of the Philippine Tourism Authority during the Joseph Estrada administration, he later became administrator of the National Food Authority under Secretary of Agriculture Proceso Alcala during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. He resigned from the latter post in September 2012 to run for the House of Representatives, but then withdrew from the race in December of that same year.
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José Torres Bugallón
- Years
- 1873-1899 (aged 26)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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José Torres Bugallón y Gonzales was a Filipino military officer who fought and served the Spanish Government during the Philippine Revolution against the revolutionaries and joined the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine–American War. He is known as the "Hero of the Battle of La Loma", where he was fatally wounded that led to his death.
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Pedro Gil
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Gil y Hernández was a Filipino physician, journalist, and legislator. He served in different distinguished roles—as a labor leader, as a doctor of medicine, as a crusading newspaperman, as a social worker, and as a conscientious legislator.
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José María Mata
- Occupations
- physicianmilitary personneldiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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José María Mata Reyes was a 19th-century liberal politician and diplomat from Mexico who served for two months as minister of Finance in the cabinet of Benito Juárez (1860–1861), three months as minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Porfirio Díaz (1878), as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States (1859–1860), as congressman in the Chamber of Deputies, and as municipal president of Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz.
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Tobias Enverga
- Occupations
- project managerpolitician
- Biography
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Tobias Combalicer Enverga Jr. was a Canadian senator representing the province of Ontario.
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Boyet Bautista
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Boyet Bautista is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Armed Forces of the Philippines Cavaliers of the UNTV Cup. Bautista played high school and collegiate basketball for the Knights of the Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He had a stint with Toyota Otis-Letran in the Philippine Basketball League, and later with the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants of the Philippine Basketball Association, before returning to the PBL.
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Flaviano Yengko
- Biography
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Flaviano Yengko y Abad was one of the youngest generals during the Philippine Revolution, next only to Gregorio del Pilar (The Boy General) and Manuel Tinio y Bundoc (commander of the Tinio Brigade. The Soul of Insurrection in the North. The "Magiting" of Katipunan). He was regarded as the "Hero of Salitran".
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Leon Guinto
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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León Gawaran Guinto Sr. was a public servant in the Philippines from the Commonwealth period up to the post-war era, best remembered as the war-time Mayor of the City of Greater Manila in the Philippines.
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Manuel Araullo
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Manuel Araullo y Gonzáles was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He served from November 1, 1921 until his death on July 26, 1924.
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Arsenio Cruz-Herrera
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arsenio Cruz Herrera was considered the first Filipino Mayor of Manila from 1901 to 1905. He was also the leader of the Progresista Party from 1907 to 1914.
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Francisco Alonso Liongson
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Francisco Alonso Liongson was a Filipino writer and playwright. He was born into an Ilustrado family from Pampanga, Philippines at the turn of the 20th century and raised with the revolutionary values of an emerging Philippine identity which held freedom, justice, honor, patriotism and piety sacred. He witnessed the rapid changes that transformed the Philippines from a repressed society cloistered in a Spanish convent for over 300 years into modern, hedonistic consumers of American Hollywood glamor for 50 years. This period of transition brought instabilities to core family values as the generation gaps wreaked havoc on the social, political, economic and political foundations of a young nation. It was a period of experimentation where the natives began to grapple a new democratic way of life and self-rule; where sacred paternalistic relationships were giving way to egalitarian modes; where traditional gender and familial roles were questioned, and where a new foreign language and the need for a national alternative were alienating the nation from understanding the aspirations of its elders. Liongson, in his unique, inimitable literary style captured snap shots of these struggles with anachronism in plays and articles written in the language that he mastered and loved best, Spanish. His works have since become precious gems of Philippine literature in Spanish and historic records of the Filipino psyche and social life between 1896 and 1950.
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Francisco Afan Delgado
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- lawyerdiplomatjudgepolitician
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Francisco Afan Delgado was a Filipino politician and diplomat who served as a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands from 1935 to 1936.
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Benito Natividad
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- judge
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Benito Natividad y Alejandrino was a military leader, a governor and a judge. His parents were Gervasia Alejandrino and Mamerto Natividad, Sr. a lawyer and the First Martyr of Nueva Ecija who was executed by the Spanish authorities on Sept. 26, 1896 in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija. He fought in the Philippine Revolution against Spain and was exiled to Hong Kong with Aguinaldo and other revolutionaries in accordance with the Treaty of Biak Na Bato. He also fought in the Philippine–American War and was one of the last to surrender together with Gen. Manuel Tinio, after the capture of Aguinaldo. He was wounded twice in battle.
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Gregorio Perfecto
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- politicianjudgejournalist
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Gregorio Milián Perfecto was a Filipino journalist, politician and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1945 to 1949. A controversial figure who was described as an "apostle of liberal causes", Perfecto was notable for his libertarian views, his colorful writing style, and the frequency of his dissenting opinions while on the Supreme Court.
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Manuel Artigas
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- journalisthistorian
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Manuel Artigas y Cuerva was a Filipino journalist and historian who prolifically wrote in the Spanish language.
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Antonino P. Roman
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- politician
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Antonino Pascual Roman Jr. was a Filipino politician from Bataan. A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, he represented the 1st District of Bataan from 1998 until 2007, when his wife, Herminia Roman, took over the seat. Roman was an assemblyman from 1978 to 1986. He was also a Finance Deputy Minister under Finance Minister Cesar Virata, and Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) Secretary from 2010 to 2012 under President Benigno Aquino III.
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Florentino Torres
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- lawyer
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Florentino Torres y Santos was as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Prior to his appointment as an Associate Justice, he was the first Filipino to be appointed as attorney-general. He had also served as a prosecuting attorney, a prosecutor and as a judge.
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Justo Lukban
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- politician
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Justo Lukbán y Rilles was a Filipino physician and politician, Lukban was elected to the Philippine Assembly and was the 3rd Mayor of Manila from 1917 until 1920, he also served as the 3rd Vice Mayor of Manila from 1911 to 1915.
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Tomas Aréjola
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- politician
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Tomás Aréjola y Padilla was a Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat, political writer and a propagandist during the Spanish colonial period. A mason and a liberal, he openly campaigned for political reforms in the Philippines. But this was to pass and the Americans took over. During the Commonwealth period, Aréjola joined the Nacionalista Party becoming its first vice-president and twice in the elections of 1907 and 1911 was elected the Representative of Ambos Camarines.
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Francisco Tongio Liongson
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- politician
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Francisco Tongio Liongson was a Filipino medical doctor and politician.
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Pedro Tongio Liongson
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- lawyer
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Pedro Tongio Liongson was a member of the Malolos Congress which wrote the constitution of the First Philippine Republic in 1899 and served as First Director of Military Justice in the Republic's army during the Philippine–American War of 1899–1901. A trained lawyer and judge, Col. Liongson figured in and left his mark on a number of historic events in the Philippines.
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Bernardo P. Pardo
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- judge
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Bernardo Pardo was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and a Comelec Chairman. He was appointed by President Joseph Estrada.
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Crispin Oben
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- 1876-1947 (aged 71)
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- politician
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Crispín Oben y Ballesteros was a Filipino lawyer and politician born in Lumban, Laguna, Philippines.
