Antonio Luna y Novicio was a Filipino

Filipino people

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 pharmacist

Pharmacist

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 and general who fought in the Philippine-American War

Philippine-American War

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. He was also the founder of the Philippines

Philippines

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's first military academy.
Antonio Luna was born in Urbiztondo, Binondo, Manila

Manila

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. He was the youngest of seven children of Joaquín Luna, from Badoc, Ilocos Norte

Ilocos Norte

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, and Spanish mestiza

Filipino mestizo

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 Laureana Novicio, from Luna, La Union

Luna, La Union

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. His father was a traveling salesman of the products of government monopolies. His older brother, Juan

Juan Luna

Juan Luna y Novicio was an Ilocano Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century...

, was an accomplished painter who studied in the Madrid

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 Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.