The University of the Philippines

University of the Philippines

The ' is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No...

 has numerous notable alumni and faculty.

Arts and Humanities (including Mass Communication, Architecture and Tourism)

Asia Agcaoili Asia Agcaoili Asia Agcaoíli is a Filipino actress, model, sexy columnist of FHM Philippines and TV and radio host.- About Asia :Asia was born Junelyn Alexis Agcaoili on September 20, 1983 in Isabela, Philippines...	actress, radio and television host, model, men's magazine columnist
Fernando Amorsolo Fernando Amorsolo Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light...	visual artist and National Artist National Artist of the Philippines A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...
Hero Angeles Hero Angeles Hero Angeles is a Filipino actor. Hero Angeles bested four other contestants in the Grand Finals for the title "Grand Teen Questor" in the first season of ABS-CBN's popular reality star search in the Philippines, Star Circle Quest.- Career:After bagging the title as the first "Grand Teen Questor"...	actor, host, film director, artist
Angel Aquino	film and television actress
Santiago Bose Santiago Bose Santiago Bose was a mixed-media artist from the Philippines. Bose co-founded the Baguio Arts Guild, and was also an educator, community organizer and art theorist.-Overview:...	mixed media artist, founding member of the Baguio Arts Guild
Lino Brocka Lino Brocka Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....	film director and National Artist National Artist of the Philippines A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...
Benedicto Cabrera Benedicto Cabrera Benedicto Reyes Cabrera , better known as "BenCab", is a Filipino painter and was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts in 2006...  ("Bencab")	visual artist and National Artist National Artist of the Philippines A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts... ; founding member of the Baguio Arts Guild
Gilbert Luis Centina III Gilbert Luis Centina III Gilbert Luis Centina III is a poet and a member of the religious Order of St. Augustine. He is one of the leading voices in contemporary Catholic poetry following in the footsteps of another Augustinian, the sixteenth-century poet Fray Luis Ponce de León that literary critics have crowned as the...	poet and member of the Augustinian Order
Cristeta Comerford Cristeta Comerford Cristeta Pasia Comerford is a Filipino American has been the White House Executive Chef since 2005. She is the first woman to be selected for the post, and also the first of Filipino descent.-Early life:...	first female White House White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...  executive chef Chef A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...
Renato Constantino Renato Constantino Renato Constantino was an influential Filipino historian. He was a known leftist historian of the Philippines. He is the father-in-law of political commentator Randy David.-Works:*The Philippines: A Past Revisited...	historian and social critic
Wency Cornejo	singer/songwriter, TV host
Prudenciana Cruz Prudenciana Cruz Prudenciana Comiling Cruz is the sixteenth director of the National Library of the Philippines, having acceded to the position on December 7, 2001...	director of the National Library of the Philippines National Library of the Philippines The National Library of the Philippines is the official national library of the Philippines. The complex is located in Ermita on a portion of Rizal Park facing T.M. Kalaw Avenue, neighboring culturally significant buildings such as the Museum of Philippine Political History and the National...
Randy David Randy David Randolf "Randy" S. David is a Filipino journalist, television host and a sociologist. He currently pens a weekly newspaper column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer...	professor, sociologist, columnist, former TV public affairs show host
Nora Daza Nora Daza Nora Guanzon Villanueva-Daza, popularly known as Chef Nora Daza, is a veteran gourmet chef, restaurateur, socio-civic leader, television host, and cookbook author in the Philippines.-Early life:...	well-known restaurateur, chef, author and television personality
Randy Dellosa Randy Dellosa Randy Misael Sebastian Dellosa, popularly known as Doc Randy is a Filipino psychologist and psychiatrist.He is popularly known as the life coach-psychotherapist of Filipino celebrities and was the resident psychiatrist in the Pinoy Big Brother and Pinoy Dream Academy reality shows of ABS-CBN...	life coach, American-trained psychologist, psychiatrist, Europe-trained psychotherapist, Pinoy Big Brother/Pinoy Dream Academy/Kapamilya Deal or No Deal resident psychiatrist
Nick DeOcampo Nick Deocampo Nick Deocampo is a Filipino film producer, author and the director of the Center for New Cinema.-External links:**-References:...	film director
Eugene Domingo Eugene Domingo Eugene Domingo is a Filipina theater, movie and television actress. She is the only actress in the Philippine entertainment history to have participated in six films produced by eight different Filipino production companies...	TV, indie film, movie actress/comedienne
Gretchen Espina Gretchen Espina Gretchen Stephanie Mendiola Espina is a Filipino singer who rose to notability after winning Pinoy Idol, an interactive reality-based singing competition. Although she is credited as the first Pinoy Idol, Espina is technically the second winner of a Philippine Idol franchise, after Mau Marcelo of...	Pinoy Idol Pinoy Idol Pinoy Idol was a Philippine interactive reality-based singing competition created and developed by FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment which aired on GMA Network...  Season 1 winner
Radioactive Sago Project Radioactive Sago Project Radioactive Sago Project is a Filipino jazz rock band formed in 1999 in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The band's sound is a fusion of spoken-word poetry, bebop jazz, and punk...  members Rastem Eugenio, Francis De Veyra, EJ Delgado, Arwin Nava, Jay Gapasin, Goo Simpliciano and Pards Tupas
Eraserheads members Ely Buendia Ely Buendía Eleandre Basiño Buendia, popularly known as Ely Buendia, and also once adopting the stage name, Jesus "Dizzy" Ventura, is a Filipino writer and musician who gained fame as guitarist, songwriter, and lead vocalist in the popular Pinoy rock band The Eraserheads... , Raimund Marasigan Raimund Marasigan Raimund Emmanuel Parcon Marasigan, or simply known as Raimund Marasigan, is a ballad musician and record producer in the Philippines. Oftentimes, his first name is misspelled as Raymond, Raymund, Raimond and other variants. The breadth of his projects has made him one of the most well-respected... , Marcus Adoro Marcus Adoro Marcus Antonius Corpuz Adoro is the former lead guitarist of the Eraserheads, one of the most popular bands in the Philippines during the 90's alternative rock explosion....  and Buddy Zabala Buddy Zabala Hector "Buddy" Avanceña Zabala is the bassist of Filipino new wave band The Dawn, indie band Cambio, and widely known as the bassist of the now disbanded alternative rock band, The Eraserheads.-Eraserheads bassist :...
Aldred Gatchalian Aldred Gatchalian Aldred Marc Francisco Gatchalian is a Filipino actor and singer. He was known through the popular reality show franchise Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition and currently a member of ABS-CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents collectively known as Star Magic.-Personal life:Aldred is currently taking...	TV actor, singer, former Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition housemate
Pocholo Gonzales Pocholo Gonzales Pocholo THE VOICEMASTER Gonzales is a veteran in the art of Filipino voice acting. His voice was already used in a thousand characters in anime, hundreds of local commercials in radio and television, and various children's programs, films, foreign telenovelas, drama, and other TV shows.Apart from...	Voice Artist, Voice Director, The VoiceMaster, Youth Advocate, Motivational and Inspirational Speaker, Voice Director, Personal Branding and Marketing Expert
Pia Guanio Pia Guanio Liana Pia Coronado Guanio-Mago, better known as Pia Guanio, is a Filipino television presenter. She is currently a one of the hosts of Eat Bulaga and is head anchor for the entertainment program Showbiz Central. She is also the showbiz segment anchor for the GMA Network primetime newscast 24...	TV host and actress
Terence Guillermo Terence Guillermo Terence Guillermo, Kids Performing's Director of Vocal and Musical Theatre, headed the maiden production of Kids Performing Repertory Theatre , NARNIA, THE MUSICAL: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Producer – Director in 2009. is Singapore's premiere performing arts school...	theater director, vocal teacher and choirmaster, singer
Agot Isidro Agot Isidro Agot Isidro is a recording artist, actress, host, and TV personality in the Philippines.Born as Maria Margarita Amada Fteha Isidro, she is the fourth of the six children of Edwarta Fteha and Jose Isidro. She graduated from the University of the Philippines, Diliman with a Bachelor's Degree in...	singer, TV host and actress
Kamikazee Kamikazee Kamikazee is a Filipino rock band formed in 2000. The band is composed of Jay Contreras, Jomal Linao, Led Tuyay, Puto Astete and Bords Burdeos.- History :...  members Jomal Linao, Led Tuyay, Jayson Astete, and Allan Burdeos
Joel Lamangan Joel Lamangan Joel Lamangan is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur dramatic filmmaker. His award-winning films includes Sidhi, Deathrow, Hubog, Aishte Imasu 1941, Blue Moon and Mano Po.On August 19, 2008, Lamangan directed his first indie movie...	TV and film director
Cholo Laurel Cholo Laurel Rafael Manuel Hidalgo Laurel is a Filipino filmmaker, best known for writing and dircecting the Star Cinema Classic Nasaan Ka Man....	film director
Maricel Laxa Maricel Laxa Maricel Laxa is a Filipino comedian and actress. She performed in the 1992 movie "Iisa Pa Lamang" for which she won Best Supporting Actress awards in both the 1992 FAMAS Awards and 1992 Star Awards.She graduated with a degree of B.S...	TV actress and host
Anna Theresa Licaros Anna Theresa Licaros Anna Theresa Licaros , nicknamed Tere, is the Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 2007 titleholder.-Early life:Licaros was raised in Cainta, Rizal but traces her roots to Cuenca, Batangas...	Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2007; BA Broadcast Communication, summa cum laude; lawyer
Mark Meily Mark Meily Mark A. Meily is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines. He is presently teaching at the Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center in Antipolo City, Philippines.-Early life:...	film and TV director
Jose "Pitoy" Moreno	fashion designer and "Asia's fashion czar"
Maningning Miclat Maningning Miclat Maningning Miclat was a Chinese-born poet and painter of Filipino descent, who lived in the Philippines from 1986. She was known for her Chinese bamboo Zen paintings and poetry in three languages: Filipino, Mandarin and English.-Biography:Miclat was born in Beijing, China to Filipino parents...	visual artist and poet
Solita Monsod Solita Monsod Solita Collas-Monsod, popularly known as Mareng Winnie, is a Filipino broadcaster, host, economist, professor, and writer.Professor Monsod is best remembered for her role as Socio-economic Planning Secretary during the term of President Corazon Aquino and as a co-host in the GMA Network show Debate...	TV host, newspaper columnist, Professor of Economics, former Economic Planning secretary
Sitti Navarro Sitti Navarro Sitti Katrina Navarro , also known as Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova singer. After releasing her first album, Café Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed. Navarro is also featured in the segment "A.S.A.P. Sessionistas" of the variety show ASAP...	bossa nova artist, TV host
Grace Nono Grace Nono Grace Nono is a Filipino singer, known for her musical style based on traditional Filipino rhythms.Nono was born in in Agusan, Mindanao. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Humanities and a Master's degree in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines.Nono released her debut album "Tao...	musician
Ces Oreña-Drilon	broadcast journalist and anchor (ABS-CBN)
Paula Peralejo Paula Peralejo Paula Peralejo is the stage name of Maria Elena Paula Peralejo, a Filipina actress born on the 29th June 1984. She is the sister of Filipina actress Rica Peralejo....	TV and film actress, magna cum laude
Maki Pulido Maki Pulido Maki Pulido is one of two journalists on Reporters Notebook, a current affairs programme on the Philippines terrestrial television channel GMA.-Personal life:...	broadcast journalist and host (GMA-7)
Frances Rivera Frances Rivera Frances Rivera is a Filipino-American journalist and television news anchor. For ten years, until August 2011, she had been a television reporter and anchor for Boston's NBC affiliate WHDH. As of August 2011, she is a Morning News anchor for WPIX in New York City.- Early life and career :Rivera...	U.S. based Emmy award-winning TV journalist
Eddie Romero Eddie Romero Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003....	film director and National Artist National Artist of the Philippines A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...
Ninotchka Rosca Ninotchka Rosca Ninotchka Rosca is a Filipina feminist, author, journalist and human rights activist who is active in AF3IRM , the Mariposa Center for Change , Sisterhood is Global and the initiating committee of the MARIPOSA ALLIANCE , a multi-racial, multi-ethnic women's activist center for understanding the...	novelist
Lucio San Pedro	musician, professor of music and National Artist National Artist of the Philippines A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...
Pura Santillan-Castrence Pura Santillan-Castrence Pura Santillan-Castrence was a Filipino writer and diplomat. Of Filipino women writers, she was among the first to gain prominence writing in the English language. She was named a Chevalier de Légion d'honneur by the French government.-Early life:She was born in Manila in March 1905...	writer, essayist and diplomat
Bernadette Sembrano Bernadette Sembrano Bernadette Lorraine Palisada Sembrano Aguinaldo also known as Bernadette Sembrano or Ate B is a popular reporter, newscaster and television host in the Philippines...	broadcast journalist, anchor and host (ABS-CBN)
Jose Maria Sison José María Sison Jose Maria Sison is a writer and activist who reorganized the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy....	Professor of Literature and Social Sciences, poet, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines Communist Party of the Philippines The Communist Party of the Philippines is a leading communist party in the Philippines. It remains an underground political organization since its founding on December 26, 1968 and has been operating in clandestine manner since its founding...
Jessica Soho Jessica Soho Jessica Soho is Filipino broadcast journalist, documentarian and news director who received a George Foster Peabody Award and was the first Filipino to win the British Fleet Journalism Award in 1998.She has reported for the GMA network for over 15 years...	broadcast journalist and host (GMA-7, QTV-11)
Auraeus Solito Auraeus Solito Auraeus Solito is a filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of Shaman-Kings from the Palawan tribe but is one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan...	film director
Shamcey Supsup Shamcey Supsup Shamcey Gurrea Supsup is a Filipino beauty titleholder who represented the Philippines in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant, in which she was declared third runner-up...	Miss Universe Miss Universe Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....  2011 3rd Runner-Up; BS Architecture magna cum laude
Kidlat Tahimik Kidlat Tahimik Eric de Guia , better known as Kidlat Tahimik , is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinema movement through their critiques of neocolonialism.One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various...  (formerly Eric de Guia)	film director
Mel Tiangco Mel Tiangco Carmela Tiangco-Cornejo popularly known as Mel Tiangco is a popular television newscaster and television host in the Philippines....	broadcast journalist, anchor and host (GMA-7), GMA Kapuso Foundation chair
Dong Abay Dong Abay Westdon Martin Abay , popularly known as Dong Abay, is a poet and a Pinoy rock musician. He was the founding member, songwriter and lead vocalist of the bands Yano, Pan, and dongabay, which are now all defunct...	Former Yano Yano Yano is a folk/punk rock band in the Philippines formed in 1993. The band members were originally composed of vocalist Dong Abay and Eric Gancio on guitar. Onie Badiang later joined them as bassist; Nowie Favila was the usual drummer but declined to join the group due to commitments with Ang...  band member, musician
Jessica Zafra Jessica Zafra Jessica Zafra is a fiction writer, columnist, editor, publisher and former television and radio show host. She is known for her sharp and witty writing style...	writer, columnist (Philippine Star)
Arnold Zamora	composer and resident arranger of the Philippine Madrigal Singers
Louie Tabing	multi-awarded rural broadcaster, radio anchor (DZMM)
Atom Araullo Atom Araullo Alfonso Tomas Pagaduan Araullo , better known as Atom Araullo, is a news reporter of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs shows like Umagang Kay Ganda, TV Patrol World and Bandila...	TV news broadcaster, TV host
Kim Atienza	broadcaster, TV host, weatherman (ABS-CBN)
Lloyd Navera	documentary producer and voice talent (GMA)

Business, Economics and Finance

Name	Importance
Felipe L. Gozon	chairman and CEO of GMA Network, Inc. GMA Network, Inc. Global Media Arts Network Inc. is a multimedia entertainment conglomerate, incorporated on March 1, 1950 in the Philippines. Its main businesses are into television and radio distribution, program production, and other media related industry...
Roger Lee Mendoza Roger Lee Mendoza Roger Lee Mendoza, economist and economics scholar, has contributed to the study of health economics, and the development and implementation of privatization policies and strategies in the United States.He obtained his Ph.D...	economist and economics professor
Mercedita S. Nolledo Mercedita S. Nolledo Mercedita S. Nolledo, born 1941 in the Philippines, has served as Director of the conglomerate Ayala Corporation since 2004. She is also Senior Counsel, Senior Managing Director and Corporate Secretary of Ayala and served as General Counsel of the Ayala group of companies until February 1,...	senior managing director of Ayala Corporation, director of B.P.I., and director of Philippine Tuberculosis Society
Manuel Villar	former Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, and current Senator of the Philippines
Loida Nicolas-Lewis Loida Nicolas-Lewis Loida Nicolas Lewis is a Filipino-born, New York-based industrialist, philanthropist, civic leader, motivational speaker, author, and lawyer.- Business interests :...	chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc.
Gil Puyat Gil Puyat Gil J. Puyat was a Filipino businessman and politician who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1951, and as Senate President from 1967 to 1972.-Education:...	First Asian Vice-President Rotary International Rotary International Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help... , Former Dean U.P. College of Business 1940-41, Former Senate President of the Philippines 1968-1972

Engineering, Sciences, Medicine and the Allied Medical Professions

Name	Importance
Adelina Barrion Adelina Barrion Adelina Adato Barrion was a Filipino entomologist and geneticist whose extensive contribution to the study of Philippine spiders earned her the moniker "Asia's Spider Woman," although she also contributed significantly to the study of other species, and to the study of genetics in general., She...	Biologist, Entomologist, and Geneticist whose extensive work on Philippine Spiders led her to be dubbed "Asia's Spider Woman"
Paulo Campos Paulo Campos Paulo C. Campos was a Filipino physician and educator noted for his promotion of wider community health care and his achievements in the field of nuclear medicine for which he was dubbed as "The Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines"...	physician dubbed as Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines, National Scientist National Scientist of the Philippines The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National...
Edwin Copeland Edwin Copeland Edwin Bingham Copeland was an American botanist and agriculturist. In 1909, he founded the Philippines College of Agriculture at Los Baños, Laguna—what is now known as the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, and served as its dean and also as a professor of plant physiology for eight...	founder and first dean, U.P. Agricultural College (now U.P. Los Baños)
Conrado Dayrit Conrado Dayrit Conrado Singian Dayrit was a Filipino doctor and scientist known for his advocacy of coconut oil for which he was dubbed "Dr. Coconut" and "Father of VCO"...	cardiologist, co-founder of the Philippine Heart Association, "Father of virgin coconut oil"
Fe del Mundo Fe del Mundo Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines...	pediatrician, first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.... , National Scientist National Scientist of the Philippines The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National... , founder of the 1st pediatric hospital in the Philippines
Juan Flavier Juan Flavier Juan Martin Flavier is a former politician from the Philippines. He was a former Secretary of the Department of Health and a senator. He was born in Tondo, Manila eventually moving to Baguio City where he finished his secondary studies at the Baguio City High School...	medical doctor, former Secretary of Health and Philippine senator
Mikaela Fudolig Mikaela Fudolig Mikaela Irene Fudolig is a Filipina who graduated at 16 years old as a summa cum laude in B.S. Physics with a general weighted average of 1.099 from the University of the Philippines, Diliman and an instructor at the National Institute of Physics at the same university...	former child prodigy Child prodigy A child prodigy is someone who, at an early age, masters one or more skills far beyond his or her level of maturity. One criterion for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 18 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding... , current U.P. professor
Delfin Ganapin, Jr. Delfin Ganapin, Jr. Delfin Ganapin Jr. is currently working for the United Nations in the GEF . He holds the position Global Manager. He currently heads over 8,000 community projects globally. He guides these projects in over a hundred countries.- Career :...	former Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary and now head of the UNDP Small Grants Program-Environment in New York
Alfredo Juinio Alfredo Juinio Alfredo Lazarte Juinio was a civil engineer, educator, and public official of the Philippines. He served as the dean of the College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines. Alfredo Juinio Hall, the building that houses the National Engineering Center, is named after him...	civil engineer, Dean of the UP College of Engineering, former Minister of Public Works and Highways and Administrator of the National Irrigation Administration
Roman Kintanar Roman Kintanar Roman Lucero Kintanar, Ph.D., was a scientist in the field of meteorology.-Biography:Kintanar was born in Cebu City, Philippines. Kintanar received his Bachelor of Science in Physics at the University of the Philippines in 1951 before earning a Ph.D...	meteorologist
Alejandro Melchor Alejandro Melchor Alejandro Melchor was a Filipino civil engineer, mathematician, educator, and member of the Cabinet of the Philippines. A native of Ibajay, Aklan, Melchor was also known for his work on pontoon bridges during the Second World War....	civil engineer, mathematician, and former Secretary of National Defense
Baldomero Olivera Baldomero Olivera Baldomero Olivera is a Filipino American chemist known for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience. These molecules, called conotoxins led to a breakthrough in the study of ion channels and neuro-muscular synapses....	2007 Harvard Foundation Scientist of the Year, biochemist
Jose R. Velasco Jose R. Velasco Jose R. Velasco was a Filipino plant physiologist and agricultural chemist noted for his research on soil and plant nutrition and on coconut diseases. In 1998, he was recognized as a National Scientist of the Philippines....	agricultural physiologist and chemist, National Scientist National Scientist of the Philippines The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National...

Politics, Law and Governance

• Jose Abad Santos
  José Abad Santos
  In 1919, Abad Santos would become instrumental in laying the legal groundwork as well as drafting the by-laws and constitution of the Philippine Women's University, the country's and Asia's first private non-sectarian institution for higher learning for women...
  
   - former Supreme Court of the Philippines
  Supreme Court of the Philippines
  The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the Philippines' highest judicial court, as well as the court of last resort. The court consists of 14 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice...
  
   chief justice, World War II martyr
• Delia Albert
  Delia Albert
  Delia Domingo Albert is a career diplomat and was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines from December 22, 2003 until August 18, 2004.-Career:...
  
   - former Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs
• Leandro Alejandro
  Leandro Alejandro
  Leandro Legara Alejandro , known among activists and street parliamentarians as Lean, was an activist, a student leader, and a Left-wing nationalist in the mold of Lorenzo Tañada, Jose Diokno, and Ninoy Aquino....
  
   - student council leader, activist
• Edgardo J. Angara - Philippine senator, and former Senate president and University of the Philippines president
• Juan Edgardo Angara
  Juan Edgardo Angara
  Juan Edgardo M. Angara , most widely known as Sonny Angara, is a Filipino politician and lawyer. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2004, representing the Lone District of Aurora, re-elected to a second term in 2007, and a third term in 2010...
  
   - member of Philippine House of Representatives
• Bellaflor Angara-Castillo
  Bellaflor Angara-Castillo
  Bellaflor J. Angara-Castillo is the incumbent Governor of the Philippine Province of Aurora. She was elected governor in 2004 and reelected in 2007 and 2010. She is Aurora's third woman governor. She was the first and so far the only woman in Philippine history to become House Majority Floor...
  
   - Governor of Aurora and former member of Philippine House of Representatives and former Majority Floor Leader
• Benigno Aquino, Jr.
  Benigno Aquino, Jr.
  Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. was a Filipino Senator and a former Governor of Tarlac. Aquino, together with Gerry Roxas and Jovito Salonga, formed the leadership of the opposition to the Marcos regime in the years leading to the imposition of martial law in the Philippines...
  
   - former Philippine senator, columnist, martyr
• Ramon Aquino
  Ramon Aquino
  Ramon C. Aquino was the 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.He was appointed on November 20, 1985, the last Chief Justice appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos.-Personal life:...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Joker Arroyo
  Joker Arroyo
  Joker Paz Arroyo is a Filipino lawyer, politician and Senator of the Republic of the Philippines. He has no direct relation with former Presidential spouse Jose Miguel Arroyo.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Philippine senator
• Ma. Alicia Austria-Martinez - Supreme Court associate justice
• Robert Barbers
  Robert Barbers
  Robert Zabala Barbers was a police officer, Secretary of Interior and Local Government and Senator of the Philippines.-Early life and studies:...
  
   - former Philippine senator
• Herbert Bautista
  Herbert Bautista
  Herbert Constantine Maclang Bautista is a Filipino actor and politician. He is the mayor of the same city winning by a landslide in May 2010. He won a landslide in his 2007 vice-mayoral reelection bid...
  
   - Quezon City
  Quezon City
  Quezon City is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L...
  
   mayor, movie and TV actor
• Cesar Bengzon
  Cesar Bengzon
  César Bengzon was the Chief Justice of the Philippines from April 28, 1961 until May 29, 1966. In November 1966, a few months after his retirement, he became the first Filipino to be appointed to the International Court of Justice.-Judicial career:Bengzon earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Jejomar Binay
  Jejomar Binay
  Jejomar "Jojo" Cabauatan Binay, Sr. , also known as Jojo Binay or VPNay, is a Filipino politician who has been the 15th Vice President of the Philippines since 2010. Previously, he was Mayor of Makati City from 1986 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2010...
  
   - Makati City
  Makati City
  The City of Makati is one of the 17 cities that make up Metro Manila, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines and one of the major financial, commercial and economic hubs in Asia...
  
   mayor, human rights lawyer, current Vice President of the Philippines
  Vice President of the Philippines
  -Description:The Vice-President is the first in the Philippine line of succession, assuming the Presidency upon the death, resignation, or removal by impeachment and subsequent conviction of the incumbent. The position was abolished by Martial Law in 1972, and was not included in the original text...
  
  
• Antonio Carpio
  Antonio Carpio
  Antonio T. Carpio is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and assumed office on October 26, 2001, his 52nd birthday.- Profile :...
  
   - Supreme Court associate justice
• Fred Ruiz Castro
  Fred Ruiz Castro
  Fred Ruiz Castro was the Chief Justice of the Philippines from January 5, 1976 until his death on April 19, 1979 while on an official trip to India.-Personal life:...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Alan Peter Cayetano
  Alan Peter Cayetano
  Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano is a senator from the Philippines.He was the congressional representative from the district of Taguig-Pateros for 9 years. He had a seven-point program for his Taguig-Pateros constituency in Metro Manila. He ran for senator on the May 14, 2007 Philippine elections under...
  
   - Philippine senator, former Philippine House of Representatives member
• Pia Cayetano - Philippine senator
• Rene Cayetano
  Rene Cayetano
  Rene "Compañero" Cayetano was a Filipino lawyer, television presenter, journalist, politician, and former Senator.-Early life:Cayetano was born Renato Luna Cayetano on December 12, 1934 in Pangasinan, Philippines...
  
   - Philippine senator
• Edgardo Chatto - lawyer, Philippine House of Representatives member, Governor of Bohol
  Bohol
  Bohol is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of Bohol Island and 75 minor surrounding islands. Its capital is Tagbilaran City. With a land area of and a coastline long, Bohol is the tenth largest island of the Philippines...
  
  
• Minita Chico-Nazario
  Minita Chico-Nazario
  Minita Chico-Nazario is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on February 10, 2004.-Profile:...
  
   - Supreme Court associate justice
• Cesar Climaco
  Cesar Climaco
  Cesar Cortez Climaco was a Filipino politician who served as mayor of Zamboanga City for 11 years. A prominent critic of the martial law regime of Ferdinand Marcos, he was famed for his toughness in governance and colorful personality. He is also famous for his refusal to cut his hair until...
  
   - Zamboanga City
  Zamboanga City
  The City of Zamboanga : is a highly urbanized, independent and a chartered city located in Mindanao, Philippines....
  
   mayor
• Nikki Coseteng
  Nikki Coseteng
  Anna Dominique "Nikki" Marquez-Lim Coseteng is a Filipina politician who has served in the 8th Congress of the Philippines and the Senate of the Philippines.-Early life:...
  
   - former Philippine senator and Philippine House of Representatives member
• Hilario Davide, Jr.
  Hilario Davide, Jr.
  Hilario Gelbolingo Davide, Jr, GCSS is a former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York City....
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Teresita de Castro
  Teresita de Castro
  Teresita Jose Leonardo-de Castro is an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court. Prior to her appointment to the High Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, she had been the Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan.-Profile:...
  
   - Sandiganbayan
  Sandiganbayan
  The Sandiganbayan is a special court in the Philippines which was established under Presidential Decree No. 1606. Its rank is equivalent to the Court of Appeals. The court consists of 14 Associate Justices and 1 Presiding Justice...
  
   presiding justice
• Arthur Defensor, Sr.
  Arthur Defensor, Sr.
  Arthur Defensor, Sr. is a Filipino politician that is currently serving as Governor of Iloilo after being elected in 2010. He also served as Representative of the 3rd District of Iloilo from 2001 to 2010. He is a member of Lakas-Kampi-CMD. He is married to Cosette Defensor.-References:* *...
  
   - Philippine House of Representatives member, Governor of Iloilo
  Iloilo
  Iloilo is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Iloilo occupies the southeast portion of Panay Island and is bordered by Antique Province to the west and Capiz Province and the Jintotolo Channel to the north. Just off Iloilo's southeast coast is Guimaras Province,...
  
  
• Michael Defensor - former Philippine House of Representatives member and Presidential Chief of Staff
• Miriam Defensor-Santiago
  Miriam Defensor-Santiago
  Miriam Defensor Santiago is a Senator of the Philippines. She is a lawyer, former trial judge and professor of constitutional and international law. She served as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation in 1988 and the Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform from 1989...
  
   - Philippine senator
• Franklin Drilon
  Franklin Drilon
  Franklin Magtunao Drilon is a Filipino politician who served as President of the Senate of the Philippines in 2000 and from 2001 to 2006. Drilon currently serves his third term in the Senate...
  
   - Philippine senator
• Emilio Ramon Ejercito - actor, Mayor of Pagsanjan
  Pagsanjan, Laguna
  Pagsanjan is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 35,944 people in 7,274 households. It is situated about 92 kilometers south of Manila. The main tourist spot of Pagsanjan is the Pagsanjan Falls or...
  
  , Laguna, Governor of Laguna
• Juan Ponce Enrile
  Juan Ponce Enrile
  Juan Ponce Enrile is a Filipino politician. As a protege of President Ferdinand Marcos, he served as Justice Secretary and then Defense Secretary under the Marcos regime. He later became one of the leaders of the 1986 People Power Movement that drove Marcos from power...
  
   - Philippine senator and Senate president
• Francis Escudero
  Francis Escudero
  Francis Joseph "Chiz" Guevara Escudero is a Filipino politician who has been a member of the Philippine Senate since 2007...
  
   - Philippine senator, former Philippine House of Representatives member
• Jinggoy Estrada
  Jinggoy Estrada
  Jose Pimentel Ejercito, Jr. , better known as Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, is a Filipino politician and former film actor who has been a member of the Senate of the Philippines since 2004...
  
   - Philippine senator, former San Juan City mayor
• Marcelo Fernan
  Marcelo Fernan
  Marcelo "Celing" Briones Fernán was a Filipino lawyer and political figure. He is the only Filipino to have served as both Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and as Senate president...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice, Philippine senator and Senate president
• Enrique Fernando
  Enrique Fernando
  Enrique M. Fernando was the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. A noted constitutionalist and law professor, he served in the Supreme Court for 18 years, including 6 years as Chief Justice....
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Cancio Garcia
  Cancio Garcia
  Cancio C. Garcia is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the Court on October 6, 2004 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and retired on October 19, 2007.- Profile :...
  
   - former Supreme Court associate justice
• Richard Gordon
  Richard Gordon (politician)
  Richard "Dick" Juico Gordon is a Filipino politician and broadcaster who currently serves as the chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross....
  
   - Senator, Cabinet Secretary, Founding Chair of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, Mayor of Olongapo
• Roseller Guiao
  Yeng Guiao
  Joseller "Yeng" Guiao is a Filipino professional basketball head coach for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the Philippine Basketball Association, and was also the head coach of the Philippine National Basketball Team. Guiao won four PBA titles since starting his head coaching job for Swift in...
  
   - current Vice Governor of Pampanga
  Pampanga
  Pampanga is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Pampanga is bordered by the provinces of Bataan and Zambales to the west, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija to the north, and Bulacan to the southeast...
  
   and head coach of the Red Bull Barako
  Red Bull Barako
  The Barako Bull Energy Boosters was a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association that is owned by the Photokina Marketing Corporation...
  
   team in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Magtanggol Gunigundo - Philippine House of Representatives member
• Eva Estrada Kalaw - Philippine senator
• Edcel C. Lagman - Philippine House of Representatives member
• Jose P. Laurel
  Jose P. Laurel
  José Paciano Laurel y García was the president of the Republic of the Philippines, a Japanese-sponsored administration during World War II, from 1943 to 1945...
  
   - former Philippine president and Supreme Court chief justice
• Jose Laurel Jr. - former Philippine House of Representatives speaker
• Salvador H. Laurel - former Philippine vice president
• Sotero Laurel
  Sotero Laurel
  Sotero Cosme "Teroy" Laurel II was a Filipino politician and educator who served as a Senator from 1986 until 1992, including a period as President pro tempore from 1990 until 1991. Laurel was the son of the former President of the Philippines José P. Laurel and the older brother of former Vice...
  
   - former Philippine senator
• Katrina Legarda
  Katrina Legarda
  Katrina Legarda is a prominent Filipino lawyer who specializes in family law, and is an advocate of the rights of women and children.-Education:...
  
   - lawyer
• Loren Legarda
  Loren Legarda
  Loren Legarda is a Filipino broadcast journalist, environmentalist, and politician of Visayan ancestry, notable as the only female to top two senatorial elections . During the 2004 Philippine general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as an Independent with Fernando Poe, Jr...
  
   - Philippine senator, broadcast journalist
• Cardozo M. Luna
  Cardozo M. Luna
  Lieutenant General Cardozo M. Luna is the former Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands. Luna was based in The Hague, the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice. He is a retired three-star general and the 35th Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the...
  
   - current Philippine Ambassador
  Ambassador
  An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
  
   to Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   and former AFP
  Armed Forces of the Philippines
  The Armed Forces of the Philippines is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force...
  
   Vice Chief of Staff
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga...
  
   - former Philippine president
• Querube Makalintal
  Querube Makalintal
  Querube C. Makalintal was the Chief Justice of the Philippines from Oct. 31, 1973 until December 22, 1975 and Speaker of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from June 12, 1978 to June 30, 1984.-Career:...
  
   - former Philippine House of Representatives speaker and Supreme Court chief justice
• Felix Makasiar
  Felix Makasiar
  Felix V. Makasiar was the 14th Chief Justice of the Philippines, serving in that capacity for four months in 1985. His 85-day stint as Chief Justice, abbreviated only because of the rule requiring mandatory retirement upon reaching the age of 70, was the second-shortest such tenure in Philippine...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Ferdinand Marcos
  Ferdinand Marcos
  Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
  
   - former Philippine president
• Liza Maza
  Liza Maza
  Liza Maza is a Filipino activist and development worker. She represents the Gabriela Women's Party in the 13th Congress of the Philippines....
  
   - Philippine House of Representatives member
• Nur Misuari
  Nur Misuari
  Nur Misuari is a moro politician and former leader of the Moro National Liberation Front. He completed his education through academic scholarships at the University of the Philippines and became a student activist...
  
   - former leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
• Conchita Morales - Supreme Court associate justice
• Andres Narvasa
  Andres Narvasa
  Andres dela Rosa Narvasa was the Chief Justice of the Philippines from December 1, 1991 to November 30, 1998.He served as Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for Constitutional Reform, a special agency tasked to look into potentially positive modifications in the Philippine Constitution, from...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Oscar Orbos
  Oscar Orbos
  Oscar M. Orbos, popularly known as Ka Oca, is a Philippine TV personality and host of GMA Network's Debate with Mare at Pare.Orbos was a former cabinet secretary, provincial governor, and vice presidential candidate...
  
   - lawyer, former Executive Secretary and Pangasinan
  Pangasinan
  Pangasinan is a province of the Republic of the Philippines. The provincial capital is Lingayen. Pangasinan is located on the west central and peripheral area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf, with the total land area being 5,368.82 square kilometers . According to the latest census,...
  
   governor, TV host
• Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
  Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
  Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was a Filipino jurist and the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines...
  
   - first female Supreme Court justice, president of the 1986 Constitutional Commission
• Rey Pagtakhan
  Rey Pagtakhan
  Rey D. Pagtakhan, PC is a Canadian physician, professor and politician. He was a cabinet minister in the governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, and served as a member of parliament from 1988 until his defeat in the 2004 election....
  
   - former Canadian cabinet minister of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of State (Science, Research and Development) & Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), Parliament member
• Francis Pangilinan - Philippine senator
• Ricardo Paras
  Ricardo Paras
  Ricardo Paras was the Chief Justice of the Philippines from April 2, 1951 until February 17, 1961.-Career:...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Emmanuel Pelaez
  Emmanuel Pelaez
  Emmanuel Neri Pelaez was a politician and Vice-President of the Philippines.-Early life and career:Pelaez was born in Medina, Misamis Oriental to Gregorio Pelaez, Sr. and Felipa Neri. He was fourth among eight children: Rosario, Concepcion, Gregorio Jr., Emmanuel, Jose Ma., Lourdes , Antonio, and...
  
   - former Philippine vice president
• Reynato Puno
  Reynato Puno
  Reynato Puno y Serrano was the 22nd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Appointed on December 8, 2006 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, he was the 22nd person to serve as Chief Justice...
  
   - current Supreme Court chief justice
• Gil J. Puyat - former Senate president and Philippine House of Representatives speaker, businessman
• Elpidio Quirino
  Elpidio Quirino
  Elpidio Rivera Quirino was a Filipino politician, and the sixth President of the Philippines.A lawyer by profession, Quirino entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur from 1919 to 1925. He was then elected as senator from 1925–1931...
  
   - former Philippine president
• Leonardo Quisumbing
  Leonardo Quisumbing
  Leonardo A. Quisumbing was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed by President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and retired as the most senior Associate Justice of the Court on his 70th birthday in 2009....
  
   - Supreme Court senior associate justice
• Fidel V. Ramos
  Fidel V. Ramos
  Fidel "Eddie" Valdez Ramos , popularly known as FVR, was the 12th President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. During his six years in office, Ramos was widely credited and admired by many for revitalizing and renewing international confidence in the Philippine economy.Prior to his election as...
  
   - former Philippine president
• Gilbert Remulla
  Gilbert Remulla
  Gilbert Cesar Remulla is a Filipino newscaster and politician.-Biography:Gilbert is the seventh and youngest child of former Governor Juanito Remulla and Ditas Catibayan Remulla...
  
   - former Philippine House of Represenatatives member and broadcast journalist
• Rufus Rodriguez
  Rufus Rodriguez
  Rufus B. Rodriguez is a Filipino politician. A member of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino party, and affiliated with the Genuine Opposition, he was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives, representing the Second District of Cagayan de Oro City beginning in 2007.A graduate of the De La...
  
   - Philippine House of Representatives member, lawyer
• Carlos P. Romulo
  Carlos P. Rómulo
  Carlos Peña Rómulo was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32...
  
   - Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, president of the United Nations General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly
  For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...
  
   1949-1950, chief delegate of the Philippines to the Far Eastern Commission
  Far Eastern Commission
  It was agreed at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers, and made public in communique issued at the end of the conference on December 27, 1945 that the Far Eastern Advisory Commission would become the Far Eastern Commission , it would be based in Washington, and would oversee the Allied...
  
   in Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
  , former chairman of the United Nations Security Council
  United Nations Security Council
  The United Nations Security Council is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of...
  
   and University of the Philippines
  University of the Philippines
  The ' is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No...
  
   president
• Manuel Roxas
  Manuel Roxas
  Manuel Acuña Roxas was the first president of the independent Third Republic of the Philippines and fifth president overall. He served as president from the granting of independence in 1946 until his abrupt death in 1948...
  
   - former Philippine president
• Gerardo Roxas
  Gerardo Roxas
  Gerardo Manuel Roxas y De Leon , better known as Gerry Roxas or Gerardo M. Roxas, was one of two children of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas...
  
   - former Philippine senator
• Jovito Salonga
  Jovito Salonga
  Jovito "Jovy" Reyes Salonga is a Filipino nationalist politician and lawyer, as well as a leading opposition leader during the Marcos regime from 1972, when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, until 1986, when Marcos was deposed as a result of a bloodless revolution...
  
   - former Senate president, statesman
• Abraham Sarmiento, Jr.
  Abraham Sarmiento, Jr.
  Abraham P. Sarmiento, Jr., also known as Ditto Sarmiento was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos...
  
   - martial law activist, EIC of the Philippine Collegian
• Jose Maria Sison
  José María Sison
  Jose Maria Sison is a writer and activist who reorganized the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy....
  
   - Communist Party of the Philippines
  Communist Party of the Philippines
  The Communist Party of the Philippines is a leading communist party in the Philippines. It remains an underground political organization since its founding on December 26, 1968 and has been operating in clandestine manner since its founding...
  
   founder
• Michael Somare
  Michael Somare
  Sir Michael Thomas Somare, GCL, GCMG, CH, CF, KStJ, MP was Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 2002 to 2011; he had previously been Prime Minister from independence in 1975 until 1980 and again from 1982 until 1985. Somare's first two terms were as a member of the Pangu Party, but he then...
  
   - Prime Minister, Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
  
  
• Lorenzo M. Tañada - four-time Philippine senator, nationalist and civil libertarian
• Gilberto Teodoro, Jr. - former Defense Secretary and member of the Philippine House of Representatives
• Arturo Tolentino
  Arturo Tolentino
  Arturo Modesto Tolentino was a prominent political figure in the Philippines who briefly held the position of vice president in 1986. He is more well known as the father of the Philippine “archipelagic doctrine” and expert on the Law of the Sea.-Early career:Arturo M. Tolentino was born in Manila...
  
   - former Senate president, former Vice President of the Philippines
• Ruben D. Torres
  Rubén D. Torres
  Rubén Deloso Torres is a politician in the Philippines. He goes by the nom de guerre "Kadre" which he was known as a leftist during martial law.-Life:...
  
   - former Labor and Executive secretary
• Antonio Trillanes IV
  Antonio Trillanes IV
  Antonio "Sonny" Fuentes Trillanes IV is a former Navy Lieutenant Senior Grade and concurrently serving as a senator of the Philippines since 2007....
  
   - Philippine senator, Oakwood Mutiny leader
• Presbitero Velasco, Jr.
  Presbitero Velasco, Jr.
  Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr. is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on March 31, 2006.- Profile :...
  
   - Supreme Court associate justice
• Manuel Villar - former Senate president, former Philippine House of Representatives speaker
• Wenceslao Q. Vinzons - lawyer, writer and World War II hero
• Pedro Yap
  Pedro Yap
  Pedro Yap was the Chief Justice of the Philippines in 1988. He briefly served for two and a half months from April 19, 1988 to June 30, 1988....
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice
• Consuelo Ynares-Santiago
  Consuelo Ynares-Santiago
  Consuelo Ynares-Santiago is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Court by President Joseph Estrada.-Profile:...
  
   - Supreme Court associate justice
• Jose Yulo
  Jose Yulo
  José Yulo was the Chief Justice of the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation and was Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives from 1939 until the World War II started in 1941.-Career:...
  
   - former Supreme Court chief justice and Justice secretary
• Juan Miguel Zubiri
  Juan Miguel Zubiri
  Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri is a Filipino politician who served as a Congressman representing the third district of Bukidnon for three consecutive terms, and was the Senate of the Philippines Majority Leader, replacing Senator Francis Pangilinan on November 17, 2008...
  
   - Philippine senator, former Philippine House of Representatives member

Social Sciences

Name	Importance
Encarnacion Alzona Encarnacion Alzona Encarnacion A. Alzona was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator and suffragette. The first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph.D., she was conferred in 1985 the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines....	first woman historian in the Philippines, National Scientist National Scientist of the Philippines The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National...
Lia Andrea Aquino Ramos	Binibining Pilipinas Binibining Pilipinas Binibining Pilipinas is the organization responsible for sponsoring the annual national beauty pageant which selects representatives of the Philippines to Miss Universe and Miss International, among others.-History:... -Miss Universe Miss Universe Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....  2006
Randy Dellosa Randy Dellosa Randy Misael Sebastian Dellosa, popularly known as Doc Randy is a Filipino psychologist and psychiatrist.He is popularly known as the life coach-psychotherapist of Filipino celebrities and was the resident psychiatrist in the Pinoy Big Brother and Pinoy Dream Academy reality shows of ABS-CBN...	life coach, American-trained psychologist, psychiatrist, Europe-trained psychotherapist, Pinoy Big Brother/Pinoy Dream Academy/Kapamilya Deal or No Deal resident psychiatrist
Virgilio Enriquez Virgilio Enriquez Virgilio G. Enriquez is known as the Father of Filipino Psychology "Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino", Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino, a field he established in 1975....	Father of Filipino Psychology, founder of 'Sikolohiyang Pilipino'
Gregorio F. Zaide Gregorio F. Zaide Gregorio F. Zaide was a Filipino historian and author. A multiawarded author, Zaide wrote 67 books and 500 articles on history...	historian	[]]

Sports

• Eric Altamirano
  Eric Altamirano
  Eric Altamirano is a former Filipino basketball player. He is currently the head coach of the National University Bulldogs.-Early career:...
  
   - basketball coach, former member of the UP Fighting Maroons basketball team
• Jun Bernardino
  Jun Bernardino
  Emilio "Jun" Bernardino, Jr. was the fifth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association . He was elected as commissioner of the league in the 1993 PBA season and retired in the 2002 PBA season...
  
   - former member of the U.P. Fighting Maroons basketball team, and commissioner of the NCAA
  National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines)
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is an athletics association of nine colleges and universities in the Philippines. Established in 1924, the NCAA is the oldest athletic association in the Philippines...
  
   and PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Marvin Cruz
  Marvin Cruz
  Marvin L. Cruz is a Filipino Professional basketball player of the Philippine Basketball Association. He last played for the Barako Bull Energy Boosters.-Player Profile:...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball player, player of the Burger King Whoppers in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Ryan Gregorio
  Ryan Gregorio
  Paul Ryan C. Gregorio is a Filipino professional basketball head coach of the Meralco Bolts in the Philippine Basketball Association. He began his PBA head coaching job with the Purefoods TJ Giants in 2002 on an acting capacity and won his first PBA Championship on the same year at the age of 29...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball player, current head coach of the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants basketball team in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Yeng Guiao
  Yeng Guiao
  Joseller "Yeng" Guiao is a Filipino professional basketball head coach for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the Philippine Basketball Association, and was also the head coach of the Philippine National Basketball Team. Guiao won four PBA titles since starting his head coaching job for Swift in...
  
   - current head coach of the Burger King Whoppers team in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  , Pampanga
  Pampanga
  Pampanga is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Pampanga is bordered by the provinces of Bataan and Zambales to the west, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija to the north, and Bulacan to the southeast...
  
   vice governor
• Jireh Ibañes
  Jireh Ibañes
  Jireh Ibañes is a Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association who currently plays for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters. He was drafted elventh overall by then-known Welcoat in 2006.- References :...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons, player of Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Joe Lipa
  Joe Lipa
  Jose "Joe" Lipa, Jr. is a Filipino basketball coach. Lipa coached his alma mater, the University of the Philippines, in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines men's basketball. He has also had a head coaching stint for the Ateneo Blue Eagles, and the Air21 Express of the...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball team player and commissioner of the UAAP
  University Athletics Association of the Philippines
  The University Athletic Association of the Philippines , established in 1938, is a sports association of eight universities in the Philippines. Each year, teams from these universities play in 15 sports.-History:In 1924, Dr...
  
  , former UP Fighting Maroons basketball team coach, commissioner of the NCAA
  National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines)
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is an athletics association of nine colleges and universities in the Philippines. Established in 1924, the NCAA is the oldest athletic association in the Philippines...
  
  
• Ronnie Magsanoc
  Ronnie Magsanoc
  Ronald "Ronnie" Magsanoc is a former Filipino professional basketball point guard. He was the former assistant coach of the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants and a color commentator for the television coverage of the Philippine Basketball Association...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball player, current assistant coach of the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants team in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Paolo Mendoza
  Paolo Mendoza
  Paolo Mendoza in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino professional basketball player. He last played in the Philippine Basketball Association for the Powerade Tigers. He was drafted by Sta...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball player, current player of the Sta. Lucia Realtors
  Sta. Lucia Realtors
  The Sta. Lucia Realtors was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association.The Universal Robina Corporation team is one of the founding members of the PBA. Formerly known as Great Taste and Presto-Tivoli Ice Cream, they have won a total of 6 championships. Sta...
  
   in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Benjie Paras
  Benjie Paras
  Venancio Johnson Paras, Jr. , better known as Benjie Paras, is a Filipino professional basketball player of the Philippine Basketball Association turned actor. He is the only PBA player to win both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors, in a single season...
  
   - TV actor, comedian and host, former member of the U.P. Fighting Maroons basketball team and the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Bo Perasol
  Bo Perasol
  Dolreich "Bo" Perasol is a Filipino professional basketball head coach of the Powerade Tigers in the Philippine Basketball Association.-About:Perasol is a former player and team captain for the UP Fighting Maroons in the UAAP from the year 1990-1995...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball player, former head coach of the Air21 Express
  Air21 Express
  The Barako Bull Energy is a Philippine Basketball Association team that began in 2002.Barako Bull is owned by Energy Food and Drinks Inc., a subsidiary of the Linaheim Corporate Services, owners of the defunct Laguna Lakers of the Metropolitan Basketball Association...
  
   basketball team, current assistant coach of the Coca-Cola Tigers
  Coca-Cola Tigers
  The Powerade Tigers is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 2002 when the then-San Miguel Corporation-owned Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines bought the RFM-owned Cosmos Bottling Corporation. In 2006, the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company under the Coca-Cola...
  
   in the PBA
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
  
• Bruce Quebral
  Bruce Quebral
  Bruce Angelo Quebral is a Filipino actor, commercial model, former reality show contestant who joined Pinoy Big Brother , and former varsity basketball player from Cainta, Rizal...
  
   - former UP Fighting Maroons basketball player, Pinoy Big Brother Season Two
  Pinoy Big Brother
  Pinoy Big Brother is the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother . It follows the same premise as its many foreign counterparts around the world: twelve Philippine residents are forced to live with each other inside a house for about 3 months or at least 100 days...
  
   housemate, TV actor

UP Diliman

• Lean Alejandro
  Leandro Alejandro
  Leandro Legara Alejandro , known among activists and street parliamentarians as Lean, was an activist, a student leader, and a Left-wing nationalist in the mold of Lorenzo Tañada, Jose Diokno, and Ninoy Aquino....
  
   -USC Chairperson
• Atom Araullo
  Atom Araullo
  Alfonso Tomas Pagaduan Araullo , better known as Atom Araullo, is a news reporter of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs shows like Umagang Kay Ganda, TV Patrol World and Bandila...
  
   -USC Councilor
• Jejomar Binay
  Jejomar Binay
  Jejomar "Jojo" Cabauatan Binay, Sr. , also known as Jojo Binay or VPNay, is a Filipino politician who has been the 15th Vice President of the Philippines since 2010. Previously, he was Mayor of Makati City from 1986 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2010...
  
   -USC Councilor
• Alan Peter Cayetano
  Alan Peter Cayetano
  Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano is a senator from the Philippines.He was the congressional representative from the district of Taguig-Pateros for 9 years. He had a seven-point program for his Taguig-Pateros constituency in Metro Manila. He ran for senator on the May 14, 2007 Philippine elections under...
  
   -USC Councilor
• Randy David
  Randy David
  Randolf "Randy" S. David is a Filipino journalist, television host and a sociologist. He currently pens a weekly newspaper column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
  
   -USC Vice Chairperson
• Michael Defensor -USC Vice Chairperson
• Miriam Defensor-Santiago
  Miriam Defensor-Santiago
  Miriam Defensor Santiago is a Senator of the Philippines. She is a lawyer, former trial judge and professor of constitutional and international law. She served as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation in 1988 and the Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform from 1989...
  
   -USC Vice Chairperson, Philippine Collegian Editor-in Chief
• Franklin Drilon
  Franklin Drilon
  Franklin Magtunao Drilon is a Filipino politician who served as President of the Senate of the Philippines in 2000 and from 2001 to 2006. Drilon currently serves his third term in the Senate...
  
   -USC Councilor
• Marcelo Fernan
  Marcelo Fernan
  Marcelo "Celing" Briones Fernán was a Filipino lawyer and political figure. He is the only Filipino to have served as both Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and as Senate president...
  
   -USC Chairperson
• Richard Gordon
  Richard Gordon (politician)
  Richard "Dick" Juico Gordon is a Filipino politician and broadcaster who currently serves as the chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross....
  
   -USC Councilor
• Eric de Guia (a.k.a. Kidlat Tahimik
  Kidlat Tahimik
  Eric de Guia , better known as Kidlat Tahimik , is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinema movement through their critiques of neocolonialism.One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various...
  
   ) -Student Union Chairperson
• Raymond Palatino
  Raymond Palatino
  Raymond Palatino is a Filipino activist and youth leader. He represents the Kabataan Party in the 14th Congress of the Philippines.Palatino became a member of the House of Representatives following the decision of the Philippine Supreme Court declaring the entitlement of Kabataan Party to a seat...
  
   -USC Chairperson, National Union of Students of the Philippines National President
• Francis Pangilinan -USC Chairperson
• Alfredo Pascual -USC Councilor
• Leonardo Quisumbing
  Leonardo Quisumbing
  Leonardo A. Quisumbing was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed by President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and retired as the most senior Associate Justice of the Court on his 70th birthday in 2009....
  
   -USC Chairperson
• Rafael Salas - USC Chairperson
• Wenceslao Vinzons
  Wenceslao Vinzons
  Wenceslao Quinito Vinzons was a Filipino politician and a leader of the armed resistance against the Japanese occupying forces during World War II...
  
   -USC Chairperson
• Francis Pangilinan - USC Chairperson
• Shahana E. Abdulwahid- USC Chairperson
• Rommel Romato- USC Chairperson

Notable Past and Present Faculty

• Vicente Abad Santos
  Vicente Abad Santos
  Vicente Abad Santos was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.-Profile:He was born in San Fernando, in Pampanga province of central Luzon...
  
   - former Supreme Court justice
• Nicanor Abelardo
  Nicanor Abelardo
  Nicanor Sta. Ana Abelardo was a Filipino composer who composed over a hundred of Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World War.-Life:...
  
   - renowned Filipino musician, composer of "U.P. Naming Mahal
  U.P. Naming Mahal
  U.P. Naming Mahal is the university hymn of the University of the Philippines. The melody for the song was written by Nicanor Abelardo, an alumnus and former faculty member of the U.P. College of Music. Abelardo is considered to be one of the Philippines' greatest musicians...
  
  " ("U.P. Beloved"), the University of the Philippines Hymn
• Jose Abueva
  José Abueva
  Dr. José Veloso Abueva is former president of the University of the Philippines. A Ten Outstanding Young Men awardee for political science in 1962, he has devoted much of his career in academic circles...
  
   - former University of the Philippines president
• Napoleon Abueva
  Napoleón Abueva
  Napoleón Isabelo Veloso-Abueva , more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture"...
  
   - sculptor and National Artist
  National Artist of the Philippines
  A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...
  
  
• Virgilio S. Almario
  Virgilio S. Almario
  Virgilio Senadren Almario, better known by his pen name, Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines....
  
   - National Artist
  National Artist of the Philippines
  A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...
  
  , former director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, and current UP College of Arts and Letters dean
• Walden Bello
  Walden Bello
  Walden Bello is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South...
  
   - sociologist
• Henry Otley Beyer - co-founder, UP Department of Anthropology
• Emilia Boncodin
  Emilia Boncodin
  Emilia Tabalanza Boncodin was a former secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management...
  
   - former Budget and Management secretary, Hyatt 10
  Hyatt 10
  The term "Hyatt 10" refers to a group of seven secretaries of the Cabinet and three heads of government agencies in the Philippines who resigned their posts on July 8, 2005 as a result of the Hello Garci scandal, which allegedly implicated then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in rigging the 2004...
  
   member
• Clarita Carlos
  Clarita Carlos
  Clarita Carlos is a respected political analyst and academician in the Philippines. She is currently President of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies Inc., and a full-time professor at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.-Education:...
  
   - political analyst, president of Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Inc., pioneer of political psychology
  Political psychology
  Political psychology is an interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding political science, politicians and political behavior. Psychological theories of behavior including; belief, motivation, conflict, perception, cognition, information processing, learning strategies, socialization...
  
   in the country
• Ryan Cayabyab
  Ryan Cayabyab
  Ryan Cayabyab is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts...
  
   - musician, artistic director of the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts
  San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts
  The San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts is a multi-awarded performing arts group of the Philippines. It was founded in May 2001 by Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco and musician Ryan Cayabyab and aims to be a staunch advocate in the preservation, performance, and development of Filipino...
  
  
• Irene Cortes
  Irene Cortes
  Irene R. Cortes was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and a respected law academician. She was also the first female dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law.-Professor and Dean:...
  
   - lawyer and former Supreme Court of the Philippines
  Supreme Court of the Philippines
  The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the Philippines' highest judicial court, as well as the court of last resort. The court consists of 14 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice...
  
   justice
• Adrian Cristobal
  Adrian Cristobal
  Adrian E. Cristobal was a Filipino writer who frequently touched on political and historical themes. Perhaps best known to the public for his "Breakfast Table" newspaper column, he was also a Palanca Award-winning playwright, fictionist and essayist. He likewise held several positions in...
  
   - writer, columnist
• Isagani R. Cruz
  Isagani R. Cruz
  -Education:Cruz earned his undergraduate degree from the University of the Philippines, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1965. He later enrolled at the Ateneo de Manila University to earn an M.A. in English Literature in 1970. He also earned a Ph.D. in English Literature...
  
   - literary critic and playwright
• Randy David
  Randy David
  Randolf "Randy" S. David is a Filipino journalist, television host and a sociologist. He currently pens a weekly newspaper column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
  
   - professor of sociology, newspaper columnist, former TV public affairs host
• Malou de Guzman
  Malou de Guzman
  Malou de Guzman is a Filipino actress.She started her career via Ober Da Bakod on GMA Network then transferred to ABS-CBN.- Filmography :-External links:...
  
   - film and TV actress, senior lecturer at the UP Film Institute
• Juan R. Francisco
  Juan R. Francisco
  Juan R. Francisco is a Filipino Indologist, who discovered the Maranao version of the Ramayana, that is native to the Philippines. He then translated it into English. He is also a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila....
  
   - indologist and professor
• N.V.M. Gonzalez - fictionist and National Artist
• Margarita Holmes
  Margie Holmes
  Margarita Go-Singco Holmes, popularly known as Dr. Margie Holmes, is a popular psychologist specializing in sex therapy in the Philippines.-Education:...
  
   - renowned psychologist and sex expert, TV personality
• Jun Lana
  Jun Lana
  Jun Lana , born as Rodolfo R. Lana, Jr., is a Filipino playwright and two-time FAMAS award-winning screenwriter. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006....
  
   - playwright, screenwriter and director
• Cheche Lazaro
  Cheche Lazaro
  Cheche Lazaro, , is an acclaimed Filipino broadcast journalist and the founding President of Probe Productions Inc.-Profile:...
  
   - broadcast journalist, founding president of Probe Productions, Inc.
• Salvador P. Lopez
  Salvador P. López
  Salvador Ponce Lopez, born in Currimao, Ilocos Norte, was an Ilokano writer, journalist, educator, diplomat, and statesman....
  
   - writer, journalist, diplomat, former University of the Philippines president
• Alexander Magno - political scientist, TV host, newspaper columnist
• Paz Marquez Benitez - fictionist
• Roger Lee Mendoza
  Roger Lee Mendoza
  Roger Lee Mendoza, economist and economics scholar, has contributed to the study of health economics, and the development and implementation of privatization policies and strategies in the United States.He obtained his Ph.D...
  
   - economist and professor
• Solita Monsod
  Solita Monsod
  Solita Collas-Monsod, popularly known as Mareng Winnie, is a Filipino broadcaster, host, economist, professor, and writer.Professor Monsod is best remembered for her role as Socio-economic Planning Secretary during the term of President Corazon Aquino and as a co-host in the GMA Network show Debate...
  
   - professor of economics, former Economic Planning secretary, newspaper columnist, broadcast journalist
• Ambeth R. Ocampo - historian, writer, Chairman National Historical Institute, TOYM History, decorated by Spain and France
• Cristina Padolina
  Cristina Padolina
  Maria Cristina Damasco-Padolina is the current and seventh President and Chief Academic Officer of Centro Escolar University in Manila, Philippines.-Career:...
  
   - professor of chemistry, current President of Centro Escolar University
  Centro Escolar University
  Centro Escolar University is a private university in the Philippines. It was founded on June 3, 1907 by two women, Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna, and was originally called Centro Escolar de Señoritas. It became a university in 1933...
  
  
• Raymundo Punongbayan
  Raymundo Punongbayan
  Dr. Raymundo Santiago Punongbayan was the former director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology . SHe served from 1983 to 2002. Punongbayan became popular after handling two well-known calamities, the July 16, 1990, Luzon earthquake and the 1991 Pinatubo eruption...
  
   - geologist, former Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
  Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
  The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide information on the activities of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as other specialized information and services primarily for the protection of life and property and in...
  
   (PHIVOLCS) director
• Henry J. Ramos
  Henry J. Ramos
  Dr. Henry Jacala Ramos is a Professor of Physics at the University of the Philippines Diliman and the first Filipino experimental plasma Physicist...
  
   - first Filipino plasma
  Plasma (physics)
  In physics and chemistry, plasma is a state of matter similar to gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. Heating a gas may ionize its molecules or atoms , thus turning it into a plasma, which contains charged particles: positive ions and negative electrons or ions...
  
   Physicist
  Physicist
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
  
  , Filipino
  Filipino people
  The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
  
   inventor
• Maria Ressa
  Maria Ressa
  Maria A. Ressa is a Filipino journalist, and author of Seeds of Terror, a book published by Free Press that contains blow-by-blow account of the hideouts of Al-Qaeda in Asia....
  
   - current ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs head
• Nicanor Reyes Sr.
  Nicanor Reyes Sr.
  Nicanor I. Reyes, Sr. Founder, 1st President of the Far Eastern University in the City of Manila. He envisioned a school that would promote the teaching of accounting to Filipinos, a profession formerly available only to foreigners...
  
   - economist, one of the founders of Far Eastern University
  Far Eastern University
  Far Eastern University in the University Belt area, West Sampaloc, City of Manila, is a nonsectarian, private university in the Philippines. Created by the merger of Far Eastern College and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, FEU became a university in 1934 under the guidance of...
  
  
• Temario Rivera
  Temario Rivera
  Temario C. Rivera was a former professor of political science at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City where he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1993-1998...
  
   - political scientist
• Carlos P. Romulo
  Carlos P. Rómulo
  Carlos Peña Rómulo was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32...
  
   - Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner, president of the United Nations General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly
  For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...
  
   1949-1950, former chairman of the United Nations Security Council
  United Nations Security Council
  The United Nations Security Council is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of...
  
   and University of the Philippines
  University of the Philippines
  The ' is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No...
  
   president
• Caesar Saloma
  Caesar Saloma
  Caesar A. Saloma is the Chancellor of University of the Philippines Diliman, the flagship campus of the University of the Philippines System, in Quezon City, Philippines and a professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics . He previously served as Dean of the College of Science from...
  
   - applied physicist, Dean of College of Science, recipient of 2004 International Commission for Optics
  International Commission for Optics
  The International Commission for Optics was created in 1947 with the objective to contribute to the progress and dissemination of knowledge in optics....
  
  -Galileo Award, 2008 ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award
  ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award
  The ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award is a triennial award that was established by the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology in the early 1990s...
  
  
• E. San Juan, Jr.
  E. San Juan, Jr.
  Epifanio San Juan, Jr., also known as E. San Juan, Jr. , is a known Filipino American literary academic, mentor, cultural reviewer, civic intellectual, activist, writer, essayist, video/film maker, editor, and poet whose works related to the Filipino Diaspora in English and Filipino languages have...
  
   - poet and cultural critic
• Bienvenido Santos
  Bienvenido Santos
  Bienvenido N. Santos was a Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines...
  
   - poet and fictionist
• Rogelio R. Sikat
  Rogelio R. Sikat
  Rogelio R. Sikat is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. He was born to Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez on June 26, 1940 in Alua, San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He is the sixth of eight children. Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the...
  
   - writer
• Cesar Virata
  Cesar Virata
  Cesar Enrique Aguinaldo Virata is a former Prime Minister of the Philippines from 1981-1986 under the Interim Batasang Pambansa and the Regular Batasang Pambansa. One of the Philippines' business leaders and leading technocrats, he served as Finance Minister from 1970 during the Marcos regime and...
  
   - former Philippines prime minister and Finance secretary, former dean and professor at the UP College of Business Administration
• Haydee Yorac
  Haydee Yorac
  Haydee Yorac was a Filipino public servant, law professor and politician.-Early life:Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in E. B. Magalona, Negros Occidental. She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1962...
  
   - professor of law, former Philippine Commission of Elections and chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) commissioner

The Metrobank Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT)

U.P. continues to dominate Metrobank

Metrobank

Metrobank can refer to:*Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company , a Philippine bank*MetroBank, the subsidiary of MetroCorp Bancshares, an American bank based in Houston, Texas* Metro Bank , a British retail bank established in 2010...

 Foundation's Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT) with over a score of winners, including: Milagros D. Ibe

Milagros D. Ibe

Milagros Dimal Ibe is a multi-awarded teacher-educator in mathematics education. Dr. Ibe devised numerous teacher training programs and research studies that led to the development of policies in basic and higher education in the Philippines...

 (1987), Priscelina Patajo-Legasto

Priscelina Patajo-Legasto

Priscelina Patajo-Legasto earned her B.A. English , M.A. Comparative Literature, and Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of English and Comparative Literature , , University of the Philippines...

 (1998) and Caesar Saloma

Caesar Saloma

Caesar A. Saloma is the Chancellor of University of the Philippines Diliman, the flagship campus of the University of the Philippines System, in Quezon City, Philippines and a professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics . He previously served as Dean of the College of Science from...

 (2007).

U.P. faculty members who are writers

• Gemino Abad
  Gémino Abad
  Gémino Henson Abad is a poet and critic from Cebu, Philippines. His family moved to Manila when his father, Antonio Abad, was offered professorships at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines. He earned his B.A. English from the University of the Philippines in 1964 and Ph.D....
  
  
• Reuel Aguila
• Alwyn Aguirre
• Virgilio Almario
• Mila Aguilar
• Merlie Alunan
• Mykel Andrada
• Carlos Ojeda Aureus
• Romulo Baquiran Jr.
• Joi Barrios
• Jose Wendell Capili
  José Wendell Capili
  is a writer and academic from the Philippines. He earned degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo , University of Cambridge and Australian National University...
  
  
• Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes
  Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes
  Lourdes Castrillo-Brillantes is a prominent Filipino female writer in the Spanish language.-Achievements:Brillantes is the author of 80 Años del Premio Zobel , a compilation of Spanish literature written by Filipinos...
  
  
• Conchitina Cruz
  Conchitina Cruz
  Conchitina R. Cruz is a Filipina poet who teaches creative writing and comparative literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.Formerly an INTARMED student, Cruz shifted to the University of the Philippines' Creative Writing program, from which she graduated magna cum laude and ...
  
  
• Rosario Cruz-Lucero
• Jun Cruz Reyes
• Jose Dalisay Jr.
• Leoncio Deriada
• Eugene Evasco
• Celeste Flores-Coscolluela
• Emil Flores
• Edel Garcellano
• Felino Garcia
• J. Neil Garcia
  J. Neil García
  J. Neil C. Garcia earned his A.B. Journalism, magna cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas in 1990; M.A. in Comparative Literature in 1995, and Ph.D. in English Studies: Creative Writing in 2003 from the University of the Philippines Diliman...
  
  
• Teresita Gimenez-Maceda
• Luis Katigbak
• Thelma Kintanar
• Angelo Lacuesta
• Domingo Landicho
• Edna May Landicho
• Amelia Lapena-Bonifacio
• Marra Pl. Lanot
• Bienvenido Lumbera
  Bienvenido Lumbera
  Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines.He is a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications...
  
  
• Francis Macansantos
• Paolo Manalo
  Paolo Manalo
  Paolo Manalo is a Filipino poet who teaches at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines. For a time he served as the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press....
  
  
• Sylvia Mendez-Ventura
• Timothy Montes
• Vim Nadera
• Jimmuel Naval
• Ambeth R. Ocampo
• Charlson Ong
• Elmer Ordoñez
• Carla Pacis
• Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
  Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
  Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo is an award-winning Filipina fictionist, critic and pioneering writer of creative nonfiction....
  
  
• Priscelina Patajo-Legasto
  Priscelina Patajo-Legasto
  Priscelina Patajo-Legasto earned her B.A. English , M.A. Comparative Literature, and Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of English and Comparative Literature , , University of the Philippines...
  
  
• Carlos Piocos
• Nonilon Queano
• Isabelita Reyes
• Luna Sicat-Cleto
• Victor Sugbo
• Priscilla Supnet-Macansantos
• Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin
  Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin
  Ligaya G. Tiamson-Rubin , is a multiple Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature recipient, and currently a professor of the University of the Philippines Diliman...
  
  
• Nicanor Tiongson
  Nicanor Tiongson
  Nicanor Tiongson is a leading critic, creative writer and academic from the Philippines. He holds a Bachelor of Humanities degree from the Ateneo de Manila University, and M.A. and Ph. D in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines...
  
  
• Roland Tolentino
• Ricardo de Ungria
• Rosario Torres-Yu
• Rene Villanueva
  Rene Villanueva
  Rene O. Villanueva was a Filipino playwright and author. He is famed for his deep involvement in theater and television and in children's literature, whether it be on television, in books or on stage.-Awards:...
  
  

National Artists from U.P.

Of the 66 National Artists of the Philippines thus far honored, majority are U.P. alumni, inclusive of three former students but did not earn their degree at the University. The honored league of National Artists from U.P. are:

• Architecture
  Architecture
  Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
  
  
  • Juan Nakpil
    Juan Nakpil
    Juan F. Nakpil was a Filipino architect, teacher and a community leader. In 1973, he was named one of the National Artists for architecture, and tapped as the Dean of Filipino Architects....
    
    
  • Ildefonso Santos
    Ildefonso Santos
    Ildefonso Paez Santos was a Filipino poet, sculptor, and writer.-Early life and writings:Santos was born on January 23, 1897, in Baritan, Malabon, Rizal. He showed his talent in poetry through a love letter for a secret lover. His cousin, Leonardo Diangson, read the letter, and it was later...
    
    

• Dance
  Dance
  Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
  
  
  • Francisca Reyes-Aquino
  • Ramon Obusan

• Film
  Film
  A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
  
  
  • Ishmael Bernal
    Ishmael Bernal
    Ishmael Bernal was an acclaimed Filipino film, stage and television director. He was also an actor and screenwriter...
    
    
  • Lino Brocka
    Lino Brocka
    Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....
    
    
  • Eddie Romero
    Eddie Romero
    Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003....
    
    

• Literature
  Literature
  Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
  
  
  • José García Villa
    José García Villa
    Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken...
    
    
  • Carlos P. Romulo
    Carlos P. Rómulo
    Carlos Peña Rómulo was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32...
    
    
  • Francisco Arcellana
    Francisco Arcellana
    Francisco "Franz" Arcellana was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 16, 1916. Arcellana already had ambitions of becoming a writer during his years in the elementary. His actual writing, however, started when he became a member of The Torres...
    
    
  • Virgilio S. Almario
    Virgilio S. Almario
    Virgilio Senadren Almario, better known by his pen name, Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines....
    
    
  • Edith Tiempo
  • Amado V. Hernandez
  • N.V.M. Gonzalez
  • F. Sionil José
    F. Sionil José
    F. Sionil José or in full Francisco Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society...
    
    
  • Bienvenido Lumbera
    Bienvenido Lumbera
    Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines.He is a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications...
    
    

• Music
  Music
  Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
  
  
  • Antonino Buenaventura
  • Felipe De Leon
    Felipe de León
    Felipe de León was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period active in Seville. He imitated the style of Murillo in painting devotional pictures, and in producing copies of the master. He died at Seville. He is presumed to be the brother of the painter Cristóbal de León.-References:...
    
    
  • Jovita Fuentes
  • Antonio Molina
    Antonio Molina (composer)
    Antonio J. Molina was a Filipino composer, conductor and music administrator who was named a National Artist of the Philippines for his services to music.Molina was born in Manila, the son of a government official...
    
    
  • Levi Celerio
    Levi Celerio
    Levi Celerio was a Filipino composer and lyricist who was born in Manila, Philippines. Celerio was a prolific song-writer, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is perhaps best-known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into the Guinness Book of World Records...
    
    
  • Lucio San Pedro
  • Andrea Veneración
    Andrea Veneracion
    Andrea Ofilada Veneracion , is a Filipino choral conductor and a recipient of the 1999 National Artist for Music award. She founded the Philippine Madrigal Singers in 1963...
    
    
  • Jose Maceda
    José Maceda
    José Maceda was a Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist.-Life:Maceda was born in Manila, the Philippines. He studied piano, composition and musical analysis at École Normale de Musique de Paris. After returning to his native country, he became a professional pianist...
    
    

• Theater
  • Severino Montano
    Severino Montano
    Severino Montano is considered as one of the Titans of Philippine Theater. He was a playwright, director, actor and theater organizer with an output of one novel, 150 poems and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime...
    
    
  • Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
    Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
    Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero was a Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist.He has written well over a hundred plays, 41 of which have been published...
    
    
  • Daisy Avellana
  • Rolando S. Tinio - Theater and Literature

• Visual Arts
  Visual arts
  The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
  
  
  • Napoleon Abueva
    Napoleón Abueva
    Napoleón Isabelo Veloso-Abueva , more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture"...
    
    
  • Fernando Amorsolo
    Fernando Amorsolo
    Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light...
    
    
  • Carlos Francisco
  • José Joya
    José T. Joya
    José T. Joya was a Filipino abstract artist and a National Artist of the Philippines awardee.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVenice José T...
    
    
  • Cesar Legaspi
    Cesar Legaspi
    Cesar Legaspi on April 2, 1917 in Tondo, Manila is a Filipino National Artist awardee in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. His early works, alongside those of peer, Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and...
    
    
  • Vicente Manansala
    Vicente Manansala
    Vicente Silva Manansala was a Philippine cubist painter and illustrator.Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada...
    
    
  • Guillermo Tolentino
  • Benedicto Cabrera
    Benedicto Cabrera
    Benedicto Reyes Cabrera , better known as "BenCab", is a Filipino painter and was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts in 2006...
    
    
  • Abdulmari Asia Imao

National Scientists from U.P.

Several U.P. alumni and faculty members have been named as National Scientists of the Philippines. The National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.

• Juan Salcedo Jr. (1978)
• Alfredo Santos (1978)
• Fe del Mundo
  Fe del Mundo
  Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines...
  
   (1980)
• Eduardo Quisumbing
  Eduardo Quisumbing
  Eduardo Quisumbíng y Argüelles was a leading authority of plants in the Philippines.-Education:He earned his BSA at University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1918, his MS at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1921, and Ph. D...
  
   (1980)
• Geminiano de Ocampo (1982)
• Casimito del Rosario (1982)
• Gregorio Velasquez (1982)
• Francisco Fronda (1983)
• Francisco Santos (1983)
• Carmen Velasquez (1983)
• Hilario Lara (1985)
• Teodoro Agoncillo
  Teodoro Agoncillo
  Teodoro Andal Agoncillo was a 20th-century Filipino historian. He and his contemporary Renato Constantino were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history...
  
   (1985)
• Encarnacion Alzona
  Encarnacion Alzona
  Encarnacion A. Alzona was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator and suffragette. The first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph.D., she was conferred in 1985 the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines....
  
   (1985)
• Julian Banzon (1986)
• Dioscoro Umali (1986)
• Luz Oliveros-Belardo (1987)
• Jose Encarnacion, Jr.
  Jose Encarnacion, Jr.
  José Encarnación, Jr. was professor of economics at the University of the Philippines, where he served as dean of the School of Economics from 1974 until his retirement in 1994. Encarnación was educated at the University of the Philippines and at Princeton University...
  
   (1987)
• Alfredo Lagmay (1988)
• Paulo Campos
  Paulo Campos
  Paulo C. Campos was a Filipino physician and educator noted for his promotion of wider community health care and his achievements in the field of nuclear medicine for which he was dubbed as "The Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines"...
  
   (1989)
• Pedro Escuro (1994)
• Clara Lim-Sylianco (1994)
• Jose Velasco
  Jose R. Velasco
  Jose R. Velasco was a Filipino plant physiologist and agricultural chemist noted for his research on soil and plant nutrition and on coconut diseases. In 1998, he was recognized as a National Scientist of the Philippines....
  
   (1998)
• Gelia Castillo (1999)
• Bienvenido Juliano (2000)
• Clare Baltazar (2001)
• Benito Vergara (2001)
• Onofre Corpuz (2004)
• Ricardo Lantican (2005)
• Lourdes Cruz (2006)
• Teodulo Topacio Jr. (2009)

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