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José Rizal

177 José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered a...

Maharlika

133 The maharlika were the feudal warrior class in ancient Tagalog society in Luzon, the Philippines. They belonged to the lower nobility class similar to the timawa of the Visayan people. In modern...

Manuel L. Quezon

85 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 until his death...

José Burgos

65 José Apolonio Burgos y García was a Filipino Catholic priest, accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the 19th century. He was tried and executed in Manila along...

Apolinario Mabini

63 Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as...

Andrés Bonifacio

60 Andrés Bonifacio was a Filipino revolutionary leader. He is often called "The Father of the Philippine Revolution", considered a national hero of the Philippines.

Saint Joseph

58 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Ramon Magsaysay

56 Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. was a Filipino politician and military officer who was the seventh president of the Philippines, serving from 1953 until his death in 1957. An automobile mechanic by...

Douglas MacArthur

48 Douglas MacArthur was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army. He served with distinction in World War I;...

Marcelo H. del Pilar

44 Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán, commonly known as Marcelo H. del Pilar and also known by his nom de plume Pláridel, was a Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason. Del Pilar, along...

Santo Niño de Cebú

42 The Señor Santo Niño de Cebú, or simply the Santo Niño, is a Catholic title of the Child Jesus associated with a religious image widely venerated as miraculous by Filipino Catholics. It is the oldest...

Elpidio Quirino

40 Elpidio Rivera Quirino was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 6th President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953.

Saint Roch

37 Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the...

Antonio Luna

37 Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino army general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, 1899, at the age of 32.

Jacinto Zamora

35 Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario was a Filipino Catholic priest, part of the Gomburza, a trio of priests who were falsely accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the...

Isidore the Laborer

33 Isidore the Laborer, born Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, also known as Isidore the Farmer, was a Mozarab farmworker who lived in medieval Madrid. Known for his piety toward the poor and animals, he is...

Manuel Roxas

32 Manuel Acuña Roxas was the fifth president of the Philippines, serving from 1946 until his death in 1948. He served briefly as the third and last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from...

Mariano Gomez (priest)

31 Mariano Gómes de los Ángeles, often known by his birth name Mariano Gómez y Custodio or Mariano Gomez in modern orthography, was a Filipino Catholic priest who was falsely accused of mutiny by the...

Michael (archangel)

30 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Francis of Assisi

29 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of...

Jose P. Laurel

26 José Paciano Laurel y García was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the President of the Second Philippine Republic from 1943 to 1945, which was a Japanese ally during World War...

José Abad Santos

26 José Abad Santos y Basco was the fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He briefly served as the acting president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and acting...

John of Nepomuk

25 John of Nepomuk was a saint of Bohemia. He was executed by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia for disobedience. John was thrown into the Vltava river.

Saint Peter

24 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears...

Emilio Aguinaldo

23 Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who was the first president of the Philippines from 1899 to 1901, and the first president of an Asian...

Sergio Osmeña

23 Sergio Osmeña Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946 and as the first vice president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He...

Eulogio Rodriguez

22 Eulogio "Amang" Adona Rodriguez, Sr. was a Filipino politician who twice served as President of the Senate of the Philippines. He was known for vehemently confronting corruption during the...

Claro M. Recto

21 Claro Mayo Recto Jr. was a Filipino lawyer, jurist, writer, author, columnist, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senator of the Philippines from 1931 until his death in 1960. Recto was the...

Natalio Bacalso

21 Natalio Bacus Bacalso was a Filipino writer, newspaperman, radio broadcaster, filmmaker, Constitutional Convention delegate in 1971 representing Cebu's 2nd district, and opposition assemblyman to the...

Anthony of Padua

20 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

Vincent Ferrer

20 Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to...

Graciano López Jaena

20 Graciano López y Jaena, commonly known as Graciano López Jaena, was a Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero who is well known for his newspaper, La Solidaridad.

Our Lady of the Rosary

19 Our Lady of the Rosary, also known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, is a Marian title.               

Juan Luna

18 Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine...

Roque González y de Santa Cruz

18 Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ was a Guaraní-Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani in Paraguay. He was murdered in 1628 and is venerated as a martyr and a saint by...

James the Great

18 James the Great was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die, after Judas Iscariot, and the first to be martyred. Saint James is...

Augustine of Hippo

16 Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Roman Africa. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius from Thagaste in Numidia Cirtensis,. His writings deeply influenced the development...

Mark the Evangelist

16 Mark the Evangelist, also known as John Mark or Saint Mark, was a Libyan who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern scholars agree that the Gospel of Mark is...

George Washington

16 George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the...

Saint Nicholas

16 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Emilio Jacinto

15 Emilio Jacinto y Dizon was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution. He was one of the highest-ranking officers in the Philippine Revolution and was one of the highest-ranking officers of...

Cayetano Arellano

15 Cayetano Simplicio Arellano y Lonzón was a Filipino jurist who served as the first Chief Justice of the Philippines from 1899 to 1920.

Ninoy Aquino

14 Benigno Simeón "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as a senator of the Philippines (1967–1972) and governor of the province of Tarlac (1963–1967). Aquino was the...

Ferdinand Magellan

13 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he discovered the Strait of Magellan,...

Mary, mother of Jesus

13 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Raphael (archangel)

12 Raphael is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BC. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of...

Aurora Quezon

10 Aurora Antonia Aragon Quezon was the wife of Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon and the First Lady of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. Although she is recognized as the second First Lady of...

Antero Soriano

10 Antero Sosa Soriano was a Filipino lawyer and politician from Tanza, Cavite, who had served as congressman, senator, and governor of Cavite.

Paul the Apostle

10 Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century AD. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is...

Miguel Malvar

10 Miguel Malvar y Carpio was a Filipino general who served during the Philippine Revolution and, subsequently, during the Philippine–American War. He assumed command of the Philippine revolutionary...

Felix Manalo

10 Felix Manalo , also known as Ka Felix, was a Filipino minister who founded Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), a restorationist nontrinitarian Christian church in the Philippines officially registered in 1914....

Manuel del Rosario

10 Manuel Platon Del Rosario was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. At the time of his death, Del Rosario was the oldest Filipino bishop and one of the oldest Catholic bishops. He was...

Saint Lucy

9 Lucia of Syracuse, also called Santa Lucia and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic,...

Diosdado Macapagal

9 Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr. was the ninth president of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965. He served as the 5th vice president from 1957 to 1961 under Carlos P. Garcia. He also served as a...

Saint Dominic

9 Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his...

Ferdinand III of Castile

9 Ferdinand III, called the Saint, was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berengaria of Castile. Through...

Saint Sebastian

9 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

Saint Monica

8 Monica, also written as Monnica, was an early North African Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on...

Saint Anne

8 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Rose of Lima

8 Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the...

María Clara

8 María Clara de los Santos y Alba is a fictional character in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere (1887). The beautiful María Clara is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée of the protagonist,...

Gil Puyat

7 Gil Juco Puyat Sr. was a Filipino politician and businessman who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1951 until 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos shut Congress down and declared Martial...

Carlos P. Garcia

7 Carlos Polestico Garcia, often referred to by his initials CPG, was the eighth president of the Philippines, serving from 1957 to 1961. He served as the fourth Vice President of the Philippines from...

Matthew the Apostle

7 Matthew the Apostle was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also known as...

Jesus

6 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Johnny Remulla

6 Juanito "Johnny" Reyes Remulla Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the longest sitting governor of Cavite.

Tomás Claudio

6 Tomás Claudio y Mateo was a Filipino soldier who enlisted in the U.S. Army during the First World War. He was considered as the first Filipino to die overseas in the midst of an international...

Pedro Guevara

5 Pedro Guevara y Valenzuela, was a Filipino soldier, lawyer, legislator, and Spanish-language writer who became Resident Commissioner of the Philippines during the American occupation.

Manuel Briones

5 Manuel Cabahug Briones was a Filipino Visayan lawyer, judge, and politician from Cebu, Philippines. He was the first Supreme Court Associate Justice from Cebu, and he was a former Associate Justice...

John the Baptist

5 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy,...

Pedro Paterno

5 Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio was a Filipino politician. He was also a poet and a novelist.

Epifanio de los Santos

4 Epifanio de los Santos y Cristóbal, also known as Don Pañong or Don Panyong, was a notable Filipino historian, journalist, and civil servant. He was regarded by some as one of the best Filipino...

Mariano Jesús Cuenco

4 Mariano Jesús Cuenco y Diosómito was a Filipino politician and writer from Cebu. He was the 4th President of the Senate of the Philippines.

Lorenzo Ruiz

4 Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholic layman and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his...

Narciso Ramos

4 Narciso Rueca Ramos was a Filipino journalist, lawyer, assemblyman and ambassador. He was the father of former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos and Philippine Senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani.

Carlos Palanca (born 1869)

3 Carlos Tanguinlay Palanca, Sr. , also known as Tan Guin Lay or sometimes misspelled as Tan Quin Lay, was a Chinese Filipino businessman and philanthropist in the Philippines during the late Spanish...

Pedro Gil

3 Pedro Gil y Hernández was a Filipino physician, journalist, and legislator. He served in different distinguished roles—as a labor leader, as a doctor of medicine, as a crusading newspaperman, as a...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Ermin Garcia

3 Ermin Erfe Garcia Sr. was a Filipino journalist and newspaper publisher.                           

Mariano Trías

3 Mariano Trías y Closas is considered to be the first de facto Philippine Vice President of that revolutionary government established at the Tejeros Convention - an assembly of Philippine...

Andrew the Apostle

3 Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.

Benigno Aquino Sr.

3 Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao was a Filipino politician who served as speaker of the National Assembly of the Japanese-sponsored puppet state in the Philippines from 1943 to 1944. He was the...

Eugenio López Sr.

3 Eugenio "Eñing" Hofileña López Sr. was a leading business figure in the Philippines. He was the founder of López Group of Companies. He belonged to the prominent López family of Iloilo, one of the...

Fidel Castro

3 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008....

Louis of Toulouse

3 Saint Louis of Toulouse, also known as Louis of Anjou, was a Neapolitan prince of the Capetian House of Anjou and a Catholic bishop.

Maria Clara Lobregat

3 María Clara Lorenzo de Lobregat was a Filipino politician who served as the 18th mayor of Zamboanga City from 1998 until her death in 2004, becoming the city's first female mayor. Prior to her...

Gabriel

3 In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel or even Cebrail (Djebraïl) in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the...

Teodoro Kalaw

3 Teodoro Manguiat Kalaw, Sr. was a Filipino scholar, legislator, and historian in Spanish language. 

Nicolas Capistrano

3 Nicolás Capistrano y Fernández was a Filipino lawyer, politician and revolutionary general who fought against the Americans from 1899 to 1901 during the Philippine-American War and was later elected...

Juan dela Cruz

3 Juan dela Cruz or Maria dela Cruz is the national personification of the Philippines, often used to represent the "Filipino everyman". He is usually depicted wearing the native salakot hat, barong...

Didacus of Alcalá

3 Didacus of Alcalá, also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcalá...

Joachim

3 Joachim was, according to Christian Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part...

Philomena

3 Philomena, also known as Saint Philomena or Philomena of Rome was a Greek virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on 24–25 May 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb...

Gregorio S. Araneta

3 Don Gregorio Soriano Araneta was a Filipino lawyer, businessman, and nationalist, during the Spanish and American colonial periods.

Bernardino of Siena

3 Bernardino of Siena, OFM, was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in the Republic of Siena. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics.

Cecilia of Rome

3 Cecilia of Rome, also spelled Cecelia, was a Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...