Asia AgcaoiliAsia 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 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 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...
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| 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 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 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 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...
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| 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 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 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 ComerfordCristeta 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 HouseThe 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 chefA 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 ...
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| 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 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 PhilippinesThe 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...
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| 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 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 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 DeOcampoNick Deocampo is a Filipino film producer, author and the director of the Center for New Cinema.-External links:**-References:... |
film director |
Eugene DomingoEugene 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 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 IdolPinoy 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 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 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 MarasiganRaimund 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 AdoroMarcus 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 ZabalaHector "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 :... |
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| 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 GonzalesPocholo 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 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, 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 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 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 |
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| 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 Rafael Manuel Hidalgo Laurel is a Filipino filmmaker, best known for writing and dircecting the Star Cinema Classic Nasaan Ka Man.... |
film director |
Maricel LaxaMaricel 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 , 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 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 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...
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visual artist and poet |
| 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 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 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...
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musician |
| Ces Oreña-Drilon |
broadcast journalist and anchor (ABS-CBN) |
Paula PeralejoPaula 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 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 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 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 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...
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| 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 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...
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| 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...
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writer, essayist and diplomat |
| 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 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 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...
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| 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 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 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 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 TahimikEric 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 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 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...
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Former 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 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 AraulloAlfonso 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...
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TV news broadcaster, TV host |
| Kim Atienza |
broadcaster, TV host, weatherman (ABS-CBN) |
| Lloyd Navera |
documentary producer and voice talent (GMA) |
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| 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...
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Biologist, Entomologist, and Geneticist whose extensive work on Philippine Spiders led her to be dubbed "Asia's Spider Woman" |
| 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"...
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physician dubbed as Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines, National Scientist 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...
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| 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...
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founder and first dean, U.P. Agricultural College (now U.P. Los Baños) |
| 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"...
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cardiologist, co-founder of the Philippine Heart Association, "Father of virgin coconut oil" |
| 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...
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pediatrician, first woman admitted to Harvard Medical SchoolHarvard 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 ScientistThe 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 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...
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medical doctor, former Secretary of Health and Philippine senator |
| 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...
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former 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. 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 :...
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former Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary and now head of the UNDP Small Grants Program-Environment in New York |
Alfredo JuinioAlfredo 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...
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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 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...
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meteorologist |
| 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....
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civil engineer, mathematician, and former Secretary of National Defense |
| 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....
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2007 Harvard Foundation Scientist of the Year, biochemist |
| 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....
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agricultural physiologist and chemist, National Scientist 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...
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U.P. continues to dominate
Foundation's Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT) with over a score of winners, including:
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:
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.