James Gaines is a tall, thin, African-American-Filipino character actor (and occasional writer) with dual nationality. He was sometimes also credited as Jaimes Gaines, Jim Gaines, and James Gainers. He acted mainly in low-budget action films in the Philippines during the 1980s, many of which were produced by K.Y. Lim's "Silver Star Film Company" (called "Kinavesa" in the Philippines), …

Nick Nicholson, sometimes credited as "Nick Nichols" or "Nick Nickelson", is an American expatriate character actor working in the Philippines. Since the early 1980s, Nicholson has appeared in both big-budget Hollywood productions shot in the archipelago and low-budget, Filipino action movies. He has acted in several films by the directors Cirio H. Santiago, John Gale, and Teddy Page.

Mike Cohen was an American expatriate--Medford, Massachusetts actor living in the Philippines, who had supporting roles in a number of low-budget, Z-movie Filipino actioners from the late 70's to the 80's. He was a retired US Army officer (Lt.Colonel) who ran a mall in Manila and acted in films as a hobby. Cohen appeared in the midget-exploitation vehicle "For Y'ur Height Only" (1979) starring Weng Weng, …

KC Montero (born Casey Wyatt Miller) was MTV Philippines' longest serving VJ, having started his career as an MTV VJ in 1999 after winning the MTV VJ Hunt along with Belinda Panelo. He is known for his wacky and irreverent sense of humor. However, the dissolution of MTV Philippines on January 1, 2007 has temporarily ended his stint as a VJ. KC has been re-hired by the new company that owns the license to MTV Philippines, All Youth Channels, Inc, …

Sam Milby (born Samuel Lloyd Lacia Milby on May 23, 1984 in Troy, Ohio) is a Filipino-American actor, commercial model, and recording artist. Milby grew up with a Filipina mother native to Tago, Surigao del Sur and an American father. Milby became an instant celebrity and heartthrob after leaving the Pinoy Big Brother House in November 2005. He currently appears in a Sunday musical variety show, ASAP '07, …

Norman Augustus Black (born November 12, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American basketball head coach for the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. Prior to coaching in the collegiate leagues, Black was known as one of the best imports in Philippine Basketball Association before concentrating on coaching the San Miguel Beermen to numerous championships.

Gracia Burnham (born January 17, 1959, Cairo, Illinois) and her husband Martin were United States Protestant missionaries in the Philippines with New Tribes Mission for 17 years from 1986. Th couple was among a larger group kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf Group, an Islamist separatist terrorist group operating in the southern Philippines, on May 27, 2001. While most of the group were killed or freed, the Burnhams were in captivity for a year and a few days.

Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.

Wendell Fertig (b.1900 - d.1975) was an American civil engineer in the Philippines, who became a leader of a guerrilla force in the Japanese-occupied Southern Philippine island of Mindanao during World War II. Fertig was commissioned as a Captain (reserve) in the United States Army Corps of Engineers at the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific theater (1941).

The Reverend Dr. Guy Potter Wharton Benton (born May 26, 1865) was an American educator who served as president of Miami University from 1902-1911 and the University of the Philippines from 1921-1925. While at Miami University, he is credited with being instumental in the founding of Delta Zeta Sorority in 1902. He was born to Daniel Webster and Harriet (Wharton) Benton in Kenton, Ohio. After serving as superintendent of schools at Fort Scott, Kansas (1890-95), …

James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, United States military officer, was one of only thirty-four American POWs to escape captivity during the Vietnam War. Rowe was assigned as Executive Officer of Detachment A-23, 5th Special Forces Group, a 12-man "A-team" in Vietnam in 1963. Located at Tan Phu in An Xuyen Province, A-23 organized and advised a Civilian Irregular Defense Group camp in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Troy Montero (born Cody Andrew Garabato Miller III on July 30, 1977 in Tacoma, Washington) is an actor born to a family of German, Irish, and Filipino ancestry. He currently appears on Filipino soap operas and television series.

Daniel Charles Y. Seigle (born June 14, 1976 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association for the San Miguel Beermen. A 6'6", 205-lb. swingman, he is fondly called Dynamite Danny and Danny S by many. He won the 1999 PBA Rookie of the Year and led San Miguel to six championships to date during his career.

Earl Timothy (Tim) Cone is the American head coach of the Alaska Aces in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is known for leading the Aces to 11 PBA titles in its franchise history while leading the 1996 Milkmen to a rare PBA Grandslam.

Joseph Emile Hamilton Stevenot (1888 - June 8, 1943) was an American businessman who served as a Major in the US Army. He helped organize the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and served as its Executive Vice President and General Manager. He was one of the charter members of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) and served as the BSP's first National President (January 1, 1938 - 1942).

Andrew John Y. Seigle (born May 15, 1972 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is a is a Filipino-American professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association for the Barangay Ginebra Kings. He was a member of the Philippine national basketball team. He is the brother of Danny Seigle, also a basketball player in the same league.

Philinda Parsons Rand Anglemyer was an American English-language teacher in the Philippines. She was among the pioneering five-hundred "Thomasites" who landed on the shores of the Philippines in August 1901 on board the U.S. sea vessel, USS Thomas, a converted cattle ship.

Edwin B. Copeland was a 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 School of Agriculture, and served as its dean and also as a professor of plant physiology for eight years (1909-1917). He was the father of Herbert Copeland.

Michael H. Allen was a retired Navy senior chief radioman who was convicted of espionage for selling classified digests of U.S. intelligence on Philippine internal affairs to the Philippine Constabulary. Allen served in the Navy from 1950 to 1972. After retiring from the Navy, he continued working there as a civilian clerk at the telecommunications center at Cubi Point Naval Air Station near Subic Bay. In addition to his naval duties, he also ran an automobile dealership, …

Belinda Panelo is a Filipino American actress and former commercial model who became an MTV VJ after winning the MTV VJ Hunt in 1999, along with KC Montero. She made her mark in MTV as one of the funniest and wackiest MTV VJs ever, especially in her regular shows "Classic MTV" and "MTV Mush". Belinda left MTV in 2003 and has since married her longtime boyfriend and now has a baby boy.

Andrew James E. Arellano, better known as Drew Arellano, is one of the traveling hosts of the daily morning show, Unang Hirit shown by the GMA Network, he is also the host of Balik-Bayan K in QTV and Wazzup Wazzup on Studio 23.

Jeremiah James Harty (1853-1927) was born in November 5, 1853 at St. Louis, Missouri. On April 28, 1878, at the age of 24, Harty was ordained to the priesthood. On June 6, 1903, Harty was appointed Archbishop of Manila in the Philippines, the first non-Spanish to be appointed such in 325 years. He succeeded the Dominican Bernardino Nozaleda, the last of the Spanish archbishops. After his term in Manila, later he was appointed as the Archbishop of Omaha, in Nebraska.

George A. Malcolm was an American lawyer who emerged as an influential figure in the development of the practice of law in the Philippines in the 20th century. At age 35, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, where he would serve for 19 years. His most enduring legacy perhaps lies in his role in the establishment of the College of Law at the University of the Philippines.

Edwin Ferdinand Lee (born 10 July 1884) was a Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1928.

Joyce Jimenéz is a Filipino American actress who mainly stars in movies in the Philippines.