- Walden Bello
Walden Bello (born 1945) is a left-wing author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South. Born in Manila, Philippines, he became a political activist following the declaration of Martial Law by Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972.
- Randy David
Randolf (Randy) David is a professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City. He is also a columnist in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
- Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth R. Ocampo is a historian and author, and is best known for his column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, "Looking Back." He was born in Manila in 1961. He was educated at the Ateneo de Manila University through primary, secondary and tertiary levels and obtained a BA and an MA in Philippine Studies from De La Salle University. He has taught at the University of the Philippines (Diliman), San Beda College, and De La Salle University.
- Manuel Roxas
Manuel Acuña Roxas was the first president of the independent Republic of the Philippines. He served as president from the granting of independence in 1946 until his abrupt death in 1948.
- Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928) was the 12th President of the Philippines. He succeeded Corazon Aquino and governed until 1998, when he was succeeded by Joseph Estrada. He was the first and only (to date) non-Roman Catholic president. During the authoritarian regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, Ramos was head of the Philippine Constabulary, implementing Marcos' declaration of martial law.
- Mike Defensor
Michael "Mike" Tan Defensor is a Filipino politician currently running for the Senate of the Philippines. Defensor was born on June 30, 1969. He finished elementary, Bachelor of Arts in History, and Masters in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines. He finished his secondary education at Miles McKinley High School, Ohio, USA. he is married to Julie Rose Tactacan Defensor.
- 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. He won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Awards from the National Book Foundation, and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards.
- Nur Misuari
Nur Misuari is a revolutionary leader of the BangsaMoro people. His full name is Nurallaji Misuari. He completed his education through academic scholarships. During his days at the University of the Philippines he was a student activist. He was a lecturer at the University of the Philippines on political science.
- Jinggoy Estrada
Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada (born Jose Pimentel Ejercito on January 23, 1963) is a senator in the Philippines. He was born to former President Joseph Estrada and former senator Luisa Ejercito-Estrada. He is the brother of incumbent San Juan City Mayor Joseph Victor "JV" Ejercito. He was born Jose Ejercito in Manila, Philippines. He attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University, …
- Jorge B. Vargas
Jorge B. Vargas was a lawyer and youth advocate born in Bago City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. He graduated valedictorian from Bacolod High School in 1909 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911 and a Bachelor of Law degree with honors in 1914, both from the University of the Philippines. He was a founding member of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation in 1911 and served in its Executive Committee in 1918.
- Jose Abueva
Dr. José Veloso Abueva is former president of the University of the Philippines. A Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardee for political science in 1962, he has devoted much of his career in academic circles. He has been faculty member of the UP College of Public Administration and visiting professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Yale University. He has also worked with the United Nations University in Tokyo.
- Pia Cayetano
Pilar Juliana Schramm Cayetano Sebastian popularly known as "Compañera Pia" is a Filipino lawyer, politician and Senator of the Republic of the Philippines. She is the only daughter of Senator Renato "Compañero" Cayetano (1934-2003), and German-American former school teacher Sandra Schramm. She had three brothers. Alan Peter is the current district representative of Taguig City & Pateros and a popular critic of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
- Blas Ople
Blas Fajardo Ople, Senator of the Philippines from 1992-2002 and Philippine Secretary (Minister) of Labor and Employment from 1967-1986, was born on February 3, 1927 in Hagonoy, Bulacan. He graduated validictorian in the grade school at the Hagonoy Elementary School in 1941. In 1948, he finished his high school at the Far Eastern University. He pursued a degree in liberal arts at the Educational Center of Asia (formerly Quezon College) in Manila.
- Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, born Cristina Pantoja on 21 August 1944, is an award-winning Filipina fictionist, critic and pioneering writer of creative nonfiction. Pantoja-Hidalgo earned her Bachelor of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters) and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Santo Tomas. She later received a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines in 1993.
- Nicanor Abelardo
Nicanor Abelardo is a Filipino composer who composed over a hundred of Kundiman songs, especially before and during the Second World War. Born in San Miguel de Mayumo (now is San Miguel, Bulacan in February 7, 1893, Nicanor Sta. Ana Abelardo was introduced to music when he was five years old, when his father taught him the solfeggio and the banduria. At the age of 8, he was able to compose his first work, …
- Ishmael Bernal
Ishmael Bernal (1938-1996) is a Filipino movie, stage and television director. He is also an actor and scriptwriter. Born in Manila on 30 September 1938, Bernal is the son of Elena Bernal and Pacifico Ledesma.
- Vicente Manansala
Vicente S. Manansala (January 22, 1910- August 22, 1981) 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. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris by the French government.
- Juan Flavier
Juan Flavier is a politician from the Philippines. He was a former Secretary of the Department of Health and is now serving as a member of the Senate of The Philippines on his 2nd term. He is trained as a Medical Doctor and received his degree in Medicine from the University of the Philippines in 1960 and Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his appointment as the Secretary of the Department of Health, …
- Esperanza Cabral
Dr. Esperanza A. Icasas Cabral is the current Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines. Dr. Cabral took office in February 2006 replacing Corazon Soliman after her resignation from Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's cabinet in 2005. A native of Pasay City, Dr. Cabral is married to Dr. Bienvenido Cabral, an opthalmologist. Dr. Cabral, who is a cardiologist and clinical pharmacologist, …
- Paolo Manalo
Paolo Manalo is a Filipino poet and an Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines where he teaches English, creative writing and comparative literature. For a time he served as the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press. He received his BA and MA degrees in Creative Writing from U.P. Diliman. "Jolography", his first book of poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2003), …
- Arturo Tolentino
Arturo Modesto Tolentino ( September 19 , 1910 - August 2 , 2004 ) 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 .
- 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. A founding member of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, Tiongson is currently Dean and Professor of Film and Audiovisual Communication at the College of Mass Communications in U.P. Diliman.
- Alfred Yuson
Alfred A. Yuson (born 1947) (also known as "Krip Yuson") has authored 19 books, including novels, poetry collections, short fiction, essays, and children's stories, apart from having edited various other titles. His works, published without a professional editor, has won several literary distinctions, the most recent of which include the "Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan" (Stalwart of Art and Culture) award from the City of Manila in June 2003, …
- Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
Wilfrido Ma. Guerreo (1911-1995) was a teacher and theater artist. In 1947 he was appointed as the University of the Philippines Dramatic Club director, a position he served for sixteen years. His plays include "Wanted: A Chaperon", "Forever", "Half an Hour in a Convent", "Frustrations", "Condemned", "In Unity", "The Forsaken House", "Three Rats", "Our Strange Ways", …
- Salvador Laurel
Salvador "Doy" Hidalgo Laurel, was Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under Corazon Aquino. Before that, he briefly served as Aquino's first (and only) Prime Minister from February 25 to March 25 of 1986. Laurel is the fifth son of President José P. Laurel, president of the second Philippine Republic.
- Baldomero Olivera
Dr. Baldomero Olivera is most famous for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience. Dr. Olivera graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1960. He got a PhD from the California Institute of Technology (1966) in Chemistry, followed by postdoctoral work at Stanford University from 1966-1968. Harvard 2007 "Scientist of the Year". On July 9, 2007, UP honored Olivera, for his research on neuropharmacology using the venom of conesnails (carnivorous, …
- Sitti Navarro
Sitti Katrina Navarro Baiddin, known as Sitti Navarro or simply Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova artist. She is of Maranao descent and is best known for her soothing voice and her album, Café Bossa, which became a best-seller domestically. Navarro was born to lawyer Augusto Navarro and the former Lydia Baiddin, in Manila, Philippines.
- Resil Mojares
Resil Mojares is a Filipino fictionist, historian and critic. He has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of the Philippines. He recently retired as Professor at the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City. He was founding director (1975-96) of USC's "Cebuano Studies Center", a pioneering local studies center in the Philippines. He has authored books in Philippine history, literature, and politics.
- Francisco Santiago
Francisco Santiago, "Ama ng Kundiman" was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, on January 29, 1889 to musically-minded peasant parents, Felipe Santiago and Maria Santiago. In 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Carnival Queen, Miss Pura Villanueva, who later married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw. Santiago's masterpiece was the "Concerto in B flat minor" for pianoforte and orchestra.
- Fernando Poe Sr.
Fernando Poe, Sr. was a famous actor during the early cinema era in the Philippines. He was the father of the late Fernando Poe, Jr., who was an iconic and hugely popular actor, who had ran for the Philippine Presidency in 2004. He directed the first Darna film in 1951 before he died in the same year. Poe, Sr. had been rumored to be the model of the University of the Philippines’ famous statue - "The Oblation", …
- Mark Anthony Carpio
Mark Anthony Carpio is a choral conductor who is the present choirmaster of the Philippine Madrigal Singers. He is also a university professor at the University of the Philippines College of Music in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
- Gregorio F. Zaide
Dr. Gregorio F. Zaide (May 25, 1907-1986) is a Filipino historian and was born in Pagsanjan, Laguna where he was a mayor from 1971-1975. He was the valedectorian of Laguna High School in (1926). He obtained ihs M.A. in (1931) from the University of the Philippines and Ph.D. in 1934 from the University of Santo Thomas. Dr.
- 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 (DECL), of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman. She teaches courses in literary, cultural, feminist, and Marxist theory and criticism; Philippine theater history; and postcolonial studies.
- Antonio Abad
Antonio Martínez Abad (1894-1970) was a poet, fictionist, playwright and essayist from Cebu, Philippines, who wrote in Spanish when such was the language of the Filipino society. He was a master of costumbrismo (local color), in a personal form of anecdote known as instantánea or ráfaga. He won the Premio Zobel in 1928 and 1929. He was a professor at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines, …
- Lakambini Sitoy
Lakambini A. Sitoy (1969-) is a multiawarded writer from Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. She earned her "Bachelor of Science degree in Biology" from Silliman University and her "Master of Arts in Creative Writing" from the University of the Philippines. She is currently working on a postgraduate degree at Roskilde University in Denmark. Sitoy's stories, novels and nonfiction have been published in "Manoa", "Sands and Coral", …
- 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 College of Arts and Letters valedictorian in 1998. While on a Fulbright grant, she studied and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, …
- Asia Agcaoili
Asia Agcaoíli is a Filipino actress, model, sex columnist of FHM Philippines and TV and radio host.
- Johnny Alegre
Guitarist Juan B.H. Alegre III, aka Johnny Alegre (b. June 4 1955), attended the University of the Philippines College of Music in the latter 1970s, where he studied composition and became a founding member of the U.P. Jazz Ensemble. He studied with the jazz educator, Dr. Joseph Howard, and participated in creative workshops conducted by musicologist-composer Dr. Erhard Karkoshka, guitarist Ike Isaacs and composer-scholar Chou Wen-chung.
- Oscar Orbos
Óscar 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. He is now a practicing lawyer and broadcaster.
- Romi Garduce
Romeo "Romi" Garduce (born 1969 in Balanga, Bataan), who sometimes goes by the nickname "Garduce", is a Filipino mountain climber and works as an IT Professional in Procter and Gamble Philippines. He began climbing "'"'LADDERS for a cause in 1991 as a member of the University of the Philippines Mountaineers. After reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2002, Garduce became the first Filipino to climb one of the Seven Summits.