Vicente Sotto

Vicente Sotto

male, deceased (1950)
Vicente Yap Sotto, also known as Nyor Inting (1877-1950) was a former senator of the Philippines, and considered as one of the greatest Cebuanos of...
Antonio Pigafetta

Antonio Pigafetta

male, 519 years old
Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 - c. 1534), was an Italian navigator born in Vicenza. He paid a large sum of money to accompany and assist the...
Max Surban

Max Surban

male
Maximo Surban, better known as Max Surban is a Cebuano singer. He has been given the monicker "King of Visayan Song". Like his fellow Visayan, the...

Josephine Bracken

female, deceased (1902)
Josephine Bracken (1876-1902) was the betrothed of the Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal. Some believed that she was married to Rizal, although...
Ruben Tagalog

Ruben Tagalog

male
Ruben Tagalog is a Filipino actor and musician, famous for his works in the Kundiman style. He is also a part of the Mabuhay Singers. He first...

Ben Zubiri

male
Ben Zubiri (1911-1969), who was also known as Iyo Karpo was a Cebuano composer, actor, and media personality. His most famous composition for which...

Cora Almerino

female
Cora Almerino is a well-known Cebuano Visayan writer. Her poems were included in "Sinug-ang: A Cebuano trio" published by Women in Literary Arts in...
Erlinda K. Alburo

Erlinda K. Alburo

female
Erlinda Kintanar Alburo is a prolific and important contemporary Cebuano scholar and promoter of the language. She is the Director of the Cebuano...
Martino Abellana

Martino Abellana

male, 95 years old
Martino Abellana (1914-1986), known as "Noy Tinong", was a renowned Cebuano painter from Carcar. Dubbed "The Dean of Cebuano Painters", he was born...
Guillermo Gómez Rivera

Guillermo Gómez Rivera

male, 73 years old
Guillermo Gómez Rivera is a Filipino writer, journalist, poet, playwright, historian, linguist, and scholar of Spanish and British descent from t...