List of people from Iloilo
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The following is a list of people born or associated with Iloilo and Iloilo City.
Arts, literature, and entertainment
Beauty pageants
- Pura Villanueva Kalaw – first Manila Carnival queen in 1908
- Angelia Ong – Miss Earth 2015 winner
Film
- Nick Deocampo – film director, film historian
- Peter Solis Nery – film director, actor, producer, writer; Gugma sa Panahon sang Bakunawa (2012)[1]
Literature
- Gilbert Luis R. Centina III – Palanca awardee
- Leoncio P. Deriada – Ilonggo Palanca awardee
- Magdalena Jalandoni – Hiligaynon poet, National Cultural awardee for Literature
- Stevan Javellana – Ilonggo writer
- Peter Solis Nery – Ilonggo Palanca Awards Hall of Fame awardee; first Filipino author invited to the Sharjah International Book Fair[2]
- Guillermo Gómez Rivera - Ilonggo writer
- Miguel Syjuco – winner of 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize
Jose Hampaslupa
Performing arts
Music
- Emman Abatayo – singer, songwriter, Pinoy Dream Academy Season 1 scholar
- Jose Mari Chan – singer, songwriter
- Nina Girado – singer[citation needed]
- Jed Madela – singer, songwriter
- Ruben Tagalog – Kundiman singer
- Young JV – singer, actor, model, and dancer
TV and movie personalities
- Carla Abellana - actress, model, TV host and personality
- Saicy Aguila - Pinoy Big Brother: Season 2 housemate and dancer
- Sharmaine Arnaiz - actress
- Claudine Barretto - actress
- Gretchen Barretto - actress
- Marjorie Barretto - actress
- Billy Crawford - actor, model, singer, TV host and personality
- Dingdong Dantes - actor, model
- Charlie Davao - actor
- Sunshine Dizon - actress, model
- Gabb Drilon - actor
- Ike Lozada - actor
- Edu Manzano - TV host, actor
- Luis Manzano - actor, model, TV host and personality
- Pokwang - actress, comedian
- Delia Razon - actress
- Paul Salas - actor
- Myrtle Sarrosa - Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition 4 Big Winner
- Arthur Solinap - actor
- Prince Stefan - actor, model, and dancer
- Marita Zobel - actress
- Dawn Zulueta - actress
Mass communications
- Billy Balbastro - radio broadcaster
- Karen Davila - main news anchor on the ABS-CBN News Channel programmes Bandila and Headstart with Karen Davila
- Philip Stanley Amigo Palisada - news anchor, Dateline Philippines Sunday, ABS-CBN News Channel
Visual arts
- Romeo Villalva Tabuena - Filipino painter and printmaker
Business
- Eugenio Lopez, Sr. - former Chairman of the Lopez Group of Companies
- Eugenio Lopez, Jr. - former Chairman Emeritus of ABS-CBN
- Eugenio Lopez III - the 3rd generation Eugenio of the Lopez family; present Chairman of ABS-CBN
Education
- Jose Cabalum, Sr. - educator
- William Valentine - American Protestant missionary and educator; founded Central Philippine University, the second American university in Asia
Government service
Executive service
- Teofisto Guingona, Jr. - former Senator and Vice-President of the Philippines
- Fernando López - former Senator and Vice-President of the Philippines
Judiciary
- Ramón Avanceña - former Chief Justice Supreme Court of the Philippines and Vice President
- Carolina Griño-Aquino - former Associate Justice Supreme Court of the Philippines, Rank 1st 1950 Philippine Bar Examinations
- Gregorio Perfecto - former Associate Justice Supreme Court of the Philippines
- Florenz Regalado - former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and record holder for the highest average in the Philippine Bar Examinations, with his 1954 mark of 96.7%
Legislators
Senators
- Tomas Confesor - Senator served in the 2nd Commonwealth Congress or 1st Congress of the Philippines, elected ranked 6th in the 1946 national elections
- Anna Dominique M.L. Coseteng - Senator, 8th Congress
- Miriam Defensor Santiago - Senator, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th Congress
- Franklin Drilon - Senator, 10th, 11th (Senate President), 12th (Senate President), 13th (Senate President), 15th, 16th (Senate President), and 17th (Senate President pro tempore) Congress
- Teofisto Guingona, Sr. - Senator, 4th Philippine Legislature
- Grace Poe-Llamanzares - Senator, 16th Congress of the Philippines
- Manuel Villar - Senator, 12th, 13th (Senate President), 14th (Senate President), 15th Congress
- Jose Zulueta - Senator and Senate President, 2nd Congress
Representatives
- Pedro G. Trono - Representative, 1st District of Iloilo, 1953 - 1969, Born on May 14, 1908 in Guimbal, Iloilo; died on Oct. 17, 1979. Rep. Pedro G. Trono, M.D. served from 3rd to 6th Congress, has sponsored a bill in Congress in the early 1960s to create the Guimbal Emergency Hospital. The hospital is later named Rep.Trono Memorial Hospital in memory of him.
Military service
- Vicente Piccio, Jr. - former chief of the Philippine Air Force
Social sciences
- F. Landa Jocano - anthropologist and historian; documented the epic Hinilawod of the Panay Bukidnon of Iloilo
- Alicia P. Magos - anthropologist and historian; published and documented the culture of Western Visayas, especially the Panay Bukidnon
Innovators and scientists
- Alexis Belonio - engineer, inventor and winner of Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2008
- Josette Biyo - Intel Excellence for Teaching awardee in 2002; an asteroid was named after her, 13241 Biyo
Religious service
- Fernando Capalla - present Archbishop of Davao
- Eduardo Hontiveros - Filipino Jesuit composer and musician
- Angel Lagdameo - 5th Archbishop of Jaro and former President of Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines
- Antonio Ledesma - Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro
- Jose S. Palma - present Archbishop of Cebu and President of Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines
- Alberto Jover Piamonte - 4th Archbishop of Jaro
- Mother Rosario Arroyo de la Visitacion - Servant of God, founder Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines
Revolutionaries and war heroes
- Juan Araneta - led the Negros Revolution
- Ludovico Arroyo Bañas - World War II veteran, pioneer in Philippine telecommunications
- Jose Calugas - World War II Medal of Honor awardee
- Martin Teofilo Delgado - revolutionary hero, soldier, politician
- Adriano Hernandez - leader of the "Cry of Lincud", the first armed uprising for independence in the province of Iloilo
- Graciano Lopez Jaena - revolutionary hero, writer, editor, orator, and journalist, founder of La Solidaridad
- Aniceto Lacson - led the Negros Revolution
- Teresa Magbanua - the Joan of Arc of the Visayas
- Patrocinio Gamboa - revolutionary heroine, brought the Philippine flag to Sta. Barbara, where it was first raised outside the capital.
Sports
- Paulino Alcántara - international football player who played for FC Barcelona
- Angel Guirado Aldeguer - member of Philippine Azkals
- Ian Araneta - member of Philippine Azkals
- Kurt Bachmann - basketball player
- Ken Bono - PBA player
- Emelio Caligdong - Vice Captain of Philippine Azkals and 2012 The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardee
- Anjo Caram - PBA player, former NCAA basketball player for San Beda Red Lions
- Denver Cuello - current WBC International minimumweight champion
- Kenneth Duremdes - PBA player
- Rudy Fernandez - amputee triathlete
- Emmanuel "Emman" Monfort - PBA player, former UAAP basketball player for the Ateneo Blue Eagles
- Ferdinand Ravena - PBA player
- Kiefer Ravena - UAAP basketball player for the Ateneo Blue Eagles
- Masunoyama Tomoharu - sumo wrestler
- Eugene Torre - first Filipino and Asian Grandmaster
- Ronald Tubid - PBA player
- James Yap - PBA player, former ICCHS or Huasiong basketball player
- Wesley So - chess prodigy; youngest Filipino chess grandmaster
- Paolo Taja
- Ryan Calamaan
- Clint Doliguez
- Billy Ray Robles
Others
- Resurreccion Borra - COMELEC Commissioner
- Francis Jardeleza - former Solicitor General
- Nicholas Loney - 19th-century British diplomat and businessman who helped develop Iloilo City
- Amelita Ramos - former First Lady of the Philippines; wife of former President Fidel Ramos
- Perfecto R. Yasay, Jr. - former SEC Chairman; 2010 Philippine Vice-Presidential candidate running alongside Eddie Villanueva