Famous people born in Iloilo
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Brian Poe
Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe Llamanzares is a Filipino businesswoman, educator, philanthropist and politician. She is the adopted daughter of actors Susan Roces and Fernando Poe, Jr. She served as chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board from 2010 to 2012 and in the Philippine Senate since 2013.....
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Emman Monfort
Emmanuel N. Monfort is a Filipino basketball player who currently plays for the NLEX Road Warriors of the Philippine Basketball Association. He was selected 16th overall in the 2012 PBA draft by Barako Bull Energy Cola.....
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Lance Lucido
Lance Angelo Lucido, better known as Lance Lucido, is a Filipino child actor.....
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Peter Solis Nery
Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, author, and filmmaker. Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame Awardee, the Cultural Center of the Philippines Literary Grant, and the AllWestern Visayas Literary Contest winner. In 2015, he became the first Filipino author to be invited to the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. Writing in English, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, he has authored at least 20 books, and had writ....
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Jed Madela
John Edward Tajanlangit , better known by his stage name, Jed Madela, is a Filipino recording artist and TV host. He became the first Filipino to win the WCOPA world grand champion title, and is known with a uniquely wide vocal range.....
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Fernando Capalla
Fernando Robles Capalla is a Roman Catholic archbishopemeritus of the Archdiocese of Davao. He was born on November 1, 1934 in Leon, Iloilo Province. He was succeeded by Romulo Valles as archbishop of Davao on February 11, 2012.....
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Alberto Jover Piamonte
Alberto Jover Piamonte, D.D., JCD., was the fourth Archbishop of Jaro in the Philippines. Mons. Piamonte was himself a native of the District of Jaro, Iloilo City, which was another chartered city during the last years of the Spanish Regime in the Philippines. He was born in Iloilo City on 21 November 1934. After doing his studies in Philosophy and Theology at St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, he was ordained priest of the Archdiocese of Jaro, on 22 March 1958.....
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Franklin Drilon
Franklin Frank Magtunao Drilon is a Filipino politician who served as President of the Senate of the Philippines in 2000, from 2001 to 2006, and again from 2013 to the present. Drilon is currently serving his third term in the Senate and his third term as Senate President. He is also the chairman of the Liberal Party and a senior counsel of ACCRA Law Offices.....
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Graciano L pez Jaena
Graciano Lpez Jaena was a journalist, orator, revolutionary, and national hero from Iloilo, the Philippines, who is well known for his newspaper, La Solidaridad.....
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Martin Teofilo Delgado
Martin Teofilo Delgado , was a Filipino military leader during the Philippine Revolution and the PhilippineAmerican War, and was the first civilian governor of Iloilo Province during the American period, first appointed and then winning election in his own right.....
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Eugenio Lopez Jr
Eugenio Moreno Lpez, Jr. , popularly known as Geny Lpez and Kapitan, was the Chairman Emeritus of ABSCBN Broadcasting Corporation from 1993 to 1997.....
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Guillermo G mez Rivera
Guillermo Gmez Rivera , is a Spanish Filipino multilingual author, historian, educator and linguistic scholar whose lifelong work has been devoted to the often controversial movement to preserve Spanish culture as an important element of the Filipino identity.....
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