List of people from Cebu

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Culture

LITERATURE

  • Antonio Abad - a poet, fictionist, playwright and essayist (Barili)
  • Gémino Abad - an educator, writer, and literary critic. He is a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature (Barili)
  • Martin Abellana – Visayan author (Cebu City)
  • Onofre Abellanosa - writer of short stories and plays (Cebu City)
  • Victorina A. Abellanosa - was a Cebuano dramatist who is specialized in writing plays particularly zarzuelas (Cebu City)
  • Ramón D. Abellanosa - political journalist, minor politician, businessman, and writer. He was best known for his plays (Cebu City)
  • Temistokles Adlawan - a contemporary Cebuano poet and short story writer who often writes with irreverent humor usually associated with Cebuano folk (Cebu City)
  • Ruperto Alaura - is a Cebuano writer. He was a LUDABI prize winner in 1961 (Cebu City)
  • Sinforosa Alcordo - fiction writer during the pre-war era (Cebu City)
  • Jacinto Alcos - is a pre-Second World War Cebuano writer (Cebu City)
  • Epifanio Alfafara - writer in the Cebuano language of political and philosophical articles. He used Isco Anino as a pen name (Carcar City)
  • Sergio Alfafara - was a Filipino Cebuano Visayan writer. A parish priest, he published, authored and translated religious and missal texts in Cebuano. He published a grammar of Cebuano known as Sugboanon nga Gramatika. His pennames included Napoleon Alferez (Carcar City)
  • Estrella Alfon - an author who wrote in English (Cebu City)
  • Potenciano Aliño - a writer, translator, and revolutionary (Talisay City)
  • Cora Almerino - is a Cebuano Visayan writer.[1] Her poems were included in Sinug-ang: A Cebuano trio published by Women in Literary Arts in 1999 (Cebu City)
  • Tomas N. Alonso
    - is a well-known Cebuano Visayan writer. He published the first complete Cebuano translation of Jose Rizal's El filibusterismo. He also translated the Mi último adiós (Cebu City)
  • Francisco C. Álvarez - was a Cebuano Visayan stage actor and playwright (Cebu City)
  • Uldarico A. Alviola - known as the "Dean of Cebuano Writers", he was a Filipino Visayan civil servant, novelist, and editor (Cebu City)
  • Natalio Bacalso - a writer, newspaperman, radio broadcaster, filmmaker, Constitutional Convention delegate in 1971 representing Cebu's 2nd district, and opposition assemblyman to the Interim Batasang Pambansa in 1978 (Cebu City)
  • Cecilia Manguerra Brainard - an author and editor. She co-founded PAWWA or Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine American Literary House (Cebu City)
  • Simeon Dumdum Jr. - writer, poet and former RTC judge (Balamban)
  • Adonis Durado - a poet, visual journalist, and graphic designer of Cebuano descent (Cebu City)
  • Lina Espina-Moore - a Cebuano writer (Toledo City)
  • Vicente Garces - a politician, writer, and poet (Talisay City)
  • Vicente Gullas - was a Filipino writer, lawyer, and educator from Cebu, Philippines (Cebu City)
  • Ernesto Lariosa - a writer, poet, and columnist (San Fernando)
  • Pio Kabahar - a Cebuano composer, playwright, journalist, and director (Cebu City)
  • Resil B. Mojares - a Filipino historian and critic of Philippine literature best known as for his books on Philippine history. He was recognized in 2018 as a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature - a conferment which represents the Philippine state's highest recognition for artists (Cebu City)
  • Hilda Montaire - a writer (Mandaue City)
  • Marcelino Navarra - an editor, poet, and writer. He was regarded as the father of modern Cebuano short story (Carcar City)
  • Gilda Olvidado - a movie and television writer, and melodrama novelist (Cebu City)
  • Amando Osório - a poet, playwright, novelist, and Cebu deputy governor (Dalaguete)
  • Sulpicio Osório - was a Filipino editor, poet, and writer of fiction and essay in Cebuano language (Dalaguete)
  • feminist fiction writer and was awarded the Gawad CCP para sa Sining: Panitikang Rehiyunal from the Cultural Center of the Philippines
    in 1993 (Alcantara)
  • Nicolas Rafols - a legislator, journalist, businessman, lawyer, and agriculturalist (Toledo City)
  • Benigno S. Aquino III
    (Cebu City)
  • Vicente Rama - a legislator, publisher, and writer (Cebu City)
  • Buenaventura Rodriguez - was one of the popular playwrights in Cebuano language during the American occupation. Like his contemporaries, his works featured the theme of rising nationalism,[5] combining social criticism and entertainment (Bogo City)
  • Hope Sabanpan-Yu - a short story writer/poet (Cebu City)
  • Adelino Sitoy - was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and Cebuano language advocate from Cebu, Philippines (Cebu City)
  • Vicente Sotto – politician, author (Cebu City)
  • Florentino Suico - a public school teacher and prolific writer, fictionist, poet, and journalist. He was known for his historical fiction written in Cebuano language (Mandaue City)
  • Florentino Tecson - a lawyer, politician, editor, writer, and labor leader (Naga City)
  • Vicente Ranudo - a writer, poet laureate, and Cebu provincial civil servant (Cebu City)
  • Cebu Daily News and the Philippine Daily Inquirer
    (both under the Inquirer Group) (Bantayan)
  • José María del Mar - a writer, orator, playwright, theater actor, politician and authority on the Spanish Language. (Cebu City)

VISUAL ARTS

  • Martino Abellana "Noy Tinong" - a renowned Cebuano and dubbed as "The Dean of Cebuano Painters" (Carcar City)
  • Ramon Abellana - a Cebuano sculptor and composer (Carcar City)
  • Paulina Constancia - a Filipino-Canadian artist known for her work on canvas, textiles, and found materials, sometimes incorporating stitching (Cebu City)
  • Manuel Rodriguez Sr. "Mang Maning" - a Filipino printmaker. He was one of the pioneers of printmaking in the Philippines and was dubbed as the "Father of Philippine Printmaking" (Cebu City)
  • Romulo Galicano - a Filipino painter whose works are technically academic and philosophical in approach (Carcar City)

MUSIC

  • Ang Pasko ay Sumapit, by National Artist Levi Celerio
    . (Cebu City)
  • Ramon Abellana - a sculptor and composer (Carcar City)
  • Daisy Ba-ad - a playwright, stage director, composer, motivational speaker and life coach (Cebu City)
  • Luis Borromeo - a jazz musician and entertainer. Known as the "King of Jazz" in the Philippines (Cebu City)
  • Manuel Kabajar Cabase - a singer, songwriter, musical director, computer musician, instrumentalist of at least 28 musical instruments, arranger, conductor, bandleader and musical director (Cebu City)
  • Albert Tiu - a classical pianist (Cebu City)
  • Emilio Villareal - a composer and musician (Boljoon)
  • Ingrid Sala Santamaria - is a Filipina pianist (Cebu City)

FILM

  • Isabel Sandoval - filmmaker, actress and director (Cebu City)
  • Julian Daan - a character he played in a radio drama, was a Filipino Cebuano film, local TV, stage, and radio writer, director, actor, comedian, and politician (Talisay City)
  • Julius Roden - producer and director, Hailed as "The Father of Modern Cebuano Movies"
  • Lyle Sacris - a cinematographer and director, known for Exodus: Tales from the Enchanted Kingdom (2005), Yanggaw (2008) and Transit (2013). (Cebu City)
  • Natalio Bacalso - a Filipino writer, newspaperman, radio broadcaster, filmmaker, Constitutional Convention delegate in 1971 representing Cebu's 2nd district, and opposition assemblyman to the Interim Batasang Pambansa in 1978 (Cebu City)
  • Pio Kabahar - Playwright, Writer, Journalist, Director and Composer (Cebu City)
  • Ruel Antipuesto - film director and cinematographer considered as "The Godfather of Cebuano Filmmaking". (Cebu City)

Media

Entertainment

Politics and government

  • Thomas F. Breslin – surveyor of large sections of Cebu, Colonel, Bataan Death March victim
  • Mariano Jesús Cuenco – Senate President during the First Congress of the Philippines (Carmen)
  • Hilario Davide Jr. - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court under Estrada Administration (Argao)
  • Hilario Davide III - Governor of Cebu (2013-2019), Vice-Governor of Cebu (2019–present) (Cebu City)
  • Joseph Ace Durano
    - DOT Secretary under Arroyo Administration (Danao City)
  • Marcelo Fernan – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Senate President (Cebu City)
  • Gwendolyn Garcia - Governor of Cebu (2004-2013; 2019–present), 3rd District Representative (2013-2019) (Cebu City)
  • Pablo Garcia - Former 3rd (1987-1995) & 2nd (2007-2013) District Representative, Former Governor (1995-2004) (Barili)
  • Pablo John Garcia - 3rd District Representative (2007-2013; 2019–present) (Cebu City)
  • Winston Garcia - President and General Manager of GSIS under Arroyo Administration (Cebu City)
  • Ernesto Herrera - Ex-Senator of the Philippines (Samboan)
  • John Henry Osmeña - Former Senator and Former 3rd District Representative (1995-1998) (Cebu City)
  • Sergio Osmeña Sr.
    – Second President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (Cebu City)
  • Sergio Osmeña Jr. - Former Senator and Former Governor (Cebu City)
  • Sergio Osmeña III
    - Former Senator
  • Tomas Osmeña - Former Mayor of Cebu City (1987-1995; 2001-2010; 2016–2019)
  • Cerge Remonde - Press Secretary under Arroyo Administration (Argao)
  • Michael Rama
    – Former Mayor of Cebu (2010–2016), Vice-Mayor of Cebu City (2001-2010; 2019–present) (Cebu City)
  • Vicente Rama - Former Senator of the Philippines
  • Jose Rene Almendras - Former Energy Secretary and Former Foreign Affairs Secretary of PNOY Administration (Cebu City)

Sports

BOXING

BASKETBALL

VOLLEYBALL

FOOTBALL

  • Ray Anthony Jónsson
    – Icelandic–Filipino footballer (Liloan)
  • Louie Casas - footballer (Danao City)
  • Ivan Ouano - footballer (Cebu City)
  • Chad Gould - footballer (Liloan)

MARTIAL ARTS

CHESS

TRIATHLON

WEIGHTLIFTING

BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

BILLIARD

SKATEBOARDING

SHOOTING SPORT

BOWLING

GOLF

Fashion, designs and arts

  • Monique Lhuillier – Fashion Designer (Cebu City)
  • Kenneth Cobonpue – International Furniture Designer (Cebu City)
  • Furne One Amato - International Fashion Designer (Cebu City)
  • Cary Santiago - Fashion Designer (Cebu City)

Business

  • Lucio Tan - Filipino-Chinese Businessman (LT Group Inc.)
  • Vicki Belo - Filipino businesswoman (Belo Medical Group)
  • Justin Uy - Cebuano Entrepreneur (Owner of JPark Island Resort and Water Park, Founder of J Centre Mall and Founder of Profood International Corp.)
  • John Gokongwei - Filipino, Cebuano billionaire businessman and philanthropist
  • Wilfred Steven Uytengsu - Filipino businessman and President of Alaska Milk Corporation
  • M Lhuillier (Michael Lhuillier) - Cebuano Businessman known as the country’s ‘Pawnshop King’ ( M Lhuillier Group of Companies Founder and Chairman, Cebu Provincial Sports Commission Chairman, Honorary consul of France in Cebu and Cebu Safari and Adventure Park Founder)

Science

Pageant titleholders

Religious

  • Pedro Calungsod - 2nd Saint in the Philippines (Ginatilan)
  • Teofilo Camomot - A beatified bishop in the Philippines (Carcar City)
  • Roman Catholic Church
    in the Philippines. He is the current Bishop of Bacolod in Negros Occidental (Cebu city)
  • Roman Catholic bishop
    in Bohol, as of 2001 bishop of Surigao (Cebu City)
  • Francisco Montecillo Padilla - a prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1985 (Cebu City)
  • José S. Palma - is a prelate and a professed member of the Dominican Order who is currently serving as the Archbishop of Cebu since 15 October 2010 (Cebu City)
  • Ricardo Vidal - was a prelate of the Catholic Church. Made a cardinal in 1985, he was Archbishop of Cebu from 1982 to 2010 (Cebu City)
  • Dennis Villarojo - a prelate of the Catholic Church who is the 5th bishop of the Latin Church Diocese of Malolos in the Philippines (Cebu City)
  • Jesus Dosado - was a prelate of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, who served as the Bishop and then Archbishop of Ozamiz from 1981 until his retirement in 2016 (Sogod)
  • Roman Catholic Church
    in the Philippines. He is the Archbishop of Palo in Leyte, Philippines (Bantayan)
  • Juan García Ruiz - was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nueva Segovia from 1784 to 1796 (Madridejos)
  • Christian Vicente Noel - was a Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the Bishop of Talibon from 1986 until his retirement in 2014 (Asturias)
  • Osvaldo Padilla - a prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1991 and the position of Apostolic Nuncio to several countries before retiring in 2017 (Sogod)
  • Daniel Franklin Pilario - a contextual theologian, writer, educator, and Vincentian Catholic priest. He currently serves as president of Adamson University. He was a former professor and dean of St. Vincent School of Theology (Oslob)
  • Leopoldo Tumulak - was a Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines. He served as head of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines from 2005 until his death in 2017 (Santander)
  • Roman Catholic bishop
    and the current and 5th Bishop of Romblon (Talisay)
  • Emilio Bataclan - a prelate of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. He is an auxiliary bishop emeritus of the Latin Church archdiocese of Cebu (Bantayan)

Heroes

  • Lapu-Lapu
    - First Hero in the Philippines
  • Leon Kilat
    - Hero in the Philippine Revolution
  • Gen. Arcadio Maxílom - a Filipino teacher and hero of the Philippine Revolution (Tuburan)

Education

Notable people with roots from Cebu

  • Bruno Mars - American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. (His mother, Bernadette San Pedro Bayot, was born in Cebu, but her family moved to Hawaii when she was a young girl)
  • Kirk Hammett - American musician who has been the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica since 1983 (his mother Teofila Oyao is from Cebu).
  • Darren Criss - a Hollywood actor, singer, and songwriter (His mother was from Cebu)
  • Rodrigo Duterte - 16th President of the Philippines (His father was from Danao City, Cebu)
  • Manny Pacquiao - Senator and Eight Division World Boxing Champion (His father was from Pinamungahan, Cebu)
  • Francis Magalona - Actor, the filipino king of rap (His mother was from Cebu City)
  • Ian Veneracion - Actor, athlete, pilot, singer (his mother is from Lilo-an, Cebu)
  • Anabelle Rama
    is from Cebu)
  • Anabelle Rama
    is from Cebu)
  • Anabelle Rama
    is from Cebu)
  • Jovit Baldivino - Singer and actor. He was the first winner of Pilipinas Got Talent in 2010.(his father is from Dalaguete, Cebu)
  • Mitoy Yonting - Singer, comedian and actor. He was the winner of the first season of The Voice of the Philippines in 2013. (He is from Ginatilan, Cebu)
  • Terrence Romeo - Professional basketball player. (His father is from Boljoon, Cebu)
  • Tina Paner - Actress and singer (her father Manny Paner is from Cebu)
  • Danita Paner - Actress and pop-rock singer (her father Manny Paner is from Cebu)
  • Rafael Rosell - Actor (His father is a Cebuano geologist)
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