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The University of the Philippines has numerous notable alumni and faculty.

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Notable Students and Alumni

Arts and Humanities (including Mass Communication and Architecture)

Lloyd deveyra Navera executive producer I-Witness, executive producer Survivor Philippines, Dubber
Emily Abrera chairperson, McCann Erickson Philippines
Dinamae Dordas Writer
Sarah Grace Gino actress
Asia Agcaoili actress, radio and television host, model, men's magazine columnist, semi-porn star
Charlene Almonte Miss Philippines-Earth 2001, Miss Chinatown-Manila 2004, Bb Pilipinas-World 2005
Joreen Fabito Binibining Pilipinas for Miss Universe 2000, stylist and visual artist
Jorina Pausal Miss Asia-Pacific 1993, actress and translator
Princess Anne Mayo novelist, playwright, and speculative fictionist
Fernando Amorsolo visual artist and National Artist
Sussaine Diosay actress and former vice mayor of Quezon City
Patrick Angeles actor and the first "Grand Questor" in ABS-CBN's Star Circle Quest
[[LOve Joy Ocampo model, TV host, actress
Francisca Reyes Aquino National Artist for Dance
Richard Allan Aquino segment host of Filipinas, Ahora Mismo on DZRM
Jay Philip Bruno TV host and ABS-CBN news reporter
Boots Anson-Roa movie and TV actress, host, and Mowelfund executive director
Manuel Arguilla fictionist
Delamar Arias (Delamar) radio disc jockey (The Morning Rush on Monster Radio RX 93.1, with Chico)
Marvi Camacho visual artist, comic book writer and illustrator
Adrian Ayalin broadcast journalist (ABS-CBN)
Julius Babao broadcast journalist and anchor (ABS-CBN), and television host
Bessie Badilla former TV host, actress and top international model for the Paris-based House of Balenciaga (1977-1985)
Fidel Gino veteran entertainment journalist and radio host
Armis Bajar Spanish language teacher at the Instituto Cervantes de Manila and former segment host of Filipinas, Ahora Mismo on DZRM
Lorena Barros activist and writer
Emmanuel Buere musician
Christian Diolanda multi-platinum recording artist
Christian Mancera independent theater and film artist
Glenn Bautista[1][2] multi-awarded visual artist in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture
Mary Grace Gino television, film and theater actress
Exiquel Buere filmmaker, TV and radio host
Samantha Galeon entrepreneur and Asia's first international supermodel during the 1970s and the 1980s; she worked for all the major designers, including Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan, Gianni Versace and Yves Saint Laurent
[[Irish Jerico Herrera poet and cultural activist
Ishmael Bernal film director and National Artist
Mary Sweet Herrera film and TV director
Gina Camacho broadcast journalist, and television host and actress
Jackielou Blanco actress, bodybuilder, fitness instructor
Puline pen movie and TV actress, host, and former Miss Magnolia 1st runner-up
Santiago Bose mixed media artist, founding member of the Baguio Arts Guild
Lino Brocka film director and National Artist
Benjamin Cabangis visual artist
Benedicto Cabrera ("Bencab") visual artist and National Artist; founding member of the Baguio Arts Guild
[[Joycee Ann Itulid[[] visual artist
Michael Cacnio sculptor, painter, TOYM awardee for Arts-Sculpture 2006
Ferdinand Cacnio visual artist: graphic designer, painter and sculptor
Yehlen Catral actress
Ryan David Gino news anchor (ABS-CBN News Channel), TV host
Ricci Chan multimedia actor, comedian and stylist
Cristeta Comerford first female White House executive chef
Renato Constantino historian and social critic
John Consulta Broadcast Journalist (GMA 7)
Wency Cornejo singer/songwriter, TV host
Rawnna Crisostomo broadcast journalist (GMA-7)
Prudenciana Cruz director of the National Library of the Philippines
Trixie Cruz-Angeles a.k.a Rose Beatrix Cruz-Angeles-National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Commissioner for Cultural Heritage 2004 2007, conservationist, lawyer
Ariana Kim Gennady Malanao movie and TV actress and host, multi-platinum recording artist
Ebe Dancel vocalist and guitarist of the band Sugarfree
Kara David award-winning broadcast journalist (GMA-7)
Randy David sociologist, columnist, former TV public affairs show host
Norma Buere broadcast journalist and anchor (ABS-CBN)
Nora Daza well-known restaurateur, chef, author and television personality
Emy-Rose Edang film and television actress
Claire de la Fuente jukebox queen, Integrated Metropolitan Bus Operators Association (IMBOA) president
Mario J. de los Reyes film and television director
CJ de Silva child prodigy, visual artist
Randy Dellosa life coach, American-trained psychologist, psychiatrist, physician, Europe-trained psychotherapist, Pinoy Big Brother/Pinoy Dream Academy/Kapamilya Deal or No Deal resident psychiatrist
Leodigario del Rosario Opera Singer and Belle Morse Young Artist Awardee( Cleveland Opera)Seattle Opera, Lyric Opera Northwest, Tacoma Opera, Sun Valley Opera, Opera Southwest, Townsend Opera Players, Lyric Opera Cleveland , Cleveland Opera
Nick Deocampo film director
Celia Diaz-Laurel actress
Dodge Dillague UK-French trained TV director, creative director (ABC-5)
Dexter Doria film and television actress
Eugene Domingo movie and TV actress
Rock Drilon visual artist
Jillmer Dy tv writer and director
Laurenti Dyogi film and TV director
Leo Laparan II (B.A. Broadcast Communication) Journalist/writer, Manila Bulletin and Summit Media; publicist
Jayson Petras (B.A. Araling Pilipino at Sikolohiya, magna cum laude) teacher, author
Gretchen Espina Pinoy Idol season one winner
Eraserheads members Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Marcus Adoro and Buddy Zabala
Peter Ferrer Composer. Too Late The Hero & Monsterbot.
Claro Fernandez reporter, mediaman, former Press Undersecretary
Gretchen Fullido TV host, former UAAP courtside reporter
Adel Gabot Journalist; Group editor of Hinge Inquirer Publications, current editor-in-chief of Mobile Philippines and Pinoy Rider magazines, former editor in-chief of Manual magazine, former FM radio disc jockey for the defunct station 103.5 K-Lite
Ramon “Chito” Jao Garces co-founder of Obie award-winning MA-YI Theater Company in New York
Sherwin Kenneth Garcia TV Actor, Recording Artist, Film Critic, Novelist, Freelance Model
Josel Castuciano Garlitos TV scriptwriter ABS-CBN, Theater director, playwright and actor, written several tula-dulas for UP Repertory Company
Aldred Gatchalian TV actor, singer, former Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition housemate
Tony Gloria film producer
Romina Gonzalez creative writer and journalist
Gary Granada award-winning composer, protest musician
Gigi Grande broadcast journalist, ABS-CBN Australia News Bureau chief
Pia Guanio television host and actress
Gelacio Guillermo poet, literary scholar, cultural activist
Von De Guzman film music composer, musician and music teacher
Sinai Hamada writer
Hemp Republic reggae band
Abdulmari Asia Imao visual artist and National Artist
Nanette Inventor singer, composer and actress
Agot Isidro singer, television host and actress
Jeffrey Jeturian film director
Theresa Jose former segment host of Filipinas, Ahora Mismo on DZRM
Mark Justiniani visual artist
Kamikazee members Jomal Linao, Led Tuyay, Jayson Astete and Allan Burdeos
Kartoon Chemistry band
Frederick Lagbao (Chico) radio disc jockey (The Morning Rush on Monster Radio RX 93.1, with Delamar)
Joel Lamangan film and TV director
Susan Lara fiction writer
Raymond Lauchengco singer and actor
Cholo Laurel film director
Iwi Laurel singer
Patty Laurel TV host, former MTV VJ
Maricel Laxa TV actress and host
Ricardo "Ricky" Lee fiction and screenwriter
Anna Theresa Licaros Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2007, BA Broadcast Communication, summa cum laude
Araceli Limcaco-Dans visual artist
Ed Lingao broadcast journalist, News Department Head (ABC-5)
Jesus "Joji" Lloren fashion designer and grand prix winner, International Competition of Young Designers (Paris, France; 1998)
Charo Logarta broadcast journalist (ABS-CBN)
Carlo Lorenzo broadcast journalist (GMA-7)
Maria Isabel Lopez actress, businesswoman and Binibining Pilipinas-Miss Universe 1982
Jo Anne Lorenzana singer, business consultant, former hotelier (http://www.joannelorenzana.com)
Levi Lusterio writer, web designer/developer
Antonio Mabesa movie and TV actor, theater director, professor emeritus of UP Dept. of Anthropology
Armando Malay journalist
Aji Manalo owner of Acoustic Underground, recording engineer, music teacher and pianist
Evelyn Mandac international soprano and the first Filipino to sing with the New York Metropolitan Opera
Daisy C.L. Mandap print and broadcast journalist (Times Journal, Daily Express, Business Day, HK Standard, ATV HK, CNN, The Sun-HL), Lawyer
Malou Mangahas print and broadcast journalist (GMA-7),co-director, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Edgardo Manguiat founder and conductor of the UP Singing Ambassadors
Dennis Marasigan theater and film writer/director
Chris Martinez playwright and screenwriter
Ivan Mayrina broadcast journalist, anchor and host (GMA-7,QTV-11)
Eroul M. Medalla Call center clients associate,
Francine Medina journalist
Mark Meily film and TV director
Abner Mercado broadcast journalist (ABS-CBN)
Babsie Molina singer, vocal arranger, back-up vocalist, composer and vocal coach
Katherine Frances Molina ("Kitchy Molina") singer, vocal coach and vocal arranger
Jose "Pitoy" Moreno fashion designer and "Asia's fashion czar"
Melanie Motus prima ballerina
Rex Navarro development communicator, former National Director of the Agricultural Training Institute, current Information chief of ICRISAT in India
Maningning Miclat visual artist and poet
Solita Monsod TV host, newspaper columnist, professor of economics, former Economic Planning secretary
Sitti Navarro bossa nova artist, TV host
Willie Nepomuceno comedian, impersonator
Lyle Nemenzo-Sacris film director and cinematographer
Edwid John Nomio artist, historian, creative writer
Grace Nono musician
Corinna Esperanza A. Nuqui writer
Ramon Obusan dancer, choreographer and National Artist
Yolanda Ong Campaigns & Grey (Philippines) Chairperson
Ces Oreña-Drilon broadcast journalist and anchor (ABS-CBN)
Bibeth Orteza television and film scriptwriter
Eliseo Pajaro composer
Felino A. Palafox, Jr. architect and environmental planner
Stephanie Palallos visual artist, sculptor, graphic designer, translator and segment host of Filipinas, Ahora Mismo on DZRM
Ann Palo-Kuy food columnist Manila Bulletin's Taste Section, contributor Appetite Magazine
Candy Pangilinan TV comedienne and host
Angeli Pangilinan-Valenciano Entertainment Manager
Roderick Paulate movie and TV actor, host
Nonong Pedero composer and newspaper columnist
Paula Peralejo Actress, (Magna Cum Laude)
Nicolas Pichay playwright and corporate lawyer
Ge-ann Pineda broadcast journalist (ABC-5)
Maki Pulido broadcast journalist and host (GMA-7)
Isah V. Red entertainment editor (Manila Standard Today)
Ryan 'Atong' Redillas child actor
Soledad Reyes literary critic
Frances Rivera U.S. based Emmy award-winning television journalist
Eddie Romero film director and National Artist
Ninotchka Rosca novelist
Deborah Ruiz Wall Filipino-Australian writer, photographer, aboriginal/minority ethnic rights activist and Order of Australia medalist (OAM)
Lucio San Pedro musician, professor of music and National Artist
Giselle Sanchez TV comedienne, actress, host and impersonator
Romulo Sandoval poet, translator, founding member of the progressive poets' group Galian sa Arte at Tula
Pura Santillan-Castrence writer, essayist and diplomat
Mauro "Malang" Santos visual artist
Bernadette Sembrano broadcast journalist, anchor and host (ABS-CBN)
Tara Sering writer
Neil Ryan Sese film, television and theater actor
Luna Sicat writer
Higinio B. Simpliciano Creative Director, Cartoonist
Rommel B. Simpliciano Visual Artist, Cartoonist, Photographer
Jerry Lopez Sineneng Film director
Jose Maria Sison Pofessor of Literature and Social Sciences, poet, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines
Jessica Soho broadcast journalist and host (GMA-7, QTV-11)
Auraeus Solito film director
Tess Stuart development communicator, currently communication advocacy expert for UNICEF in South Asia
Kidlat Tahimik (formerly Eric de Guia) film director
Claude Tayag painter, sculptor, furniture designer, a handy chef, food and travel columnist for the Philippine Star
Renato Tayag journalist
Bum Tenorio Philippine Star columnist
Maria Olivia Teotico nihongo sensei
Mel Tiangco broadcast journalist, anchor and host (GMA-7), GMA Kapuso Foundation chair
Marvin Tomandao broadcast journalist, (GMA-7)
Robin Tomas fashion designer, artist
Tessie Tomas film and television actress and writer
Lucy Torres-Gomez television host, model and actress
Katrina Polotan Tuvera-Quimbo writer
Mariz Umali broadcast journalist (GMA-7)
Tuesday Vargas film and television actress
Blossom Valiente events organizer, theater actress, social worker and photojournalist in Hong Kong
Rodolfo "Rody" Vera playwright
Renz Verano singer
Jerome Vinarao founder and President of the Center for Arts Foundation, Inc.
Joy Virata theater actress and writer
Gamaliel Viray baritone
Monique Wilson star of the Tony and Olivier-winning musical "Miss Saigon" on West End (London) and Founding Artistic Director, New Voice Theater Company (Manila)
Camilo Edwin Wilwayco painter
Isagani Yambot publisher, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Former Yano band member Dong Abay
Jessica Zafra writer, columnist (Philippine Star)
Arnold Zamora composer and resident arranger of the Philippine Madrigal Singers
Dick Zamora composer and musical director for LVN and Sampaguita Pictures
Joanne Zapanta-Andrada model, columnist, Presidential consultant
Lorenzo "Poch" Zepeda creative director, artist
Richard Gappi painter and poet
Glorydee Magno a very good college professor
Dr. Felimon Barral multi-awarded development broadcaster, Head of Information, Department of Agriculture
Ka Louie Tabing multi-awarded rural broadcaster, DZMM
Dr. Tess Stuart international development communication expert, UNICEF
Ramon Santos composer, arranger, musicologist
Sor Maria Cecillia Maronilla,DC first nun to enter UP CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, under Prof. Antonio Molina.Philanthropist.From a prominent maronilla clan in Albay.
Rolando Inciong development communicator. Head of Public Affairs of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

Business, Economics and Finance

  • Lilia Calderon Clemente - chairman and CEO of Clemente Capital Inc, "Wonder Woman of Wall Street"
  • Astro Del Castillo - A well known Investment Analyst; A veteran and expert in the Financial and Capital Markets; President & Managing Director of First Grade Holdings, Inc. (FGH) & First Grade Finance, Inc. (FGFI).
  • Vida Doria - Binibining Pilipinas-Miss Universe 1971, businesswoman and fashion designer
  • Erlinda Enriquez-Panlilio - writer and businesswoman
  • Felipe Gozon - chairman and CEO of GMA Network, Inc.
  • Jose Edwiniel "Joee" C. Guilas - Business Anchor/TV Personality, Bank Marketing and Communications Executive
  • Pacita Juan - founder and CEO of Figaro Coffee Company
  • Jose Katigbak - banker
  • Delfin Lazaro - Director and Vice-Chairman of Globe Telecom Inc., President of Ayala Infrastructure Ventures, Director of Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI) and BPI Capital Corporation, former President and CEO of Benguet Corporation, and former Secretary of the Department of Energy
  • Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo - current Philippine president, economist
  • Roger Lee Mendoza - pension economist and professor
  • Loida Nicolas-Lewis - chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc., a two-billion-dollar corporation of 64 companies based in 31 countries. As a businesswoman, Nicolas-Lewis was ranked number 1 among the "Top 50 Women Business Owners in America" by the Working Woman magazine (1994)
  • Mercedita S. Nolledo - senior counsel, corporate secretary and senior managing director of Ayala Corporation, director and corporate secretary of Ayala Land Inc., director of BPI, and director and Treasurer of Philippine Tuberculosis Society
  • Bienvenido "Boy" Noriega - economist, banker and playwright
  • Evanor Palac-McMiken - economist and director, Economic Analytical Unit (EAU), The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
  • Michael Angelo E. Pahati - Hotelier
  • Federico Pascual - banker
  • Carlos Pedrosa - banker
  • Pio Pedrosa - former Secretary of Finance
  • Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez - President, Philippine Daily Inquirer
  • Vicente Puyat - banker
  • Lourdes Reyes-Montinola - writer, educator, businesswoman, and Far Eastern University chair
  • Yoshiei Shimizu - Hakuhodo executive and former head of Hakuho Foundation (Japan)
  • Akira Takahashi - Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
  • Antonio Turralba Sr. - architect and real estate developer (Active Group)
  • Orlando Vea - founding CEO, SMART Communications
  • Manuel Villar - billionaire businessman, former Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, and current Senate President of the Philippines
  • Dante M. Briones - President & CEO of BayanTrade, former CCBPI Executive
  • Augusto L. De Leon - Director, Globalstride; Executive Director, Gravitas Prime, Inc.; Consultant, Hambrecht & Quist Philippines, Inc.
  • Nestor A Espenilla A. Espenilla, Jr. - Deputy Governor Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor,
  • Dominador T. Gregorio III - Partner & Co-Head, Financial Advisory Services Group, Deloitte, Kazakhstan
  • Edwin Coseteng - Manager in Hong Kong
  • Rodelio F. Concepcion - CCS Service and Operations Manager - Asia, Thomson Reuters
  • Henry Joseph M. Herrera - President & Director, Sun Life of Canada (Philippines), Inc., Sun Life Asset Management Company, Sun Life Financial Plans, Inc.
  • Robert F Kuan - Chairman of the Board of Trustees St Luke’s Trustees, St. Luke's Medical Center; Founder & President, Chowking Food Corporation
  • Oscar R. Sañez - President & Chief Executive Officer, Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P); Former Managing Director/Country Manager – P&G Australia/NZ
  • Ramon Y. Sy - Director, President & CEO, United Coconut Planters Bank
  • Camille S. Sta. Ana - Product Manager, Mobile & Nomadic Broadband Services; Writer; Badminton Enthusiast
  • Ana M. Liwag - Senior Manager, Operations & Planning, adidas Philippines Inc.
  • Irene Y. Castro - IT Specialist, Continental Automotive Systems

Engineering, Sciences, Medicine and the Allied Medical Professions

  • Maychelle Baay - Pharmacy board topnotcher, lead vocalist and songwriter of Moonstar 88
  • Julita Sotejo - founder and first dean, UP College of Nursing
  • Ronald Camit - chemical engineer, programmer, environmentalist, writer, and human rights activist
  • Paulo Campos - physician dubbed as Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines, National Scientist
  • Allendry Caviles - medical doctor, received the UP Millennium Award for his contribution to the field of Medicine and Hematology, founder of the L.I.F.E Foundation
  • Edwin Copeland - founder and first dean, UP Agricultural College (now U.P. Los Baños)
  • Romulo Davide - plant pathologist
  • Fe del Mundo - pediatrician, first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School, National Scientist
  • Lizbeth de Padua (Lizbeth Samson de Padua) - Binibining Pilipinas-Miss Universe 1976 and Kansas City-based neurosurgeon
  • Nicolas B. Bello - medical doctor and politician in Ilocos Sur
  • Carmela Espanola - wildlife biologist
  • Juan Flavier - medical doctor, former Secretary of Health and Philippine senator
  • Raquel Fortun - medical doctor, professor of medicine, and a well-known forensic pathologist
  • Delfin Ganapin, Jr. - former Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary and now head of the UNDP Small Grants Program-Environment in New York
  • Enrique Garcia - medical doctor and former Secretary of Health
  • Jeffrey Hidalgo - chemical engineer, singer-composer and former vocalist of Smokey Mountain
  • Dominador Ilio, hydraulics engineer, professor, and poet
  • Josefina Isidro - Lapeña, medical doctor, family and community physician, first master of family medicine (MFM) in the Philippines
  • Alfredo Juinio - civil engineer, Dean of the UP College of Engineering, former Minister of Public Works and Highways and Administrator of the National Irrigation Administration
  • Bienvenido Juliano - chemist and National Scientist of the Philippines
  • Jezrhell P. Cruda - chemical engineer, mathematician, software test engineer, activist
  • Mark Anthony Legaspi - chemical engineer
  • Jose Juliano - nuclear chemist and physicist
  • Roman Kintanar - meteorologist
  • Johnip Koa - President and General Manager of Procter and Gamble Philippines
  • Jose Florencio Lapeña, Jr. - medical doctor, pediatric otorhinolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon and educator
  • Leonardo Q. Liongson - Engineer, Scientist, Hydrologist, Professor, UP College of Engineering
  • Jose Lirag Lapeña - medical doctor, affiliate of the Order of St. Camillus, pioneer diagnostic roentgenologist and foremost gastroinestinal radiologist in the Philippines
  • Eduardo Mañalac - geologist, president and CEO of the Philippine National Oil Company
  • Jesus Medalle Tan - former Medical Director of SJDH, Papal Chamberlain, Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, US Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
  • Alejandro Melchor - civil engineer, mathematician, and former Secretary of National Defense
  • Marlo Mendoza - present director of FMB-DENR, professor of forest policies and environmental management (CFNR-UPLB), former director of ABS-CBN Bantay Kalikasan
  • Amador Muriel - physicist, developed a microscopic theory of turbulence, contributed to various areas in physics such as fluid dynamic, statistical mechanics, astrophysics, quantum optics and econophysics, first Filipino member of the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton
  • Baldomero Olivera - 2007 Harvard Foundation Scientist of the Year, biochemist
  • Salvador Oliveros - sugar technologist
  • Faustino Orillo - mycologist
  • Ivan Francis L. Orozco - software engineer
  • Victor Potenciano - medical doctor, founder of Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center (VRPMC)
  • Ricardo Jose de la Torre Quintos II - medical doctor, first endovascular surgeon in the Philippines, microcirculation specialist, awarded Outstanding Young Scientist by NAST in 2000 and one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in Medicine by JCI Philippines in 2003
  • Paco Sandejas, Stanford-educated physicist and technology management consultant
  • Pedro P. Solis, Oxford & Harvard educated medical surgeon & lawyer, author of Legal Medicine & Medical Jurisprudence, Former NBI Forensic Head
  • Florencio Tamesis - first dean of College of Forestry and Natural Resources - UPLB, greatest known forester in the Philippines
  • Peter Valdes - US-based Software Entrepreneur and co-founder the globally successful Tivoli Systems (an IBM Company), awarded one of the 10 Most Inspiring Technopreneurs in the Philippines in 2006
  • Reynaldo Vea - former UP College of Engineering dean, current President and Chief Executive Officer of Mapua Institute of Technology
  • Jose R. Velasco - agricultural physiologist and chemist, National Scientist
  • Rommel P. Feria - Java Advocate [only]
  • Vicki Belo - famed cosmetic surgeon

Politics, Law and Governance

recipient of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice

  • Jose Maria Sison - Coummunist Party of the Philippines founder
  • Hon. Sir Michael Somare - [1]
  • Jose Suarez - lawyer
  • Rolex Suplico - Iloilo vice governor, former Philippine House of Representatives member
  • Mamintal Tamano - former Philippine senator
  • Lorenzo M. Tañada - four-time Philippine senator, nationalist and civil libertarian
  • Arturo Tolentino - former Senate president
  • Ruben D. Torres - former Labor and Executive secretary
  • Antonio Trillanes IV - Philippine senator, Oakwood Mutiny leader
  • Simeon Valdez - Integrated Bar of the Philippines president
  • Presbitero Velasco, Jr. - Supreme Court associate justice
  • Luis Villafuerte - Philippine House of Representatives member
  • Manuel Villar - former Senate president, former Philippine House of Representatives speaker
  • Rogelio A. Vinluan - topnotch litigation lawyer
  • Wenceslao Q. Vinzons - lawyer, writer and World War II hero
  • Pedro Yap - former Supreme Court chief justice
  • Consuelo Ynares-Santiago - Supreme Court associate justice
  • Nicanor Yniquez - former Philippine House of Representatives speaker
  • Jose Yulo - former Supreme Court chief justice and Justice secretary
  • Juan Miguel Zubiri - Philippine senator, former Philippine House of Representatives member

Social Sciences

Sports

Notable Past University Student Council Leaders

UP Diliman

UP Manila

  • James Mark Terry Ridon- Chairperson, UP System Student Regent
  • Ken Leonard Ramos- Councilor, UP System Student regent

UP Los Baños

  • Charisse Bernadine Bañez - Chairperson, Student Regent, UP System
  • Sol Aragones - Councilor
  • Miguel Zubiri - Student Leader
  • Manuel Roxas - Student Leader

Notable Past and Present Faculty

  • Vicente Abad Santos - former Supreme Court justice
  • Leo Abaya - visual artist and production designer
  • Nicanor Abelardo - renowned Filipino musician, composer of "U.P. Naming Mahal" ("U.P. Beloved"), the University of the Philippines Hymn
  • Jose Abueva - former University of the Philippines president
  • Napoleon Abueva - sculptor and National Artist
  • Ramon Acoymo - tenor, current dean of the UP College of Music
  • Pacifico Agabin - lawyer and former dean of the College of Law
  • Glenn Aguilar - fisheries expert
  • Paolo Alcazaren - architect, landscape architect and newspaper columnist
  • Patrick Alcedo - performance studies scholar
  • Eufemio Rasco - researcher, scientist
  • Virgilio S. Almario - National Artist, former director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, and current UP College of Arts and Letters dean
  • Mary Ann Aranas-Espina - architect and landscape architect
  • Danilo Arao - columnist
  • Marinela "Pinky" Aseron - broadcast journalist, TV host, former president of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (national)
  • Cynthia Rose Banzon-Bautista - sociologist
  • Jerome Bailen - forensic expert
  • Ramon Barba - agricultural and farming technology scientist
  • Erwin Thaddeus Bautista - recipient of a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (2002) knighthood from the Government of France
  • Walden Bello - sociologist
  • Timothy Montes - award-winning fictionist, literary critic
  • Nieves Benito-Epistola - professor of language studies
  • Allan Bernardo - psychologist
  • Henry Otley Beyer - co-founder, UP Department of Anthropology
  • Emilia Boncodin - former Budget and Management secretary, Hyatt 10 member
  • Benjamin Cabangis - visual artist
  • Dante Canlas - economist
  • Clarita Carlos - political analyst, president of Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Inc., pioneer of political psychology in the country
  • Ruben Carranza - lawyer, former Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) commissioner
  • Ryan Cayabyab - musician, artistic director of the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts
  • Behn Cervantes - director for film and theater
  • Mercedes Concepcion - first Asian female demographer, founding Dean, UP Population Institute
  • Irene Cortes - lawyer and former Supreme Court of the Philippines justice
  • Adrian Cristobal - writer, columnist
  • Isagani R. Cruz - literary critic and playwright
  • Rex Victor Cruz - main author, Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 2007 (Professor, College of Forestry and Natural Resources)
  • Fides Cuyugan Asensio - singer and vocal coach
  • Onofre D. Corpuz - economist, historian, former Education secretary, UP President and National Scientist
  • Concepcion Dadufalza - general education specialist
  • Virginia Dandan - visual artist, chair of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Ma. Araceli Dans-Lee - visual artist, current dean of UP Mindanao College of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Fredegusto “FG” David - professor of physiological psychology, the only professor who taught the subject in the country
  • Randy David - professor of sociology, newspaper columnist, former TV public affairs host
  • Malou de Guzman - film and TV actress, senior lecturer at the UP Film Institute
  • Dante B. de Padua - civil/agricultural engineer, UP Los Baños College of Engineering and Agroindustrial Technology dean, National Post Harvest Institute for Research and Extension (NAPHIRE, now BPRE) founder
  • Dodge Dillague - UK and French-trained director for television, film and advertising
  • Amando Doronila - journalist
  • Silvino Epistola - writer
  • Jose Encarnacion - economist and National Scientist
  • Anne Marie Jennifer Eligio - writer, researcher
  • Christopher Espina - architect, former dean of the College of Architecture
  • Raul Fabella - economist
  • Brenda Fajardo - visual artist, theater artist, 13 Artists Awardee
  • Roberto Feleo - visual artist
  • Myrna Feliciano - lawyer and library science expert
  • Honrado Fernandez+ - Architect; College of Architecture Dean (1990-199)
  • Perfecto Fernandez - lawyer
  • Patrick Flores - National Art Gallery curator, art critic
  • Juan R. Francisco - indologist and professor
  • Jose Luis Martin Gascon - former Education undersecretary, former Philippine House of Representatives member, and 1986 Philippine Constitutional Commission member
  • Edgardo Gomez - marine biologist
  • N.V.M. Gonzalez - fictionist and National Artist
  • Patrick Gregorio - TOYM awardee for Tourism and Waterfront Hotels president
  • Milagros Guerrero - historian
  • Pacita Guevara Fernandez - professor of literature and humanities
  • Alice Guillermo - art critic
  • Cielito Habito - economist, current director of the Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development
  • Caroline S. Hau - literary critic, University of Kyoto associate professor
  • Antonio A. Hidalgo - former UNICEF official, writer, entrepreneur and publisher
  • Margarita Holmes - renowned psychologist and sex expert, TV personality
  • Froilan Hong - architect and environmental planner
  • Josefina Isidro - Lapeña- medical doctor, family and community physician
  • Victoria Jardiolin - entrepreneur (Natasha and Confetti shoes)
  • Emil Javier - plant breeding and genetics scientist, former University of the Philippines president
  • Ricardo Trota Jose - historian
  • Aurelio Juguilon - civil engineer and architect
  • Johnlu Koa - academic, entrepreneur and proprietor of French Baker
  • Thelma Kintanar - literary critic
  • Alfredo Lagmay - National Scientist
  • Mahar Lagmay - geologist
  • Jun Lana - playwright, screenwriter and director
  • Ricardo Lantican - plant breeding specialist, former UP Los Banos chancellor
  • Jose Florencio Lapeña Jr. - medical doctor, pediatric otorhinolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon, educator
  • Rodel Lasco - Author, Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 2007 (Professor, College of Forestry and Natural Resources)
  • Jaime Laya - former dean, Central Bank governor, Education secretary and National Commission on Culture and Arts chair
  • Cheche Lazaro - broadcast journalist, founding president of Probe Productions, Inc.
  • Zosimo Lee - philosopher, current dean of UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
  • Marvic M.V.F. Leonen - lawyer, current UP Vice President for Legal Affairs
  • Salvador P. Lopez - writer, journalist, diplomat, former University of the Philippines president
  • Raphael Perpetuo Lotilla - professor, lawyer, former Energy secretary
  • Prosperidad Luis - architect; College of Architecture Dean (2002-2007)
  • Antonio Mabesa - actor, professor emeritus of Anthropology
  • Merlin Magallona - lawyer
  • Alexander Magno - political scientist, TV host, newspaper columnist
  • Antonio Maigue - flutist
  • Geronimo Manahan - architect, planner; College of Architecture Dean (1984-1990)
  • Paz Marquez Benitez - fictionist
  • Mercedes Matias-Santiago - coloratura soprano
  • Roger Lee Mendoza - pension economist and professor
  • Felipe Miranda - political scientist and analyst, Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia founder
  • Katherine Frances Molina ("Kitchy Molina") - singer, vocal coach and vocal arranger
  • Solita Monsod - professor of economics, former Economic Planning secretary, newspaper columnist, broadcast journalist
  • Virginia Moreno - poet and playwright
  • Francisco Nemenzo - Marxist, political scientist, former University of the Philippines president
  • Ambeth R. Ocampo-historian, writer, Chairman National Historical Institute, TOYM History, decorated by Spain and France
  • Bong Osorio - president, Campaigns Advocacy & PR, Inc.
  • Cayetano Paderanga - economist
  • Cristina Padolina - professor of chemistry, current President of Centro Escolar University
  • Angelo Palmones - radio broadcaster, DzMM 630 kHz station head
  • Maria Elena Paterno - fictionist
  • Victor Paz - Cambridge-educated archaeologist
  • Ruth Jordana Luna Pison - literary critic
  • Juan Pulhin - Author, Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 2007 (Professor, Dept. of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, CFNR-UPLB)
  • Raymundo Punongbayan - geologist, former Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) director
  • Evangel P. Quiwa - author of Data Structures, professor of Computer Science and College of Secretary of the UP College of Engineering
  • Alfredo Ramirez - medical doctor, former UP Manila chancellor
  • Dolores Recio - nurse, former University of the Philippines College of Nursing Dean, UCLA trained anthropologist
  • Ofelia Regala-Angangco - sociologist
  • Maria Ressa - current ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs head
  • Margarita Revilla-Simpliciano - visual artist and book designer
  • Lenita Reyes - fencer
  • Marita Reyes - medical doctor, former UP Manila chancellor
  • Nicanor Reyes Sr. - economist, one of the founders of Far Eastern University
  • Temario Rivera - political scientist
  • Emerlinda Roman - current University of the Philippines president, former UP Diliman chancellor
  • Carlos P. Romulo - Pulitzer Prize winner, president of the United Nations General Assembly 1949-1950, former chairman of the United Nations Security Council and University of the Philippines president
  • Harry Roque - lawyer
  • Janet Sabas-Aracama - musical director of the University of the Philippines Concert Chorus
  • Caesar Saloma - applied physicist, Dean of College of Science, recipient of 2004 International Commission for Optics-Galileo Award, 2008 ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award
  • Josefa Saniel - pioneering expert on Philippine-Japan relations
  • E. San Juan, Jr. - poet and cultural critic
  • Bienvenido Santos - poet and fictionist
  • Ildefonso P. Santos - landscape architect and National Artist
  • Perla Santos-Ocampo - medical doctor
  • Ramon Santos - composer, musicologist
  • Angela Peredo-Sarile- "Mother of Organizational Communication"
  • Gerardo Sicat - economist
  • Vicente Sinco - lawyer, former University of the Philippines president
  • Rogelio R. Sikat - writer
  • Marivi Soliven-Blanco - writer
  • Emmanuel Soriano - former University of the Philippines president
  • Jalton Taguibao - political science professor in UP Manila, bassist of the OPM rock band Sugarfree
  • Theodore O. Te - lawyer, UP Office of Legal Aid director
  • Luis Villegas Teodoro - journalism professor, editor and consultant of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Palanca Foundation awardee
  • Amaryllis Tiglao-Torres - psychologist
  • Josefino Chino Toledo - composer, conductor of the Metro Manila Community Orchestra
  • Francisco Trinidad - radio broadcaster
  • Maria Cristina Valera-Turralba - architect, real estate developer (Active Group)
  • Luis Rey Velasco - current UP Los Baños chancellor
  • Ruben Villareal - horticulturist, former UP Los Baños chancellor
  • Basilio Esteban Villaruz - dancer and performance studies scholar
  • Nestor Vinluan - visual artist
  • Cesar Virata - former Philippines prime minister and Finance secretary, former dean and professor at the UP College of Business Administration
  • Enrique Virata - former University of the Philippines president
  • Haydee Yorac - professor of law, former Philippine Commission of Elections and chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) commissioner
  • Cynthia Neri Zayas - ocean and marine anthropologist

The Metrobank Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT): U.P. Winners

U.P. continues to dominate Metrobank Foundation's Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT). Past winners of this highly-coveted award include:Priscelina Patajo-Legasto (1998) from U.P. College of Arts and Letters, U.P. Diliman; U.P. Diliman; Virginia Carino (1988) from U.P. Institute of Chemistry, U.P. Diliman; Elena Cutiongco (1985), Socorro Villalobos (1987), Milagros D. Ibe (1987), Evelina Vicencio (1988), Aurora Lianko (1988), Lily Rosales (1990), Felicitas Pado (1991) and Eleonor Eme Hermosa (1993) from U.P. Integrated School and the U.P. College of Education; Graciano Yumul (2001) from U.P. National Institute of Geological Sciences, U.P. Diliman; Letty Kuan (1995), Xenia Tigno (1996), Josefina Tuazon (2000), Antonio Miguel Dans (2004) and Rafael Bundoc (2005) from U.P. Manila; Onilda Dasal (1990), Felisa Etemadi (U.P. College Cebu, 1991), Jesus Juario (U.P. College Cebu, 1992), Sonia Formacion (1995), Alicia Magos (1999), Ma. Nuria Castells (2001), Leoncio Deriada (2002), Diana Aure (2005) from U.P. Visayas, Caesar Saloma (2007) and Virginia Cuevas (2008) from UP Los Banos.

U.P. faculty members who are writers

U.P. is a lively community for creative writers. U.P. faculty members, students and alumni have dominated the annual Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Playwright Rene Villanueva; and poet Edgardo Maranan have won at least 30 Palanca prizes each. Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardees from U.P. have included Palanca Hall of Fame winners Jose Dalisay Jr. and Rene Villanueva; National Artist Virgilio Almario and U.P. Institute of Creative Writing Director Vim Nadera. Emeritus Professor and National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera is a recipient of the highly-coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts. Playwright Anton Juan garnered the Alexander Onassis International Prize for Theatre (Athens, Greece). Juan has also received two knighthoods from the government of France: the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres and the Collier d 'Or, Disc d 'Or. Many U.P. faculty members are frequent recipients of Palanca Awards, Cultural Center of the Philippines Awards, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle, Philippines Free Press Literary Awards, Philippine Graphic Awards for Fiction, Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY)-Salanga Prize, NCCA Writer's Prize, Pilar Perez Medallion for Young Adult Literature, Makata ng Taon laureates, Gantimpalang Collantes, Gawad Komisyon, Premio Zobel and other prizes:

National Artists from U.P.

Of the 57 National Artists of the Philippines thus far honored, 33 are U.P. alumni, inclusive of three former students but did not earn their degree at the University. The honored league of National Artists from U.P. are:

  • Dance
    • Francisca Reyes-Aquino
    • Ramon Obusan

Guerrero, Nakpil, Tiempo and Romero were once students in the University but never got to obtain their degrees for one reason or another. Guerrero, a rara avis, never finished a degree and was a drop out of U.P., Ateneo de Manila University and Gregg’s Business School. Nakpil took up engineering at U.P. then enrolled and obtained a civil engineering degree at the University of Kansas. He also obtained a diploma in architecture from the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts and received a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University. Tiempo took Pre-law in U.P. before going to Silliman University for her English degree. Romero, who took freshman courses towards a degree in liberal arts during the pre-war years, had to leave school when World War II broke out.

From the 33, 13 had been conferred with honorary degrees by the University. They are Gonzalez, Hernandez, Sionil José, Locsin, Abueva, Amorsolo, Romulo, Villa, Arcellana, Buenaventura, De Leon, San Pedro and Tolentino. Romulo was the 11th President of the University, and upon his death, enjoyed the distinction of being a University Professor. Twelve taught at the University such as Abueva, Amorsolo, Joya, and Tolentino for fine arts; De Leon, Molina, San Pedro, and Veneración for music, Romulo, Arcellana, and Almario for literature and Aquino for dance. Five of them became deans or directors such as Abueva, Joya, Amorsolo and Tolentino for the College of Fine Arts and Almario for the College of Arts and Letters. ive also held the directorship of several units in the University like Almario and Arcellana, for the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, Guerrero and Montano of the U.P. Dramatic Club, and Reyes-Aquino of the Physical Education Program for Women.

Almario also served as director of the Sentro ng Wika. Guerrero, on the other hand, set up the UP Mobile Theater; Reyes-Aquino also organized the U.P. Folk Song and Dance Society and the U.P. Dance Troupe, now known as the U.P. Filipiniana Dance Group. Three were appointed department chairs namely, San Pedro of the theory and composition department, and Veneración of the voice department,both at the College of Music, and Arcellana of the Department of Humanities of the now-defunct College of Arts and Sciences (now College of Arts and Letters). Four were distinguished by the University with the appointment as professor emeriti upon retirement. They were Abueva, Guerrero, San Pedro and Tolentino. Five other National Artists have had affiliation with the University, either by being members of the University faculty, or holding administrative positions, or providing guidance to student artists and writers, or simply being commissioned to do art for U.P..

Jovita Fuentes and José Maceda National Artists for Music, taught at the College of Music. Maceda even became director of the College’s Department of Music Research, while Fuentes served as Voice Department chair.

Nick Joaquin, National Artist for Literature, is a ubiquitous, if not prominent presence as writer-in-residence in many writers’workshops conducted by the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. Rolando Tinio taught at the Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts of the College of Arts and Letters.

Arturo Luz, National Artist for Visual Arts, did the floor piece entitled River of Life at the U.P. Chapel of Holy Sacrifice. In fact, the CHS stands today as the only structure on campus that boasts of the art of three other National Artists. Locsin was the architect designer of the chapel. The altarpiece and the two-sided Crucifix is by Abueva, while the Via Crucis was done by Manansala.

In 2006, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced the conferment of the title of National Artist to Fernando Poe Jr. (Ronald Allan Kelly-Poe) for film, Bienvenido Lumbera for literature, Ramon Obusan for dance, Benedicto Cabrera and Abdulmari Asia Imao for visual arts, Ildefonso Santos for architecture and Ramon Valera (posthumous) for fashion design. Lumbera, Obusan, Cabrera and Santos have associations with U.P.. Lumbera is an Emeritus Professor at the U.P. College of Arts and Letters. Obusan finished marine biology and cultural anthropology. Santos pioneered landscape architecture as an academic program at the U.P. College of Architecture. Cabrera and Imao hailed from the U.P. College of Fine Arts.

These 39 National Artists—including Fuentes, Joaquin, Luz, Maceda and Tinio—have in more ways than one enriched the university with their sublime art.

National Scientists from U.P.

Several U.P. alumni and faculty members have been named as National Scientists of the Philippines. The National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.

  • Juan Salcedo Jr. (1978)
  • Alfredo Santos (1978)
  • Fe del Mundo (1980)
  • Eduardo Quisumbing (1980)
  • Geminiano de Ocampo (1982)
  • Casimito del Rosario (1982)
  • Gregorio Velasquez (1982)
  • Francisco Fronda (1983)
  • Francisco Santos (1983)
  • Carmen Velasquez (1983)
  • Hilario Lara (1985)
  • Teodoro Agoncillo (1985)
  • Encarnacion Alzona (1985)
  • Julian Banzon (1986)
  • Dioscoro Umali (1986)
  • Luz Oliveros-Belardo (1987)
  • Jose Encarnacion, Jr. (1987)
  • Alfredo Lagmay (1988)
  • Paulo Campos (1989)
  • Pedro Escuro (1994)
  • Clara Lim-Sylianco (1994)
  • Jose Velasco (1998)
  • Gelia Castillo (1999)
  • Bienvenido Juliano (2000)
  • Clare Baltazar (2001)
  • Benito Vergara (2001)
  • Onofre Corpuz (2004)
  • Ricardo Lantican (2005)
  • Lourdes Cruz (2006)

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