Literature and Arts
Father of Ilocano Literature
Pedro Bukaneg
Filipino doctor who discover Tiki-tiki
Manuel Guerrero
The Father of Tagalog Poetry
Jose Corazon de Jesus
The Father of Modern Tagalog Poetry
Alejandro Abadilla
The author of “Without seeing the Dawn”
Steven Javellana
Siya ang sumulat ng unang balarilang Ilocano
Francisco Lopez
Siya ang ama ng Panitikang Bisaya
Mariano Perfecto
Siya ang ama ng Moro-moro sa Pangasinan
Santiago Magean
Siya ang ama ng pahayagan, unang nagsalin ng Noli Me Tangere sa wikang Tagalog.
Pascual Poblete
Siya ang makata ng mga manggagawa
Amado V. Hernandez
The author Fray Botod
Graciano Lopez Jaena
Sumulat ng “Uhaw ang tigang na lupa”
Liwayway Arceo
Sumulat ng “Lupang Tinubuan”
Narciso G. Reyes
Sumulat ng “Walang Sugat”
Severino Reyes
Sumulat ng “Banaag at Sikat” Siya ang Ama ng Balarilang Filipino.
Lope K. Santos
Sumulat ng “A child of Sorrow”
Zoilo Galang
Sumulat ng “Kahapon, Ngayun, Bukas”
Aurelio Tolentino
The author of Iliad and Odyssey and the first mythical geographer
Homer
The Filipino is worth dying for.
Benigno Aquino
The Filipino migrant writer, Fil-Am.
Bienvinido Santos
The author of Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
Silas Marner/Mary Ann Evans
George Elliot
He developed the vaccine for rabies
Louis Pastuer
Proponent of Taoism
Lao Tzu
Siya ang ina ni Rizal at nagsilbing unang guro ni Rizal.
Teodora Alonzo
The Filipino poet snubbed by Huseng Sisiw.
Balagtas
The First Palanca Awardee for Short Story in Filipino
Genoveva Matute
The First Palanca Awardee for one-act-Play in Filipino
Dionisio Salazar
The author of Declaration of Phil. Independence
Ambrosio Bautista
She is called as the Literary Colossus of the Visayas
Angel Magahum
The Prince of Filipino printers
Tomas Pinpin
The Father of Filipino Drama
Severino Reyes
Filipino tutor of Spanish king
Pedro Serrano Laktaw
The greatest Chinese poet before revolution
Li Po
The great Russian short story writer (God sees the truth but waits)
Leo Tolstoy
He wrote the Tragedy of Faust
Goethe
The dramatist known as the Most Modern of Moderns
Eugen O'Neill
Known as the India’s Shakespeare
Kalidasa
The greatest Indian writer
Tagore
He established the National Theater in Spain
Lope de Vega
A poet that had an eccentric use of punctuations, making use of dashes liberally for emphasis
Emily Dickinson
Siya ang kauna- unahang manlilimbag na Pilipino
Tomas Pinpin
He proposed the idea that the first Filipinos came through waves of migration from South to North
Henry Otley Beyer
Siya ang ina ng Biak-na-Bato at ina ng Krus na Pula (Red Cross)
Trinidad Tecson
The first vice president of the Republic of the Philippines
Mariano Trias
He is considered as the Father of the modern American short story
Edgar Allan Poe
The author of “How my Brother Leon brought home a Wife”
Manuel Arguilla
Siya ang sumulat ng "Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog"
Andres Bonifacio
Siya ang sumulat ng "Pag-Ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa"
Andres Bonifacio
Ang may-akda ng "Ninay"
Pedro Paterno
Ang may-akda ng "El Vidadero Decalogo"
Apolinario Mabini
Ang may akda ng "El Amor Patrio"
Jose Rizal
Ang may akda ng "Fraylocracia"
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Ang may akda ng "Dasalan at Toksohan"
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Sumulat ng Bibliotica Filipina
Padre de Tavera
Sumulat ng Doctrina Cristiana
Fray Juan de Plasencia
Sumulat ng "Sucesos delas islas Filipinas"
Antonio Morga
Sumulat ng Historia General de Filipinas
Jose Vidal
Sumulat ng Relacion de las Islas Filipinas
Miguel Loarce
Sumulat ng Remarks on the Philippine Islands
Henry Pedington
Sumulat ng Historia de la Provincial delos Santo Rosario
Diego de Advante
Veneracion Without Understanding
Renato Constantino
Contracting Colonianism
Vicente Rafael
She emphasized that history should deal with articulation of conscious experience
Milagros Guerrero
Pasyon and Revolution
Reynaldo Illeto
He used Filipinos in Historical discourse
Zeus Salazar
He said that “peoples are primary movers of history”
Renato Constantino
He used positivist approach in writing history
Teodoro Agoncillo
He is the Dean of Historiographers
Gregorio Zalde
Sumulat ng Bigrafia de Rizal
Rafael Palma
He is The Great Malayan
Carlos Quirino
He wrote the Jose Rizal: Life and Times
Camillo Osias
Jose Rizal: Life, Works, and Writing
Gregorio F. Zaide
The First Filipino: A Biography of Jose Rizal
Leon Ma. Guerrero
Dimasalang, Agno, Laong Laan
Jose Rizal
Plaridel, Piping Dilar, Siling Labuyo, Dolores Manapat, Cupang, Maytiyaga, Patos
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Bolivar, Diego Laura
Graciano Lopez Jaena
Agapito, Bagumbayan, May Pag-asa, Magdiwang
Andres Bonifacio
Bini, Paralitiko, Katabay
Apolinario Mabini
Magdalo
Emilio Aguinaldo
Katipunan; Pingkian
Emilio Jacinto
J.B, Buan, Dimasilaw
Juan Luna
Taga-ilog
Antonio Luna
Nanding, Kalipulako, Tikbalang
Mariano Ponce
Julio Abrii, Amante Ernani, Herininia de la Riva
Amado V. Hernandez
Doktor Lukas, Anak-bayan, Lakandalita
Lope K. Santos
Lola Basyang
Severino Reyes
Memoria Fotografika; JOMAPA
Jose Maria Panganiban
Huseng Batute
Jose Corazon de Jesus
Huseng Sisiw
Jose Delacruz
Quijano de Manila
Nick Joaquin
Goveglion
Jose Garcia Villa
Batikuling
Jesus Balmori
Kuntil Butil
Florantino Collantes
Madali Gonzales, NVM Gonzales
Nestor Gonzales
Ahas na Tulog, Anong, Damulag, Dating Alba, Isang Dukha, Kalampag and Kintin Kulirat
Valeriano Peña
Fulvio, Gi, Florisel, eka Hectorat Tristan
Fernando Ma. Guerero
Rio Alma
Virgilio Almario
He is the poet & soldier noted for his Peculiar nose
Cyrano de Bergarac
He is known for his excellence of characterization, swiftness of narrative & clarity of style.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest American writer of horror and detective stories
Edgar Allan Poe
He is best known for his collection of poems called Gitanjali/song offerings
Rabindranath Tagore
He ranked as one of the best modern American poets.
Robert Frost
Father of English Literature; Morning Star of English Literature; Writings: Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
He is Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
He invented the ball point pen
Lazlo Biro
He is the Greatest English writer; Greatest sonnet writing; The Bard of Avon; Writings:
William Shakespeare
Father of Horror Stories; Father of Detective Stories; Writings: The Raven; Anabelle Lee; Montellado
Edgar Allan Poe
He is “O. Henry”; Writings: The Last Leaf, The Gift of Magi
William Sydney Porter
He is the Father of English Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe
Father of Horror/Detective Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
French Foremost Short Story Writer
Guy de Maupassant
Father of Essay
Michale de Montaigne
Father of English Essay
Francis Bacon
Father of American Literature
Washington Irving
Sir Walter Scott; Father of the English novel
Henry Fielding
Indian National Poet; First Asian to win a Noble prize; Writing: Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore
He is the model of forgiveness; dream = democracy; trait = forgiveness; method = nonviolence; campaign unity
Nelson Mandela
He is the first black Nigerian writer awarded in Nobel 1986
Wale Soynika
Japanese poet (1968 Nobel)
Yasunari Kawabata
Supreme Japanese haiku poet
Matsuo Basho
The novelist and provate winning poet in Egypt
Tatamkhulu Afrika
The first man to replace myth with natur laws
Thales of Miletus
She wrote the “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
Elizabeth Barret Browning
The first Filipino National Artist for Literature (1973); “Art for art’s sake”
Jose Garcia Villa
He reflects Filipino’s concept of Americal culture.
Bienvinido Santos
He is the composer from Angono, Rizal with National Artist Award
Lucio San Pedro
Siya ang "Tungkod ng Tulang Tagalog"
Jose dela Cruz
Siya ang Lumikha ng awit na "Ang Bayan Ko"
Constancio de Guzman
Siya ang Ama ng pahayagang tagalog
Pascual Poblete
Father of Cebuano Letters and Cebuano Language
Vicente Sotto
Father of Philippine Folklore
Manuel E. Arsenio
Father of Tagalog Zarzuela and Philippine Zarzuela
Hermogenes Ilagan
Father of Tagalog Short Story
Deogracias Rosario
Father of Tagalog Comics
Troy Velasquez
Father of Philippine Linguistics
Cecilio Lopez
Father of Filipino-American Literature
Carlos Bulosan
Father of Philippine Journalism and Philippine Masonry
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Father of Philippine Movies
Jose Nepomuceno
Father of Nationalistic Film
Julian Manansala
The Father of Tagalog poetry
Francisco Baltazar
The Father of Modern Tagalog Poetry and Modern Tagalog Prose; “Ama ng Manggagawa”
Alejandro Abadilla
Hari ng Balagtasan
Jose Corazon de Jesus