San Fernando, Pampanga - Notable Fernandinos

Notable Fernandinos

  • José Abad Santos, a former Chief Justice (featured in PHP1000 bill)
  • Pedro Abad Santos, a former assemblyman and founder of the Socialist Party
  • Sotero J. Baluyut, a former senator and cabinet secretary
  • Dennis Gabriel Paras Bondoc,CCA, frog collector and a multi-awarded Fusion Chef who contributed various Frog Recipes and advocacies with Frogs in the City's celebration of the Annual Pyestang Tugak (Feast of the Frogs).
  • Vivencio Cuyugan, first Socialist mayor in the Philippines
  • Amando G. Dayrit, a renowned pre-war newspaper columnist
  • Conrado Dayrit, a cardiologist, virgin coconut oil proponent and President of the National Academy of Science and Technology (1992–1999)
  • Nicolasa Dayrit, a revolutionary hero
  • Zoilo Hilario, an assemblyman and poet
  • Brillante Mendoza, award-winning film director
  • Fernando H. Ocampo, a founder of the UST College of Architecture and Fine Arts
  • Honesto F. Ongtioco, bishop of Cubao
  • Tony Perez, a playwright
  • Romeo S. Rodriguez, playwrigth, columnist, poet and Prince of Pampango Parnassus

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