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[edit] Notable Students and Alumni

[edit] Arts and Humanities (including Mass Communication and Architecture)

  • Emily Abrera - chairperson, McCann Erickson Philippines
  • Irma Adlawan - actress
  • Asia Agcaoili - actress, radio and television host, model, men's magazine columnist, semi-porn star
  • Carlene Aguilar - Miss Philippines-Earth 2001, Miss Chinatown-Manila 2004, Bb Pilipinas-World 2005,
  • Nina Ricci Alagao - Binibining Pilipinas for Miss Universe 2000, stylist and visual artist
  • Michelle Aldana - Miss Asia-Pacific 1993, actress and translator
  • Dean Francis Alfar - novelist, playwright, and speculative fictionist
  • Fernando Amorsolo - visual artist and National Artist
  • Rudolfo Andal - Attorney, Considered one of the founders of Government Service Insurance System [GSIS]
  • Connie Angeles - actress and former vice mayor of Quezon City
  • Hero Angeles - actor and the first "Grand Questor" in ABS-CBN's Star Circle Quest
  • Tina Angeles - College of Architecture, Designer, U.S.A.
  • Angel Aquino - model, TV host, actress
  • Francisca Reyes Aquino - National Artist for Dance
  • Richard Allan Aquino - segment host of Filipinas, Ahora Mismo on DZRM
  • Atom Araullo - TV host and ABS-CBN news reporter
  • Juaniyo Arcellana - poet and journalist
  • 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)
  • Arnold Arre - 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)
  • Billy Balbastro - 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
  • Heber Bartolome, musician
  • Christian Bautista - multi-platinum recording artist
  • Christian de Lemon Bautista - independent theater and film artist
  • Glenn Bautista[1][2] - multi-awarded visual artist in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture
  • Harlene Bautista - television, film and theater actress
  • Ramon Bautista - filmmaker, TV and radio host
  • Anna Bayle - 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
  • Herminio Beltran Jr. - poet and cultural activist
  • Ishmael Bernal - film director and National Artist
  • Joyce Bernal - film and TV director
  • Christine Bersola-Babao - broadcast journalist, and television host and actress
  • Jackielou Blanco - actress, bodybuilder, fitness instructor
  • Jaja Bolivar (Kikiam Santiago) - comedienne, impersonator and scriptwriter
  • Dina Bonnevie - movie and TV actress, host, and former Miss Magnolia 1st runner-up
  • Victoria Bravo - writer of fiction for children
  • Lino Brocka - film director and National Artist
  • Benjamin Cabangis - visual artist
  • Benedicto Cabrera ("Bencab") - visual artist and National Artist
  • Angel Cacnio - visual artist
  • Yehlen Catral - actress
  • David Celdran - news anchor (ABS-CBN News Channel), TV host
  • Ricci Chan - multimedia actor, comedian and stylist
  • Cristeta Comerford - first female White House executive chef
  • Cesar Concio - architect
  • Renato Constantino - historian and social critic
  • John Consulta - Broadcast Journalist (GMA 7)
  • Wency Cornejo - singer/songwriter, TV host
  • Rawnna Crisostomo - broadcast journalist (GMA-7)
  • 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
  • Sharon Cuneta - 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
  • Karen Davila - broadcast journalist and anchor (ABS-CBN)
  • Malou de Guzman - 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
  • Eraserheads members Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Marcus Adoro and Buddy Zabala
  • Patricia Evangelista - writer and debater
  • Eugene Evasco - writer for children, essayist, children's literature critic
  • Rene Boy Facunla (Ate Glow) - comedienne, Presidential impersonator and scriptwriter
  • Andion Fernandez - soprano
  • Claro Fernandez - reporter, mediaman, former Press Undersecretary
  • Gretchen Fullido - TV host, former UAAP courtside reporter
  • 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
  • Sarah Geronimo - multi-platinum recording artist, TV actress and host, Star for a Night grand champion
  • Tony Gloria - film producer
  • Rachelle Ann Go- Multi-platinum recording artist, Search for a Star Grand Champion
  • 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
  • Teresa 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
  • 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-HK), 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)
  • Francine Medina - journalist
  • Mark Meily - film and TV director
  • Abner Mercado - broadcast journalist (ABS-CBN)
  • Jewel Mische - actress and the first "Ultimate Sweetheart" in GMA-7's StarStruck
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ann Palo-Kuy - food columnist Manila Bulletin's Taste Section, contributor Appetite Magazine
  • Candy Pangilinan - TV comedienne and host
  • Angeli Pangilinan-Valenciano - entertainment manager
  • Parokya ni Edgar members, Chito Miranda, Vinci Montaner, Buwi Meneses, Darius Semaña, Gab Chee Kee and Dindin Moreno
  • Roderick Paulate - movie and TV actor, host
  • Nonong Pedero - composer and newspaper columnist
  • Nicolas Pichay - playwright and corporate lawyer
  • Ge-ann Pineda - broadcast journalist (ABC-5)
  • Maki Pulido - broadcast journalist and host (GMA-7)
  • Andoy Ranay - television director
  • 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
  • Jerry Lopez Sineneng, film director
  • Jose Maria Sison - 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
  • 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
  • Alfred Yuson - multi-awarded writer and journalist
  • 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
  • Rolando Inciong - international development communication expert, Head of Public Affairs of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
  • Dr. Tess Stuart - international development communication expert, UNICEF

[edit] Business, Economics and Finance

  • Felino Angeles - banker, educator, former faculty member of the University of the Philppines and Mindanao State University
  • Jorge Araneta - businessman and developer of Araneta Center-Cubao
  • Arsenio M. Balisacan - SEARCA Director, professor of UP Diliman School of Economics
  • Arsenio Bartolome - banker
  • Teresa F. Bernabe - UP College of Business Administration professor, former UP Vice-President for Finance
  • Alfonso Calalang - former Central Bank Governor
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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

[edit] 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
  • 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, activist
  • 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
  • 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
  • Victor Potenciano - medical doctor, founder of Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center (VRPMC)
  • Paco Sandejas, Stanford-educated physicist and technology management consultant
  • 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]

[edit] Politics, Law and Governance

[edit] Social Sciences

[edit] Sports

[edit] Notable Past University Student Council Leaders

[edit] 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
  • 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
  • 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 - demographer
  • Irene Cortes - lawyer and former Supreme Court of the Philippines justice
  • Adrian Cristobal - writer, columnist
  • Isagani R. Cruz - literary critic and playwright
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 - political scientist, former University of the Philippines president
  • 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
  • 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 - physicist, den of the College of Science
  • 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
  • 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

[edit] 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 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) and Diana Aure (2005) from U.P. Visayas.

[edit] 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:

[edit] 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

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.

[edit] 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)
  • Eliezer Albacea (2006)

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