Juan R. Francisco is a Filipino Indologist,[1] who discovered the Maranao version of the Ramayana, that is native to the Philippines. He then translated it into English. He is also a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila.
Francisco is the foremost indologist in the Philippines. He has a Ph.D in Sanskrit from the University of Madras, and he studied under indologist Raghavan from Chennai. Francisco himself taught another Filipino Indologist, Josephine Acosta Pasricha.