Francisco Guilledo — More commonly known as Pancho Villa, First Filipino World Champion boxer, World flyweight champion and
IBHOF International Boxing Hall of Fame and WBHOF World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee
Small Montana (Benjamin Gan) — Won the Flyweight Championship of the World (as recognized by New York state)
Eleuterio Zapanta — World bantamweight champion in 1940 and World flyweight champion in 1941
Dodie Boy Peñalosa — Two Division World Champion and former
IBF champion in the light flyweight and flyweight classes
Gerry Peñalosa — Two Division World Champion and former holder of the
WBC super flyweight and the
WBO bantamweight titles
Donnie Nietes — Three Division World Champion and former
WBO Minimumweight World Champion, former
WBO & The Ring Light Flyweight Champion and former
IBF Flyweight Champion
Manuel Amechazurra — The first Filipino footballer to play in the European football circuit, he was called El Capitán and played as a defender, from 1905 to 1915 for
FC Barcelona[4]
Alfredo Montelibano, Sr. — politician and industrialist, served as Mayor of
Bacolod governor of Negros Occidental, and
Philippine Secretary of National Defense and Interior
Katherine Luzuriaga — Immunologist, developed a functioning cure for HIV infected infants. Included in the
Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world for 2013[9][10]
Mar Roxas — Secretary of Transportation and communication, former Trade Secretary, Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate, President of the
Liberal Party (Philippines)
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