List of people from Negros Occidental


List of people from Negros Occidental


Below is a list of notable people who were born in Negros Occidental, or those who lived there for an extended period.

Arts, culture and media

Architecture

  • Leandro Locsin — National artist for architecture

Film

  • Peque Gallaga — multi-awarded filmmaker
  • Ronnie Lazaro — a Gawad Urian Award-winning Filipino film and television actor, producer and casting and art director
  • Susan Roces — award-winning actress, nicknamed Queen of Philippine Movies, widow of Fernando Poe Jr., adoptive mother of Grace Poe
  • Joel Torre — actor, director and film producer
  • Reiven Bulado — 2004 MMFF best supporting actor, ramp model, and entrepreneur
  • Bernard Bonnin — actor
  • Pancho Magalona — award-winning actor
  • Erik Matti — director, screenwriter, producer
  • Rosemarie Sonora — actress
  • Charles Gemora — Hollywood makeup-artist, special effects pioneer and actor
  • Rey "PJ" Abellana — film and TV actor
  • Carla Abellana — film and TV actress

Literature

  • Adelina Gurrea — journalist, poet and playwright in Spanish
  • Elsa Martinez Coscolluela — award-winning poet, short-story writer, and playwright
  • Gilbert Luis R. Centina III — prize-winning poet and author
  • Alex Lacson — writer, lawyer and philanthropist

Music

  • Bobby Enriquez — jazz pianist
  • Kuh Ledesma — popular jazz and pop singer. Known as the Pop Diva of the Philippines
  • Noven Belleza — It's Showtime Tawag ng Tanghalan grand winner

Publishing

  • Raul Locsin — editor, publisher and founder of BusinessWorld Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient
  • Teodoro Locsín Sr. — editor of the Philippines Free Press

Television

  • Allan K. — singer, comedian, actor and TV host
  • Alvin Elchico — TV/radio host, former provincial correspondent for MagTV na Amiga
  • Rio Diaz — former beauty queen, TV host and actress
  • Romy Pastrana — comedian and Goin' Bulilit member under the name Dagul. Uncle of Joey Pastrana
  • Elizabeth Ramsey — comedian, singer and actress
  • Christian Vasquez — actor, model for Pond's and a former housemate of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother: Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition

Theater

  • Eduardo Varela Sicangco — scene designer and illustrator for Broadway, opera and film

Visual arts

  • Alfredo Alcala — comic book artist for DC and Marvel Comics
  • Alfonso A. Ossorio — abstract expressionist artist

Athletes

Basketball

Bowls

  • Sonia Bruce — International lawn bowler, bronze medalist at the 2016 World Bowls Championship
  • Ainie Knight — International lawn and indoor bowler, bronze medalist at the 2012 World Bowls Championship

Boxing

Chess

  • Alekhine Nouri — youngest FIDE Master at age 7

Football

Golf

  • Juvic Pagunsan —professional golfer, Asian Tour Order of Merit champion

Martial arts

Pool

  • Ramil Gallego — professional pool player

Softball

  • Queeny Sabobo — softball player, gold medalist at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games

Swimming

  • Carlo Piccio — Olympic swimmer

Volleyball

  • Fille Cainglet–Cayetano — Volleyball player for both the Meralco Power Spikers of the Shakey's V-League (SVL) and the Petron Blaze Spikers of the Philippine Super Liga
  • Melissa Gohing - Team captain and libero of the Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors in the Premier Volleyball League

Beauty queens

  • Aurora Pijuan — Miss International 1970
  • Vickie Rushton — Lin-ay sang Negros 2009, Mutya ng Pilipinas 2011 , Pinoy Big Brother: All In Housemate
  • Sandra Seifert — Miss Philippines Earth 2009, International Fashion Model
  • Margaret Nales Wilson — Binibining Pilipinas-World 2007, TV personality and actress
  • Gwendolyne Fourniol — Miss World Philippines 2022

Business

  • J. Amado Araneta - Businessman, Owner and builder of the Araneta Coliseum and Araneta City
  • Jorge L. Araneta - CEO and Chairman of the Araneta Group , ranked as the 47th richest person in the Philippines by Forbes Magazine on 2021
  • Soledad Oppen Cojuangco - Billionaire, widow of Danding Cojuangco , ranked as the 17th richest person in the Philippines by Forbes Magazine on 2023
  • Oscar Hilado - Former Chairman of Phinma, ranked as the 33rd richest person in the Philippines by Forbes Magazine on 2007
  • Tan Yu —Billionaire Philanthropist, was ranked the richest man in the Philippines

Government service and diplomacy

International organization

  • Rafael M. Salas — former United Nations Under-Secretary General, Executive Director UNFPA, Executive Secretary to Ferdinand Marcos
  • Jorge B. Vargas — Member, World Scout Committee, de facto Head of the Philippine Government during World War II, Executive Secretary to Manuel Quezon
  • Teodoro Locsin Jr. — Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, former Congressional Representative, and journalist

National government

Local government

  • Ramon Bagatsing — longest serving Mayor of Manila (1971–1986), Manila Congressman (1957–1971) and Plaza Miranda bombing survivor
  • Guia Gomez — Mayor of San Juan City, known for relationship with former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, with whom she has a son, Senator JV Ejercito
  • Arsenio Lacson - Broadcaster, first elected Mayor of Manila. former Manila Congressman
  • Evelio Leonardia — Mayor of Bacolod and former Congressional Representative
  • Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr. — Governor of Negros Occidental and former Congressional Representative
  • Jose Maria Zubiri Jr. — Former Governor of Bukidnon, Former Representative of Third District of Bukidnon

Historical figures

  • Juan Araneta — Led the Negros Revolution
  • Aniceto Lacson — Led the Negros Revolution
  • Antonio Ledesma Jayme — Revolutionary
  • Papa Isio — Revolutionary
  • Yves Leopold Germain Gaston — Sugar Baron

Military service

  • Mary Grace Baloyo — Philippine Medal of Valor Recipient, the nation's highest military honor, First Lieutenant Philippine Air Force

Religion

  • Niall O'Brien — Irish Columban missionary priest, writer of the Hiligaynon language bible
  • Antonio Fortich — Former Bishop of Bacolod, political activist and Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient
  • Vicente Salgado y Garrucho — Former Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Romblon
  • Jesus Y Varela — Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sorsogon, former president, Philippine Federation of Catholic Broadcasters

Scientists and innovators

  • Raul Fabella, National Scientist of the Philippines for Economics
  • Angel Alcala, National Scientist of the Philippines for Biological science
  • Gavino Trono, National Scientist of the Philippines for Marine Biology
  • Oscar H. Ibarra — theoretical computer scientist, known for his works on automata theory, formal language, and Computational complexity theory
  • 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

Others

  • Jose Vasquez Aguilar — Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient
  • Rose Lacson-Porteous — Australian-Filipino socialite
  • Tony Meloto — Philanthropist, founder of Gawad Kalinga
  • Carl and Clarence Aguirre — Former conjoined twins
  • Captain Felix Corteza Gaston, Philippine Airlines pilot at the center of historical early hijacking

Notable people with roots from Negros Occidental

References


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