EL FILI

• Simoun a powerful man who has a great influence over the

  Kapitan Heneral. Using this, he plans to destroy the

  Spaniards as his vendetta for the sufferings of Crisostomo

  Ibarra
• Basilio the eldest of Sisa's two sons, now an aspiring

  doctor whose medical education was being financed by

  Capitan Tiago. He is now at the point of graduation during

  the events in the novel
• Isagani Poet and Basilio's best friend; portrayed as

  emotional and reactive; Paulita Gómez' boyfriend before

  being dumped for fellow student Juanito Peláez.
• Kabesang tales/ Cabeza Telesforo Juan de Dios, a

  former cabeza de barangay of Sagpang, a barangay in San

  Diego's neighboring town Tiani, who resurfaced as the

  feared Luzón bandit Matanglawin.
• Don Costudio/ Custodio de Salazar y Sánchez de

  Monteredondo, a famous "journalist" who was asked by

  the students about his decision for the Academia de

  Castellano.
• Paulita Gomez the girlfriend of Isagani and the niece of

  Doña Victorina. In the end, she and Juanito Peláez are wed,

  and she dumps Isagani.
• Macaraig one of Isagani's classmates at the University of

  Santo Tomas. He is a rich student and serves as the leader

  of the students yearning to build the Academia de

  Castellano.
• Father Florentino Isagani's godfather and a secular

  priest; was engaged to be married, but chose to be a priest

  after being pressured by his mother.
• Juliana de Dios, the girlfriend of Basilio, and the youngest

  daughter of Kabesang Tales. To claim her father from the

  bandits, she had to work as a maid under the supervision

  of Hermana Penchang.
• Juanito Pelaez The son of Don Timoteo Pelaez, a Spanish

  businessman, he is also one of the members of Macaraig's

  gang who wish to have the Academia de Castellano built.
• Doña Victorina delos Reyes de Espadaña, known in Noli

  Me Tangere as Tiburcio de Espadaña's cruel wife
• Father Camorra the parish priest of Tiani. He has been

  desiring young women ever since. He nearly raped Juli

  causing the latter to commit suicide
• Ben-zayb the pseudonym of Abraham Ibañez, a

  journalist who believes he is the "only" one thinking in the

  Philippines.
• Placido Penitente a student of the University of Santo

  Tomas who was very intelligent and wise but did not want,

  if not only by his mother's plea, to pursue his studies.
• Hermana Penchang Sagpang's rich pusakal (gambler).

  She offers Huli to be her maid so the latter can obtain

  money to free Kabesang Tales.
• Tiburcio De Espadaña Don Tiburcio is Victorina de

  Espadaña's lame husband. He is currently on hiding with

  Father Florentino.
• Father Irene Captain Tiago's spiritual adviser. Although

  reluctant, he helped the students to establish the

  Academia de Castellano after being convinced by giving

  him a chestnut.
• Quiroga a Chinese businessman who dreamed of being a

  consul for his country in the Philippines. He hid Simoun's

  weapons inside his house.
• Don Timoteo Juanito's father. He is rich businessmen and

  arranges a wedding for his son and Paulita. He and Simoun

  became business partners.
• Tandang Selo Father of Kabesang Tales. He raised the

  sick and young Basilio after he left their house in Noli Me

  Tangere.
• Father Fernandez the priest-friend of Isagani. He

  promised to Isagani that he and the other priests will give in

  to the students' demands
• Sandoval the vice-leader of Macaraig's gang. A Spanish

  classmate of Isagani.
• Hermana Bali another gambler in Tiani. She became Huli's

  mother-figure and counselor; helped to release Kabesang

  Tales from the hands of bandits.
• Pasta one of the great lawyers of mid-Hispanic Manila,

  opposed the students' demands for a Spanish language

  academy
• Father millon the Physics teacher of the University of

  Santo Tomas. He always becomes vindictive with Placido

  and always taunts him during class
• Leeds an American who holds stage plays starring

  decapitated heads; he is good friends with Simoun.
• Tadeo Macaraig's classmate. He, along with the other

  three members of their gang, supposedly posted the

  posters.
• Tano Kabesang Tales's elder son after his older sister,

  Lucia died in childhood.
• Pepay Don Custodio's supposed "girlfriend". A dancer,

  she is always agitated of her boyfriend’s plans. She seems

  to be a close friend of Macaraig.
• Gobernador General the highest-ranking official in the

  Philippines during the Spanish colonial period.
• Pecson Basilio's classmate who had no idea on the

  happenings occurring around him. He suggested that they

  held the mock celebration at the panciteria.
• Father Hernando De La Sibla a Dominican friar

  introduced in Noli Me Tangere, now the vice-rector of the

  University of Santo Tomas.
• Father Bernardo Salvi former parish priest of San Diego,

  now the director and chaplain of the Santa Clara convent
• Captain Tiago/ Santiago delos Santos, although making a

  cameo appearance, Captain Tiago is Maria Clara's

  stepfather and the foster-father to Basilio.
• Maria Clara Introduced in Dr. Rizal's first novel "Noli Me

  Tangere". She was once the girlfriend of Crisostomo Ibarra

  but chose to become a nun despite Father Damaso's (her

  real father) arguments. She eventually committed suicide,

  as witnessed by Basilio when he visited the convent of

  Santa Clara.
• El Filibusterismo ( Spanish for "The Filibustering"), also

  known by its English alternate title The Reign of Greed
• El Filibusterismo It was first published in 1891 in Ghent, Belgium
• The Philippines a Century Hence‖ is an essay written by

  Philippine national hero Jose Rizal to forecast the future of

  the country within a hundred years. Rizal felt that it was

  time to remind Spain that the circumstances that ushered

  in the French Revolution could have a telling effect for her

  in the Philippines.
• This essay presents a radical prophesy of Rizal of how the

  Philippines would be through the century. Rizal presented a clear idea of how our Motherland will end up centuries later proposing that our country will end up in either of the three ways:

  1. That the Philippines will remain to be a colony of Spain but will be in good terms with its captors
  2. That the Philippines will try to cut the ties of our Motherland from its captors through violent means
  3. And lastly that we will be colonized by another country
• The Philippines a Century Hence This essay, published in La Solidaridad in Madrid between September 30, 1889 and February 1, 1890