National Artitsts

• Fernando Amorsolo - He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. He earned a degree from the Liceo de Manila Art School in 1909.
• Francisca Reyes-Aquino

  MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCING
• Botong Francisco

  BOTONG. MODERNIST ARTIST
• Amado V. Hernandez

  He was known for his CRITICISM OF SOCIAL INJUSTICES IN THE PHILIPPINES and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement. He was the central figure in a landmark legal case that took 13 years to settle.
• Antonio J. Molina

  He was known as the CLAUDE DEBUSSY of the Philippines due to his use of impressionism in music.
• Juan F. Napkil

  an architect, teacher, and a community leader from Quiapo, Manila. In 1973 he was tapped as the DEAN OF FILIPINO ARCHITECTS.
• Guillermo Tolentino]

  FATHER OF PHILIPPINE ARTS.

  Oblation, Bonifacio Monument.
• Jose Garcia Villa]

  He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks-especially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet. He used the pen name Doveglion (derived from "Dove, Eagle, Lion").
• Napoleon Abueva]

  “FATHER OF MODERN PHILIPPINE SCULPTURE.”
• Leonor Orosa-Goquingco

  Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics.
• [Lamberto V. Avellana]

  “THE VERY FIRST NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILIPPINES
• Nick Joaquin]

  He is best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name “QUIJANO DE MANILA.”
• Jovita Fuentes]

  An Opera singer from Capiz. Her performance was hailed as the "most sublime interpretation of the part."
• Victorio C. Edades

  “APPRENTICE TEACHER”

  painter from Dagupan, Pangasinan. He was the leader of the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns who engaged their classical compatriots in a heated debate over the nature and function of art.
• Pablo Antonio

  An architect from Binondo, Manila.

  Orphaned by the age of 12
• Vicente Manansala

  A Cubist Painter

  His paintings are described as "visions of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction."
• Gerardo de Leon

  Called “Manong”

  an actor-turned-film director from Manila.
• Carlos P. Romulo]

  Rómulo served eight Philippine presidents, from Manuel L. Quezon to Ferdinand Marcos, as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines and as the country's representative to the United States and to the United Nations. diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist, and author from Camiling, Tarlac. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32.
• Atang de la Rama

  was a singer, bodabil performer, and first Filipina film actress from Tondo, Manila. By the age of 7, she was already starring in Spanish zarzuelas such as Mascota, Sueño de un Vals, and Marina. At the age of 15, she starred in the zarzuela Dalagang Bukid, where she became known for singing the song, Nabasag na Banga.
• Antonio R. Buenaventura 

  He was also a conductor and restored the Philippine Army Band to its former prestige as one of the finest military bands in the world making it "the only band that can sound like a symphony orchestra."
• Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, was a choreographer, dance educator, and researcher from lloilo City. She spent almost four decades in the discovery and study of Philippine folk and ethnic dances. She applied her findings to project a new example of an ethnic dance culture that goes beyond simple preservation and into creative growth.
• Lucrecia Roces Kasilag - She was appointed Dean of the Philippines Women's University College of Music and Fine Arts. She founded the Bayanihan Folks Arts Center for research and theatrical presentations and was closely involved with the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.
• Francisco Arcellana - His actual writing, however, started when he became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino short story in English.
• Cesar Legaspi - was a painter from

  Tondo, Manila. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. He took up painting for one term at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before he decided to take commercial art courses instead.
• Leandro V. Locsin - an architect from Silay, Negros Occidental. He reshaped the urban landscape with a distinctive architecture reflective of Philippine Art and Culture. He believes that the true Philippine Architecture is "the product of two great streams of culture, the oriental, and the occidental... to produce a new object of profound harmony." It
• Hernando Ocampo - a group of modernist artists founded by Victorio C. Edades in 1938. Famously known for his triumvirate of with neo-realists Vicente S.

  Manansala and Cesar Legaspi, his works reflected the harsh realities of his country after the Second World War. H. R. Ocampo was credited for inventing a new mode of abstraction that exemplifies Philippine flora and fauna and portrays sunshine, stars, and rain.
• Lucio D. San Pedro - He is popular for his contributions to the field of Philippine music such as the lullaby "Sa Ugoy ng Duyan“. He later received the title Professor Emeritus from the University in 1979. He also became a faculty member of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music in Manila.