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Pages in category "Fictional Filipino people" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. AlDub; B.
As Paul A. Rodell explained, even though modern-day Filipinas have changed (as in Santos's short story "Brown Coterie") and the “face in the picture has become blurred” (as in Santos's short story Scent of Apples), the Filipino émigrés held on to their visualizations of the Philippines because such visions were the “only things worth ...
Juan Mag-ingat also known as Pintura was born from the Philippines, with eminent talent in arts. He pursued Fine Arts but shifted to Chemical Engineering because of his uncle's influence. He lived a normal life until one day, a tragic event altered his destiny. It happened in the plant factory where he works as a student trainee.
Pedro Penduko is a Filipino fictional comic book character created by National Artist for Literature Francisco V. Coching. The character, who is styled as a folk hero, debuted in the magazine Liwayway in 1954. In his numerous incarnations, Pedro Penduko is an ordinary human being with no superpowers.
Hagibis (meaning rapidity or speed [1] [2] in Tagalog) is one of the first comic book superheroes in the history of komiks in the Philippines.Hagibis was created in 1947 by Francisco V. Coching, a Filipino comic book artist and illustrator who is considered the "father" or "grandfather" of Filipino comics.
As the title character in the comic strip Ikabod, Ikabod Bubwit was the humorous representation of the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos. The comic strip was used at times by Marcelo to reference and portray Filipino political figures, including Ferdinand Marcos , Cory Aquino , Joseph Estrada , and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . [ 3 ]
In the novel, María Clara is regarded as the most beautiful and celebrated lady in the town of San Diego. A devout Roman Catholic, she became the epitome of virtue; "demure and self-effacing" and endowed with beauty, grace and charm, she was promoted by Rizal as the "ideal image" [1] of a Filipino woman who deserves to be placed on the "pedestal of male honour".
In 2000, he was one of the recipients of the Centennial Honors for the Arts from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for Tagalog fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas. In 2011, he was awarded the Manila Critics Circle Special Prize for a Book Published by an Independent Publisher.