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Lists of people by university or college in the Philippines (2 C, 1 P) W. ... Pages in category "Lists of Filipino people" The following 9 pages are in this category ...
Traditional homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines Overview of the spread & overlap of languages spoken throughout the country as of March 2017. There are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos, starting with the "Waves of Migration" hypothesis of H. Otley Beyer in 1948, which claimed that Filipinos were "Indonesians" and "Malays" who migrated to ...
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) [49] are citizens or people identified with the country of the Philippines.The majority of Filipinos today are predominantly Catholic [50] and come from various Austronesian peoples, all typically speaking Tagalog, English, or other Philippine languages.
The Philippines has 110 enthnolinguistic groups comprising the Philippines' indigenous peoples; as of 2010, these groups numbered at around 14–17 million persons. [2] Austronesians make up the overwhelming majority, while full or partial Negritos scattered throughout the archipelago. The highland Austronesians and Negrito have co-existed with ...
Nicolás Zamora – founder of the first indigenous evangelical church in the Philippines, known as Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas. [17] Zamora is also recognized as the first Filipino Protestant minister in the Philippines. [18] Dionisio Deista Alejandro – first Filipino Bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1944.
Pedro Calungsod - 2nd Saint in the Philippines (Ginatilan) Teofilo Camomot - A beatified bishop in the Philippines (Carcar City) Luisa Abano - Popularly known as Nanay Loling, a Catholic laywoman and faith healer. (Talisay City) Patricio Buzon - is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. He is the current Bishop of Bacolod in ...
The Davaoeño people or Davaoeños are the multiethnic permanent residents of the Davao Region of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines regardless of ethnicity or religion. [1] [2] Locals are themselves often referred to as a "tripeople", [3] [4] composed of indigenous peoples, Moros and descendants of twentieth-century settlers from the ...
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.