UP CAL: Famous Students, Faculty Members and Alumni

Students and Alumni (excluding faculty members)
Irma Adlawan - actress
Michelle Aldana - Miss Asia-Pacific 1993, actress and translator
Dean Francis Alfar - novelist, playwright, and speculative fictionist
Juaniyo Arcellana - poet and journalist
Boots Anson-Roa - movie and TV actress, host, and Mowelfund executive director
Manuel Arguilla - fictionist
Delamar Arias (Delamar) - radio disc jockey (The Morning Rush on Monster Radio RX 93.1, with Chico)
Heber Bartolome, musician
John Ilao Batalla – lighting designer
Harlene Bautista - television, film and theater actress
Ramon Bautista - filmmaker, TV and radio host
Ida Beltran – dancer
Mayra Beltran - dancer
Ishmael Bernal - film director and National Artist
Victoria Bravo - writer of fiction for children
Lino Brocka - film director and National Artist
Sharmaine Centenera- Buencamino- actress
Ricci Chan - multimedia actor, comedian and stylist
Kiko Dagohoy – TV journalist
Nick Deocampo - film director
Celia Diaz-Laurel - actress
Dexter Doria - film and television actress
Eugene Domingo - movie and TV actress
Patricia Evangelista – writer, TV host and debater
Rene Boy Facunla (Ate Glow ) - comedienne, Presidential impersonator and scriptwriter

Pocholo "The VoiceMaster" Gonzales
Romina Gonzalez - creative writer and journalist
Gelacio Guillermo - poet, literary scholar, cultural activist
Sinai Hamada - writer
Frederick Lagbao (Chico) - radio disc jockey (The Morning Rush on Monster Radio RX 93.1, with Delamar)
Joel Lamangan - film and TV director
Jo Ann Lorenzana - singer
Susan Lara - fiction writer
Ricardo "Ricky" Lee - fiction and screenwriter
Armando Malay - journalist
Dennis Marasigan - theater and film writer/director
Chris Martinez - playwright and screenwriter
Grace Nono – singer
Bibeth Orteza - television and film scriptwriter
Sarah Jane Paez – Bb. Pilipinas Universe 1989, model and businesswoman
Roderick Paulate - movie and TV actor, host
Nicolas Pichay - playwright and corporate lawyer
Andoy Ranay - television director
Ryan 'Atong' Redillas , child actor
Soledad Reyes - literary critic
Eddie Romero - film director and National Artist
Ninotchka Rosca - novelist
Romulo Sandoval - poet, translator, founding member of the progressive poets' group Galian sa Arte at Tula
Tara Sering - writer
Neil Ryan Sese - film, television and theater actor
Lani Sumanilog – theater artist and star of Miss Saigon in Germany
Jose Maria Sison - poet, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines
Auraeus Solito - film director
Kidlat Tahimik (formerly Eric de Guia) - film director
Joey Ting – theater and TV artist
Katrina Polotan Tuvera-Quimbo - writer
Rodolfo "Rody" Vera - playwright
Monique Wilson - star of the Tony and Olivier-winning musical "Miss Saigon" on West End (London) and Founding Artistic Director, New Voice Theater Company (Manila)
Isagani Yambot - publisher, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Yano band members Dong Abay, Eric Gancio and Onie Badiang
Alfred Yuson - multi-awarded writer and journalist
Jessica Zafra - writer, columnist (Philippine Star)
Vivian Zalviedea - journalist

Business
Remedios Calma-Cruz – EVP, China Bank
Erlinda Enriquez-Panlilio - writer and businesswoman
Tony Gloria – prioneering figure behind Viva Films and UNITEL Pictures
Yolanda Pajaro –owner, Via Venetto
Lourdes Reyes-Montinola - writer, educator, businesswoman, and Far Eastern University chair
Joanne Zapanta-Andrada - model, columnist, Presidential consultant

Politics, Law, Foreign Service and Governance
Jun Jun Binay – Makati City councilor
Teresa Dizon- de Vega – consul (Mexico and Hong Kong)
Setsuho Ikehata - President, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Francis Pangilinan - senator
Nicolas Pichay – lawyer and playwright
Carlos P. Romulo - Pulitzer Prize winner, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, president of the United Nations General Assembly 1949-1950, chief delegate of the Philippines to the Far Eastern Commission in Washington, D.C., former chairman of the United Nations Security Council and University of the Philippines president
Ronell Santos – consul, Hong Kong
Jose Maria Sison - Coummunist Party of the Philippines founder
Partial List of Notable Past and Present Faculty (excluding creative writers)
Patrick Alcedo– Rockefeller fellow, performance studies scholar
Erwin Thaddeus Bautista - recipient of a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques (2002) knighthood from the Government of France
Nieves Benito-Epistola - professor of language studies
Behn Cervantes - director for film and theater
Adrian Cristobal - writer, columnist
Concepcion Dadufalza - general education specialist
Silvino Epistola – writer
Brenda Fajardo - visual artist, theater artist, CCP 13 Artists Awardee
Patrick Flores - National Art Gallery curator, art critic
Pacita Guevara Fernandez - professor of literature and humanities
Alice Guillermo - art critic
Caroline S. Hau - literary critic, University of Kyoto asssociate professor
Thelma Kintanar - literary critic
Salvador P. Lopez - writer, journalist, diplomat, former University of the Philippines president
Antonio Mabesa - actor, professor emeritus
Paz Marquez Benitez – fictionist
Virginia Moreno - poet and playwright
Ruth Jordana Luna Pison - literary critic
Carlos P. Romulo - Pulitzer Prize winner, president of the United Nations General Assembly 1949-1950, former chairman of the United Nations Security Council and University of the Philippines president
Bienvenido Santos - poet and fictionist
Rogelio R. Sikat - writer
Marivi Soliven-Blanco – writer
Basilio Esteban Villaruz - dancer and performance studies scholar

The Metrobank Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT): U.P. Winners
U.P. continues to dominate Metrobank Foundation's Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT). Past winners of this highly-coveted award include: Priscelina Patajo-Legasto (1998) from U.P. College of Arts and Letters.
Past and Present U.P. CAL faculty members who are writers

U.P. is a lively community for creative writers. U.P. faculty members, students and alumni have dominated the annual Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Playwright Rene Villanueva; and poet Edgardo Maranan have won at least 30 Palanca prizes each. Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardees from

U.P. have included Palanca Hall of Fame winners Jose Dalisay Jr. and Rene Villanueva; National Artist Virgilio Almario and U.P. Institute of Creative Writing Director Vim Nadera. Emeritus Professor and National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera is a recipient of the highly-coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts. Playwright Anton Juan garnered the Alexander Onassis International Prize for Theatre (Athens, Greece). Juan has also received two knighthoods from the government of France: the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres and the Collier d 'Or, Disc d 'Or. Many

U.P. faculty members are frequent recipients of Palanca Awards, Cultural Center of the Philippines Awards, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle, Philippines Free Press Literary Awards, Philippine Graphic Awards for Fiction, Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY)-Salanga Prize, NCCA Writer's Prize, Pilar Perez Medallion for Young Adult Literature, Makata ng Taon laureates, Gantimpalang Collantes, Gawad Komisyon, Premio Zobel and other prizes:
Gemino Abad
Reuel Aguila
Alwyn Aguiluz
Virgilio S. Almario
Mila Aguilar
Merlie Alunan
Carlos Ojeda Aureus
Romulo Baquiran Jr.
Joi Barrios
Jose Wendell Capili
Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes
Conchitina Cruz
Rosario Cruz-Lucero
Jun Cruz Reyes
Jose Dalisay Jr.
Leoncio Deriada
Eugene Y. Evasco
Celeste Flores
Edel Garcellano
Felino Garcia
J. Neil Garcia
Teresita Gimenez-Maceda
Malou Jacob
Vivencio Jose
Anton Juan
Thelma Kintanar
Jose F. Lacaba
Domingo Landicho
Edna May Landicho
Amelia Lapena-Bonifacio
Marra Pl. Lanot
Bienvenido Lumbera
Francis Macansantos
Paolo Manalo
Sylvia Mendez-Ventura
Mario Miclat
Timothy Montes
Virginia Moreno
Vim Nadera
Jimmuel Naval
Nilo S. Ocampo
Charlson Ong
Elmer Ordoñez
Carla Pacis
Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
Priscelina Patajo-Legasto
Nonilon Queano
Anna Sanchez
Lilia Quindoza-Santiago
Isabelita Reyes
Luna Sicat-Cleto
Victor Sugbo
Priscilla Supnet-Macansantos
Lakambini Sitoy
Luis Teodoro
Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin
Nicanor Tiongson
Roland Tolentino
Ricardo de Ungria
Rosario Torres-Yu
Rene Villanueva
Galileo Zafra

National Artists from U.P.
Of the 57 National Artists of the Philippines thus far honored, 33 are U.P. alumni, inclusive of three former students but did not earn their degree at the University. The honored league of National Artists from U.P. are:
Literature
José García Villa (CAL)
Carlos P. Romulo (CAL)
Francisco Arcellana (CAL)
Virgilio S. Almario (CAL)
Edith Tiempo (CAL)
Amado V. Hernandez (CAL)
N.V.M. Gonzalez (CAL)
F. Sionil José
Visual Arts
Napoleon Abueva
Fernando Amorsolo
Carlos Francisco
José Joya
Cesar Legaspi
Vicente Manansala
Guillermo Tolentino
Benedicto Cabrera
Abdulmari Asia Imao
Music
Antonino Buenaventura
Felipe De Leon
Antonio Molina
Levi Celerio
Lucio San Pedro
Andrea Veneración
Theater
Severino Montano (CAL)
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero (CAL)
Daisy Avellana
Film
Ishmael Bernal (CAL)
Lino Brocka (CAL)
Eddie Romero (CAL)
Architecture
Juan Nakpil
Dance
Francisca Reyes-Aquino
Guerrero, Nakpil, Tiempo and Romero were once students in the University but never got to obtain their degrees for one reason or another. Guerrero, a rara avis, never finished a degree and was a drop out of U.P., Ateneo de Manila University and Gregg's Business School. Nakpil took up engineering at U.P. then enrolled and obtained a civil engineering degree at the University of Kansas. He also obtained a diploma in architecture from the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts and received a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University. Tiempo took Pre-law in U.P. before going to Silliman University for her English degree. Romero, who took freshman courses towards a degree in liberal arts during the pre-war years, had to leave school when World War II broke out.

From the 33, 13 had been conferred with honorary degrees by the University. They are Gonzalez, Hernandez, Sionil José, Locsin, Abueva, Amorsolo, Romulo, Villa, Arcellana, Buenaventura, De Leon, San Pedro and Tolentino. Romulo was the 11th President of the University, and upon his death, enjoyed the distinction of being a University Professor. Twelve taught at the University such as Abueva, Amorsolo, Joya, and Tolentino for fine arts; De Leon, Molina, San Pedro, and Veneración for music, Romulo, Arcellana, and Almario for literature and Aquino for dance. Five of them became deans or directors such as Abueva, Joya, Amorsolo and Tolentino for the College of Fine Arts and Almario for the College of Arts and Letters. ive also held the directorship of several units in the University like Almario and Arcellana, for the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, Guerrero and Montano of the U.P. Dramatic Club, and Reyes-Aquino of the Physical Education Program for Women.

Almario also served as director of the Sentro ng Wika. Guerrero, on the other hand, set up the UP Mobile Theater; Reyes-Aquino also organized the U.P. Folk Song and Dance Society and the U.P. Dance Troupe, now known as the U.P. Filipiniana Dance Group. Three were appointed department chairs namely, San Pedro of the theory and composition department, and Veneración of the voice department,both at the College of Music, and Arcellana of the Department of Humanities of the now-defunct College of Arts and Sciences (now College of Arts and Letters). Four were distinguished by the University with the appointment as professor emeriti upon retirement. They were Abueva, Guerrero, San Pedro and Tolentino. Five other National Artists have had affiliation with the University, either by being members of the University faculty, or holding administrative positions, or providing guidance to student artists and writers, or simply being commissioned to do art for U.P..
Jovita Fuentes and José Maceda National Artists for Music, taught at the College of Music. Maceda even became director of the College's Department of Music Research, while Fuentes served as Voice Department chair.
Nick Joaquin, National Artist for Literature, is a ubiquitous, if not prominent presence as writer-in-residence in many writers'workshops conducted by the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. Rolando Tinio taught at the Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts of the College of Arts and Letters.
Arturo Luz, National Artist for Visual Arts, did the floor piece entitled River of Life at the U.P. Chapel of Holy Sacrifice. In fact, the CHS stands today as the only structure on campus that boasts of the art of three other National Artists. Locsin was the architect designer of the chapel. The altarpiece and the two-sided Crucifix is by Abueva, while the Via Crucis was done by Manansala.

In 2006, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced the conferment of the title of National Artist to Fernando Poe Jr. (Ronald Allan Kelly-Poe) for film, Bienvenido Lumbera for literature, Ramon Obusan for dance, Benedicto Cabrera and Abdulmari Asia Imao for visual arts, Ildefonso Santos for architecture and Ramon Valera (posthumous) for fashion design. Lumbera, Obusan, Cabrera and Santos have associations with U.P.. Lumbera is an Emeritus Professor at the U.P. College of Arts and Letters. Obusan finished marine biology and cultural anthropology. Santos pioneered landscape architecture as an academic program at the U.P. College of Architecture. Cabrera and Imao hailed from the U.P. College of Fine Arts.
These 39 National Artists—including Fuentes, Joaquin, Luz, Maceda and Tinio—have in more ways than one enriched the university with their sublime art.