Andres Bonifacio, (born Nov. 30, 1863, Manila—died May 10, 1897, Mt. Buntis, Phil.

), Philippine patriot, founder and leader of the

nationalist Katipunan society, who instigated the revolt of August 1896 against the Spanish.
Bonifacio was born of poor parents in Manila and had little formal education, working as a messenger and warehouse
keeper before becoming involved in revolutionary activity. He was, however, well-read. Unlike the nationalist poet and novelist José
Rizal, who wanted to reform Spanish rule in the Philippines, Bonifacio advocated complete independence from Spain. In 1892 he
founded the Katipunan in Manila, modelling its organization and ceremony on that of the Masonic order. The Katipunan at first grew
slowly, but by 1896 it had an estimated 100,000 members and branches not only in Manila but also in central Luzon and on the
islands of Panay, Mindoro, and Mindanao. Its members were mostly workers and peasants; the urban middle class supported reform
rather than revolution.
In August 1896 Bonifacio led the long-planned insurrection on Luzon; but his forces were defeated by Spanish troops, and he
was forced to retreat to Montalban in the north, while Emilio Aguinaldo, one of his lieutenants, carried on resistance. As the Spanish
systematically routed the insurrectos, it became increasingly clear that Bonifacio was an ineffective military leader. In March 1897 a
convention at Tejeros named Aguinaldo, rather than Bonifacio, president of a new Philippine republic. Refusing to recognize the
convention, Bonifacio tried to establish his own rebel government. In April 1897 Aguinaldo had Bonifacio arrested and tried for
treason; he was executed by a firing squad.

Gregoria de Jesus, wife of Andres Bonifacio, a brave and patriotic woman who played a heroic role in the Philippine Revolution, was
born in Caloocan. She was one of the four children of Nicolas de Jesus and Baltazara Alvarez Francisco. Her father was a native of
Caloocan, a master mason and carpenter by profession who had been teniente del barrio and later gobernadorcillo (municipal
mayor) of the town, and her mother, a native of Noveleta, Cavite, was a niece of General Mariano Alvarez, a plain housewife.
also known by her nickname Oriang,[1] was the founder and vice-president of the women's chapter of the Katipunan of the
Philippines.[2] She was also the custodian of the documents and seal of the Katipunan. [1] She married Gat Andrés Bonifacio, the
Supremo of the Katipunan and President of the Katagalugan Revolutionary Government. She played a major and one of the
important roles in the Philippine Revolution.[1] After the death of Bonifacio, she married Julio Nakpil, one of the generals of the
revolution. She had one son from Andrés Bonifacio and five children from Julio Nakpil.
Emilio Jacinto was born in 1875 on the 15th of December. He was the only son of a man named Mariano Jacinto and a
woman named Josefa Dizon.Shortly after he was born, his father passed away. This untimely death forced his mother to send Emilio
to live with his uncle, Don Jose’ Dizon. His mother believed that his uncle could care for the young Emilio better then she could after
the death of Mariano.Very little is known about Emilio’s early childhood up until the point that he went to college. However, it is
known that by the time he went away to college, he could fluently speak both Spanish and Tagalog, the language of the Philippine
people. However, he preferred to speak in Spanish a majority of the time.Emilio attended the San Juan de Latran College when he
first embarked on his college career. However, he later attended the University of San Tomas in order to study law. Emilio left
college before completing his law degree.

Melchora Aquino was born on January 6, 1812. Her full given name at birth was Melchora Aquino de Ramos.
Melchora was the only daughter of Juan and Valentina Aquino, who were a peasant couple living in Caloocan. Melchora was
noticeably literate and highly intelligent at a very early age, even though she was never afforded the opportunity to go to school. In
addition to her intelligence, Melchora was also a very talented singer who performed at local events. She also was known for singing
at Mass when she attended church. When she became an adult, Melchora married a village chief by the name of Fulgencio
Ramos. Together Melchora and Fulgencio had six children. However, by the time the youngest of the six children was just
seven years of age, Fulgencio passed away. At the time Melchora was 84 years of age.She used her store as a means to
provide medical care to the soldiers who were fighting in the war. She not only provided them medical care, but she also
provided them encouragement through prayer. Her store was also used for secret meetings. Due to her behind the scenes
heroics during the revolution she became known as Mother of the Katipunan, which was the Philippine word for
revolution. She also became known to many of the Philippine revolutionary soldiers as Tandang Sora. When the Spaniards
learned that she was providing this medical care and encouragement to their enemies, they arrested Melchora and
questioned her on where they might find the Katipunan leader, Andres Bonifacio.Melchora refused to tell the Spaniards
anything and for that she was deported to the Mariana Islands. When the United States took control of the Philippines in
1898, Aquino was permitted to return to her home and store.
Alejando Paterno, the so-called peacemaker of the Revolution, was born in Sta. Cruz, Manila. Paterno's greatest
contribution to the country was his role as a mediator in the Pact of Biak-na-Bato on December 14, 1897 which led to
peace agreement between the Spaniards and the Filipinos, an account of which he published in 1910. Although the
agreement did not last long, it afforded General Emilio Aguinaldo the opportunity to buy arms and ammunition to plot
another uprising. Without the Pact which Paterno successfully negotiated, the tide of events would have turned adversely
against freedom-loving Filipinos. studied at Ateneo de Manila and afterward at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca
Spain. He likewise enrolled at the Central University of Madrid where he completed his law degree. Like other Spanish-
educated illustrados, he joined the second period of the Revolution and became a prominent figure in the First Philippine
Republic. Owing to his prestige as a lawyer and a statesman, he was chosen as President of the Malolos Congress, which
met in inaugural session at the Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan on September 15, 1898. After his capture by the
Americans in Benguet in 1900, he became involved in the pacification campaign. He was among the most prominent
Filipinos who joined the American side and advocated the incorporation of the Philippines into the United States..

Mariano Gómez was born on August 2, 1799 in the suburb of Santa Cruz, Manila. He was a Tornatrás, one born of mixed
native (Filipino), Chinese and Spanish ancestries. His parents were Alejandro Francisco Gómez and Martina Custodia.
After studying in the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán, he took theology in the University of Santo Tomás. He was a student
preparing for the priesthood in the Seminary of Manila. On June 2, 1824, he was designated as the head priest of Bacoor,
Cavite.church, he also taught agriculture and cottage industries. Gómez also helped in maintaining a harmonious
relationship among his other priests. He fought for equal rights for native priests against the abuses of their Spanish
counterparts. Gómez was accused of treason, sedition, and taking active part in the Cavite mutiny of 1872 and sentenced to
death by garrote in a military court. He was sent to jail along with Joaquín Pardo de Tavera, Máximo Paterno, and the friars
José Burgos and Jacinto Zamora. The three friars were executed on February 17, 1872 at Bagumbayan field; and have been
known since then by the acronym composed of their collective surnames – Gomburza.
Andres Bonifacio Born in Tondo, Manila, on Nov. 30, 1863. He grew up in the slums and knew from practical experience
the actual conditions of the class struggle in his society. Orphaned early, he interrupted his primary schooling in order to
earn a living as a craftsman and then as clerk-messenger and agent of foreign commercial firms in Manila. Absorbing the
teachings of classic rationalism from the works of José Rizal, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Eugène Sue's The Wandering
Jew, books on the French Revolution, and the lives of the presidents of the United States, Bonifacio acquired an
understanding of the dynamics of the sociohistorical process. This led him to join the Liga Filipina, which Rizal organized
in 1892 for the purpose of uniting and intensifying the nationalist movement for reforms.

Emilio Aguinaldo was of Chinese and Tagalog parentage. He attended San Juan de Letrán College in Manila but left school
early to help his mother run the family farm. In August 1896 he was mayor of Cavite Viejo (present-day Kawit; adjacent to
Cavite city) and was the local leader of the Katipunan, a revolutionary society that fought bitterly and successfully against
the Spanish. In December 1897 he signed an agreement called the Pact of Biac-na-Bató with the Spanish governor
general. Aguinaldo agreed to leave the Philippines and to remain permanently in exile on condition of a substantial
financial reward from Spain coupled with the promise of liberal reforms. While first in Hong Kong and then in Singapore,
he made arrangements with representatives of the American consulates and of Commodore George Dewey to return to
the Philippines to assist the United States in the war against Spain.
Apolinario Mabini Maranan (Tagalog pronunciation: [apolɪˈnaɾ.jo maˈbinɪ], July 23, 1864 – May 13, 1903) was a Filipino
revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the
Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First
Philippine Republic. He is regarded as the "utak ng himagsikan" or "brain of the revolution" and is also to be considered to
be as the National Hero in the Philippines, he was able to persuade other heroes including José Rizal, the national hero of
the Philippines. Mabini's work and thoughts on the government shaped the Philippines' fight for independence over the
next century.

Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈluna]; October 23, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a
Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one
of the first recognized Philippine artists. His winning the gold medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, along
with the silver win of fellow Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, prompted a celebration which was a major
highlight in the memoirs of members of the Propaganda Movement, with the fellow Ilustrados toasting to the two painters'
good health and to the brotherhood between Spain and the Philippines. Regarded for work done in the manner of European
academies of his time, Luna painted literary and historical scenes, some with an underscore of political commentary. His
allegorical works were inspired with classical balance, and often showed figures in theatrical poses.
Gregorio Del Pilar Born on November 14, 1875 to Fernando H. del Pilar and Felipa Sempio of Bulacan, Bulacan, the fifth among six
siblings.[4] His siblings were María de la Paz del Pilar (b.1865), Andrea del Pilar (b. 1866), Pablo H. del Pilar (b. 1869), Julian H. del Pilar
(b. 1872), and Jacinto H. del Pilar (b. 1878). [5] He was part of the del Pilar family (more properly Hilario del Pilar; Hilario was the
original surname before the Claveria naming reforms and was contracted to "H.") of the principalia, whose members included his
uncles, lawyer-turned-propagandist Marcelo H. del Pilar, editor-in-chief of Diariong Tagalog and La Solidaridad, as well as the priest
Toribio H. del Pilar, who was exiled in Guam for his alleged involvement in the 1872 Cavite Mutiny. The del Pilar clan was distantly
related to the Gatmaitans. Although principalia, Gregorio del Pilar's branch was relatively poor. It was said that del Pilar had to hawk
meat pies as a child to survive.

Lapulapu name was first recorded as Çilapulapu or Cilapulapu, was a datu of Mactan in the Visayas. Modern Philippine
society regards him as the first Filipino hero because he was the first native of the Philippines tough enough to resist and
fought of the imperial Spanish colonization. He is best known for the Battle of Mactan that happened at dawn on April 27,
1521, where he and his warriors defeated the forces of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his native allies
Rajah Humabon and Datu Zula.[6][7] Magellan's death ended his voyage of circumnavigation and delayed the Spanish
occupation of the islands by over forty years until the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi in 1564. Legazpi continued
the expeditions of Magellan, leading to the colonization of the Philippines for 333 years. Monuments of Lapulapu have
been built in all over the Philippines to honor Lapulapu's bravery against the Spaniards. The Philippine National Police and
the Bureau of Fire Protection use his image as part of their official seals.