Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III

(born February 8, 1960) is a Filipino politician who served as the

15th President of the Philippines from 2010 until 2016. Aquino is
a fourth-generation politician and the chairman of the Liberal
Party from 2010 to 2016.

On September 9, 2009, shortly after the death of his mother,

Aquino officially announced that he would be a candidate in the
2010 presidential election. He was elected and on June 30, 2010
was sworn into office as the fifteenth President of the
Philippines at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park, Manila,
succeeding Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He ended his term on June
30, 2016, succeeded by Rodrigo Duterte.

In 2013, Time named him one of the 100 Most Influential People
in the World.
 Carlos Polestico Garcia

(November 4, 1896 – June 14, 1971) was a Filipino teacher, poet,

orator, lawyer, public official, political economist, organized
guerrilla and Commonwealth military leader, who was the
eighth President of the Philippines.

June 14, 1971, Garcia died from a fatal heart attack on 5:57 p.m.
at his residence in Bohol Avenue (now Sgt. Esguerra Avenue),
Quezon City.
 Fidel Valdez Ramos

CCLH GCS GCMG (Hon.) : born Fidel Ramos y Valdez; March 18,
1928), popularly known as FVR and Eddie, is a retired Filipino
general and politician who served as the 12th President of the
Philippines from 1992 to 1998. During his six years in office,
Ramos was widely credited and admired by many for
revitalizing and renewing international confidence in the
Philippine economy. At age 91, he is currently the oldest living
former Philippine President.

Prior to his election as president, Ramos served in the cabinet of

President Corazón Aquino, first as chief-of-staff of the Armed
Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and later as Secretary of
National Defense from 1986 to 1991. He was credited for the
creation of the Philippine Army's Special Forces and the
Philippine National Police Special Action Force.

After his retirement, he remained active in politics, serving as

adviser to his successors.
 Maria Corazon "Cory" Cojuangco Aquino

(born Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco; 25 January 1933 – 1

August 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th
President of the Philippines, becoming the first woman to hold
that office. Corazon Aquino was the most prominent figure of
the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the 21-year rule
of President Ferdinand Marcos. She was named Time magazine's
Woman of the Year in 1986. Prior to this, she had not held any
elective office.

Aquino was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008; she died

on 1 August 2009. Her monuments of peace and democracy were
established in the capital Manila and her home province of
Tarlac after her death. Throughout her life, Aquino was known
to be a devout Roman Catholic, and was fluent in French,
Japanese, Spanish, and English aside from her native Tagalog
and Kapampangan . She is highly regarded by the international
diplomatic community as the Mother of Democracy.
 Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr.

(/ˈmɑːrkɔːs/, September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a

Filipino politician, military hero and the tenth President of the
Philippines from 1965 to 1986. A leading member of the New
Society Movement, he ruled as a dictator under martial law
from 1972 until 1981. His regime was infamous for its
corruption, extravagance, and brutality.

Allegations of mass cheating, political turmoil, and human rights

abuses led to the People Power Revolution in February 1986,
which removed him from power. To avoid what could have
been a military confrontation in Manila between pro- and anti-
Marcos troops, Marcos was advised by US President Ronald
Reagan through Senator Paul Laxalt to "cut and cut
cleanly",after which Marcos fled to Hawaii. Marcos was
succeeded by Corazon "Cory" Aquino, widow of the assassinated
opposition leader Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. who had
flown back to the Philippines to face Marcos.
 Rodrigo Roa Duterte

KGCR (/duːˈtɜːrtə/; Tagalog: [roˈdɾigo ɾowa dʊˈtɛɾtɛ] (About this

soundlisten); born March 28, 1945), also known as Digong and
Rody, is a Filipino politician who is the 16th and current
president of the Philippines and the first from Mindanao to hold
the office. He is the chairperson of PDP–Laban, the ruling
political party. Duterte took office at 71 years old on June 30,
2016, making him the oldest person to assume the Philippine
presidency; the record was previously held by Sergio Osmeña at
the age of 65. Born on march 28, 1945 in Maasin,
Commonwealth of the Philippines.
 Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo

(born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino academic and former politician

who was the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 until
2010. She recently held the position of the Speaker of the House
of Representatives of the Philippines, making her the first
woman to hold the position from 2018 until 2019 before her
retirement.

Arroyo studied Economics at Georgetown University at

Washington DC where she began a lasting friendly relationship
with classmate and future U.S president Bill Clinton. Born as the
daughter of President Diosdado Macapagal, Arroyo is a former
professor of economics at Ateneo de Manila University where
her eventual successor President Benigno Aquino III was one of
her students. She entered government in 1987, serving as
assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Department of
Trade and Industry upon the invitation of President Corazon
Aquino, Benigno's mother.
 Joseph Ejercito Estrada

(born Jose Marcelo Ejercito; April 19, 1937) is a Filipino

politician and former actor who served as the 13th President of
the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, ninth Vice President of the
Philippines from 1992 to 1998, and the 26th Mayor of the City of
Manila, the country's capital, from 2013 to 2019. In 2001, he
became the first president in Asia to be impeached from an
executive role and resigned from power.

In 2007, Estrada was sentenced by a special division of the

Sandiganbayan to reclusión perpetua for the plunder of $80
million from the government, but was later granted pardon by
President and his former deputy Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He
ran for president again in the 2010 presidential election, but was
defeated by Senator Benigno Aquino III by a wide margin. He
later served as Mayor of Manila for two terms, from 2013 to
2019.
 Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr.

GCrM (Tagalog pronunciation: [makapaˈɡal], September 28, 1910

– April 21, 1997) was the ninth President of the Philippines,
serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice-President, serving
from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of
Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of
1970. He was the father of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who
followed his path as President of the Philippines from 2001 to
2010.

Under Marcos, Macapagal was elected president of the

Constitutional Convention which would later draft what became
the 1973 Constitution, though the manner in which the charter
was ratified and modified led him to later question its
legitimacy. He died of heart failure, pneumonia, and renal
complications, in 1997, at the age of 86.
 Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay

KGE GCC QSC MGH (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a
Filipino statesman who served as the seventh President of the
Philippines, from December 30, 1953 until his death in an
aircraft disaster. An automobile mechanic by profession,
Magsaysay was appointed military governor of Zambales after
his outstanding service as a guerilla leader during the Pacific
War. He then served two terms as Liberal Party congressman for
Zambales before being appointed as Secretary of National
Defense by President Elpidio Quirino. He was elected president
under the banner of the Nacionalista Party.

He was the first Philippine president born during the 20th

century and the first to be born after the Spanish colonial era.
 Elpidio Rivera Quirino

(born Elpidio Quirino y Rivera; November 16, 1890 – February

29, 1956) was a Filipino politician of ethnic Ilocano descent who
served as the sixth President of the Philippines from 1948 to
1953.

After the death of the incumbent president Manuel Roxas in

1948, he succeeded the presidency. He won the president's office
under Liberal Party ticket, defeating Nacionalista vice president
and former president José P. Laurel as well as fellow Liberalista
and former Senate President José Avelino.

Quirino died of a heart attack during the leap year day of

February 29, 1956 at his retirement house in Novaliches, Quezon
City.
 Manuel Acuña Roxas

([ˈɾohas]; born Manuel Roxas y Acuña; January 1, 1892 – April

15, 1948) was the fifth President of the Philippines who served
from 1946 until his death in 1948. He briefly served as the third
and last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from
May 28, 1946 to July 4, 1946 and then became the first President
of the independent Third Philippine Republic after the United
States ceded its sovereignty over the Philippines.

April 15, 1948 Roxas delivered a speech before the United States
Thirteenth Air Force. After the speech, he felt dizzy and was
brought to the residence of Major General E.L. Eubank at Clark
Field, Pampanga. He died later that night of a heart attack.
 Sergio Osmeña Sr.

PLH (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈseɾxjo ozˈmeɲa]; September 9,

1878 – October 19, 1961) was a Filipino politician who served as
the fourth President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. He
was Vice President under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's
sudden death in 1944, Osmeña succeeded him, at age 65,
becoming the oldest holder of the office (a record he held until
71-year-old Rodrigo Duterte was elected in 2016). A founder of
the Nacionalista Party, Osmeña was also the first Visayan to
become president.

He died of pulmonary edema at age 83 on 19 October 1961 at the

Veterans' Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. He was
buried at Manila North Cemetery, Manila on 26 October 1961.
 José Paciano Laurel y García

CCLH (March 9, 1891 – November 6, 1959) was a Filipino

politician and judge. He was the president of the Second
Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state when occupied
during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. Since the
administration of President Diosdado Macapagal (1961–1965),
Laurel has been officially recognized by later administrations as
a former president of the Philippines.

On November 6, 1959, Laurel died at the Our Lady of Lourdes

Hospital, in Manila, from a massive heart attack and a stroke. He
is buried in Tanauan, Batangas.
 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina

(19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944) was a Filipino statesman,

soldier and politician who served as president of the
Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the
first Filipino to head a government of the entire Philippines (as
opposed to the government of previous Philippine states), and is
considered to have been the second president of the Philippines,
after Emilio Aguinaldo (1899–1901).

It was during his exile in the U.S. that he died of tuberculosis at

Saranac Lake, New York. He was buried in the Arlington
National Cemetery until the end of World War II, when his
remains were moved to Manila. His final resting place is the
Quezon Memorial Circle.
 Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy

QSC CCLH[d] (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈmi.ljo a.ɣiˈnal.do]:

March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino revolutionary,
politician and military leader who is officially recognized as the
first and the youngest President of the Philippines (1899–1901)
and first president of a constitutional republic in Asia. He led
Philippine forces first against Spain in the latter part of the
Philippine Revolution (1896–1898), and then in the Spanish–
American War (1898), and finally against the United States
during the Philippine–American War (1899–1901).

Aguinaldo was rushed to Veterans Memorial Medical Center in

Quezon City on October 5, 1962, under the care of Dr. Juana
Blanco Fernandez, MD, where he stayed for 469 days until he
died of coronary thrombosis at age 94 on February 6, 1964.