Notable People
Notable people or alumni of the University include Perfecto R. Yasay, Jr., former SEC chairman of the Philippines (1995–2000) and 2010 Philippine Vice-Presidential Candidate; Alfonso A. Uy, Former President of Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce; F. Landa Jocano, The First Filipino Anthropologist; Former Silliman University's and Central Philippine University's President Agustin A. Pulido; Most Outstanding Iloilo Awardee for Medicine of the Iloilo Press Club, Inc. (1997), One of the 25 Most Outstanding Citizens of West Visayas for medicine (2006), Most Outstanding Physicians of the Iloilo Medicine Society (1986), (2012) Outstanding Chest Physician and Philippine College of Physicians former president Rene I. Juaneza; The first Nurses in the Philippines: Nicasia Cada, Dorotea Caldito, Felipa De la Pena (Gumabong), graduated from Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing (Now Central Philippine University College of Nursing), the oldest Nursing school in the Philippines. Danny Fajardo, the President and owner of the Philippine renowned and leading newspaper Panay News.; Loreto D. Tupaz, Pioneer of Modern Nursing and considered as the Florence Nightingale of the Philippines; Spicy Morena Louise Aurelio Vail, 1965 Philippine representative and among the 15 semifinalists of Miss Universe pageant; and Philippine first female army general, Brigade General Ramona Palabrica – Go.
There are also those who became prominent in politics and public service (international, national and local level of service) such as Dr. Juan C. Orendain, first press secretary of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas; Atty. Julius Alegrado, Lawyer at Presidential Management Staff; Congressman Edgar Espinosa; Congressman (Iloilo's Fourth District) Ferjenel Biron; ; Atty. Leo Tito Ausan, Philippine Consul General Dept. Foreign Affairs to Germany); Atty. Daisy Avance-Fuentes, Former SEC (Philippines) Chair and South Cotabato Governor; Sally Zaldivar Perez, Former Governor of Antique Province; Nelson Sarmiento, Regional Director of Civil Service Commission (Region VI - Philippines); Perla Guillergan-Londres, One of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines of 1966; Nemia Temporal-Dungo, United Nations Head of Department of Education; Edwin I. Lariza, President of Philippine Association of Social Workers, Inc. - Western Visayas and One of the Ten Most Outstanding Social Worker in the Philippines; are all among others.
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