Sports
- Roberto "Bobby Berna" Bernaldez is a former IBF bantamweight Champion of the World.
- EJ Banal from Corella is one of the young and promising Boholano boxers.
- Rey Boom Boom Bautista
- Nonito Donaire - four-division world boxing champion
- Celestino Gallares
- Roberto Jalnaiz
- Simeon Toribio - equal the world high jump record in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. He finished 3rd to take the Bronze Medal. Participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Also a former congressman.
- Nino Ramirez - Philippine entry in the Men's Long Jump in the 1936 Olympic Games. He dropped in the qualifying round but he was the event Long Jump title holder in Asia. He was also a good basketball and tennis player.
- Lauro Mumar - Known as "the fox" in Philippine basketball because he was instrumental in disqualifying the best player of Puerto Rico during a World Basketball Conference in Brazil. He caused the revision of the 20 seconds rule in basketball when he "freeze" the ball for 4 minutes against Puerto Rico. Carlos Loyzaga was known to be "The great difference", but there is a saying that says; he would not be "the great difference" without the "Fox" Mumar.
- Eugenio Sarabia - A MICAA stalwart playing with various teams like Seven-Up, Yutivo, Crispa, Chelsea and Yellow Taxi.
- Jorge Naron - A MICAA player playing with Yutivo
- Dodie Bonita - former PBA cager played with Crispa
- Bernard "Bernie" Fabiosa - a member of the 1974 RP Youth Team and a graduate of the University of the East. During his time with the PBA Fabiosa was a member of the 1976 and 1983 Crispa Grand Slam Team, the Mythical Second Team (1984), selected as on of the PBA's 25 Greatest Players, and a member of the 5,000 points club, 2,000 assists club and the 500 & 1,000 steals club.
- Atan Canlubo, a Boholano from Ilihan, Ubay, Bohol - Muay Thai fighter based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Edward Naron, an ex-PBA cager.
- Peter Naron, an ex-PBA cager.
- Christopher Lou Sumalinog of Jagna, Bohol - former member of Ateneo Blue Eagles, 2008-2012.
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
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Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)