Sorsogon City - People From Sorsogon City

People From Sorsogon City

• Asisclo Jimenez – Great Zarzuelista
• Eddie Garcia – Film actor and director
• Eugenia Apostol (sister of former Sorsogon Mayor Duran) – one of the founders of Philippine Daily Inquirer
• Francis "Chiz" G. Escudero – former congressman, and now senator of the 15th Congress
• Harry Reed – Thomasite assigned in Brgy. Guingalon (now Guinlajon)
• Jorge Barlin – First Filipino and Bikolano Bishop and was assigned parish priest and Vicar Forane of Sorsogon from 1887 to 1906
• Loida Nicolas-Lewis – Born and raised in Sorsogon. Lewis is the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of TLC Beatrice, LLC, the Lewis Family investment firm and is also Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice (China), Limited, a Cayman company which operates retail convenience stores in five major cities in China and TLC Beatrice Foods (Philippines) which operates a fresh meat processing plant.
• Mary Walter – actress, whose career spanned through several decades. She was born in Bacon.
• Sally Lee (Bibincahan, Sorsogon City) – first Mayor of the city of Sorsogon and former Governor of the province of Sorsogon

• Gerry Barba aka DJ Bazura is born and raised in Bibincahan Sorsogon- amateur philosopher and independent short video specialist.He was the official announcer in the first ever Sorsogon extreme games competition specifically in the skim board category.

• Salvador Escudero Sr. – former Provincial Governor of Sorsogon and was a guerilla leader during the Japanese occupation. He was fondly called Gurang (old man in Bikol) by the local folks. Sorsogon's PNP Provincial Office along Magsaysay St., Sorsogon City, is named after him.

• Salvador Escudero III – Former Minister of Ministry of Agriculture during the time of late President Marcos. He is also the father of Senator Chiz Escudero. Finally, he's the incumbent Congressman for the 1st district of province of Sorsogon.
• Vicente L. Peralta – late congressman of Sorsogon City. A hospital in Castilla was named after him.