JOSÉ PROTASIO RIZAL MERCADO Y ALONSO REALONDA IS A FILIPINO NATIONALIST AND POLYMATH DURING THE TAIL END OF THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD OF THE PHILIPPINES. AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST BY PROFESSION, HE BECAME A WRITER AND A KEY MEMBER OF THE FILIPINO PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT WHICH ADVOCATED POLITICAL REFORMS FOR THE COLONY UNDER SPAIN.

ANDRÉS BONIFACIO Y DE CASTRO IS A FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARY LEADER AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE TAGALOG REPUBLIC. HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND LATER “SUPREMO” (SUPREME LEADER) OF THE KATIPUNAN, A MOVEMENT WHICH SOUGHT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES FROM SPANISH COLONIAL RULE AND STARTED THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION.

APOLINARIO MABINI Y MARANÁN WAS A FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARY LEADER, EDUCATOR, LAWYER, AND STATESMAN WHO IS REGARDED AS THE “UTAK NG HIMAGSIKAN” OR “BRAIN OF THE REVOLUTION”. MABINI PERFORMED ALL HIS REVOLUTIONARY AND GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES DESPITE HAVING LOST THE USE OF BOTH HIS LEGS TO POLIO SHORTLY BEFORE THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION OF 1896.