Jose Rizal - was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines

during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by National Heroes Committee. Rizal was a polyglot conversant in twenty-two languages. He was a prolific poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El filibusterismo. These social commentaries on Spanish rule formed the nucleus of literature that inspired peaceful reformists and armed revolutionaries alike. As a political figure, Jos Rizal was the founder of La Liga Filipina, a civic organization that subsequently gave birth to the Katipunan led by Andrs Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo. He was a proponent of achieving Philippine self-government peacefully through institutional reform rather than through violent revolution, although he would support "violent means" as a last resort. Melchora Aquino - Supported the Philippine Revolution and the Katipuneros with foods and other necessities, she nursed those who fell sick or wounded. Mariano Gomez - Aside from taking care of the spiritual necessities of the town and the church, he also taught agriculture and cottage industries. Gmez also helped in maintaining a harmonious relationship among his other priests. He fought for equal rights of native priests against the abuses of their Spanish counterparts. Antonio Luna - Mounted the Propaganda Movement during the Spanish Occupation of the Philippines, wrote La Solidaridad, wrote scientific researches/treatise on malaria, joined the revolution as a General, established the Academia Militar in Malolos as the precursor of the Phil. Military Academy, fought during the Phil-American War, regarding as the best general during the Phil. Revolution. Emilio Jacinto - as a revolutionary JAcinto joined the Katipunan, and became the advisor and secretary to Andres Bonifacio called as the "Utak ng Katipunan". Wrote for "Kartilya" the newspaper of Katipunan and had written the Kartilya ng Katipunan. Gregorio del Pilar - one of the youngest generals in the Philippine Revolutionary Forces during the Phil. Revolution and the PHil-American War.He is most known for his role and death at the Battle of Tirad Pass. Because of his youth, he was called the "Boy General." Andres Bonifacio - Filipino nationalist and revolutionary. He was a founder and later Supremo ("supreme leader") of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution. He is considered a de facto national hero of the Philippines, and is also considered by some Filipino historians to be the first President, but he is not officially recognized as such. Apolinario Mabini - was a Filipino political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote a constitutional plan for the first Philippine republic of 1899-1901, and served as its first prime minister in 1899. In Philippine history texts, he is often referred to as "the Sublime Paralytic", and as "the Brains of the Revolution."

Marcelo Hilario del Pilar - better known by his nom-de-plume Plaridel, was a celebrated figure in the Philippine Revolution and a leading propagandist for reforms in the Philippines. A master polemicist in both the Tagalog and Spanish languages, he helped the Propaganda Movement through his speeches and liberal writings on the plight of the Filipinos as a result of the abuses of the Spanish friars in the country. He was the editor and co-publisher of La Solidaridad (The Solidarity), a newspaper advocating reforms for the Philippines. Jos Apolonio Burgos - was a Filipino mestizo secular priest, Burgos' liberal views, codified in editorial essays, championing political and ecclesiastic reforms in favor of empowering more native clergymen, Burgos also penned several signed articles later in his life, in response to a series of anonymous written attacks on the Filipino clergy. Juan Luna - was an Ilocano Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists. Francisco Baltazar - known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic, Florante at Laura, is regarded as his defining work.