The Most Famous

Writers from Philippines

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This page contains a list of the greatest Filipinos Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 5 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 89th most number of Writers behind Moldova and Haiti.

Top 5 Filipino Writers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Filipinos Writers of all time. This list of famous Filipinos Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #2
    Photo of F. Sionil José

    F. Sionil José

    1924 - 2022

    HPI 55.0920 langs

    Philippine writer (1924–2022)

  2. #3
    Photo of James Cooke Brown

    James Cooke Brown

    1921 - 2000

    HPI 54.6017 langs

    sociologist and science fiction author (1921–2000)

  3. #4
    Photo of José Burgos

    José Burgos

    1837 - 1872

    HPI 52.2817 langs

    Filipino priest martyred in 1872

Overlapping Lives

Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.

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