List of De La Salle University people

De La Salle University (Tagalog: Pamantasang De La Salle) (DLSU) is a Catholic private Lasallian university in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director.^[2] DLSU traces its founding to Manila Archbishop Jeremiah James Harty. He believed that the establishment of a La Salle school in Manila was instrumental in preempting the spread of Protestantism in the Philippines through the arrival of the Thomasites and Protestant missions.^[3] His request would later be endorsed in 1907 by Pope Pius X. An envoy of De La Salle Brothers arrived in 1910.^[4]

St La Salle Hall, called "DLSU's most historic building" by The LaSallian^[1]

More than a century ago, the De La Salle College (DLSC) was established as an exclusive all boys' elementary and high school.^[5] The pre-war grade school and high school departments of DLSC were finally dissolved in 1968 and 1978 respectively.^[6][7][8] DLSU currently offers coeducational undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its seven colleges and one school specializing in varied disciplines, including business, engineering, computer sciences, education and liberal arts.^[9] DLSU, granted university status in February 1975, is the oldest constituent of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), a network of 16 Lasallian institutions established in 2006 to replace the De La Salle University System.^[10][11][12]

The Lasallians affiliated with De La Salle University include over 100,000 alumni,^[13] 888 faculty,^[14] honorary degree recipients and university administrators. Among them are National Artists of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay Awardees, officials of the Catholic Church and the government of the Philippines

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Alumni and faculty

Alumni

Carla Abellana

Jose Isidro Camacho

Leila de Lima

Jose de Venecia, Jr.

Ramon B. Magsaysay, Jr.

Mike Enriquez

Kitchie Nadal

Cayetano Paderanga, Jr.

Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam

Ralph Recto

Jesse Robredo

Alberto Romulo

Lorenzo V. Tan

Gilbert Teodoro

Jesús A. Villamor

Jeannie Sandoval

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Rico Yan

Fields with a – are unknown; NA – not applicable

Name	Relationship	Discipline	Known for	Notes
Benjamin Abalos, Jr.		History and political science	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2004 to 2007, Mayor of Mandaluyong, (June 30, 1998 – June 30, 2004, June 30, 2007 - June 30, 2016)	[15]
Carla Abellana		Psychology (AB-PSM) cum laude	Actress	[16]
Ogie Alcasid	—	—	TV Host/Song Writer/Actor	[17]
Don Allado	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[18]
Rafael Alunan III		Business administration and history	Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary from 1992 to 1996	[19][20]
Rolando Andaya, Jr.		Business and economics	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines	[21]
Darlene Antonino-Custodio		Management	Mayor of General Santos	[22]
Ryan Araña	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[23]
Drew Arellano		Marketing management	Actor/TV Host	[24]
Aaron Atayde		Communication arts	Sportscaster	[25]
Arjo Atayde		Entrepreneurship	Actor, politician	[26]
Mary Joy Baron		-	UAAP Season 79 Women’s Volleyball Most Valuable Player, middle blocker for the Philippines women's national volleyball team
Joseph Bernardo		Business administration	Ambassador of the Philippines to Spain	[27]
Hernani A. Braganza		History	Department of Agrarian Reform secretary from 2001 to 2003	[28]
Rafael Buenaventura		Commerce	Central Bank of the Philippines governor from 1999 to 2005	[29]
Junjun Cabatu	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[30]
Jose Isidro Camacho	e	Mathematics	Department of Finance secretary from 2001 to 2003	[31]
Mark Cardona		—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[32]
Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr.	Secondary	NA	Chairman of San Miguel Corporation	[33][34]
Jose Concepcion, Jr.		Commerce	Department of Trade and Industry secretary from 1986 to 1991	[35]
Mike Cortez	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[36]
Elsa Martinez Coscolluela	Graduate	Literature	Vice President for Academic Affairs of University of St. La Salle	[37]
David Consunji	Secondary	NA	Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications secretary from 1971 to 1975	[38][39]
Jose Cuisa, Jr.		Commerce	Central Bank of the Philippines governor from 1990 to 1993	[40]
Leila de Lima		History and political science	former Department of Justice secretary, incumbent Senator	[41]
Jose de Venecia, Jr.	Secondary	NA	Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 1992–1998 and 2005–2008	[42][43][44]
Enchong Dee		Development studies	ABS-CBN Star Magic celebrity	[45]
Monsour del Rosario		Arts	Taekwondo practitioner, incumbent Member, House of Representatives	[46]
Ramon del Rosario, Jr.		Commerce and social sciences	Department of Finance secretary from 1992 to 1993	[47]
Jose W. Diokno		Commerce	Senator of the Philippines in 1963–1969 and 1968–1972	[48]
Joseph Victor Ejercito		Political science	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines	[49]
Michael Elbinias	—	—	Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines	[50]
Mike Enriquez		Commerce	GMA VP radio and TV journalist	[51]
Eileen Ermita-Buhain		Psychology	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines	[52]
Cheryl Fuerte		Computer science	Web designer	[53]
Jerwin Gaco	Graduate	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[54]
Peque Gallaga	Secondary	NA	Film director	[55]
Albert S. Garcia		Philosophy	Member of the House of Representatives	[56]
Tet Garcia		Accountancy and economics	Governor of Bataan from 1992 to 1994	[57]
John Gokongwei	Graduate	Business administration	Chairman of JG Summit Holdings	[58]
John Paul Gomez		Mechanical engineering	Chess grandmaster	[59]
Jose Antonio Gonzalez	—	—	Former Department of Tourism secretary	[60]
Miguel Benjamin Guico	—	Industrial and Management Engineering	Musician of Ben and Ben	[61]
Paolo Benjamin Guico	—	Industrial and Management Engineering	Musician of Ben and Ben	[61]
Kisses Delavin	—	Accountancy (now Business Administration)	Actress, beauty queen, brand endorser, singer and model	[62]
Armando Goyena		Commerce	Actor	[63]
Quinito Henson		East Asian studies and economics	Sports analyst	[64]
Niña Jose		European studies	Actress	[65]
Philip Juico		Business	Sports Official
Ernesto Kahn		Commerce	Former San Miguel Corporation President	[66]
Edwin Lacierda		Communication arts	Spokesperson of President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III	[67]
Salvador Laurel	Secondary	NA	Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992	[68]
Richmond Lee		Industrial Engineering	Patent attorney	[69]
Lim Eng Beng		—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[70]
Jun Limpot		—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[70]
Japoy Lizardo	U	—	Taekwondo practitioner	[71]
Leandro Locsin	Secondary	NA	National Artist of the Philippines for architecture	[72]
Teodoro Locsin, Jr.	Secondary	NA	Former member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, incumbent Secretary of Foreign Affairs	[73]
Mara Lopez		Communication arts	Actress	[74]
Ramon Magsaysay, Jr.	Secondary	NA	Former senator of the Philippines	[75]
Ervin Malicdem		Electronics and Communications Engineering, Multimedia Arts	Winner of the 1st Philippine Animation Competition, Environment and mapping advocate	[76][77][78]
Tommy Manotoc	Secondary	NA	Philippine Basketball Association coach	[79]
Edu Manzano	Elementary	NA	Actor/TV Host	[80]
Florencio Miraflores		Industrial engineering	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines	[81]
Kitchie Nadal		Education and psychology	Singer	[82]
Paeng Nepomuceno	—	—	Bowler	[83]
Sam Oh		International studies	Talk show host	[84]
Jennifer Olayvar	U	International studies	Ballerina	[85]
Francisco Ortigas, Jr.		Arts	Former Department of Finance secretary	[86]
Sergio Osmeña III	Secondary	NA	Senator of the Philippines	[87]
Cayetano Paderanga, Jr.		Accountancy	National Economic and Development Authority director-general	[88]
Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam	Graduate	Counselling	Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur	[89]
Francis Pangilinan		Accounting	Senator of the Philippines	[88]
Jose Pardo	Graduate	Business administration	Department of Finance secretary from 2000 to 2001	[90]
Prospero Pichay, Jr.		Commerce	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1998 to 2007	[91]
Rorian Pratyaksa		Economics and finance	Entrepreneurs	[92]
Monico Puentevella		Political science	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines	[93]
Ralph Recto		Business Administration	Senator of the Philippines	[94]
Gilbert Remulla	Elementary	NA	2010 Philippine Senate election candidate	[95][96]
José Javier Reyes		Literature	Film director	[97]
LJ Reyes		Commerce	Actress	[98]
Mark Reyes		Communication Arts	Television and Film Director	[99]
Ren-Ren Ritualo		Bachelor of early childhood education, major in guidance counseling and child psychology	Philippine Basketball Association player	[70]
Jesse Robredo		Industrial management and mechanical engineering	Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary	[100]
Mariel Rodriguez		Bachelor of Arts in Philippine Studies, major in Filipino in Mass Media	Actress	[101]
Alberto Romulo		Accountancy	Department of Foreign Affairs secretary from 2004 to 2011	[102]
Sebastian Francis Shah	Graduate	Counselling	Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore	[103]
Carlo Sharma	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[104]
Rogelio Singson	Graduate	Public and business management	Department of Public Works and Highways secretary	[105]
Lorenzo V. Tan	Graduate	Commerce, Major in Accounting	Banker, Bankers Association of the Philippines President	[106]
Tyrone Tang		Business management	Philippine Basketball Association player	[107]
Mark Telan	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[108]
Gilbert Teodoro		Commerce	incumbentDepartment of National Defense since 2023 and previously from 2007 to 2010; former Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Tarlac	[109]
John Iremil Teodoro	Graduate	Fine arts	Literary writer	[110]
TJ Trinidad		Commerce	Actor	[111]
Antonio Trillanes IV		Electronics and communications engineering	Senator of the Philippines	[112]
Jong Uichico	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association coach	[113]
Gary Valenciano	—	—	Dancer/Song Writer/TV Host	[17]
Luis R. Villafuerte, Jr.		Political science	Governor of Camarines Sur	[114]
Jesús A. Villamor		Arts	World War II USAFFE Ace Fighter pilot	[115]
Martin Villarama		Business administration	Supreme Court of the Philippines justice	[116]
Bernardo Villegas		Commerce and humanities	Founder of University of Asia and the Pacific	[117]
Jason Webb	—	—	Philippine Basketball League player	[118]
Pinky Webb		Psychology	Newscaster	[119]
Roselle Nava		Marketing Management	ABS-CBN diva/singer
Willy Wilson	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[120]
Rico Yan		Business management	Actor	[121]
Joseph Yeo	—	—	Philippine Basketball Association player	[122]
Francis Zamora		Psychology	Mayor, San Juan, Metro Manila	[123]
Ronaldo Zamora	Secondary	NA	Executive secretary to President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada	[124]
Jose Zubiri, Jr.		Management	Governor of Bukidnon	[125]
Randy Santiago		Communication Arts	Song Writer/Actor/Comedian
Iya Villania		Psychology	Actress, TV host, and VJ	[126]
Jeannie Sandoval		Computer science	incumbent Mayor of Malabon, Vice Mayor of Malabon from 2013 to 2019	[127]

Faculty

Ambeth Ocampo

Name	Relationship	Discipline	Known for	Notes
Heber Bartolome	Former professor	Literature	Musician	[128]
Cirilo Bautista	Professor	Literature	Literary writer	[129]
Josette Biyo	Professor	Biology	Biologist	[130]
Albert Casuga	Professor	Literature	Literary writer	[131]
Xiao Chua	Professor	History	Historian, academic, and television personality
Isagani R. Cruz	Professor emeritus	Literature	Literary writer	[132]
Randy Dellosa	Professor	Psychiatry	TV show counsellor	[133]
Chel Diokno	School of Law founding dean and professor	Law	Human rights lawyer	[134]
Marjorie Evasco	Professor	Literature	Poet	[135]
Rico Hizon	Former lecturer	Broadcast journalism	BBC newscaster	[136]
Bienvenido Lumbera	Professor	Literature	National Artist of the Philippines for Literature	[137]
Ambeth Ocampo	Professor	History	National Historical Commission of the Philippines chairman	[138][139]
Vicente Paterno	Former lecturer	Business administration	Senator of the Philippines from 1987 to 1992	[140]
Louie Jon A. Sanchez	Professor	Literature	Awarded Poet of the Year by the Commission on the Filipino Language	[141]
Julio Teehankee	Professor	Political Science	Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Jean Vitug	Professor	English	Grammar	[142]

Honorary degree recipients

Yōhei Kōno

Ramon Magsaysay

Robert Mundell

Edward Teller

James Wolfensohn

DA – Doctor of Arts; DBM – Doctor of Business Management; EdD – Doctor of Education; LHD – Doctor of Humane Letters; DHum – Doctor of Humanities; LLD – Doctor of Laws; LittD – Doctor of Letters; DMgt – Doctor of Management; DNatSc – Doctor of Natural Science; PedD – Doctor of Pedagogy; PhD – Doctor of Philosophy; ScD – Doctor of Science

Name	Degree	Year	Known for	Notes
Manuel S. Alba	Doctor of Management Education	1982	Former Department of Budget and Management minister	[143][144]
Ismail Mohd Ali	DMgt	1993	Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia from 1962 to 1980	[144][145]
Edgardo Angara	Doctor of Educational Management	1989	Senator of the Philippines	[144][146]
Angelo Caloia	PhD	1997	President of Vatican Bank from 1989 to 2009	[144][147]
Hilario Davide, Jr.	LLD	2001	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1998 to 2005	[144][148]
Roberto De Ocampo	PhD	1996	Department of Finance secretary from 1992 to 1998	[144][149]
Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría	DHum	2010	Superior general of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools	[144][150]
Marcelo Fernan	DMgt	1991	Only person to become both President of the Senate of the Philippines and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines	[144][151]
David Gross	ScD	2008	2004 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate	[144][152]
Pilar Hidalgo-Lim	PedD	1964	Women's rights advocate	[144][153]
Joseph Höffner	DMgt	1986	Archbishop of Cologne from 1969 to 1987	[144][154]
Daisaku Ikeda	LHD	1997	Leader of Sōka Gakkai	[144][155]
Khir Johari	EdD	1967	First minister of education of Malaysia	[144][156]
F. Sionil José	PhD	1995	1980 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Literature	[144][157]
Toshiki Kaifu	DMgt	1991	Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991	[144][158]
Yōhei Kōno	PhD	2003	Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan from 2003 to 2008	[144][159]
Ramon Magsaysay	LLD and LittD	1957	President of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957	[160][144]
Robert Mundell	DHum	2007	1999 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate	[144][161]
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma	LHD	1987	First female Supreme Court of the Philippines justice	[144][162]
Bienvenido Nebres	ScD	2004	President of Ateneo de Manila University from 1993 to 2011	[144][163]
Eugene Nida	LHD	1985	Developer of the functional equivalence method of Bible translation	[144][164]
Teodoro R. Padilla	LLD	1998	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1987 to 1997	[144][165]
José Ramos-Horta	DHum	2009	President of East Timor	[144][166]
Carlos P. Romulo	ScD	1964	President of the UN General Assembly in 1940 and 1950	[144][167]
Julio Rosales	DHum	1966	Archbishop of Cebu from 1949 to 1982	[144][168]
Bienvenido Santos	DA	1990	Literary writer	[144][169]
Rufino Jiao Santos	Doctor of Ecclesiastical Finance	1958	First Filipino cardinal	[144][170]
Jaime Sin	LHD	1975	Archbishop of Manila from 1974 to 2003	[144][171][172]
Chatri Sophonpanich	DBM	1986	Chairman of Bangkok Bank	[144][173]
Su Nan-cheng	DMgt	1989	1983 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service	[144][174]
Henry Sy	ScD	1999	Owner of SM Investments Corporation	[144][175]
Washington SyCip	PhD	1977	1992 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for International Understanding	[144][176]
Edmund Szoka	Doctor of Financial Management	1990	President emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State	[144][177]
Lorenzo Tañada	EdD	1968	Senator of the Philippines from 1948 to 1971	[144][178]
Jean-Louis Tauran	DHum	2001	President of Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue	[144][179]
Edward Teller	DNatSc	1981	Inventor of the hydrogen bomb	[144][180]
Edith Tiempo	DHum	2001	National Artist of the Philippines for Literature	[144][181]
Geronimo Velasco	PhD	1979	Minister of Energy of the Philippines from 1978 to 1986	[144][182]
Torsten Wiesel	ScD	2010	1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate	[144][183]
James Wolfensohn	DHum	2008	President of the World Bank from 1999 to 2005	[144][184]
Manuel T. Yan	DHum	2008	Youngest to be appointed as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines	[144][185]
Yong Pung How	PhD	2003	Chief Justice of Singapore from 1990 to 2006	[144][186]
Alfonso Yuchengco	PhD	1982	Former Philippine representative to the United Nations	[144][187]
Enrique Zobel	DBM	1983	Former chief executive officer of Ayala Corporation	[144][188]
Jaime Zobel de Ayala	DBM	1985	Fourth richest person in the Philippines as of 2010	[144][189]

Presidents

De La Salle University has had 21 presidents, including two acting presidents.^[190][191] The first, Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn, acted in Lucian Athanasius Reinhart's capacity during his return to the United States while the second, another American Brother named Andelino Manuel, completed Reinhart's office when he died in 1950.^[192][191]

Presidents

#	Name	Term
1	Blimond Pierre Eilenbecker	1911–1912
2	Goslin Camille Thomas	1912–1915
3	Acisclus Michael Naughter	1915–1919
4	Albinus Peter Graves	1919–1923
3	Acisclus Michael Naughter	1923–1927
5	Celba John Lynam	1927–1930
6	Dorothy Joseph Brophy	1930–1933
7	Marcian James Cullen	1933–1936
8	Flannan Paul Gallagher	1936
9	Egbert Xavier Kelly	1937–1945
10	Lucian Athanasius Reinhart	1945–1950
13	Hyacinth Gabriel Connon	1950–1959
14	Denis of Mary Ruhland	1959–1961
15	Crescentius Richard Duerr	1961–1966
13	Hyacinth Gabriel Connon	1966–1978
16	Andrew Gonzalez	1978–1991
17	Rafael Donato	1991–1994
16	Andrew Gonzalez	1994–1998
18	Rolando Ramos Dizon	1998–2003
19	Carmelita Quebengco	2003–2004
20	Armin Luistro	2004–2011
21	Narciso S. Erguiza	2011–2012
22	Ricky Laguda	2012–2015
23	Raymundo Suplido	2015-present