José Rizal (1861-1896) was a national hero of the Philippines and the first Asian nationalist. He expressed the growing national consciousness of many Filipinos who opposed Spanish colonial tyranny and aspired to attain democratic rights....

(1861–1896), Filipino physician, writer, patriot. José Rizal was born in Calamba, Laguna Province, Philippines, on 19 June 1861, to a well-to-do landowner and sugar planter family. Rizal obtained a bachelor of arts degree in 1877 at the...

Jose Rizal (full name: José Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonso y Realonda) (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is...

The Philippines' national hero, Jose Rizal, wrote his most famous poem in a 9 x 15-centimeter paper that he hid in an alcohol burner. Reciting "Adios patria adorada..." from memory is the usual culmination of 12 units of Spanish in Philippine colleges. Semester...

I want to tell my daughter Bina, You are a great-great-grandniece of Jose Rizal, poet, novelist, revolutionary, martyr, a surgeon in Europe and a linguist in nineteen languages living and three dead--ancient Sanskrit and Greek and Latin--and he had six mistresses in six...