Outstanding awards garnered by Filipinos

Txtmania.com has compiled a list of awards and recognitions bestowed upon extraorindary Filipinos from different fields and professions.

Filipino Magsaysay Awardees
Since 1958, 26 Filipinos and seven Philippine-based institutions have received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, which is widely acknowledged as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. The Filipino awardees included Hilario Davide Jr., Jose Vasquez Aguilar, Arturo Pineda Alcaraz, Francisca Aquino, Alfredo Bengzon, Jesse Robredo, and Miriam Santiago for government service; Rosario Encarnacion, Silvino Encarnacion, Eva Fidela Maamo, and Pablo Torres Tapia for communist leadership; 

Angel Alcala, Fe del Mundo, Antonio Fortich, Benjamin Gaston, Cecil Guidote-Alvarez, Gilopez Kabayao, Pedro Tamesis Orata and Rosa Rosal for public service; Lino Brocka, Nick Joaquin, F. Sionil Jose, Raul Locsin, Bienvenido Lumbera, and Zacarias Sarian for journalism, literature and creative communication; and Corazon Aquino for peace and international understanding. 

Radio Veritas was awarded for journalism while the Asian Institute of Management, Bayanihan Folk Arts Center, College of Agriculture of University of the Philippines-Los Banos, International Rice Research Institute, Operation Brotherhood+ and Press Foundation of Asia were recognized for peace and international understanding.

Architect of Brunei’s Palace
Architect Leandro Locsin designed Istana Nurul Iman, the palace of the sultan of Brunei, which has a floor area of 2.2 million square feet.

Most Decorated Filipino
Carlos P. Romulo was perhaps the only Filipino who received 82 honorary degrees from different universities and international institutions and 74 decorations from foreign countries, including the U.N. Peace Medal, the World Peace Award, the Four Freedoms Peace Award and the US Presidential Medal for Freedom. In 1945, the African former colonies nominated Carlos P. Romulo for the Nobel prize for peace for espousing “independence” for the former colonies of Asia and Africa.