| Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| OCTOBER IS FILIPINO-AMERICAN MONTH |
(abstracted from PILIPINAS2.0MAG)
NOTABLE FILIPINO AMERICANS
** PETER ADUJA, firt Filipino American elected to political office
** BENNY AGBAYANI, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals baseball player
** DIOSDADO BANATAO, Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist
** BOBBY BALCENA, Cincinnati Reds baseball player
** ANGELA PEREZ BARAQUIO, Miss America 2001
** LYNDA BARRY, hapa cartoonist, most known for Ernie Pook's Comeek and Marlys, published in Salon and other independent paper
** CARLOS BULOSAN, Filipino American author and labor activist
** ROBERT BUNDA, first Filipino American legislative president
** TIA CARRERA, actress
** BENJAMIN J. CAYETANO, first Filipino American governor in US
** VICTORIA MANALO DRAVES, diver who was first woman to win two gold medals in springboard diving at the 1948 Olympic in London
** JOSIE CRUZ NATORI, fashion magnate
** PEDRO FLORES, father of the yo-yo (Donald Duncan prucahsed the company and renamed it Duncan Yo-Yo Company)
** CHAD HUGO, music producer and musician
** GENE CANQUE LIDELL, first Filipino American mayor in US
** ALLAN PINEDA LINDO aka Apl.de.Ap.musician; member of the Black Eyed Peas
** EDUARDO E. MALAPIT, firt Filipino American mayor in US
** MICHELLE MALKIN, syndicated columnist
** NEAL McCOY, country singer
** BENJAMIN MENOR, first Filipino Amerivan state Supreme Court Justice
** PAOLO MONTALBAN, actor
** LOU DIAMOND PHILIPS, actor
** JENNIFER ROSALES, LPGA golfer
** ERNIE REYES, Jr. actor
** ROB SCHNEIDER, Satruday Night Live performer, actor
** BOBBY SCOTT, US Congressman from Virginia (D)
** EDWARD SORIANO, Lt. General of the US Army
** ANTONIO TAGUBA, Major General of the US Army, author of the Taguba Report which uncovered major prisoner abuses in Iraq
** JAMINE TRIAS, American Idol contestant
** BRIAN VILLORIA, Olympic boxer |
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