Andres Bonifacio

• as a Filipino nationalist, revolutionary leader, and the first president of the Philippine archipelago which he preferred naming Bansa ng Katagalugan or Tagalog Republic instead of Philippines due to its origin was derived from the Spaniards. 

• He is often called "the Father of the Philippine Revolution and Filipino Nation". He was a founder and later Supremo ("supreme leader") of the Kataas-taasan, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or simply and more popularly called Katipunan, a movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution.

• He is considered a de facto national hero of the Philippines,[4] and is also considered by some Filipino historians to be the first President of the Philippines (through the revolutionary government he established), but officially he is not recognized as such.