• Complete Name - José Protacio Rizal Mercado Alonzo y Realonda
• Other Names : Pepe, Dimasalang, Laong Laon, P.Jacinto
• Title - Philippine National Hero, Patriot, Reformist, Linguist, Writer, Poet, Essayist, Novelist, Scientist, Physician
• Birth - June 19, 1861 in Calamba, Laguna Province
• Death - December 30, 1896 in Bagumbayan (Now Luneta Park), Manila by execution
• Father - Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandro (1818–1898)
• Mother - Teodora Morales Alonzo Realonda y Quintos (1826–1911),
• Siblings - Saturnina (Neneng) (1850–1913), Paciano (1851–1930), Narcisa (Sisa) (1852–1939), Olympia (Ypia) (1855–1887), Lucia (1857–1919), María (Biang) (1859–1945), José Protasio (1861–1896), Concepción (Concha) (1862–1865), Josefa (Panggoy) (1865–1945), Trinidad (1868–1951) and Soledad (Choleng)(1870–1929)
• Ancestry - 5th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co, a Chinese immigrant.
• Surname/Family Name - Lam-co adopted Mercado (market) as the family name while Francisco adopted surname Rizal (originally Ricial) which means the green of young growth or green fields.

• Finished Bachelor of Arts at the Ateneo De Manila in 1877 at the age of 16
• Enrolled in law but later shifted to medicine at the University of Santo Tomas
• Earned a Licentiate in Medicine from Universidad Central de Madrid in Madrid, Spain in 1884
• Attended the University of Paris, France
• Earned a second doctorate in Opthalmology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1887

1. Formed a civic movement called La Liga Filipina in 1892
2. Exiled to Dapitan in Zamboanga Del Norte province in 1892

1. Sa Aking Mga Kabata (written at age 8)
2. To the Virgin Mary
3. Education Gives Luster to the Motherland
4. To Josephine
5. To the Philippines Youth
6. Kundiman
7. Hymn to Labor
8. Song of Maria Clara
9. Memories of My town
10. Our Mother Tongue
11. To The Philippines
12. Mi Retiro
13. Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell)

1. El Consejo de los Dioses
2. Canto del viajero
3. Anotation of Morga’s Successos De Las Islas Filipinas
4. La Vision del Frey Rodriguez
5. Por Telefono

1. Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) - published in Berlin (1887)
2. El filibusterismo - published in Ghent, Belgium (1891)

1. Leonor Rivera (First Cousin)
2. Segunda Katigbak (Filipina)
4. Seiko Usui (O Sei San)
5. Gertrude Becket of Chalcot Crescent (British)
6. Nelly Boustead (British)
7. Leonor Valenzuela (Filipina)
8. Consuelo Ortiga y Rey (Spanish)
9. Suzanna Jacoby (Belgian)
10. Josephine Bracken (Irish)

1. The youth is the hope of the fatherland.
2. Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinangalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan.
3. Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika, daig pa ang hayop at malansang isda
4. There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves

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