José Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
CountryPhilippines
LanguagesSpanish
Dates1861 — 1896
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered a national hero of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement in the 1880s, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.— Wikipedia
