who is Jose Rizal?

Answer 1

he is the national hero of the philippines... Pambansang bayani ng Pilipinas...

Answer 2

Jose Rizal is the national hero of the Philippines.

Answer 3

Jose P. Rizal is the national hero of the Philippines. He fought against the spaniards by writing. He wrote the famous Noli Me Tangere and El Felibusterismo.

Answer 4

Dr. Jos̩ Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 РDecember 30, 1896), variously called the "Pride of the Malay Race," "The Great Malayan," "The First Filipino," "The Messiah of the Revolution," "The Universal Hero" and "The Messiah of the Redemption." He is the national hero of the Philippines. Despite his relatively short life, Rizal's passion as a patriot together with his intelligence as one of the first Third World intellectuals of the post-colonial era have inspired succeeding thinkers and revolutionaries of the centrality of national identity as a social force in the project of nation-building. He is called by Benedict Anderson as one of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.

Rizal was a polyglot. The medium of instruction in various academies in the Philippines and Europe where he studied were Spanish, French, Latin and German. There are facsimiles of letters of his that are in excellent German, and he also had correspondence in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, English, German and Dutch. He made translations from Arabic, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Sanskrit. In addition he had at least some knowledge of Malay, Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Subanun besides his native Tagalog.

He was a poet. As a polymath, he was also an amateur architect, artist, educator, amateur economist, amateur ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian, inventor, journalist, mythologist, internationalist, naturalist, novelist, ophthalmologist, physician, propagandist, sculptor, martial artist, and amateur sociologist.

Answer 5

He is the national hero of the Philippines...he was executed by the Spaniards centuries ago (the Conquistadors were in Philippines for almost 400 years).

Answer 6

He is the National Hero of the Philippines. He wrote books about how the Spaniards really treated the Filipino people long ago. His books enlightened the Filipinos and urged them to fight for their own country's freedom.

Answer 7

Philippine Revolutionary leader That was executed by the Spainiards in 1896 for inciting revolt.

Answer 8

All I know is that he was the hero of the people of the Philippines; he was also very smart too.

Answer 9

PI hero... like Lapu Lapu.

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Rizal