Jose Villa Panganiban

Jose Villa Panganiban (June 12, 1903 – October 13, 1972) was a Filipino lexicographer, writer, professor, linguist, polyglot, poet, journalist, radio personality, and translator. He was the director of the Institute of National Language (now Commission on the Filipino Language). One of the first promoters and developers of the Philippine national language, he was best known for his work Diksyunaryo–Tesauro Ingles–Pilipino.

Panganiban founded what is now called The Varsitarian, the student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, in 1928.

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