List of people from Cebu

Culture

• Martin Abellana – Visayan author
• Cecilia Manguerra Brainard – author, editor
• Vicente Sotto – politician, author

Entertainment

• Amapola – singer, musician, actress, TV host, novelist
• Anna Fegi – singer
• Caridad Sanchez – actress
• Devon Seron – actress
• Eda Nolan – actress
• Enrique Gil – actor
• Ellen Adarna – actress
• Eula Caballero – actress
• Franco – band
• Gloria Sevilla – actress
• Isabel Oli – actress
• Keanna Reeves– actress, comedian
• Manilyn Reynes – singer, actress
• Manuel Kabajar Cabase aka Mahnee or Manny – composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist
• Matteo Guidicelli – actor, singer, car racer
• Nicole Uysiuseng – actress
• Panky Trinidad – singer
• Pilar Pilapil – actress
• Richard Yap – actor, singer, businessman
• Shaina Magdayao – actress, model, dancer
• Sheryn Regis – singer, actress
• Slater Young – actor
• Urbandub – experimental rock band
• Vina Morales – singer, dancer, actress
• Jepoy Hinlo – actor
• Missing Filemon – Bisrock band
• Ben Zubiri – Cebuano Based Boholano Stage Actor and World War 2 Guerrilla

Politics and government

• Chief Justice Marcelo Fernan – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Senate president
• Colonel Thomas F. Breslin – surveyor of large sections of Cebu, Colonel, Bataan Death March victim
• Mariano Jesús Cuenco – Senate President during the First Congress of the Philippines
• President Sergio Osmeña Sr. – second President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
• Michael Rama – Mayor of Cebu(2010–2016)

Sports

• Gabriel "Flash" Elorde – boxer and former world champion
• Dondon Ampalayo - PBA player
• Dondon Hontiveros – PBA player
• Ray Anthony Jónsson – Icelandic–Filipino footballer
• Joseph Ronald Quiñahan – PBA player
• Junemar Fajardo – PBA player
• Greg Slaughter – PBA player
• Eliud Poligrates – PBA player
• Elmer Cabahug – PBA player

Fashion, Designs and Arts

• Monique Lhuillier – fashion designer
• Kenneth Cobonpue – International Furniture Designer