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Tomás Pinpin

Tomás Pinpin was a printer, writer and publisher from Abucay, a municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines, who was the first Philippine printer and is sometimes referred as the "Prince of the Filipino Printers."

Pinpin is remembered for being the first Philippine personage to publish and print a book, ''Librong Pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Uicang Castilla'' (Reference Book for the Tagalogs for Learning Spanish language) in 1610, entirely written by himself in the old Tagalog orthography. Provided by Wikipedia