# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claro-m-recto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:15:57.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claro-m-recto"
name: "Claro M. Recto"
slug: "claro-m-recto"
description: "Claro Mayo Recto Jr. was a Filipino lawyer, jurist, writer, author, columnist, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senator of the Philippines from 1931 until his death in 1960. Recto was the primary author of the 1935 Philippine Constitution, one of the foremost figures in the Philippine Independence from the United States, and is remembered as the \"Great Dissenter\" and the \"Great Academician\", as a fierce opponent of U.S. neocolonialism in Asia in his later years, and a staunch Filipino nationalist throughout his career."
tagline: "Filipino statesman (1890–1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claro_M._Recto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1890-02-08"
deathDate: "1960-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.621065333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto"
    title: "Claro M. Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%85._%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "كلارو ام. ريكتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto"
    title: "Claro M. Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Claro M. Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto"
    title: "Claro M. Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto"
    title: "Claro M. Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto"
    title: "Claro M. Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_Recto"
    title: "Claro Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_Recto"
    title: "Claro Recto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE"
    title: "Ректо, Кларо Майо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1095906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump