# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leona-florentino
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:05:09.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leona-florentino"
name: "Leona Florentino"
slug: "leona-florentino"
description: "Leona Josefa Florentino was a Filipina foundational poet, dramatist, satirist, and playwright who wrote and poetically spoke in Ilocano, her mother tongue, and Spanish, the lingua franca of her era. She is considered as the \"mother of Philippine women's literature\", serving as the \"bridge from oral to literary tradition\"; and as a pioneer in Philippine lesbian literature."
tagline: "Filipino writer (1849-1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeonaFlorentinoStatute.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1849-04-19"
deathDate: "1884-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.63
  momentum:             1.282051282051282
  historical:           9.61944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "ليونا فلورنتينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Florentino"
    title: "Leona Florentino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3547011"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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