# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcelo-fernan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:34:19.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcelo-fernan"
name: "Marcelo Fernan"
slug: "marcelo-fernan"
description: "Marcelo \"Celing\" Briones Fernan was a Filipino lawyer and political figure. He is the only Filipino to have served as both Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and as Senate President. He is also the third Filipino to have headed both the judicial and legislative branches of government, after Querube Makalintal who served as Chief Justice and Speaker of the Batasang Pambansa in the 1970s, and José Yulo, who served as Chief Justice and Speaker of the House of Representatives before 1946."
tagline: "Chief Justice of the Philippines from 1988 to 1991"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scphil87jf.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-10-24"
deathDate: "1999-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.59
  momentum:             0.879120879120879
  historical:           9.258068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "مارسيلو فرنان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "مارسيلو فرنان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_B._Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo B. Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fern%C3%A1n"
    title: "Marcelo Fernán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Fernan"
    title: "Marcelo Fernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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