# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orlando-s-mercado
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:38:46.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orlando-s-mercado"
name: "Orlando S. Mercado"
slug: "orlando-s-mercado"
description: "Orlando \"Orly\" Sanchez Mercado is a Filipino politician and broadcast journalist best known for having served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1987 to 1998, Secretary of Defense from 1998 to 2001, president and CEO of Radio Philippines Network from 2008 to 2009, and for his long career as a broadcast journalist, most famously for hosting the television program Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko."
tagline: "Filipino politician, civil servant and radio presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Defense_Secretary_Orly_Mercado.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.2
  momentum:             3.036332179930796
  historical:           8.120918666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E5%85%B0%E5%A4%9A%C2%B7%E9%BB%98%E5%8D%A1%E5%A4%9A"
    title: "奥兰多·默卡多"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "أورلاندو إس. ميركادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "اورلاندو اس. ميركادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Mercado"
    title: "Orlando Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Mercado"
    title: "Orly Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Sanchez_Mercado"
    title: "Orlando Sanchez Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_S._Mercado"
    title: "Orlando S. Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_S._Mercado"
    title: "Orlando S. Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Mercado"
    title: "Orlando Mercado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984659"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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