# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virgilio-s-almario
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:38:27.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virgilio-s-almario"
name: "Virgilio S. Almario"
slug: "virgilio-s-almario"
description: "Virgilio Senadren Almario, better known by his pen name Rio Alma, is a Filipino author, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines. He formerly served as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, the government agency mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino language. On January 5, 2017, Almario was also elected as the chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts."
tagline: "Filipino poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2025-10-19_Buchmesse_Virgilio_Almario_(3).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.35
  momentum:             7.796556009231316
  historical:           5.490534666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_Almario"
    title: "Virgilio Almario"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_S._Almario"
    title: "Virgilio S. Almario"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_S._Almario"
    title: "Virgilio S. Almario"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_Almario"
    title: "Virgilio Almario"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_Almario"
    title: "Virgilio Almario"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_S._Almario"
    title: "Virgilio S. Almario"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7933864"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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