Central alumni, faculty and affiliates have been recognized in a wide range of fields. These include numerous prominent politicians, National Artists of the Philippines, Fulbright Scholars and Professors, Scientists and inventors, Ramon Magsaysay Award (Asian Nobel Prize) and other prestigious awards laureates, Senators and Lower House Legislators, Presidential Cabinet Members, Associate and Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the Philippines, foreign diplomats, military servicemen, Philippine provincial governors and cities mayors, novelists and writers, journalists, film directors and actors, Singers, and business tycoons.