Rodolfo Dato

Rodolfo Dato (April 17, 1899 - October 11, 1955) was a Filipino lawyer, editor and educator from Baao, Camarines Sur. His book "Filipino Poetry", published in 1924, is one of the first anthologies of Filipino poets from 1911 to 1924. The book is regarded as the first published work to acknowledge the Filipino talents in English poetry writing in just about 20 years after the American occupation of the Philippines. He became the first Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Nueva Caceres.