Dr. José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda aka
Dr. Jose Rizal. :]
Yes, the dude with the pen who started La liga Filipina, wrote Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
"Documented studies show him to be a polymath with a propensity for various skills and subjects. He was an ophthalmologist, sculptor, painter, educator, farmer, historian, playwright and journalist. Besides poetry and creative writing, he dabbled, with varying degrees of expertise, in architecture, cartography, economics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, martial arts, fencing and pistol shooting. He was also a Freemason during his time in Spain and became a Master Mason in 1884."
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WikipediaHe spoke different languages too. It makes me jealous. According to my Noli Me Tangere book he spoke over 20 or more languages including French, German, English, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Portugese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and other stuff I kind of forgot right now.
The last thing he wrote before he was executed was "Mi último adiós".
...yeah. :]