Jos Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda or popularly known as Jos Rizal (19 June 1861 - 30 December 1896) was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain. He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the...