Lapu-Lapu (also called Kaliph Pulaka according to local historal narratives) (c. 1491? – 1547?) was a Muslim chieftain on Mactan and the earliest known indigenous Datu (chieftain) of the Visayan-inhabited Mactan Island in the Philippines. Known by the title Iliji Rajiki (minor Raja) and a Muslim Tausug by ancestry according to Sulu oral histories, he was known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization. He is now regarded as the first National hero of the Philippines.
On the morning of April 27, 1521, Lapu-Lapu and the men of Mactan, armed with spears and kampilan, faced Spanish soldiers led by Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan. In what would later be known as the Battle of Mactan, Magellan and several of his men were killed.
In his honor, the Cebuano people have erected a statue and church in Mactan Island and also renamed the town of Opon in Cebu to Lapu-Lapu City. A more recent statue was given as a gift to the Philippines from South Korea in 2005. It stands in Rizal Park in the Philippine capital city of Manila.