List of people from Davao  The Davaoeño people or Davaoeños are the permanent residents of the Davao Region of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines regardless of ethnicity or religion. Locals are themselves often referred to as a "tripeople", composed of indigenous peoples, Moros and descendants of twentieth-century settlers from the Visayas and Luzon. Cebuano is the "lingua franca" of the Davao Region, used by its inhabitants of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds to communicate with each other. Native minority speaks the near-extinct Davaoeño language. Davaoeños often also codeswitch between Cebuano and Tagalog, a phenomenon called Bisalog. English is also widely used. The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, lived in, are current residents of, or are closely associated with the Davao Region.