Faustino Dy

Faustino Ng Dy Sr. (April 13, 1925 – October 3, 1993) was a Filipino politician who served as mayor of Cauayan, Isabela from 1964 to 1971 and governor of Isabela from 1971 until 1986 and from 1988 to 1992. The longest serving governor of the province, ruling for 18 years, he was also the patriarch of the Dy political dynasty.

Early life Faustino Ng Dy was born on April 13, 1925, as the mestizo son of a Chinese immigrant in Guimba, Nueva Ecija. He worked as an ambulant trader traveling between Nueva Ecija and Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya before settling in Cauayan, Isabela.

Personal life After his first marriage to Erlinda Sanchez, from which his first children Faustino Jr, Napoleon and Bill were born, he married Natividad De Guzman of Nueva Ecija, who was a sister of Grasing de Guzman, the chief enforcer of film producer and landowner Narcisa de León. She had four sons with him who later became politicians: Faustino III (the Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2025), Benjamin, Caesar, and Victor. Dy quickly established a popular reputation as a person considered to be matapang (ferocious, brave), with stories about him engaging in gunfights with thugs.

Death Dy died on October 3, 1993, aged 68.

Legacy In 2000, the Isabela Provincial Hospital in Ilagan was renamed into the Gov. Faustino N. Dy, Sr. Memorial Hospital under Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution No. 0168.