General Santos City as The Phil's Home of the Champions

•  Manny "Pac-man" Pacquiao from General Santos City, Philippines a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is an eight-division world champion, the first boxer in history to win ten world titles, the first to win in eight weight divisions, and the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000's by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). He is also a three-time The Ring and BWAA "Fighter of the Year", winning the award in 2006, 2008, and 2009 .

•  XB GENSAN Dance Crew’s win the  Grand Finals of ABS-CBN’s nationwide talent search" SHOWTIME", For taking home the the Grand Prize  of P1,000,000 and being afforded the rousing and unanimous roars of approval from the thousands of witnesses at the stadium who gave them perfect scores while chanting the word, “GENSAN” over and over again, we could only cry with the boys from Barangay Bula for making us proud.