Filipino paramount rulers

thumb|Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning [[sultan of the Ottoman Empire|281x281px]]

rajah of Cebu

last ruler and Rajah of Maynila

250px|thumb|right|"Naturales" (natives) depicted in the Boxer Codex, specifically marked and identified as Tagalogs. In early Philippine history, the rank of lakan denoted a "paramount ruler" (or more specifically, "paramount datu") of one of the large coastal barangays (known as a "bayan") on the central and southern regions of the island of Luzon.

Lakandula (Baybayin: , Spanish orthography: Lacandola) was the title of the last lakan or paramount ruler of pre-colonial Tondo when the Spaniards first conquered the lands of the Pasig River delta in the Philippines in the 1570s.

Rajah of Maynila