Manuel Alesna Cuenco (November 10, 1907 – October 18, 1970) was a Filipino physician and politician from Cebu, Philippines.
[2] He and his wife Milagros Veloso had six children, including Antonio Cuenco who later would become a congressman.
The family escaped from the war and avoided Japanese forces by evacuating to remote locations like the towns of Sibonga in Cebu, Talibon in Bohol, and Hilongos and Macrohon in Leyte.
[3] After World War II in 1946,[2] then President Manuel Roxas appointed him as Governor of the province of Cebu.
[2] His appointment to the Cabinet of then President Diosdado Macapagal as the head of the Department of Health was the result of the alliance between otherwise local political rivals, the Osmeña and the Cuenco clans.