Nemesio "Doc" Encarnacion Prudente (December 1, 1926 – March 20, 2008) was a Filipino educator, political activist, and human rights defender revered for serving as President of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Nemesio belonged to the second Filipino generation to be educated in English and held the United States in high regard as its home nation.

During his childhood Nemesio was seen nationalistic due to the influence of his paternal grandfather Florencio or Enciong who fought on Philippine Revolution from 1896 to 1892 during teenage years.

During the Japanese occupation, Nemesio became courier for the “Mag-irogs” one of the four guerilla groups recognized later by U.S Army, driving a kalesa to Manila selling vegetables and chicken, and smuggling information for guerillas in Rizal and Cavite; meanwhile, his brother, Dante, who joined the PMA cadets in Bataan, fought in the last stand against the Japanese that ends up in infamous Bataan Death March but successfully escaped and return home in their house in Ermita and brought back to their province in Rosario.

[2] He chose to work in the US in order to support his family rather than pursue a career in the marine sector or go back in the then-Philippine Naval Patrol (now the Philippine Navy).

He also improved the conditions of the PCC by transforming it from its old status as a "glorified high school which produced secretaries, bookkeepers, and various peoples for government offices to the country's largest state university.

His remains were simply wrapped in a white shroud and placed in a cardboard box before being cremated, as per Dr. Prudente's instructions, Then, in his native province of Cavite, his ashes were dispersed over the coastline.

[8] The emergence of the nationalistic movement in the school campuses, supplied further momentum to the achievement of President Prudente's progressive vision and goals for PCC.

The involvement of the PCC in the Progressive movement was held by Marcos administration to include Prudente among the targets of suppression of well-known Anti-Marcos figures in 1968.

Danilo Vizmanos and Philippine Merchant Marine Academy Superintendent Rogelio Morales, who all shared his advocacies; the latter two are fellow Bantayog ng mga Bayani honorees.