Purificacion "Pura" Villanueva Kalaw[1] (27 August 1886 – 21 March 1954) was a Filipina beauty queen, feminist, journalist, and writer.
[4] Pura Villanueva wrote a column for the weekly newspaper El Tiempo, and edited the woman's page.
Later she edited the Spanish-language section of Woman's Outlook, a pro-suffrage publication (Trinidad Fernandez Legarda was the English-language editor).
[8] In 1951, Pura Villanueva Kalaw was honored with a Presidential Medal, presented by President Elpidio Quirino, for her work on behalf of women's rights in the Philippines.
[9] Pura Villanueva married lawyer and editor Teodoro Maniguiat Kalaw in 1910.