Samuel Kong Tan (December 30, 1933 – January 6, 2022) was a Filipino historian, academic and author.
For his doctoral degree, Tan went to the United States to attend the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at the Syracuse University in New York.
[2] Tan has been a faculty member of the University of the Philippines, having served as the chair of the institution's Department of History.
[1] As an author, he has published books which had Filipino Muslims and the Bangsamoro struggle and self-determinism as their primary subject.
[3] Among his noted publications are A History of the Philippines (1987/1997), Decolonization and Filipino Muslim Identity (1989), The Critical Decade, 1921-1930 (1993), and The Filipino-American War, 1899-1913 (2002).