Vicente Yap Sotto (Tagalog: [bɪˈsɛntɛ ˈsɔtɔ]; April 18, 1877 – May 28, 1950) was a Filipino playwright, journalist, and politician who served as a senator from 1946 to 1950.

[2] In 1902, Senator Sotto entered politics when he ran for the municipal council[3] of Cebu and won.

This was also ordered closed and Sotto was imprisoned at Fort San Pedro for two months and six days.

Sotto's play Paghigugma sa Yutang Natawhan (Love of Native Land), dramatized the Cebuano people's heroic struggle against Spanish feudal rule in the modern realist mode.

He also wrote the first published Cebuano short story Maming in the maiden issue of Ang Suga.

The dedication of the play by the playwright reads, "To My Motherland, that you may have remembrance of the glorious Revolution that redeemed you from enslavement.

Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines, a native of Bohol and fellow Visayan, said of Sotto: "Vicente Sotto was a rock of Gibraltar in character because of the ruggedness of his conviction, the indomitability of his soul, the sublimity of his courage, and the depth of his faith in the ultimate triumph of justice.

His knees no bending, his pen signed no retraction, his march saw no retreat, and his soul of steel knowns no surrender.

[9] A street inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay is named in his honor.

The University of San Carlos has established the Don Vicente Sotto Cebuano Studies grant as a contribution to the formation of a scholarly awareness of the various aspects of history, social life, language, and the arts of Cebu.