Bataan is a province of the Philippines occupying the whole of the Bataan Peninsula on Luzon. The province is part of the Central Luzon region. The capital of Bataan is Balanga City and it is bordered by the provinces of Zambales and Pampanga to the north. The peninsula faces the South China Sea to the west and Subic Bay to the north-west, and encloses Manila Bay to the east.

The Battle of Bataan is famous in history as one of the last stands of American and Filipino soldiers before they were overwhelmed by the Japanese forces in World War II. The Bataan Death March was named for this province, where the infamous march started. This is also a location of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant located in the Municipality of Morong.

Bataan is politically subdivided into 11 municipalities and 1 component city.

The Bataan Peninsula is a rocky extension of the Zambales Mountains, on Luzon in the Philippines. It separates the Manila Bay from the South China Sea. The peninsula features Mount Natib 1,253 m in the north and the Mariveles Mountains in the south, which includes Mount Samat, the location of the historical marker for the Bataan Death March.

Joe Bataan (also spelled Bataán) (born 1942 in Spanish Harlem, New York City ) is a Filipino-African American Latin soul musician from New York.

Joe Bataan was born Bataan Nitollano and grew up in the 103rd St. and Lexington Ave. part of East Harlem where he briefly led the Dragons, a local Puerto Rican street gang, before being sent to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility to serve time for a stolen car charge. His father was Filipino and his mother was African American

Upon his release in 1965, he turned his attention to music and formed his first band, Joe Bataan and the Latin Swingers. Bataan was influenced by two musical styles: the Latin boogaloo and African American doo-wop. Though Bataan was neither the first nor only artist to combine doo-wop-style singing with Latin rhythms, his talent for it drew the attention of Fania Records. After signing with them in 1966, Bataan released "Gypsy Woman," in 1967. (The title track is a Latin dance cover of "Gypsy Woman" by The Impressions.) He would, in full, release eight original titles for Fania which included the gold-selling "Riot!". These Fania albums often mixed energetic Latin dance songs, sung in Spanish, with slower, English-language soul ballads sung by Bataan himself. As a vocalist, Bataan's fame in the Latin music scene at the time was only rivaled by Ralfi Pagan.

Kathryn Chandria Manuel Bernardo also known as Kathryn Bernardo (born March 26, 1996) is a Filipina actress. She is best known for her role as Mara in the Filipino drama, Mara Clara. Kathryn is currently a contract artist with Star Magic and most recently starred as Ana Bartolome in the 2011 drama film, Way Back Home. She now casts as the main protagonist of Princess and I as Princess Areeyah or better known as Mikay.

Bernado was born in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija and was a school student of the OB Montessori Center Inc. in Greenhills

Bernardo began acting in 2003, appearing as Young Cielo in It Might Be You. She has acted primarily in television but has also appeared in several movies. Her first breakthrough was "Mara Clara" with her Co-star Julia Montes. The actress is currently working on Princess and I, an upcoming romance-drama television series, following on from the success of the television series, Growing Up in 2011.