Corazon is from the Spanish corazón (heart) — a Marian devotional name from *Sagrado Corazón de María* (Sacred Heart of Mary). **Corazon Aquino (1933-2009)** — **"Cory" — Filipina politician who in February 1986 led the bloodless People Power Revolution that overthrew the 21-year Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship; became the 11th President of the Philippines and the first female president in Asia not from a political dynasty rising via inheritance**. **Time Person of the Year (1986)**. **Widow of opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., assassinated at Manila International Airport in 1983 — the act that catalyzed the revolution**. **Her presidency restored democracy and the 1987 Constitution; she peacefully transferred power in 1992 — a Filipino first**. **Mother of Benigno III, who later also served as Philippine president (2010-2016)**.
Subject of Stanley Karnow's *In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines* (1989).
Corazon reduces to seven — the number of heart.