Roxas, officially the Municipality of Roxas, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 69,624 people.

Manuel Acuña Roxas was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fifth President of the Philippines from 1946 until his death in 1948. He served briefly as the third and last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from May 28, 1946, to July 4, 1946, and became the first President of the Independent Third Philippine Republic after the United States ceded its sovereignty over the Philippines.