Hilario Gelbolingo Davide, Jr. (born December 20, 1935) is the current Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations. He was the 20th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
Davide was born on December 20, 1935 in Barangay Colawin, in Argao, Cebu to Hilario P. Davide, a retired Schools Division Superintendent, and Josefa L. Gelbolingo, a former public school teacher. He completed his primary education at Argao Central Elementary School and secondary education at Abellana Vocational High School. In college, he went to the University of the Philippines where he initially took up Associate in Arts in 1955. In the same year, he entered the U.P. College of Law as an entrance scholar.
From 1959 to 1963, Davide became a private secretary to the vice governor of the province of Cebu, then to its Governor. From 1962 to 1968, he was a faculty member of the College of Law of Southwestern University in Cebu City. This university confer him with a degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) in 1999.