Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III (born February 8, 1960) is a Senator of the Philippines and the President-elect of the Philippines (President of the Philippines). Aquino is a fourth-generation politician: his great-grandfather, Servillano "Mianong" Aquino (Servillano Aquino), served as a delegate to the Malolos Congress, his grandfather, Benigno Aquino, Sr., held several legislative positions from 1919-44, and his parents were former President Corazon Aquino and former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. (Benigno Aquino, Jr.) He is a member of the Liberal Party (Liberal Party (Philippines)). Aquino will be the third-youngest person to be elected president, and the fourth-youngest president after Emilio Aguinaldo, Ramon Magsaysay and Ferdinand Marcos.

Born in Manila, Aquino graduated from Ateneo de Manila University in 1981 and joined his family in their exile in the United States shortly thereafter. He returned to the Philippines in 1983 shortly after the assassination of his father (Assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr.) and held several positions working in the private sector. In 1998, he was elected to the House of Representatives (House of Representatives of the Philippines) as Representative of the 2nd district of Tarlac province. He was subsequently re-elected to the House in 2001 and 2004. In 2007, having been barred from running for re-election to the House due to the term limit, he was elected to the Senate in the 14th Congress of the Philippines.

Following the death of his mother (Death and funeral of Corazon Aquino) on August 1, 2009, many people began calling on Aquino to run for president. On September 9, 2009, Aquino officially announced he would be a candidate in the 2010 presidential election (Philippine presidential election, 2010), held on May 10, 2010.

On June 9, 2010, the Congress of the Philippines proclaimed Aquino the winner of the 2010 presidential election (Philippine presidential election, 2010).

On June 30, 2010, at the Quirino Grandstand, in Manila, Aquino will be sworn into office as the fifteenth (List_of_Philippine_Presidents#List_of_Presidents) President of the Philippines, succeeding Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Conchita Carpio-Morales, after officially accepting Aquinos request to swear him into office, reminiscent of the decision of his mother, who in 1986, was sworn into the presidency by Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee. Aquino refused Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Renato Corona to swear him into office, due to Aquinos opposition to the midnight appointment of Corona by outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.