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Ellyas Pical was the first world boxing champion from Indonesia, and was three times IBF Super flyweight champion (1985–1989).

Roberto Ierusalimschy is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where he has an appointment as an associate professor of informatics. He did a post-doc at University of Waterloo in 1992 and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012. He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua. He also created LPeg, a Lua library for implementing parsing expression grammars.

David Alan Hughes is an English keyboardist who played in different new wave bands, and later became successful making music for films.

Hamid Awaluddin was the ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Russian Federation and Belarus between 2008 and 2011.