List of Famous people born in Bandung, Indonesia
Joehana
Akhmad Bassah, best known by the pen name Joehana, was an author from the Dutch East Indies who wrote in Sundanese. He worked for a time on the railroad before becoming an author by 1923, and had a strong interest in social welfare; this interest influenced his novels. He was also a productive translator, dramatist, and reporter, and operated a company which offered writing services. Sources disagree when Joehana died; some offer 1930, while others give 1942–45.
Setya Novanto
Setya Novanto is a former Indonesian politician, presently serving a 15 year jail sentence for corruption. He was chairman of Golkar Party and speaker of the People's Representative Council until his arrest in 2017 for corruption. Born in Bandung, he entered politics in 1998 after a business career and became a member of the People's Representative Council following the 1999 general election. After he was re-elected for a third time in the 2014 general election, won by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, he was appointed DPR (Parliament) Speaker by the majority opposition coalition.
Fajar Alfian
Fajar Alfian is an Indonesian badminton player who affiliated with the SGS PLN Bandung. Together with Muhammad Rian Ardianto, he won the men's doubles bronze medal at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, the silver at the 2018 Asian Games, and another bronze at the 2019 BWF World Championships.
Kevin Lilliana
Kevin Lilliana Junaedy is an Indonesian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss International 2017. She is the first Indonesian and the first moslem women to win Miss International, and was the first to win one of the four major international pageants for Indonesia. Prior to winning Miss International, She was previously crowned as Puteri Indonesia Lingkungan 2017. Outside of pageantry, Lilliana works as a TV Presenter and Interior Designer.
Taufik Hidayat
Taufik Hidayat is a retired Indonesian badminton player. He is a former World and Olympic champion in the men's singles. He has also won the Indonesia Open six times.
Ivanna Lie
Ivana Lie Ing Hoa is a former female Indonesian badminton player who played at the world level from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.
Atu Rosalina
Atu Rosalina Sagita is a former Indonesian badminton player, and now lived and playing badminton in England. Rosalina was part of the Indonesia junior team that won the girls' team silver at the 1999 Asian Junior Championships, and also won the bronze medal in the girls' singles event. She won the women's singles title at the 2001 Indonesian National Championships. Rosalina retired from the Indonesia national team in 2003, and moved to Brunei to work as sparing partner for the Royal Family. She then moved to Denmark and played at the Skælskør Badmintonklub in 2005, after that in France for the Chambly. Rosalina married to Agung Mandala, and lived in Colchester, England. As an English player, she was the semi-finalist at the 2016 National Championships, and reaching in to the final round in 2017.
Aryono Miranat
Aryono Miranat is a retired badminton player from Indonesia who specialized in mixed doubles. After his retirement he became a badminton trainer at PB Djarum in Kudus. As of 29 December 2007, he is a coach in the men's doubles category for the Indonesian badminton association (PBSI). He is currently the Indonesia national team men's doubles assistant coach.
Johan Fabricius
Johan Wigmore Fabricius was a Dutch writer, journalist and adventurer.
Jack van Lint
Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint was a Dutch mathematician, professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, of which he was rector magnificus from 1991 till 1996.