List of Famous people born in Central Java, Indonesia

Hendra Setiawan is an Indonesian professional badminton player. He is an Olympic Games gold medalist, four time World Champion, two time Asian Games gold medalist, and two time All England champion. With these, Setiawan has collected all major individual titles in badminton. He is considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles players in badminton history.

Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman was a pioneering Indonesian Romantic painter of Arab-Javanese ethnicity. He was considered to be the first "modern" artist from Indonesia, and his paintings corresponded with nineteenth-century romanticism which was popular in Europe at the time. He also expressed his cultural roots and inventiveness in his work.

Rio Haryanto is an Indonesian racing driver who currently competes in Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia for T2 Motorsports. He raced for Manor in Formula One for the first 12 races of the 2016 Formula One season. As of 2020, he is the first and only Indonesian driver to compete in Formula One.

Novel Baswedan is an Indonesian investigator working for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and a former officer of the Indonesian Police (Polri).

Lt Col Untung bin Syamsuri was one of the leaders of the 1965 coup attempt in Indonesia known as the 30 September Movement.

Yaqut Cholil Qoumas is an Indonesian cleric and politician who currently serves as the Minister of Religious Affairs under Joko Widodo, appointed since 23 December 2020. He previously chaired the Ansor Youth Movement and was a member of the People's Representative Council, both between 2015 and 2020.

Didi Kempot was an Indonesian singer and songwriter in the campursari style. He wrote some 700 songs, mainly in his native Javanese language. Apart from Indonesia, Didi was also popular in Suriname and the Netherlands, both of which have significant Javanese diaspora population.

Hasri Ainun Habibie was an Indonesian physician and wife of former President B. J. Habibie. She served as First Lady of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999.

Lieutenant General (Ret) Agus Widjojo is the former Vice Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia and Tentara Nasional Indonesia’s (TNI) Chief of Territorial Affairs, and is regarded as one of the TNI's leading intellectuals. During his appointment as Commandant of the Armed Force's staff college, the TNI think tank, he was responsible for restructuring the political and security doctrine of the TNI. Currently Gen. Agus Widjojo also serves as a member of the Indonesia-Timor Leste Commission of Truth and Friendship. He is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Indonesia), Indonesia, and was a Visiting Senior Fellow of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore. Gen. Widjojo is also an advisor on the Board of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), Udayana university, Bali. IPD is the implementing authority of the Bali Democracy Forum. Gen. Widjojo has written numerous articles on security issues in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Mangkunegara IX is the current traditional ruler of the former state of Mangkunegaran, located in Java, Indonesia. He succeeded his father, Mangkunegara VIII, as Prince of Mangkunegaran on 3 September 1987. His full royal name is Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Adipati Arya Mangku Negara.