List of Famous people born in Central Java, Indonesia

Hendrar Prihadi, sometimes nicknamed Hendi, is the mayor of Semarang, Central Java since 2013, following his predecessor's arrest over a corruption charge. He is set to serve as Mayor until 2020 following his victory in the 2015 mayoral elections.

Louis Victor Wijnhamer, better known as Pah Wongso, was an Indo social worker popular within the ethnic Chinese community of the Dutch East Indies, and subsequently Indonesia. Educated in Semarang and Surabaya, Pah Wongso began his social work in the early 1930s, using traditional arts such as wayang golek to promote such causes as monogamy and abstinence. By 1938, he had established a school for the poor, and was raising money for the Red Cross to send aid to China.

Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya, was an Indonesian architect, writer, and Catholic religious leader. He was popularly known as Romo Mangun.

Setiawan Djody is an Indonesian businessman and guitarist.

Pakubuwono I, uncle of Amangkurat III of Mataram was a combatant for the succession of the Mataram dynasty, both as a co-belligerent during the Trunajaya rebellion, and during the First Javanese War of Succession (1703–1707).

Poerbatjaraka was a Javanese/Indonesian self-taught philologist and professor, specialising in Javanese literature. The eldest son of a Surakarta noble courtier in the Dutch East Indies, he showed interest in Javanese literature at an early age, reading from books in the court's collection. Despite attending only primary school, his knowledge of Dutch and Javanese literature allowed him to take a position at the colony's Archaeology Service, and then at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He was allowed to obtain a doctor's degree at Leiden. He then returned to the colony to work at a Batavia museum, cataloguing Javanese texts and writing scholarly works. After Indonesia's independence, he became a professor at the universities of Indonesia, Gajah Mada, and Udayana.

Subiakto Tjakrawerdaya was an Indonesian politician who served as the minister of cooperatives and small business in Suharto's sixth and seventh cabinets from 1993 until 1998.

Pakubuwono X was the tenth Susuhunan.

Sudjati was an Indonesian politician.

Mohamed Purnomo was an Indonesian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics.