List of Famous people born in Central Java, Indonesia

Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi is an Indonesian diplomat who has been serving as the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Working Cabinet since 2014. She is the first female minister appointed to the post. She was previously the Indonesian Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2012 to 2014, as well as Ambassador to Iceland and Norway from 2005 to 2008.

Sakti Wahyu Trenggono is an Indonesian politician. As of 23 December 2020, he serves as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet of Prime Minister Joko Widodo.

Icuk Sugiarto is an Indonesian former badminton player.

Liem Swie King is an Indonesian former badminton player who excelled from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. He won the All England in 1978, 1979 and 1981. Along with Morten Frost (Denmark), Han Jian and Luan Jin (China), and Prakash Padukone (India), he was one of the world's leading singles players of that era. A world level player in men's doubles as well as men's singles, he was known for the ferocity of his jumping smash.

Alimin bin Prawirodirdjo was an Indonesian independence movement figure and also Indonesian communist.

Siti Fadilah Supari, is a cardiology research specialist, a former health minister of Indonesia and a convicted corruption felon. She gained global notoriety in 2007 when she took on the World Health Organization's practice of sharing avian influenza virus samples. In June 2017, she was convicted of corruption and sentenced to four years in jail for accepting bribes concerning the procurement of medical equipment.

Major General Pranoto Reksosamodra was an Indonesian Army general who was briefly army chief of staff and was detained for 15 years without trial for alleged involvement in the 30 September Movement coup attempt.

Cipto Mangunkusumo or Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo was a prominent Indonesian independence leader and Sukarno's political mentor. Together with Ernest Douwes Dekker and Soewardi Soerjaningrat he was one of the three founders of the influential Indische Party, a political party disseminating the idea of self-government of the Dutch East Indies. After the party was labeled subversive by colonial court of law in 1913, he and his fellow IP leaders were exiled to the Netherlands.

Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor-titulair der Chinezen was a Chinese Indonesian tycoon and the son of Oei Tjie Sien, the founder of the Kian Gwan, a multinational trading company. Born in Semarang, Central Java, Dutch East Indies, he became the wealthiest person in the Far East at the start of the twentieth century. Part of his wealth originated in his involvement in the sugar industry. He served as Luitenant der Chinezen in the Dutch colonial administration in Semarang, and was raised to the rank of titular Majoor upon retirement.

Tirto Adhi Soerjo was an Indonesian journalist known for his sharp criticism of the Dutch colonial government. Born to a noble Javanese family in Blora, Central Java, Tirto first studied to become a doctor but later focused on journalism. A freelancer since 1894, in 1902 he was made an editor of the Batavia based Pembrita Betawi. Tirto established his first newspaper in 1903 and, four years later, created Medan Prijaji as a medium for educated native Indonesians. This proved his longest-lived publication, lasting over five years before Tirto was exiled in 1912 to Bacan for his staunch anti-colonial criticism.