List of Famous people born in Malaysia

Penelope Ying-Yen Wong is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2002. She has served as Senate leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2013, and is currently Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. She was a cabinet minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments from 2007 to 2013.

Muhammad Ziyad bin Zolkefli is a Paralympic athlete from Malaysia who competes in T20 classification shot put events. He is the current world record holder in his event. Zolkefli represented Malaysia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where he won the bronze medal in the shot put. As well as Paralympic success, Muhammad Ziyad has won both the World Championship and Asian Para Games titles in his sport, in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Ahmad Faizal bin Azumu is a Malaysian politician who served as the 12th and 13th Menteri Besar of Perak from May 2018 to his resignation and collapse of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration in March 2020 and again from March 2020 to his resignation again and the collapse of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration in December 2020. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tambun and Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Chenderiang since May 2018. He is a member, Deputy President and State Chairman of Perak as well as Pahang of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the ruling PN coalition at the federal level and former component party of the PH opposition coalition at both the federal and state levels. He was the State Chairman of PH of Perak. He was one of the only two Menteris Besar of Malaysia who has ruled in two state administrations of two different and opposing political coalitions, which were PH state administration from May 2018 to his resignation and its collapse in March 2020 and PN state administration from March 2020 to his resignation and its collapse in December 2020.

Zeti Akhtar Aziz is currently the Group Chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad. She was the 7th Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, Malaysia's central bank. She was Governor from 2000 to 2016, and was the first woman in the position. She was one of the members of the Council of Eminent Persons in Mahathir's second administration, a special advisory council advising the government on economic and financial matters during this transitional period.

Low Taek Jho, often called Jho Low, is a Malaysian businessman and international fugitive sought by the authorities in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States in connection with the 1MDB scandal. He is accused of being the mastermind of the massive fraud, which prosecutors allege was a scheme to siphon US$4.5 billion from 1MDB into Low's personal accounts. He is the beneficiary of numerous discretionary trust assets said by the US government to originate from payments out of the Malaysian 1MDB fund.

Al Aminul Karim Sultan Sallehuddin ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah is the 29th Sultan of Kedah, Malaysia. He was proclaimed Sultan on 12 September 2017, upon the death of his elder half brother, Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah.

Lim Kit Siang is a Malaysian politician. He was Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party and was its 3rd from 1969 to 1999 for three decades, its second National Chairman, and its first Parliamentary Leader as well as its Central Policy and Strategic Planning Commission Chairman since 2004, after he failed to obtain re-election as Chairman. DAP is currently a component party of the Pakatan Harapan opposition coalition. He served as the 4th, 7th and 10th Leader of the Opposition for three non-consecutive terms, which are from April 1973 to August 1974 for a year, from November 1975 to November 1999 for 24 years and lastly from March 2004 to March 2008 for 4 years. In total, he served in the position for almost three decades, making him the longest-serving officeholder of the nation.

Mohd Faiz bin Subri is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Malaysia M3 League side Northern Lions F.C.. Faiz is best known for his banana free-kick goal which won him the 2016 FIFA Puskás Award.

Melvin Sia, is a Malaysian Chinese actor, model and singer. He won the Best Actor Award at the Malaysia Golden Awards for his role in Romantic Delicacies. He also won Most Popular Actor in Viewers' Choice category in the same award.

Farah Ann binti Abdul Hadi is a Malaysian artistic gymnast.