List of Famous people born in Sarawak, Malaysia

Shaun Richard Maloney is a Scottish former professional football player, who is now employed as a coach with the Belgium national team. He played for Celtic for over ten years during his playing career. Maloney also played for Aston Villa, Wigan Athletic, Chicago Fire, Hull City and the Scotland national team as an attacking midfielder or winger. Since retiring as a player, Maloney has worked for Celtic and the Belgium national team as a coach.

Albert Kwok, with the full name Albert Kwok Fen Nam was a leader of a resistance fighter known as the "Kinabalu Guerrillas" during the Japanese occupation of Borneo. He is regarded as the initiator of the so-called "Double Tenth Revolt" from 10 October 1943.

Nicholas Teo is a Malaysian Chinese singer signed under Red Bean Entertainment based in Taiwan.

Tsai Ming-liang is a Taiwanese filmmaker who has written and directed eleven feature films and has also directed many short films and television films. Tsai is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese cinema. His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous awards at film festivals. In 2015, he won Best Director at the Taipei Film Awards for the short film No No Sleep. Tsai has been referred to as an auteur.

Welson Sim Wee Sheng is a Malaysian professional swimmer. He was the first Malaysian male swimmer to qualify for the Olympic Games where he competed in the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Alexander Edmondson is an Australian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange. Edmondson was a member of the Australian Olympic Track Cycling team at the 2012 London Olympics, alongside his sister, Annette Edmondson. In 2014 he was world champion in the individual pursuit. He won the silver medal in the team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Dato Sri Tiong King Sing is a Malaysian politician who has served as Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to China in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin since April 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bintulu since November 1999. He served as Special Envoy of the Prime Minister in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Najib Razak from January 2014 to the collapse of the BN administration in May 2018. He is a member and President of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition which is aligned with the ruling PN coalition and formerly the BN coalition. In accordance with its expansion to West Malaysia in 2017, the party was rebranded with its new name and logo from the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), a former component party of the BN coalition. Following the collapse of the BN administration after the 2018 general election and in the aftermath, a meeting between all Sarawak-based BN component parties was held on 12 June 2018, PDP decided to leave the coalition with the other three parties to form a new Sarawak-based political coalition in the meeting, namely the GPS coalition.

James Chua is a Malaysian former badminton player. Born in Sarawak, Chua moved to Kuala Lumpur to join the BAM squad in 1995. He was part of the Malaysia junior team that won the boys' team bronze at the 1997 Asian Junior Championships in Manila. He was the champion at the 1998 Malaysia Satellite, and in 2001 clinched the National Championships title. Chua won the World Grand Prix title at the 2002 Malaysia Open defeated his compatriot the defending champion, Ong Ewe Hock in straight games. Together with the national men's team squad, they won the bronze medals at the 1998 and 2002 Asian Games.

Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King PSM PGBK KBE is the Malaysian Chinese founder and chairman of the Rimbunan Hijau Group, a timber company founded in 1975. Its overseas timber operations in Papua New Guinea is the largest in that country. He also has interests in logging operations in Russia.