List of Famous people born in West Java, Indonesia
Iis Dahlia
Iis Dahlia is an Indonesian singer and actress. She rose to fame after the release of her 1990 dangdut album Tamu Tak Diundang. She is best known for her songs "Cinta Bukanlah Kapal", "Payung Hitam" and "Ser".
Barry Prima
Humbertus Knoch or better known as Barry Prima is an Indonesian actor and martial artist of mixed Dutch and Sundanese who was one of the biggest stars of Indonesian cinema during the 1980s.
Melody Nurramdhani Laksani
JKT48 is an Indonesian girl group formed in 2011 as a sister group of the Japanese idol group AKB48. Members are selected through auditions in Indonesia and placed into three teams. Among the members are Class A Academy members – formerly known as Trainees – who serve as understudies for the main teams, and the Class B Academy members who study necessary skills as an idol. Members who leave the group on amiable terms are considered "graduates" and given a last theater show, sometimes with a special graduation show or concert.
Oki Dwi Putra
Oki Dwi Putra Sanjaya is an Indonesian professional football referee.
Risa Saraswati
Risa Saraswati is an Indonesian singer, songwriter and author from Sundanese descent. She was a former lead singer and a founding member of Indonesian indie pop group, Homogenic. In 2009, Saraswati announced her resignation as the band's lead singer to formed a new band, Sarasvati. In 2012, she writes her debut best-selling book, Danur which spawned three film adaptations.
Agum Gumelar
Agum Gumelar is a politician and former general of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. He is a former minister having held several positions, a former chairman of Indonesian Football Association and National Sports Committee of Indonesia. He is an alumnus of the National Military Academy in Magelang, Central Java and Medical Faculty of Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java. In 1998, he received a master's degree from American World University, an organization forbidden to operate in 2005 because of its diploma mill action.
Tubagus Hasanuddin
Tubagus Hasanuddin is an Indonesian politician and former general who has served as a member of the People's Representative Council between 2009 and 2018, and from 2019 to present.
Rusdi Kirana
Rusdi Kirana, S.E. is an Indonesian businessman and the co-founder of the Indonesian budget no-frills airline Lion Air which introduced both domestic and international flights, using the slogan, "We make people fly". On January 19, 2015, he was chosen by President Joko Widodo to become a member of the Presidential Advisory Council. In the political field, since January 12, 2014, he served as Deputy Chairperson of the National Awakening Party.
Liesbeth List
Elisabeth Dorathea List, generally known as Liesbeth List was a Dutch singer, stage actress and television personality. She became popular during the 1960s and frequently collaborated with Ramses Shaffy. She also sang Jacques Brel's chansons in Dutch translation.
Rianti Cartwright
Rianti Rhiannon Cartwright is an Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ. She's best known for her leading role as 'Aisha' in a romantic religious Indonesian hit movie Ayat-Ayat Cinta in 2008 and become a VJ for MTV Indonesia since 2005.