List of Famous people named Arief

Arief Hidayat was the fifth Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. Previously, he was a professor of law at his alma mater, Diponegoro University.

Arief Budiman was the older brother of Soe Hok Gie. He graduated from Kolese Kanisius, a Jesuit high school and then Universitas Indonesia where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1968. In 1980, he earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, United States. He was a Muslim Chinese Indonesian sociologist and was a lecturer at the Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Salatiga, Indonesia until 1996. From 1997 for about ten years, he was a professor in Indonesian studies in University of Melbourne, Australia.

Arief Rachadiono Wismansyah is the mayor of Tangerang since he was elected in 2013. Supported by the Democratic Party, he is also the owner of a hospital network.

Arief Yahya is the former Minister of Tourism of Indonesia between 2014 and 2019 in the Working Cabinet of President Joko Widodo. Prior to becoming a minister, he had been the CEO at state-owned Telkom Indonesia between 2012 and his appointment.