Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Java Occidental
Lesti Andryani
Lestiani better known with the mononym Lesti is an Indonesian singer, actress, and television personality of Sundanese origin. In her earliest releases, she is known as Lesti DA or Lesti Kejora.
Ridwan Kamil
Mochamad Ridwan Kamil is an Indonesian architect and politician who is the 15th Governor of West Java, the most populous province of Indonesia. He was also the Mayor of Bandung. He was elected as mayor of Bandung on 23 June 2013. He is also an architect and lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Bandung Institute of Technology. Kamil founded architect firm Urbane Indonesia in 2004 with three partners. In 2018 he successfully ran for governor, instead of seeking a second mayoral term.
Rhoma Irama
Raden Haji Oma Irama, conocido artísticamente como Rhoma Irama, es un actor, cantante y guitarrista indonesio. Comenzó su carrera artística en los inicios en la década de los 70' bajo el alias Oma Irama como parte de la banda pop Orkes Melayu Purnama. Luego formó el grupo Soneta, logrando una gran cantidad de éxitos musicales con un innovador estilo dangdut que incorpora influencias occidentales, malayas y bollywoodianas. Durante el apogeo de su estrellato en la década de 1970, fue apodado "Raja Dangdut". También ha desarrollado su carrera en la industria del cine. También ha estado activo en la escena política, con una historia de respaldo a las campañas para el partido político islámico Partai Persatuan Pembangunan.
Setya Novanto
Setya Novanto is a former Indonesian politician, presently serving a 15 year jail sentence for corruption. He was chairman of Golkar Party and speaker of the People's Representative Council until his arrest in 2017 for corruption. Born in Bandung, he entered politics in 1998 after a business career and became a member of the People's Representative Council following the 1999 general election. After he was re-elected for a third time in the 2014 general election, won by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, he was appointed DPR (Parliament) Speaker by the majority opposition coalition.
Roekiah
Roekiah, a menudo conocida como Miss Roekiah, fue una cantante y actriz de cine indonesia. Hija de actores, comenzó su carrera de actriz a los siete años y su carrera musical a principios de los años 1930. En esta época conoció a su futuro esposo, Kartolo, con quien actuó en 1937 en la película "Terang Boelan". Esta película, que coprotagonizó junto a RD. Mochtar, los convirtió en la primera pareja de famosos de la pantalla grande en su país. Tras firmar con la productora Tan's film para protagonizar la película "Fátima" en 1938, Roekiah protagonizó varias películas más, primero junto a Mochtar y después con RD. Djoemala. Tras la ocupación japonesa de Indonesia en 1942, Roekiah hizo un solo papel antes de su muerte. Fue cariñosamente recordada durante la década de los años 1950 y uno de sus hijos se convirtió en un actor.
Isyana Sarasvati
Isyana Sarasvati is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. She is an alumna of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore and Royal College of Music, United Kingdom. She composed all of her own songs and once was an opera singer in Singapore. She was named "2016 Best Asian Artist Indonesia, 2017 Best Composer of the Year" by MAMA Awards and honored "30 Under 30 Asia 2020" by Forbes.
Doni Monardo
Doni Monardo is Indonesian Army lieutenant general who currently serves as Head of Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB). He also serves as Chief of the Coronavirus Disease Response Acceleration Task Force during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Monardo supported the government's decision to refrain from a country-wide lockdown, arguing doing so would overwhelm the government.
Suzzanna
Suzzanna Martha Frederika van Osch, better known as Suzzanna, was an Indonesian actress of Indo descent. Known as the "horror queen of Indonesian cinema", she is well known in particular in Indonesia for portraying spirits, witches, and other supernatural beings.
Affandi
Affandi was an Indonesian artist. Born in Cirebon, West Java, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local sugar factory, Affandi finished his upper secondary school in Jakarta. He gave up his studies to pursue his desire to become an artist. Beginning in 1934, Affandi began teaching himself how to paint. He married Maryati, a fellow artist. One of his children, Kartika also became an artist.
Nicke Widyawati
Nicke Widyawati is an Indonesian businesswoman who has been the President Director of Pertamina since August 30, 2018, after previously being the acting President Director replacing Elia Massa Manik. She received the Women's Work of Female Grace award from the Indonesia Asia Institute in 2013. She has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the most powerful women outside the US in 2020. Nicke ranks 16th on the annual list. “An engineer by training, Widyawati was made Pertamina’s chief in 2018 after her predecessor, Elia Massa, was dismissed amid restructuring efforts,” Fortune stated on Thursday, October 22, 2020.