The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from Indonesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 265 Celebrities, 2 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 39th most number of Celebrities behind Colombia, and Australia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Celebrities of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Muammar Z.A. (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 50.42, Muammar Z.A. is the most famous Indonesian Celebrity. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Qari Muammar Zainal Asyikin (Arabic: معمر زين العاشقين, Mu'ammar Zayn-al Ashqeen; born 14 June 1954) sometimes shortened Muammar ZA or Muammar Za is a popular senior Qari or Quran reciter and Hafiz from Indonesia well known nationally and internationally. He won Qur'an Recitation Contests known as "Musabaqah Tilawatil Quran" ("MTQ") during the 1980s in Indonesia and abroad. His talent was recognised during childhood in his hometown Pemalang where he participated and won a local children's Quran Competition in 1962 when he was just 7 years of age H. Muammar, a national reciter, was renowned internationally for his breath capacity (the longest in the world, it was said). He is known to have a myriad of achievements related to Qur'an reading competitions. In 1967 he achieved the first place in the Quran Reciting Competition ("MTQ") of Jogjakarta Province, and after that winning in 1972 and 1973 representing Jogjakarta province in the national level of Quran Reciting Competition in Indonesia. In 1979 and 1986 he won the International level Quran Reciting Competition, and because of his achievements, he was invited to recite in Istana Nurul Iman of Brunei, National Palace of Malaysia, and until the Middle East. He was invited by Jamia Binoria to recite the Quran in Pakistan in 2009. He was also invited to recite in Turkey (IGMG Aileler Günü) in 2004.
2. Harashta Haifa Zahra (b. 2003)
With an HPI of 33.41, Harashta Haifa Zahra is the 2nd most famous Indonesian Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Harashta Haifa Zahra (Sundanese: ᮠᮛᮞ᮪ᮂᮒ ᮠᮄᮖ ᮐᮠᮁ; born 5 September 2003) is an Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Supranational 2024. Having previously been crowned Puteri Indonesia 2024, she is the first Indonesian to win Miss Supranational.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Indonesian celebrities born between 1954 and 2003. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indonesian celebrities include Muammar Z.A., and Harashta Haifa Zahra. As of April 2024, 1 new Indonesian celebrities have been added to Pantheon including Harashta Haifa Zahra.
