People on Myanmar's street signs

Sudirman

37 Sudirman was an Indonesian military officer and revolutionary during the Indonesian National Revolution.

Ahmad Yani

36 Ahmad Yani was the Minister/Commander of the Army, a position equivalent to the modern Chief of Staff of Indonesian Army. who was killed by members of the 30 September Movement during an attempt to...

I Gusti Ngurah Rai

35 Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai was an Indonesian National Hero who commanded Indonesian forces in Bali against the Dutch during the Indonesian War of Independence. He was killed in the Battle of...

Aung San

23 Aung San was a Burmese politician, independence activist and revolutionary. He was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule, but he was assassinated just six months...

Djuanda Kartawidjaja

21 Raden Djuanda Kartawidjaja, was an Indonesian politician and technocrat who held various ministerial offices during the presidency of Sukarno, most notably as prime minister from 1957 to 1959, and...

Tuanku Imam Bonjol

15 Tuanku Imam Bonjol, also known as Muhammad Syahab, Peto Syarif, and Malim Basa, was one of the most popular leaders of the Padri movement in Central Sumatra. He was declared a National Hero of...

Gatot Soebroto

14 Gatot Soebroto was an Indonesian general who began his military career with the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) and rose to be deputy Army chief-of-staff.

Diponegoro

13 Prince Diponegoro, also known as Dipanegara and Dipa Negara, was a Javanese prince who opposed the Dutch colonial rule. The eldest son of the Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengkubuwono III, he played an...

Gajah Mada

13 Gajah Mada, also known as Jirnnodhara, was a powerful military leader and mahapatih of the Javanese empire of Majapahit during the 14th century. He is credited in Old Javanese manuscripts, poems, and...

Teuku Umar

10 Teuku Umar was a leader of a guerrilla campaign against the Dutch in Aceh during the Aceh War. He died when Dutch troops launched a surprise attack in Meulaboh. His body was buried in the Mugo area....

Bayinnaung

9 Bayinnaung Kyawhtin Nawrahta; 16 January 1516 – 10 October 1581), personal name Maung Yeh Htut (ရှင်ရဲထွတ်), was King of Burma from 30 April 1550 until his death in 1581, during the Toungoo dynasty....

Rasuna Said

9 Hajjah Rangkayo Rasuna Said was a campaigner for Indonesian independence and women's rights, particularly their rights to education and participation in politics. Being politically active herself...

Dewi Sri

9 Dewi Sri or Shridevi is the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese Hindu Goddess of rice and fertility, still widely worshiped on the islands of Java, Bali and Lombok, Indonesia. She is often associated...

Nakula

9 Nakula is a major character in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. He is the elder twin brother of Sahadeva and the fourth of the five Pandava brothers. He is the son of twin physician gods,...

Mohammad Husni Thamrin

8 Mohammad Husni Thamrin, popularly known as MH Thamrin, was an Indonesian politician and nationalist who served in the Volksraad from 1927 until his death in 1941. He was one of the founders of...

Basuki Rahmat

8 Major General (Ret) Basuki Rahmat was an Indonesian general, National Hero and a witness to the signing of the Supersemar document transferring power from President Sukarno to General Suharto.

Hayam Wuruk

8 Hayam Vuruk (1334–1389), also called Rajasanagara, Pa-ta-na-pa-na-wu, or Bhatara Prabhu after 1350, was a Javanese Hindu emperor from the Rajasa dynasty and the 4th emperor of the Majapahit Empire....

Bhima

8 Bhima, also known as Bhimasena, is a hero and one of the most prominent characters in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. As the second of the five Pandava brothers, Bhima was born to Kunti—the wife of King...

Mas Tirtodarmo Haryono

7 Lieutenant General Mas Tirtodarmo Haryono was a general officer in the Indonesian Army who was killed during an attempt to kidnap him from his home by members of the 30 September Movement in the...

Dewi Sartika

7 Dewi Sartika was an advocate for and pioneer of education for women in Indonesia. She founded the first school for women in the Dutch East Indies. She was honoured as a National Hero of Indonesia in...

Sultan Agung of Mataram

6 Sultan Agung Adi Prabu Anyakrakusuma, commonly known as Sultan Agung, was the third Sultan of Mataram in Central Java ruling from 1613 to 1645. He was a skilled soldier who conquered neighbouring...

Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto

6 Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto, better known in Indonesia as H.O.S. Tjokroaminoto, was an Indonesian nationalist. He became one of the leaders of the Islamic Trade Union, founded by Samanhudi, which became...

Soengkono

6 Soengkono adalah seorang tokoh militer Indonesia dan merupakan tokoh dalam Pertempuran Surabaya 10 November 1945 di Surabaya, Jawa Timur. Saat itu ia menjabat komandan BKR. Saat ini namanya...

Eddy Martadinata

5 Admiral Raden Eddy Martadinata was an Indonesian Navy admiral and diplomat. He was given the title of National Hero of Indonesia posthumously in 1966. He is recognized as one of the founders of the...

Siswondo Parman

5 Siswondo Parman or more popularly known such as in streets name as S. Parman, was a soldier in the Indonesian Army. He was kidnapped from his home in Jakarta by members of the 30 September Movement...

Sisingamangaraja XII

4 Patuan Bosar Sinambela ginoar Ompu Pulo Batu, better known as Sisingamangaraja XII, was the last priest-king of the Dynasty of Sisingamangaraja of Batak peoples in northern Sumatra. In the course of...

Yos Sudarso

4 Yosaphat "Yos" Sudarso was an Indonesian naval officer killed at the Battle of Arafura Sea. At the time of his death, Yos Sudarso was deputy chief of staff of the Indonesian Navy and in charge of an...

T. B. Simatupang

4 Tahi Bonar Simatupang was a soldier who served in the Indonesian National Revolution and went on to become chief of staff of the Indonesian Armed Forces.

Djamin Ginting

4 Lieutenant General Djamin Ginting, was an Indonesian military officer and independence fighter from Tanah Karo. He was appointed a National Hero of Indonesia by President Joko Widodo on 7 November...

D. I. Pandjaitan

4 Donald Isaac Pandjaitan was an Indonesian general who was killed during a kidnapping attempt by the members of the 30 September Movement. Of the six army generals killed in the coup attempt, he was...

Sukarno

4 Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.

Untung Surapati

3 Untung Suropati also Untung Surapati was a warfighter in the East Indies who led a few rebellions against the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Some of his exploits were written in Babad Tanah Jawi.

Anawrahta

3 Anawrahta Minsaw was the founder of the Pagan Empire. Considered the father of the Burmese nation, Anawrahta turned a small principality in the dry zone of Upper Burma into the first Burmese Empire...

Kyaw Yin

3 Kyaw Yin, also known as Mee-Bone-Pyan U Kyaw Yin, was a Burmese balloonist who flew a hot air balloon to many places in Burma. He flew his personally designed hot air balloon in acrobatic fashion as...

Maha Bandula

3 General Maha Bandula was commander-in-chief of the Royal Burmese Armed Forces from 1821 until his death in 1825 in the First Anglo-Burmese War. Nicknamed by his British opponents as the "Sable...

Tuanku Tambusai

3 Sheikh Haji Muhammad Saleh bin Imam Maulana Kadhi, better known as Tuanku Tambusai, was an Islamic leader in the Padri movement. He fought the Adat and Dutch colonists during the Padri Wars in 1838,...

Wage Rudolf Supratman

3 Wage Rudolf Soepratman was an Indonesian journalist and songwriter who wrote both the lyrics and melody of the national anthem of Indonesia, "Indonesia Raya". He is an Indonesian national hero.

Mas Mansoer

3 Mas Mansoer was an Indonesian religious leader who served as the 4th chairman of Muhammadiyah from 1937 to 1942. He was declared a national hero by President Sukarno in 1964.

Oto Iskandar di Nata

3 Oto Iskandar di Nata was an Indonesian politician and National Hero.                               

Soerjadi Soerjadarma

3 Air Chief Marshal (Ret.) Elang Soerjadi Soerjadarma was the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces from 1959 to 1962 and the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force from 1946 to 1962.

Kunti

3 Kunti, also known as Pritha, is a prominent character in the Mahabharata, an ancient Sanskrit epic poem. A princess of the Vrishni dynasty, she becomes the wife of Pandu, king of the Kuru Kingdom,...

Sutoyo Siswomiharjo

3 Major General Sutoyo Siswomiharjo was an Indonesian general and one of six army generals kidnapped and later murdered during the attempted coup by the 30 September Movement.