- Yogeeta Bali
Yogeeta Bali was a Hindi film actress in the late 1960s and through the 1970s. She was around at the same time as a lot of huge stars so did not become a major star herself, among her contemporaries were Waheeda Rehman, Rakhee, Sharmila Tagore, Hema Malini, Rekha, Jaya Bachchan, and Zeenat Aman. She became singer actor Kishore Kumar's third wife. He directed her and acted with her in "Sabhash Daddy" (1979). But she soon divorced him to marry actor Mithun Chakravorty, …
- Rai Rajeshwar Bali
Rai Rajeshwar Bali (1889-1944) was the Taluqdar of Daryabad, which is a princely state in North India and falls in the state of Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces). Dr. Rai Rajeshwar Bali was an intellectual reformist. During his lifetime he was not only the head of the Taluqdar association of oudh but also the education minister of UP from 1924 to 1928. His main contributions were the passage of the Agra University act, …
- Rai Umanath Bali
Rai Umanath Bali, along with Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, founded an institution for Indian music in Lucknow now known as Bhatkhande Music Institute University. He was uncle to Rai Rajeshwar Bali, the Taluqdar of Daryabad. Today, the Rai Umanath Bali Auditorium in Lucknow is named after him.
- G.S. Bali
G.S. Bali is the Transport Minister of Himachal Pradesh. He is the son of M.S. Bali. He was born on 27 July, 1954 at Kangra. He has Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. He got married on 20 June, 1977. He is Founder president of "Himachal Nagrik Sudhar Sabha". Plus, he was Vice Chairman and later Chairman of "Himachal Social Bodies Federation". He was the Convener of "Indian National Congress Vichar Manch" from 1990 to 1997.
- Domkat Bali
Lt Gen Domkat Bali is a retired Lieutenant General of the Nigerian Army, he was minister for defense and member of the Supreme Military Council of 1984-1985 and the Armed Forces Ruling Council of 1985-1990. Domkat Bali was born in Langtang, Plateau State, he attended secondary school at Kuru, and took further military courses at Camberley, London. He is known as being amiable and friendly in disposition. He resigned from the army on January 10, 1990, …
- Geeta Bali
Geeta Bali (1930 - January 21, 1965) was born in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, she was a Sikh, her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films. She became a star in the 1950s. In 1955 she married Shammi Kapoor who was 2 years younger than her but not yet a star. She had also worked earlier with her future brother-in-law Raj Kapoor in Bavre Nain and with her future father-in-law Prithviraj Kapoor in Anand Math.
- Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian convicted and imprisoned in Indonesia for drug smuggling. She is a former shop assistant and beauty therapy student from Queensland. Corby is currently serving a twenty year sentence for the importation of of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia. She was convicted and sentenced in Bali on May 27, 2005 by the Denpasar (Indonesia) District Court and is currently serving her sentence in Kerobokan Prison, Bali.
- Dharmawangsa
Dharmawangsa was the last raja of the Kingdom of Medang from 985-1006 BCE. He succeeded Sri Makutawangsawardhana. Dharmawangsa was the patron of the translator of the Mahabarata text into Old Javanese. It was during this period that the "Caritha Parahyangan" was written in Sundanese, which tells the history of the rajas of Mataram Dharmawangsa conquered several areas, including Bali, and established a colony in West Kalimantan.
- Airlangga
Airlangga (also spelt Erlangga) (born 991 in Bali, Indonesia, died 1049 in Java) was the first and only raja of the Kingdom of Kahuripan, which was built out of the rubble of the Kingdom of Medang after the Sriwijaya invasion.
- John Hardy
John Hardy is a Canadian-born jewelry designer based in Bali. The John Hardy brand is known worldwide for its luxury lines of intricate handmade jewelry and home accessories that are inspired by ‘sustainable luxury’, a belief that a business can be successful while still respecting the natural and human environments and planning for future generations.
- Walter Spies
Walter Spies was a Russian-born German primitivist painter. In 1923 he came to Java, living first in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting in 1927. He is often credited with attracting the attention of Western cultural figures to Balinese culture and art. In December 1938, Spies was arrested as part of a crackdown on homosexuals. With the influence of people such as Margaret Mead, he was released in September 1939.
- Michelle Leslie
Michelle Leslie (born 1981), who also works under the name Michelle Lee, is an Australian model. Leslie is best known for her 2005 arrest, conviction and three-month imprisonment (time served) for possessing two ecstasy tablets in Bali, Indonesia. Prior to this she was a model for Antz Pantz and Crystelle lingerie.
- Jerry Hall
Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956 in Gonzales, Texas) is an American supermodel and actress known for being Mick Jagger's long-time companion and commonlaw wife.
- Miguel Covarrubias
José Miguel Covarrubias was a Mexican painter and caricaturist. His works and celebrity caricatures have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly influential to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld. Covarrubias also did some wonderful illustrations for The Heritage Press including "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "Green Mansions", and Pearl Buck's "All Men Are Brothers".
- Colin McPhee
Colin McPhee was a Canadian composer and musicologist. He is primarily known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and for the quality of that groundbreaking work. He also composed music influenced by that of Bali and Java decades before such world music–based compositions became widespread.
- Kyle Sandilands
Kyle Sandilands (born 10 June 1971 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian radio host, best known for hosting with Jackie O the weekday morning radio program "The Kyle and Jackie O Show" and "The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power". Both air on Sydney radio station 2Day FM. After a difficult upbringing and leaving home at the age of 17, …
- Dewa Made Beratha
Dewa Made Beratha born July 12, 1941 in Gianyar, Bali is the current governor of Bali. He is a member of the PDI-P, and allied to Megawati Sukarnoputri.
- Putu Wijaya
Putu Wijaya (1944 -), whose real name is I Gusti Ngurah Putu Wijaya, is an Indonesian author who was born in Bali on 11 April 1944. He was the youngest of eight siblings (three of them from a different father). He lived in a large housing complex with around 200 people who were all members of the same extended family, and were accustomed to reading. His father, I Gusti Ngurah Raka, was hoping for Putu to become a doctor, …
- Harold Budd
Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires. His career as a composer began in 1962. In the following years he gained a notable reputation in the local avant-garde community. In 1966 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in musical composition.
- Ashley Bickerton
Ashley Bickerton (born Barbados, 1959) is an internationally recognized contemporary artist living in Bali. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combines both photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. He is associated the early 80's art movement Neo-Geo, which includes artists such as Jeff Koons and Peter Halley.
- Chris Allen
Chris Allen is currently a Senior Reporter on the "Nine Network Australia's" A Current Affair, a role he previously held from 1988 to 1993. A career in journalism was not even a consideration when Chris began studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, alongside Mel Gibson and Judy Davis. It was during this period that he decided to redirect his career and applied for a cadetship at The Courier Mail.
- Petra Verkaik
Petra Charlotte Verkaik (born November 4, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an adult model known for her many appearances in "Playboy" publications. Verkaik is the most published woman in Playboy history with appearances in over 70 Playboy magazines and Special Editions in the U.S. On her own website, PetraCentral.Com, she has produced and appeared in well over 300 photo galleries and dozens of videos.
- Arie Smit
Adrianus Wilhelmus (Arie) Smit (born April 15 1916, Zaandam), is a Dutch-born Indonesian painter living on Bali. Arie Smit was the third of eight children of a trader in cheese and confectionery. His family moved in 1924 from Zaandam to Rotterdam, where Smit eventually studied graphic design at the Academy of Arts. In his youth he was most inspired by the work of three artists named Paul (Signac, Gauguin and Cezanne).
- Donald Friend
Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 - 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist, writer and diarist. Born in Sydney, precociously talented both as an artist and a writer, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother. He studied with Sydney Long (1931) and Dattilo Rubbo (1934-1935), and later in London (1936-1937) at the Westminster Art School with Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky.
- Vicki Baum
Hedwig (Vicki) Baum (January 24, 1888 - August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel", 1929), one of her first international successes. Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. She began her artistic career as a musician playing the harp. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory and played in an orchestra in Germany for three years.
- Jaya Suprana
Jaya Suprana, also Poa Kok Tjin (born January 27 1949), is an Indonesian composer, pianist, businessman, and television presenter. Suprana was born in Denpasar, Bali to Lambang and Lily Suprana; he is of Chinese descent but grew up within Javanese culture. He is married to Julia Suprana and has no biological children. He studied music at Musikhochschule Muenster and Folkwanghochsule Essen, West Germany, between 1967 and 1976, …
- Saori Obata
Saori Obata (born April 23 1978 in Tokyo, Japan) was a female Japanese tennis player. She turned professional in April 1996, and in February 9th 2004, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of 39, and on the same day she reached her career-high doubles ranking of 98. She did not win a WTA singles title in her career, however did reach 1 singles final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2003 where she lost 2-6 6-7(2) to the Spanish player Virginia Ruano-Pascual.
- Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music and music for Balinese gamelans. He plays the clarinet, bass clarinet, and metallophone, borrowing from classical music, avant-garde, and jazz. A former member of Steve Reich and Musicians and a member of Bang on a Can All-Stars, he is Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has released albums on CRI Emergency, New World, …
- Linton Sirait
Linton Sirait (1956-) is an Indonesian District Court judge in Bali. He is a Batak Christian from Medan in Sumatra.
- James Kisina
James Sioeli Kisina (born 1987) is a half-brother of Schapelle Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the importation of 4.1 kg of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia. Kisina carried Corby's cannabis-laden bodyboard bag into Denpasar's Ngurah Rai Airport on October 8, 2004, where Corby was later arrested by Indonesian authorities. On January 17, 2006, Queensland Police found a quantity of cannabis in the Brisbane home Kisina shares with his (and Corby's) mother, …
- Martin Stephens
Martin Eric Stephens (born 1976) is a former bartender from Towradgi, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales. He is known as a member of the Bali Nine, discovered with 3.3 kg of heroin concealed on his body at Denpasar airport during his first trip to Bali. On February 14, 2006, Stephens was sentenced to life imprisonment. Stephens since appealed his sentence along with eight other members of the Bali Nine.. On April 26 2006, Bali Nine members Lawrence, Nguyen, Chen, …
- Michael Tenzer
Michael Tenzer (born 1957) is a composer, performer, educator and scholar. He studied music at Yale University (BA. 1978) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1986). After teaching at Yale from 1986-96, he moved to University of British Columbia where he teaches ethnomusicology, composition, music theory and gamelan performance, co-directs the doctoral program in ethnomusicology.
- Mark Parker
Mark Moreton Parker (2 October, 1975 - 12 October, 2002) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played three matches of first-class cricket for the Otago Volts in the 1996-97, and he also played for South Canterbury in the Hawke Cup. Born in Timaru on New Zealand's South Island, Parker was the son of New Zealand cricketer Murray Parker and nephew of John Parker. He scored 50 first-class runs with a top score of 14.
- Linda Connor
Linda Connor is an American photographer who has spent more than twenty-five years exploring and investigating exotic and spiritual places. She is a frequent visitor to India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest.
- Ida Bagus Wiswantanu
Ida Bagus Wiswantanu is the Chief Government Prosecutor in Bali, Indonesia. Wiswantanu has stated that in 90 per cent of more than 200 narcotics cases he has handled, he has obtained the sentence he has sought for the accused. He also claimed that the one in ten cases in which judges have wound back his sentence requests are the small ones, "usually less than 100 grams".
- Claude Vivier
Claude Vivier (b. Montreal, April 14 1948, d. Paris, March 7, 1983) was a Canadian composer. Born to unknown parents, Vivier was adopted at the age of two and a half by a poor French-Canadian family. From the age of thirteen he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood. The young Vivier's religious inclinations were supplanted by a love of modern poetry and music.
- Nyoman Windha
Nyoman Windha is one of the leading musicians and contemporary composers of Balinese gamelan music. He was born at Banjar Kutri, Singapadu, Gianyar, Bali. A graduate of the National Institute of Arts (ISI) in Denpasar, Bali, Windha has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He has composed dozens of compositions for Balinese gamelan in many genres but primarily in kebyar style.
- I Wayan Balawan
I Wayan Balawan or Balawan (born September 9, 1973 in Bali) is an Indonesian guitarist and songwriter. He is best-known as a Batuan Ethnic Fusion guitarist. Since he returned from Sydney, Balawan has developed the "8 fingers tapping" technique, also known as "Touching Tapping Style".
- I Made Bandem
I Made Bandem is a Balinese dancer, artist, author, and educator. Bandem studied Balinese Dance from a very early age, and was performing Baris and other dances by the age of ten. One of the first Balinese dancers to study in the United States, Bandem earned his masters' degree in dance from UCLA, and his PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. Bandem's academic career includes sixteen years as the director of the Indonesian College of the Arts in Denpasar, …
- Chris Parnell
Christopher Victor Parnell (born July 1953 in Sydney) is an Australian man who spent 11 years of a 20 year sentence in prison in Bali until his release in September 1996, which came in the form of a Presidential Pardon. He had been convicted in 1985 after Indonesian police claimed to have uncovered 12.5kg of hashish hidden in his hotel room. Parnell was originally sentenced to the death penalty but this was later commuted to life imprisonment with a fine of $US50,000.