This is a list of notable Malay people or notable people of Malay descent. Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and define themselves either full or partial Malay descent, whose ethnic origin lie in the Malay world.
This list also includes emigrant Malays and could be taken as a list of famous Malays.
This article lists important figures and events in Malayan public affairs during the year 1962, together with births and deaths of significant Malayans.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1979, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians and Malaysia-related figures.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1993, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians. The deadliest structural failure in Malaysian history occurred when an apartment block in Selangor collapsed, killing 48 people on 11 December.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1992, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1994, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1981, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1991, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1983, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 2000, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1987, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
This article lists important figures and events in Malayan public affairs during the year 1951, together with births and deaths of significant Malayans.
This article lists important figures and events in Malayan public affairs during the year 1948, together with births and deaths of significant Malayans. Malaya left the British colonial Malayan Union; the Federation of Malaya took place on 1 February.
This article lists important figures and events in Malayan public affairs during the year 1949, together with births and deaths of significant Malayans.
The Indonesian Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Indonesian ancestry. Today, there are many Malaysian Malays who have lineage from the Indonesian archipelago and have played an important role in the history and contributed to the development of Malaysia, they have been assimilated with other Malay communities and are grouped as part of the foreign Malays or anak dagang in terms of race. The Malaysian census does not categorize ethnic groups from the Indonesian archipelago as a separate ethnic group, but rather as Malay or Bumiputera.
The Most Illustrious Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang is a knighthood order of the Sultanate of Pahang.
The Esteemed Order of the Crown of Pahang is a knighthood order of the Sultanate of Pahang.