Shaikh Ahmad Khatib al-Minangkabawi was a Minangkabau Islamic teacher. He was born in Koto Tuo, Dutch East Indies, and died in Mecca, Ottoman Empire. He served as the head of the Shafi'i school of law

Muhammad Jamil Jambek, or better known as Sheikh Muhammad Jambek, was one of the pioneers of Islamic modernist reformers in Indonesia, hailed from Bukittinggi, Minangkabau region in the late 19th cent