Professor Lafran Pane (5 February 1922 – 25 January 1991) was an Indonesian academic who is best remembered for establishing the Muslim Students' Association and National Hero of Indonesia.

In November of that year preparations began for an organization, based in Islam, which would unite university students of that faith and promote the social welfare of the Indonesian people.

[2] He was buried in Karangkajen cemetery, together with Muhammadiyah's founder, Kiai Haji Ahmad Dahlan.<[5] His second wife, Bisromah, died of a stroke on 9 March 2013.

[6] Lukman Hakiem, a former HMI leader and member of the People's Representative Council, considered Pane an intelligent yet simple figure who was open to criticism; Hakiem recollected that Pane, though a professor, would ride his bicycle rather than a car or motorcycle like other lecturers or his students.

A 2013 article in the daily Republika wrote that, "sadly" ("sayangnya") Pane was not yet a National Hero of Indonesia.