The Ambonese, also known as South Moluccans, are an Indonesian ethnic group of mixed Austronesian-Papuan origin.

They are mostly Christians or Muslims.

The Ambonese are from Ambon Island in Maluku, an island group east of Sulawesi and north of Timor in Indonesia.

They also live on the southwest of Seram Island; which is part of the Moluccas, Java, New Guinea; on the West Papua side and other regions of Indonesia.

Additionally, there are about thirty-five thousand Ambonese people living in the Netherlands.

By the end of the  twentith century, there are 258,331 (2007 census) Ambonese people living in Ambon, Maluku.