People Directory

Browse and search 101 notable Palestinians across literature, science, politics, art, sport, and more.

Notable Palestinians

Larissa Sansour (1973–present) — Larissa Sansour (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a contemporary Palestinian artist who has become in…
Taysir Batniji (1966–present) — Taysir Batniji (born 1966 in Gaza) is a leading contemporary Palestinian artist working across drawi…
Emily Jacir (1970–present) — Emily Jacir (born 1970) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker whose conceptually rigorous, research-…
Mona Hatoum (1952–present) — Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut) is among the most internationally acclaimed artists of Palestinian…
Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) — Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a Palestinian abstract artist and art historian born in the Christian…
Vera Tamari (1945–present) — Vera Tamari (born 1945 in Jerusalem) is a pioneering Palestinian ceramicist, installation artist, ar…
Nabil Anani (1943–present) — Nabil Anani (born 1943 in Latroun) is one of the key founders of the contemporary Palestinian art mo…
Sliman Mansour (1947–present) — Sliman Mansour (born 1947 in Birzeit) is one of the most renowned and influential modern Palestinian…
Tamam Al-Akhal (1935–2024) — Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935 in Jaffa) is one of the first formally trained Palestinian women artists a…
Ismail Shammout (1930–2006) — Ismail Shammout (1930-2006), born in Lydda, is widely considered the founding father of contemporary…
Nicola Saig (1863–1942) — Nicola Saig (1863-1942) was a Jerusalem-born painter and iconographer widely regarded as one of the…
Mayada Al-Sayad (1985–present) — Mayada Al-Sayad is a Palestinian long-distance runner who represented Palestine in marathon and dist…
Woroud Sawalha (1991–present) — Woroud Sawalha is a Palestinian middle-distance runner who became one of the most prominent female a…
Oday Dabbagh (1998–present) — Oday Dabbagh is a contemporary Palestinian forward widely regarded as the most successful homegrown…
Mahmoud Wadi (1994–present) — Mahmoud Wadi is one of the most prolific strikers in the modern history of the Palestine national te…
Suzanne Al Houby (1966–present) — Suzanne Al Houby is a Palestinian mountaineer who made history as the first Arab woman to climb Moun…
Honey Thaljieh (1984–present) — Honey Thaljieh is a pioneering figure in Palestinian and Middle Eastern women's football, best known…
Mahmoud Sarsak (1987–present) — Mahmoud Sarsak is a Palestinian footballer from Gaza whose name became known across the world not on…
Ramzi Saleh (1980–present) — Ramzi Saleh is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers in Palestinian football history an…
Roberto Bishara (1981–present) — Roberto Fabian Bishara Adauy is a Chilean-Palestinian former footballer who became one of the most b…
Majed Abu Maraheel (1963–2024) — Majed Abu Maraheel was a Palestinian long-distance runner who made history as the first athlete ever…
Imad Barghouthi (1962–present) — Imad Ahmad Barghouthi is a Palestinian astrophysicist specializing in theoretical space plasma physi…
Rana Dajani (1970–present) — Rana Dajani is a molecular biologist of Palestinian heritage and one of the most internationally rec…
Mazin Qumsiyeh (1957–present) — Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian geneticist, zoologist, and conservation biologist who built an inter…
Ghassan Abu-Sittah (1969–present) — Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has become one of…
Izzeldin Abuelaish (1955–present) — Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian physician, infertility specialist, and global peace advocate bor…
Hossam Haick (1975–present) — Hossam Haick is a Palestinian scientist and engineer, born in 1975 into an Arab Christian family in…
Munther A. Dahleh (1962–present) — Munther A. Dahleh is a Palestinian-American electrical engineer and one of the most influential scho…
Tawfiq Canaan (1882–1964) — Tawfiq Canaan was a pioneering Palestinian physician, medical researcher, and ethnographer whose car…
Ali H. Nayfeh (1933–2017) — Ali Hasan Nayfeh was a Palestinian-American mathematician, mechanical engineer, and physicist widely…
Omar M. Yaghi (1965–present) — Omar Mwannes Yaghi is a chemist of Palestinian descent who in 2025 became the first scientist of Pal…
Leila Khaled (1944–present) — Leila Khaled is a Palestinian political militant and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation…
Saeb Erekat (1955–2020) — Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was the longest-serving and most recognizable Palestinian negotiator, the…
Faisal Husseini (1940–2001) — Faisal Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini was the foremost Palestinian leader of East Jerusalem and a pivotal…
Munir H. Nayfeh (1945–present) — Munir Hasan Nayfeh is a Palestinian-American physicist recognized internationally as a pioneer of si…
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) (1935–1988) — Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir, universally known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad, was a co-founder of Fatah…
George Habash (1926–2008) — George Habash, known by his nom de guerre al-Hakim (the doctor), was the founder and longtime leader…
Musa Kazim al-Husseini (1853–1934) — Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini was the venerable elder statesman of the early Palestinian national mov…
Haj Amin al-Husseini (1897–1974) — Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was the dominant and most controversial Palestinian Arab political and rel…
Hanan Ashrawi (1946–present) — Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi is a Palestinian scholar, legislator, and diplomat who became the most pr…
Mahmoud Abbas (1935–present) — Mahmoud Rida Abbas, widely known by his kunya Abu Mazen, is a Palestinian statesman who has served a…
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) — Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, known to the world as Yasser Arafat and by…
Elyanna (2002–present) — Elyanna, born Elian Amer Marjieh on 22 January 2002 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian-Chilean singer and…
Dalal Abu Amneh (1983–present) — Dalal Abu Amneh, born in 1983 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian singer, producer, and neuroscientist who…
Le Trio Joubran (Samir Joubran) (1973–present) — Le Trio Joubran is a Palestinian oud ensemble formed by three brothers from Nazareth, Samir, Wissam,…
Reem Kelani (1963–present) — Reem Kelani, born in Manchester in 1963 to Palestinian parents from Yabad near Jenin and from Nazare…
Rim Banna (1966–2018) — Rim Banna, born in Nazareth on 8 December 1966 into a Palestinian Greek Orthodox family, was one of…
Kamilya Jubran (1962–present) — Kamilya Jubran, born in 1962 in the Galilee village of Rameh to a Palestinian family, is one of the…
Yousef Khasho (1927–1996) — Yousef Khasho, born in Jerusalem in 1927, was the most ambitious symphonic composer of the Palestini…
Salvador Arnita (1914–1984) — Salvador Arnita, born in Jerusalem on 4 March 1914, was a pioneer of the classical-music renaissance…