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Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) — Mahmoud Darwish is widely regarded as the Palestinian national poet and one of the most important Ar…
Edward Said (1935–2003) — Edward Wadie Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 into a prosperous Palestinian Christian family and g…
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) — Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, known to the world as Yasser Arafat and by…
Omar M. Yaghi (1965–present) — Omar Mwannes Yaghi is a chemist of Palestinian descent who in 2025 became the first scientist of Pal…
Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) — Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and political activist…
Naji al-Ali (1937–1987) — Naji Salim Hussain al-Ali was a Palestinian political cartoonist whose biting, uncompromising drawin…
Ali H. Nayfeh (1933–2017) — Ali Hasan Nayfeh was a Palestinian-American mathematician, mechanical engineer, and physicist widely…
Marwan Barghouti (1959–present) — Marwan Barghouti (born 1959 in Kobar, near Ramallah) is one of the most prominent Palestinian politi…
Walid Khalidi (1925–2026) — Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem in 1925 into one of the city's most distinguished families; his…
Elia Suleiman (1960–present) — Elia Suleiman is the most internationally celebrated Palestinian auteur, an actor-director whose dea…
Mona Hatoum (1952–present) — Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut) is among the most internationally acclaimed artists of Palestinian…
Rashid Khalidi (1948–present) — Rashid Ismail Khalidi was born in New York City in 1948 to a father from a distinguished Palestinian…
Emily Jacir (1970–present) — Emily Jacir (born 1970) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker whose conceptually rigorous, research-…
Hasib Sabbagh (1920–2010) — Hasib Sabbagh was born in 1920 in Tiberias to a Palestinian Christian family rooted in Safed. He gra…
Shireen Abu Akleh (1971–2022) — Shireen Abu Akleh (1971-2022) was a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera and one of the mo…
Simon Shaheen (1955–present) — Simon Shaheen, born in 1955 in the Galilean village of Tarshiha, is among the most accomplished oud…
Hany Abu-Assad (1961–present) — Hany Abu-Assad is the only Palestinian filmmaker to be nominated twice for the Academy Award, and on…
Naomi Shihab Nye (1952–present) — Naomi Shihab Nye, born March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the most celebrated Arab Am…
Yezid Sayigh (1955–present) — Yezid Sayigh (born 1955) is a Palestinian political scientist and one of the foremost scholarly auth…
Hanna Batatu (1926–2000) — Hanna Batatu (1926–2000) was a Palestinian-American historian and political sociologist widely regar…
Said Khoury (1923–2014) — Said Tawfiq Khoury was born on June 6, 1923, in Safed, in a Palestinian Christian family in Mandator…
Mahmoud Abbas (1935–present) — Mahmoud Rida Abbas, widely known by his kunya Abu Mazen, is a Palestinian statesman who has served a…
Fadwa Tuqan (1917–2003) — Fadwa Tuqan, often called "the Poet of Palestine," was among the most important Arab women poets of…
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938–present) — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, born on 22 April 1938 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine, is a Palestinian-Jordanian…
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was a Palestinian novelist, poet, critic, painter, and translator, one of the mo…
Samia Halaby (1936–present) — Samia Halaby is a pioneering Palestinian-American abstract painter, scholar and political activist w…
Haj Amin al-Husseini (1897–1974) — Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was the dominant and most controversial Palestinian Arab political and rel…
George Habash (1926–2008) — George Habash, known by his nom de guerre al-Hakim (the doctor), was the founder and longtime leader…
Abdul Hameed Shoman (1888–1974) — Abdul Hameed Shoman was born around 1888 in the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, into a m…
Munib al-Masri (1934–present) — Munib Rashid al-Masri was born in 1934 in Nablus into a prominent local family. As a boy he was woun…
Munther A. Dahleh (1962–present) — Munther A. Dahleh is a Palestinian-American electrical engineer and one of the most influential scho…
Michel Khleifi (1950–present) — Michel Khleifi is widely considered the father of contemporary Palestinian cinema and one of its mos…
Emile Habibi (1922–1996) — Emile Habibi was a Palestinian novelist and politician who remained inside the borders of the new st…
Michel Sabbah (1933–present) — Michel Sabbah is a Palestinian Catholic prelate who made history as the first native Palestinian Lat…
Ismail Shammout (1930–2006) — Ismail Shammout (1930-2006), born in Lydda, is widely considered the founding father of contemporary…
Hanan Ashrawi (1946–present) — Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi is a Palestinian scholar, legislator, and diplomat who became the most pr…
Hiam Abbass (1960–present) — Hiam Abbass is the most internationally prominent Palestinian actress, a commanding screen presence…
Le Trio Joubran (Samir Joubran) (1973–present) — Le Trio Joubran is a Palestinian oud ensemble formed by three brothers from Nazareth, Samir, Wissam,…
Sahar Khalifeh (1941–present) — Sahar Khalifeh is among the foremost Palestinian novelists and the most prominent female voice in th…
Lila Abu-Lughod (1952–present) — Lila Abu-Lughod was born in 1952 to the Palestinian political scientist Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and the A…
Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1925–2023) — Salma Khadra Jayyusi was a Palestinian poet, scholar, anthologist, and translator who did more than…
Samih al-Qasim (1939–2014) — Samih al-Qasim was one of the foremost poets of Palestinian resistance, a writer whose stature withi…
Sliman Mansour (1947–present) — Sliman Mansour (born 1947 in Birzeit) is one of the most renowned and influential modern Palestinian…
Hossam Haick (1975–present) — Hossam Haick is a Palestinian scientist and engineer, born in 1975 into an Arab Christian family in…
Daoud Kuttab (1955–present) — Daoud Kuttab (born 1955) is a Palestinian-American journalist, media entrepreneur, and press-freedom…
Issa El-Issa (1878–1950) — Issa Daoud El-Issa (1878-1950) was a Palestinian journalist, poet, and editor widely regarded as one…
Munib Younan (1950–present) — Munib Younan is a Palestinian Lutheran bishop who became one of the most globally prominent Christia…
Rim Banna (1966–2018) — Rim Banna, born in Nazareth on 8 December 1966 into a Palestinian Greek Orthodox family, was one of…
Annemarie Jacir (1974–present) — Annemarie Jacir is one of the leading filmmakers of contemporary Palestinian cinema and a trailblaze…
Elias Chacour (1939–present) — Elias Chacour is a Palestinian Melkite Greek Catholic priest, educator and peace activist who became…
Ibrahim Nasrallah (1954–present) — Ibrahim Nasrallah is a major Palestinian poet and novelist, born in 1954 in the Wahdat refugee camp…
Munir H. Nayfeh (1945–present) — Munir Hasan Nayfeh is a Palestinian-American physicist recognized internationally as a pioneer of si…
Ibrahim Tuqan (1905–1941) — Ibrahim Tuqan was a pioneering Palestinian nationalist poet of the late Ottoman and British Mandate…
Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) — Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a Palestinian abstract artist and art historian born in the Christian…
Wael Al-Dahdouh (1970–present) — Wael Al-Dahdouh (born 1970) is a veteran Palestinian journalist and the bureau chief of Al Jazeera i…
Mourid Barghouti (1944–2021) — Mourid Barghouti was a Palestinian poet and memoirist whose work gave one of the most refined litera…
Sari Nusseibeh (1949–present) — Sari Nusseibeh was born in 1949 in Damascus, where his mother had taken refuge during the 1948 war,…
Tawfiq Canaan (1882–1964) — Tawfiq Canaan was a pioneering Palestinian physician, medical researcher, and ethnographer whose car…
May Ziadeh (1886–1941) — May Ziadeh (born Marie Elias Ziadeh, 11 February 1886, Nazareth) was a poet, essayist, translator, o…
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (1882–1935) — Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was a Muslim preacher, religious teacher and social reformer whose name became…
Taysir Batniji (1966–present) — Taysir Batniji (born 1966 in Gaza) is a leading contemporary Palestinian artist working across drawi…
Abdel Bari Atwan (1950–present) — Abdel Bari Atwan (born 1950) is a Palestinian-British journalist, author, and editor who became one…
Izzeldin Abuelaish (1955–present) — Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian physician, infertility specialist, and global peace advocate bor…
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929–2001) — Ibrahim Abu-Lughod was born in Jaffa in 1929 into a family that ran a metal foundry, and as a youth…
Laila Shawa (1940–2022) — Laila Shawa was a pioneering Palestinian artist whose vivid, politically charged work made her one o…
Adania Shibli (1974–present) — Adania Shibli is a leading contemporary Palestinian novelist and essayist, widely regarded as one of…
Mohammad Bakri (1953–2025) — Mohammad Bakri is one of the most accomplished and politically significant Palestinian actors and fi…
Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011) — Taha Muhammad Ali was a Palestinian poet and short-story writer, born in 1931 in the Galilee village…
Tamer Nafar (DAM) (1979–present) — Tamer Nafar, born on 6 June 1979 in the mixed city of Lod (Lydda), is a Palestinian rapper, actor, s…
Abd al-Qader al-Husseini (1907–1948) — Abd al-Qader al-Husseini was born in 1907 into the eminent Husseini family of Jerusalem, one of the…
Raja Shehadeh (1951–present) — Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian writer, lawyer, and human rights pioneer, widely regarded as the lead…
Ismail al-Faruqi (1921–1986) — Ismail Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American philosopher and scholar of comparative religion, wi…
Kamilya Jubran (1962–present) — Kamilya Jubran, born in 1962 in the Galilee village of Rameh to a Palestinian family, is one of the…
Aref al-Aref (1892–1973) — Aref al-Aref was a Palestinian journalist, historian, administrator and civic leader whose long care…
Ghassan Abu-Sittah (1969–present) — Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has become one of…
Nabil Anani (1943–present) — Nabil Anani (born 1943 in Latroun) is one of the key founders of the contemporary Palestinian art mo…
Susan Abulhawa (1970–present) — Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American novelist, poet, and activist who has become one of the most…
Saeb Erekat (1955–2020) — Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was the longest-serving and most recognizable Palestinian negotiator, the…
Eyad El-Sarraj (1944–2013) — Eyad El-Sarraj (1944-2013) was a Palestinian psychiatrist and human rights campaigner who pioneered…
Hala Zreiqat (1962–present) — Hala Zreiqat is a Palestinian-Jordanian biomedical engineer recognized internationally for her pione…
Sabih al-Masri (1937–present) — Sabih Taher Darwish al-Masri was born in 1937 in Nablus, then in Mandatory Palestine, and is a cousi…
Najib Nassar (1865–1948) — Najib Nassar (1865-1948) was a pioneering Palestinian journalist, editor, and political thinker, bes…
Abdul Majeed Shoman (1912–2005) — Abdul Majeed Shoman was born in 1912 in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, the eldest son of Abdul Ham…
Mohammed Assaf (1989–present) — Mohammed Assaf, born on 1 September 1989 to Palestinian parents in Libya and raised in the Khan Yuni…
Cherien Dabis (1976–present) — Cherien Dabis is a Palestinian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actress whose work has brought…
Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005) — Hisham Bashir Sharabi was born in Jaffa in 1927 and educated at the American University of Beirut, w…
Rashid Masharawi (1962–present) — Rashid Masharawi is one of the most important Palestinian filmmakers working from within the occupie…
Larissa Sansour (1973–present) — Larissa Sansour (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a contemporary Palestinian artist who has become in…
Mai Masri (1959–present) — Mai Masri is one of the foremost Palestinian documentary filmmakers and a pioneer in chronicling the…
Amjad Masad (1987–present) — Amjad Masad is the founder and chief executive of Replit, one of the most widely used browser-based…
Rana Dajani (1970–present) — Rana Dajani is a molecular biologist of Palestinian heritage and one of the most internationally rec…
Naim Ateek (1937–present) — Naim Stifan Ateek, born in Beisan in 1937, is a Palestinian Anglican priest and the founding theolog…
Bashar Masri (1961–present) — Bashar Masri was born on February 3, 1961, in Nablus, then under Jordanian administration. As a teen…
Sufyan Tayeh (1971–2023) — Sufyan Abdul Rahman Tayeh was a Palestinian theoretical physicist whose work in optics, photonics, a…
Munther Isaac (1979–present) — Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac (born 1979 in Bethlehem) is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor and theologian, and…
Motaz Azaiza (1999–present) — Motaz Azaiza (born 1999) is a Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza who became one of the most influ…
Reem Kelani (1963–present) — Reem Kelani, born in Manchester in 1963 to Palestinian parents from Yabad near Jenin and from Nazare…
Mo Amer (1981–present) — Mohammed "Mo" Amer (born July 24, 1981, in Kuwait City) is a Palestinian-American stand-up comedian,…
Nur Masalha (1957–present) — Nur Masalha is a Palestinian historian and academic born in the Galilee, a Palestinian citizen of Is…
Mazin Qumsiyeh (1957–present) — Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian geneticist, zoologist, and conservation biologist who built an inter…
Gigi Hadid (1995–present) — Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid, born April 23, 1995, in Los Angeles, is an American supermodel and entrep…
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…
Mosab Abu Toha (1992–present) — Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, essayist, and librarian, born on 17 November 1992 in the Al-Sh…
Mona Saudi (1945–2022) — Mona Saudi was a leading Arab sculptor of Palestinian heritage whose serene, monumental works in sto…
Bisan Owda (1997–present) — Bisan Owda (born 1997) is a Palestinian journalist, filmmaker, and digital storyteller from Gaza who…
Khalil al-Sakakini (1878–1953) — Khalil al-Sakakini was born in Jerusalem in 1878 into a Palestinian Christian Orthodox family in the…
Suheir Hammad (1973–present) — Suheir Hammad (born 25 October 1973) is a Palestinian American poet, performer, and political activi…
Salman Abu Sitta (1937–present) — Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in the Beersheba district of southern Palestine, on land that bore…
Saleh Bakri (1977–present) — Saleh Bakri is among the most acclaimed Palestinian actors of his generation, a performer whose eleg…
Yousef Beidas (1912–1968) — Yousef Beidas was a Palestinian banker who built Intra Bank into the largest financial institution i…
Hind al-Husseini (1916–1994) — Hind al-Husseini was a Palestinian educator and humanitarian whose response to one of the darkest mo…
Haidar Abdel-Shafi (1919–2007) — Haidar Abdel-Shafi was a physician, founding figure of Palestinian civil and political life in Gaza,…
Mubarak Awad (1943–present) — Mubarak Awad is a Palestinian-American psychologist and theorist of nonviolent resistance, often cal…
Bella Hadid (1996–present) — Isabella Khairiah "Bella" Hadid, born October 9, 1996, in Washington, D.C., is a Palestinian-America…
Farah Nabulsi (1979–present) — Farah Nabulsi is a British-Palestinian filmmaker and human-rights advocate who rose to international…
Salam Fayyad (1952–present) — Salam Fayyad is a Palestinian economist and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the Palestinia…
Sayed Kashua (1975–present) — Sayed Kashua, born in 1975 in Tira, an Arab town in the Triangle region of Israel, is a Palestinian…
Zahi Khouri (1938–present) — Zahi W. Khouri was born in 1938 into a Palestinian Christian family in Jaffa, then in Mandatory Pale…
Vera Tamari (1945–present) — Vera Tamari (born 1945 in Jerusalem) is a pioneering Palestinian ceramicist, installation artist, ar…
Mitri Raheb (1962–present) — Mitri Raheb, born in Bethlehem in 1962, is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor, theologian, and institutio…
Tawfiq Zayyad (1929–1994) — Tawfiq Zayyad was a Palestinian poet, political leader, and one of the central figures of the resist…
Ekrima Sa'id Sabri (1939–present) — Ekrima Sa'id Sabri is a Palestinian Islamic scholar and cleric who served as Grand Mufti of Jerusale…
Faisal Husseini (1940–2001) — Faisal Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini was the foremost Palestinian leader of East Jerusalem and a pivotal…
Khalil Raad (1854–1957) — Khalil Raad (1854–1957) was a pioneering photographer widely regarded as the first Arab photographer…
Samih Toukan (1969–present) — Samih Toukan was born on February 27, 1969, into a Palestinian family originally from Nablus that ha…
Beshara Doumani (1957–present) — Beshara Doumani is a Palestinian-American historian recognized for transforming the social and econo…
Leila Khaled (1944–present) — Leila Khaled is a Palestinian political militant and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation…
Fayez Sayegh (1922–1980) — Fayez Sayegh was a Palestinian scholar, political theorist, and diplomat who became one of the most…
Ahmad (Mo) Khalil — Ahmad S. Khalil, known professionally as Mo Khalil, is a Palestinian-American bioengineer and one of…
Salim Tamari (1945–present) — Salim Tamari is a Palestinian sociologist and one of the foremost social historians of late Ottoman…
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza (1888–1984) — Muhammad Izzat Darwaza was born in 1888 into a middle-class Sunni Muslim merchant family in Nablus,…
Mohammed Omer (1984–present) — Mohammed Omer is an award-winning Palestinian journalist who emerged as one of the most prominent in…
Habib Hassan Touma (1934–1998) — Habib Hassan Touma, born in Nazareth in 1934, was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist who b…
Khalil Rabah (1961–present) — Khalil Rabah is a leading Palestinian conceptual artist and a central figure in building contemporar…
Joseph Massad (1963–present) — Joseph Andoni Massad is a Palestinian scholar born in Amman, Jordan, in 1963. He completed his under…
Musa Kazim al-Husseini (1853–1934) — Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini was the venerable elder statesman of the early Palestinian national mov…
Tamam Al-Akhal (1935–2024) — Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935 in Jaffa) is one of the first formally trained Palestinian women artists a…
Najwan Darwish (1978–present) — Najwan Darwish is a Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978, widely regarded as one of the forem…
Mustafa Barghouti (1954–present) — Mustafa Barghouti, born in Jerusalem in 1954, is a Palestinian physician and civil-society leader be…
DJ Khaled (1975–present) — DJ Khaled, born Khaled Mohammed Khaled on November 26, 1975, in New Orleans, Louisiana, is an Americ…
Ali Abunimah (1971–present) — Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist, author, and digital-media pioneer best known as t…
Steve Sabella (1975–present) — Steve Sabella is a contemporary Palestinian artist working primarily in photography and photographic…
Elyanna (2002–present) — Elyanna, born Elian Amer Marjieh on 22 January 2002 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian-Chilean singer and…
Jumana Manna (1987–present) — Jumana Manna is an acclaimed Palestinian artist and filmmaker known for sculpture and moving-image w…
Mohammed Barakat (1984–2024) — Mohammed Barakat, known throughout Gaza as the "Legend of Khan Younis," was one of the most prolific…
Farouk Shami (1942–present) — Farouk Shami was born in the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, near Ramallah, the son of a local sheikh a…
Rula Jebreal (1973–present) — Rula Jebreal is an Italo-Palestinian journalist, author, and broadcaster who became one of the most…
Rashida Tlaib (1976–present) — Rashida Tlaib is an American politician of Palestinian descent who in 2018 became one of the first t…
Ali Suliman (1977–present) — Ali Suliman is a Palestinian actor who has built one of the most international careers of any Palest…
Shawan Jabarin (1960–present) — Shawan Jabarin, born near Hebron around 1960, is a leading Palestinian human rights defender and the…
Adnan Mjalli (1959–present) — Adnan M. M. Mjalli is a Palestinian-American medicinal chemist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur inter…
Mahmoud Abu Zuluf — Mahmoud Abu Zuluf (also transliterated Abu-Zalaf) was one of the towering figures of the modern Pale…
Saree Makdisi (1964–present) — Saree Makdisi is a literary scholar and public intellectual, Distinguished Professor of English and…
Tawfiq Sayigh (1923–1971) — Tawfiq Sayigh was a Palestinian poet, translator, and editor regarded as one of the most original an…
Kamal Aljafari (1972–present) — Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist whose experimental, archive-driven cinema has r…
Hala Alyan (1986–present) — Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist whose work has made h…
Fatima Bernawi (1939–2021) — Fatima Bernawi was born in 1939 in Jerusalem's African Quarter — the historic neighbourhood beside A…
Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1897–1972) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh, born in Jerusalem in 1897, was a Palestinian oud player, composer, poet, and the…
Najwa Najjar (1973–present) — Najwa Najjar is a Palestinian filmmaker whose feature dramas and documentaries have become fixtures…
Raed Salah (1958–present) — Sheikh Raed Salah is a Palestinian Islamic leader and the most prominent figure of the Islamic Movem…
Sameh Zoabi (1975–present) — Sameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker celebrated for bringing satire and comedy to the depiction of…
Khalil Beidas (1874–1949) — Khalil Beidas was a Palestinian scholar, educator, translator, and novelist often credited as a fath…
Mohammed El-Kurd (1998–present) — Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian journalist, writer, and poet from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood o…
Maha Haj (1970–present) — Maha Haj is a Palestinian filmmaker and screenwriter whose understated, finely observed dramas have…
Ramzy Baroud (1972–present) — Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American journalist, author, and historian whose long career has cente…
Dalal Abu Amneh (1983–present) — Dalal Abu Amneh, born in 1983 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian singer, producer, and neuroscientist who…
Zulaykha al-Shihabi (1903–1992) — Zulaykha al-Shihabi (1903-1992) was a pioneer of the Palestinian women's movement and one of the for…
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (1984–present) — Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is an American-born journalist, producer, and media personality of Palestinian de…
Najati Sidqi (1905–1979) — Muhammad Najati Sidqi (1905-1979) was a Palestinian journalist, literary critic, translator, and act…
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi (1896–1951) — Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi was born in 1896 in Jerusalem into the prominent al-Khalidi family, one of th…
Tawfik Abu Wael (1976–present) — Tawfik Abu Wael is a Palestinian filmmaker known for austere, intense dramas that probe family, repr…
Yousef Khasho (1927–1996) — Yousef Khasho, born in Jerusalem in 1927, was the most ambitious symphonic composer of the Palestini…
Theodosios (Atallah Hanna) (1965–present) — Archbishop Theodosios, widely known as Atallah Hanna, is a Palestinian Greek Orthodox clergyman who…
Nicola Saig (1863–1942) — Nicola Saig (1863-1942) was a Jerusalem-born painter and iconographer widely regarded as one of the…
Majed Abu Maraheel (1963–2024) — Majed Abu Maraheel was a Palestinian long-distance runner who made history as the first athlete ever…
Suha Arraf (1968–present) — Suha Arraf is a Palestinian screenwriter, director, and journalist whose scripts helped define a lan…
Darin J. Sallam (1987–present) — Darin J. Sallam is a filmmaker of Palestinian heritage whose debut feature brought the human experie…
Mustafa al-Kurd (1945–2024) — Mustafa al-Kurd, born in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem in 1945, was one of the foremost voices…
Mohamed Hadid (1948–present) — Mohamed Anwar Hadid is a Palestinian-American real-estate developer known internationally for buildi…
Saeb Jendeya (1975–present) — Saeb Jendeya is a former Palestinian footballer and coach who became one of the defining figures of…
Raymonda Tawil (1940–2024) — Raymonda Tawil (1940-2024) was a Palestinian journalist, poet, and activist whose fearless commentar…
Nabiha Nasir (1891–1951) — Nabiha Nasir was born in 1891 in the small town of Birzeit, north of Jerusalem, then part of Ottoman…
Imad Barghouthi (1962–present) — Imad Ahmad Barghouthi is a Palestinian astrophysicist specializing in theoretical space plasma physi…
Abed Abdi (1942–present) — Abed Abdi is a pioneering Palestinian artist and one of the most important figures among Palestinian…
Ishaq Musa al-Husayni (1904–1990) — Ishaq Musa al-Husayni was born in Jerusalem on 25 December 1904 into the prominent Husayni family, o…
Riah Abu El-Assal (1937–present) — Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal, born in Nazareth in 1937, is a Palestinian Anglican cleric who served as th…
Sam Bahour (1964–present) — Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American entrepreneur and business-development consultant based in Al-Bi…
Jawad Al Malhi (1969–present) — Jawad Al Malhi is a Palestinian painter, photographer and multimedia artist whose work is grounded i…
Ramzi Aburedwan (1979–present) — Ramzi Aburedwan, who grew up in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, is a Palestinian violist, o…
Said Murad (1958–present) — Said Murad, an oud player, composer, and arranger from Jerusalem, is the founder and driving creativ…
Hatim Kanaaneh (1937–present) — Hatim Kanaaneh is a Palestinian physician and public health pioneer who devoted his career to buildi…
Hani Al-Masdar (1981–2024) — Hani Al-Masdar was a Palestinian footballer and coach who became the head coach of Palestine's Olymp…
Raghib al-Nashashibi (1881–1951) — Raghib al-Nashashibi was born in 1881 in Jerusalem into one of the city's oldest and most powerful n…
Abdel Mohsen Qattan (1934–2014) — Abdel Mohsen Qattan was born in 1934 in Jaffa and grew up in a prosperous Palestinian merchant famil…
Honey Thaljieh (1984–present) — Honey Thaljieh is a pioneering figure in Palestinian and Middle Eastern women's football, best known…
Abd al-Rahim Mahmud (1913–1948) — Abd al-Rahim Mahmud was born in 1913 in the small town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm in the Galilee-fac…
Sana Odeh — Sana Odeh is a Palestinian-American computer scientist and educator who has become one of the most i…
Valerie Tarazi (1999–present) — Valerie Rose Tarazi is a Palestinian-American competitive swimmer who became one of the most interna…
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi (1864–1913) — Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi was born in 1864 in the Bab al-Silsila (Chain Gate) quarter of the Old City…
Amal Murkus (1968–present) — Amal Murkus, born in the Galilee village of Kafr Yasif in 1968, is among the most prominent Palestin…
Augustin Lama (1902–1988) — Augustin Lama, born in Ramla in 1902 during the late Ottoman period, is widely regarded as the grand…
Karimeh Abbud (1893–1940) — Karimeh Abbud was born on 18 November 1893 in Bethlehem, then part of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem…
Salvador Arnita (1914–1984) — Salvador Arnita, born in Jerusalem on 4 March 1914, was a pioneer of the classical-music renaissance…
Hani Zurob (1976–present) — Hani Zurob is a Palestinian painter whose richly textured, emotionally charged work explores exile,…
Adam Bakri (1988–present) — Adam Bakri is an internationally recognized Palestinian actor who achieved a remarkable debut on the…
Suzanne Al Houby (1966–present) — Suzanne Al Houby is a Palestinian mountaineer who made history as the first Arab woman to climb Moun…
Asad Azi (1955–present) — Asad Azi is a prominent Palestinian artist from the Druze community in Israel, recognized as one of…
Hani Alami — Hani Alami is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian telecommunications entrepreneur who has built some of the…
Mahmoud Sarsak (1987–present) — Mahmoud Sarsak is a Palestinian footballer from Gaza whose name became known across the world not on…
Yaser Hamed (1997–present) — Yaser Hamed is a Palestinian professional footballer born in Leioa, in Spain's Basque Country, in 19…
Mohammed Rashid (1995–present) — Mohammed Rashid is a Palestinian professional footballer born in Ramallah in 1995, a defensive midfi…
Givara Budeiri — Givara Budeiri is a veteran Palestinian broadcast journalist who has worked as a correspondent for A…
Tareq Maayah — Tareq Maayah is a Palestinian technology executive best known as the chief executive of EXALT Techno…
Ramzi Saleh (1980–present) — Ramzi Saleh is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers in Palestinian football history an…
Faraj Suleiman (1984–present) — Faraj Suleiman, born in the Galilee village of Rameh in 1984, is a Palestinian pianist and composer…
Wasim Abu Sala (2001–present) — Wasim Abu Sala is a Palestinian boxer who made history as the first athlete to represent Palestine i…
Simon Yacoub (1989–present) — Simon Yacoub is a Palestinian judoka born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1989 to a Palestinian father and a…
Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi (1895–1962) — Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi was born on 17 January 1895 in Jerusalem into one of the city's oldest and…
Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi (1842–1906) — Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi was born in 1842 in Jerusalem into the al-Khalidi family, one of the city's ol…
Yusra Jawhariyyeh Arnita (1924–2000) — Yusra Jawhariyyeh Arnita, born in Jerusalem and the eldest daughter of the celebrated oud player and…
Khaled Hourani (1965–present) — Khaled Hourani is a Palestinian visual artist and cultural administrator born in 1965 in Hebron. He…
Roberto Bishara (1981–present) — Roberto Fabian Bishara Adauy is a Chilean-Palestinian former footballer who became one of the most b…
Asma Tubi (1905–1983) — Asma Rizq Tubi was born in 1905 in Nazareth, then part of Ottoman Palestine, into a cultured Christi…
Riyad al-Maliki (1953–present) — Riyad al-Maliki is a Palestinian politician and diplomat who has served as Minister of Foreign Affai…
Yousef Najajreh (1967–present) — Yousef Najajreh is a Palestinian medicinal chemist whose research on anticancer therapeutics has mad…
Jaka Ihbeisheh (1986–present) — Jaka Ihbeisheh is a retired footballer born in Slovenia to a Palestinian father, who chose to repres…
Khalil al-Hayya (1965–present) — Khalil al-Hayya is a senior leader of Hamas and a member of its political bureau, born in 1965 in Ga…
Anwar Nusseibeh (1913–1986) — Anwar Nusseibeh (1913–1986) was a Jerusalem statesman, jurist and Jordanian cabinet minister whose c…
Issa Boulos (1968–present) — Issa Boulos, born in Jerusalem in 1968 and raised in a musical family in Ramallah, is a Palestinian-…
Murad Ismail (1982–present) — Murad Ismail Said is a Palestinian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and was a member…
Iyad Burnat (1975–present) — Iyad Burnat is a Palestinian nonviolent resistance organiser born in 1975 in the village of Bil'in i…
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…
Khalil Totah (1886–1955) — Khalil Abdallah Totah was born on 20 May 1886 in Ramallah, then part of Ottoman Palestine, the sixth…
Ibrahim Hassan Sirhan (1915–present) — Ibrahim Hassan Sirhan is widely regarded as the founding father of Palestinian cinema, the first Pal…
Matiel Mogannam (1899–1992) — Matiel Mogannam (1899-1992) was a pioneering leader of the Palestinian Arab women's movement during…
Jean Zaru (1940–present) — Jean Zaru was born in 1940 in Ramallah to a family deeply rooted in the Palestinian Quaker community…
Sophie Halaby (1906–1998) — Sophie Halaby was born in Jerusalem around 1906 to a Palestinian-Christian father, Jiryes (George) N…
Khalil Halaby (1889–1964) — Khalil Halaby was born in Jerusalem in 1889, during the final decades of Ottoman rule, into the city…
Woroud Sawalha (1991–present) — Woroud Sawalha is a Palestinian middle-distance runner who became one of the most prominent female a…
Katy Nimr Antonius (1898–1984) — Katy Nimr Antonius was born around the turn of the twentieth century into one of the most cosmopolit…
Dima Bawab (1981–present) — Dima Bawab is a Palestinian-Jordanian operatic soprano and recording artist born on 2 September 1981…
Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) — Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) was one of the best-known Arab Palestinian architects of the British Mand…
Tayseer Barakat (1959–present) — Tayseer Barakat was born in 1959 in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, into a family origin…
Mayada Al-Sayad (1992–present) — Mayada Al-Sayad is a Palestinian long-distance runner who represented Palestine in marathon and dist…
Sadhij Nassar (1900–1970) — Sadhij Nassar was born around 1900 in Acre, then part of Ottoman Palestine, into a family of Baha'i…
Mona El-Farra (1954–present) — Mona El-Farra is a Palestinian physician and human rights activist born in 1954 in Khan Younis, Gaza…
Stephan Hanna Stephan (1894–1949) — Stephan Hanna Stephan was born in 1894 in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, during the late Ottoman period,…
Jiryis (Girgis) Jawhariyyeh (1864–1914) — Jiryis (Girgis) Jawhariyyeh was a Jerusalemite Greek Orthodox notable, amateur oud player, and civic…
Ata Abu Ramila — Ata Abu Ramila is a Palestinian political figure from the Jenin area in the northern West Bank who h…