Notable Palestinians — Politics & Diplomacy

Notable Palestinians — Politics & Diplomacy

• Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) — Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, known to the world as Yasser Arafat and by…
• Marwan Barghouti (1959–present) — Marwan Barghouti (born 1959 in Kobar, near Ramallah) is one of the most prominent Palestinian politi…
• Mahmoud Abbas (1935–present) — Mahmoud Rida Abbas, widely known by his kunya Abu Mazen, is a Palestinian statesman who has served a…
• 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…
• Hanan Ashrawi (1946–present) — Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi is a Palestinian scholar, legislator, and diplomat who became the most pr…
• 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…
• Saeb Erekat (1955–2020) — Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was the longest-serving and most recognizable Palestinian negotiator, the…
• 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…
• Haidar Abdel-Shafi (1919–2007) — Haidar Abdel-Shafi was a physician, founding figure of Palestinian civil and political life in Gaza,…
• Salam Fayyad (1952–present) — Salam Fayyad is a Palestinian economist and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the Palestinia…
• Faisal Husseini (1940–2001) — Faisal Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini was the foremost Palestinian leader of East Jerusalem and a pivotal…
• Leila Khaled (1944–present) — Leila Khaled is a Palestinian political militant and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation…
• Musa Kazim al-Husseini (1853–1934) — Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini was the venerable elder statesman of the early Palestinian national mov…
• Rashida Tlaib (1976–present) — Rashida Tlaib is an American politician of Palestinian descent who in 2018 became one of the first t…
• Fatima Bernawi (1939–2021) — Fatima Bernawi was born in 1939 in Jerusalem's African Quarter — the historic neighbourhood beside A…
• 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…
• 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…
• Riyad al-Maliki (1953–present) — Riyad al-Maliki is a Palestinian politician and diplomat who has served as Minister of Foreign Affai…
• 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…
• Ata Abu Ramila — Ata Abu Ramila is a Palestinian political figure from the Jenin area in the northern West Bank who h…