Notable Palestinians — British Mandate
Browse notable Palestinians matching British Mandate. Discover individuals who shaped Palestinian history across literature, science, politics, arts, and sport.
Notable Palestinians — British Mandate
- 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…
- 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…
- Walid Khalidi (1925–2026) — Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem in 1925 into one of the city's most distinguished families; his…
- Hasib Sabbagh (1920–2010) — Hasib Sabbagh was born in 1920 in Tiberias to a Palestinian Christian family rooted in Safed. He gra…
- 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…
- 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…
- George Habash (1926–2008) — George Habash, known by his nom de guerre al-Hakim (the doctor), was the founder and longtime leader…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sahar Khalifeh (1941–present) — Sahar Khalifeh is among the foremost Palestinian novelists and the most prominent female voice in th…
- 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…
- Elias Chacour (1939–present) — Elias Chacour is a Palestinian Melkite Greek Catholic priest, educator and peace activist who became…
- Munir H. Nayfeh (1945–present) — Munir Hasan Nayfeh is a Palestinian-American physicist recognized internationally as a pioneer of si…
- Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) — Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a Palestinian abstract artist and art historian born in the Christian…
- Mourid Barghouti (1944–2021) — Mourid Barghouti was a Palestinian poet and memoirist whose work gave one of the most refined litera…
- 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…
- Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011) — Taha Muhammad Ali was a Palestinian poet and short-story writer, born in 1931 in the Galilee village…
- Ismail al-Faruqi (1921–1986) — Ismail Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American philosopher and scholar of comparative religion, wi…
- Nabil Anani (1943–present) — Nabil Anani (born 1943 in Latroun) is one of the key founders of the contemporary Palestinian art mo…
- Eyad El-Sarraj (1944–2013) — Eyad El-Sarraj (1944-2013) was a Palestinian psychiatrist and human rights campaigner who pioneered…
- Sabih al-Masri (1937–present) — Sabih Taher Darwish al-Masri was born in 1937 in Nablus, then in Mandatory Palestine, and is a cousi…
- Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005) — Hisham Bashir Sharabi was born in Jaffa in 1927 and educated at the American University of Beirut, w…
- Naim Ateek (1937–present) — Naim Stifan Ateek, born in Beisan in 1937, is a Palestinian Anglican priest and the founding theolog…
- 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…
- Mona Saudi (1945–2022) — Mona Saudi was a leading Arab sculptor of Palestinian heritage whose serene, monumental works in sto…
- Salman Abu Sitta (1937–present) — Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in the Beersheba district of southern Palestine, on land that bore…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Salim Tamari (1945–present) — Salim Tamari is a Palestinian sociologist and one of the foremost social historians of late Ottoman…
- Habib Hassan Touma (1934–1998) — Habib Hassan Touma, born in Nazareth in 1934, was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist who b…
- Tamam Al-Akhal (1935–2024) — Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935 in Jaffa) is one of the first formally trained Palestinian women artists a…
- 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…
- Tawfiq Sayigh (1923–1971) — Tawfiq Sayigh was a Palestinian poet, translator, and editor regarded as one of the most original an…
- Fatima Bernawi (1939–2021) — Fatima Bernawi was born in 1939 in Jerusalem's African Quarter — the historic neighbourhood beside A…
- Yousef Khasho (1927–1996) — Yousef Khasho, born in Jerusalem in 1927, was the most ambitious symphonic composer of the Palestini…
- Mustafa al-Kurd (1945–2024) — Mustafa al-Kurd, born in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem in 1945, was one of the foremost voices…
- Raymonda Tawil (1940–2024) — Raymonda Tawil (1940-2024) was a Palestinian journalist, poet, and activist whose fearless commentar…
- Abed Abdi (1942–present) — Abed Abdi is a pioneering Palestinian artist and one of the most important figures among Palestinian…
- 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…
- Hatim Kanaaneh (1937–present) — Hatim Kanaaneh is a Palestinian physician and public health pioneer who devoted his career to buildi…
- Abdel Mohsen Qattan (1934–2014) — Abdel Mohsen Qattan was born in 1934 in Jaffa and grew up in a prosperous Palestinian merchant famil…
- Yusra Jawhariyyeh Arnita (1924–2000) — Yusra Jawhariyyeh Arnita, born in Jerusalem and the eldest daughter of the celebrated oud player and…
- Jean Zaru (1940–present) — Jean Zaru was born in 1940 in Ramallah to a family deeply rooted in the Palestinian Quaker community…