Notable Palestinians — Nakba Generation
Browse notable Palestinians matching Nakba Generation. Discover individuals who shaped Palestinian history across literature, science, politics, arts, and sport.
Notable Palestinians — Nakba Generation
- Omar M. Yaghi (1965–present) — Omar Mwannes Yaghi is a chemist of Palestinian descent who in 2025 became the first scientist of Pal…
- Marwan Barghouti (1959–present) — Marwan Barghouti (born 1959 in Kobar, near Ramallah) is one of the most prominent Palestinian politi…
- Mona Hatoum (1952–present) — Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut) is among the most internationally acclaimed artists of Palestinian…
- Elia Suleiman (1960–present) — Elia Suleiman is the most internationally celebrated Palestinian auteur, an actor-director whose dea…
- Rashid Khalidi (1948–present) — Rashid Ismail Khalidi was born in New York City in 1948 to a father from a distinguished Palestinian…
- 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…
- Michel Khleifi (1950–present) — Michel Khleifi is widely considered the father of contemporary Palestinian cinema and one of its mos…
- Munther A. Dahleh (1962–present) — Munther A. Dahleh is a Palestinian-American electrical engineer and one of the most influential scho…
- Hiam Abbass (1960–present) — Hiam Abbass is the most internationally prominent Palestinian actress, a commanding screen presence…
- Lila Abu-Lughod (1952–present) — Lila Abu-Lughod was born in 1952 to the Palestinian political scientist Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and the A…
- Daoud Kuttab (1955–present) — Daoud Kuttab (born 1955) is a Palestinian-American journalist, media entrepreneur, and press-freedom…
- 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…
- Ibrahim Nasrallah (1954–present) — Ibrahim Nasrallah is a major Palestinian poet and novelist, born in 1954 in the Wahdat refugee camp…
- Sari Nusseibeh (1949–present) — Sari Nusseibeh was born in 1949 in Damascus, where his mother had taken refuge during the 1948 war,…
- 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…
- Mohammad Bakri (1953–2025) — Mohammad Bakri is one of the most accomplished and politically significant Palestinian actors and fi…
- Raja Shehadeh (1951–present) — Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian writer, lawyer, and human rights pioneer, widely regarded as the lead…
- Kamilya Jubran (1962–present) — Kamilya Jubran, born in 1962 in the Galilee village of Rameh to a Palestinian family, is one of the…
- Saeb Erekat (1955–2020) — Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was the longest-serving and most recognizable Palestinian negotiator, the…
- Hala Zreiqat (1962–present) — Hala Zreiqat is a Palestinian-Jordanian biomedical engineer recognized internationally for her pione…
- Rashid Masharawi (1962–present) — Rashid Masharawi is one of the most important Palestinian filmmakers working from within the occupie…
- Mai Masri (1959–present) — Mai Masri is one of the foremost Palestinian documentary filmmakers and a pioneer in chronicling the…
- Bashar Masri (1961–present) — Bashar Masri was born on February 3, 1961, in Nablus, then under Jordanian administration. As a teen…
- Reem Kelani (1963–present) — Reem Kelani, born in Manchester in 1963 to Palestinian parents from Yabad near Jenin and from Nazare…
- 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…
- Salam Fayyad (1952–present) — Salam Fayyad is a Palestinian economist and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the Palestinia…
- Mitri Raheb (1962–present) — Mitri Raheb, born in Bethlehem in 1962, is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor, theologian, and institutio…
- Beshara Doumani (1957–present) — Beshara Doumani is a Palestinian-American historian recognized for transforming the social and econo…
- 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…
- Mustafa Barghouti (1954–present) — Mustafa Barghouti, born in Jerusalem in 1954, is a Palestinian physician and civil-society leader be…
- 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…
- Saree Makdisi (1964–present) — Saree Makdisi is a literary scholar and public intellectual, Distinguished Professor of English and…
- Raed Salah (1958–present) — Sheikh Raed Salah is a Palestinian Islamic leader and the most prominent figure of the Islamic Movem…
- Theodosios (Atallah Hanna) (1965–present) — Archbishop Theodosios, widely known as Atallah Hanna, is a Palestinian Greek Orthodox clergyman who…
- Majed Abu Maraheel (1963–2024) — Majed Abu Maraheel was a Palestinian long-distance runner who made history as the first athlete ever…
- Mohamed Hadid (1948–present) — Mohamed Anwar Hadid is a Palestinian-American real-estate developer known internationally for buildi…
- Imad Barghouthi (1962–present) — Imad Ahmad Barghouthi is a Palestinian astrophysicist specializing in theoretical space plasma physi…
- Sam Bahour (1964–present) — Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American entrepreneur and business-development consultant based in Al-Bi…
- Said Murad (1958–present) — Said Murad, an oud player, composer, and arranger from Jerusalem, is the founder and driving creativ…
- 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…
- Khaled Hourani (1965–present) — Khaled Hourani is a Palestinian visual artist and cultural administrator born in 1965 in Hebron. He…
- 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…
- 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…
- Tayseer Barakat (1959–present) — Tayseer Barakat was born in 1959 in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, into a family origin…
- Mona El-Farra (1954–present) — Mona El-Farra is a Palestinian physician and human rights activist born in 1954 in Khan Younis, Gaza…