Notable Palestinians — Ottoman Era

Browse notable Palestinians matching Ottoman Era. Discover individuals who shaped Palestinian history across literature, science, politics, arts, and sport.

Notable Palestinians — Ottoman Era

Fadwa Tuqan (1917–2003) — Fadwa Tuqan, often called "the Poet of Palestine," was among the most important Arab women poets of…
Haj Amin al-Husseini (1897–1974) — Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was the dominant and most controversial Palestinian Arab political and rel…
Abdul Hameed Shoman (1888–1974) — Abdul Hameed Shoman was born around 1888 in the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, into a m…
Issa El-Issa (1878–1950) — Issa Daoud El-Issa (1878-1950) was a Palestinian journalist, poet, and editor widely regarded as one…
Ibrahim Tuqan (1905–1941) — Ibrahim Tuqan was a pioneering Palestinian nationalist poet of the late Ottoman and British Mandate…
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…
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…
Aref al-Aref (1892–1973) — Aref al-Aref was a Palestinian journalist, historian, administrator and civic leader whose long care…
Abdul Majeed Shoman (1912–2005) — Abdul Majeed Shoman was born in 1912 in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, the eldest son of Abdul Ham…
Najib Nassar (1865–1948) — Najib Nassar (1865-1948) was a pioneering Palestinian journalist, editor, and political thinker, bes…
Khalil al-Sakakini (1878–1953) — Khalil al-Sakakini was born in Jerusalem in 1878 into a Palestinian Christian Orthodox family in the…
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…
Khalil Raad (1854–1957) — Khalil Raad (1854–1957) was a pioneering photographer widely regarded as the first Arab photographer…
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza (1888–1984) — Muhammad Izzat Darwaza was born in 1888 into a middle-class Sunni Muslim merchant family in Nablus,…
Musa Kazim al-Husseini (1853–1934) — Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini was the venerable elder statesman of the early Palestinian national mov…
Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1897–1972) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh, born in Jerusalem in 1897, was a Palestinian oud player, composer, poet, and the…
Khalil Beidas (1874–1949) — Khalil Beidas was a Palestinian scholar, educator, translator, and novelist often credited as a fath…
Zulaykha al-Shihabi (1903–1992) — Zulaykha al-Shihabi (1903-1992) was a pioneer of the Palestinian women's movement and one of the for…
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…
Nicola Saig (1863–1942) — Nicola Saig (1863-1942) was a Jerusalem-born painter and iconographer widely regarded as one of the…
Nabiha Nasir (1891–1951) — Nabiha Nasir was born in 1891 in the small town of Birzeit, north of Jerusalem, then part of Ottoman…
Ishaq Musa al-Husayni (1904–1990) — Ishaq Musa al-Husayni was born in Jerusalem on 25 December 1904 into the prominent Husayni family, o…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Asma Tubi (1905–1983) — Asma Rizq Tubi was born in 1905 in Nazareth, then part of Ottoman Palestine, into a cultured Christi…
Anwar Nusseibeh (1913–1986) — Anwar Nusseibeh (1913–1986) was a Jerusalem statesman, jurist and Jordanian cabinet minister whose c…
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…
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…
Katy Nimr Antonius (1898–1984) — Katy Nimr Antonius was born around the turn of the twentieth century into one of the most cosmopolit…
Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) — Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) was one of the best-known Arab Palestinian architects of the British Mand…
Sadhij Nassar (1900–1970) — Sadhij Nassar was born around 1900 in Acre, then part of Ottoman Palestine, into a family of Baha'i…
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…