Notable Palestinians — Jerusalem

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

Notable Palestinians — Jerusalem

Edward Said (1935–2003) — Edward Wadie Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 into a prosperous Palestinian Christian family and g…
Walid Khalidi (1925–2026) — Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem in 1925 into one of the city's most distinguished families; his…
Shireen Abu Akleh (1971–2022) — Shireen Abu Akleh (1971-2022) was a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera and one of the mo…
Hanna Batatu (1926–2000) — Hanna Batatu (1926–2000) was a Palestinian-American historian and political sociologist widely regar…
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…
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…
Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) — Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a Palestinian abstract artist and art historian born in the Christian…
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…
Larissa Sansour (1973–present) — Larissa Sansour (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a contemporary Palestinian artist who has become in…
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…
Mubarak Awad (1943–present) — Mubarak Awad is a Palestinian-American psychologist and theorist of nonviolent resistance, often cal…
Vera Tamari (1945–present) — Vera Tamari (born 1945 in Jerusalem) is a pioneering Palestinian ceramicist, installation artist, ar…
Beshara Doumani (1957–present) — Beshara Doumani is a Palestinian-American historian recognized for transforming the social and econo…
Musa Kazim al-Husseini (1853–1934) — Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini was the venerable elder statesman of the early Palestinian national mov…
Khalil Rabah (1961–present) — Khalil Rabah is a leading Palestinian conceptual artist and a central figure in building contemporar…
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…
Steve Sabella (1975–present) — Steve Sabella is a contemporary Palestinian artist working primarily in photography and photographic…
Mahmoud Abu Zuluf — Mahmoud Abu Zuluf (also transliterated Abu-Zalaf) was one of the towering figures of the modern Pale…
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…
Mohammed El-Kurd (1998–present) — Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian journalist, writer, and poet from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood o…
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…
Yousef Khasho (1927–1996) — Yousef Khasho, born in Jerusalem in 1927, was the most ambitious symphonic composer of the Palestini…
Nicola Saig (1863–1942) — Nicola Saig (1863-1942) was a Jerusalem-born painter and iconographer widely regarded as one of the…
Mustafa al-Kurd (1945–2024) — Mustafa al-Kurd, born in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem in 1945, was one of the foremost voices…
Ishaq Musa al-Husayni (1904–1990) — Ishaq Musa al-Husayni was born in Jerusalem on 25 December 1904 into the prominent Husayni family, o…
Jawad Al Malhi (1969–present) — Jawad Al Malhi is a Palestinian painter, photographer and multimedia artist whose work is grounded i…
Said Murad (1958–present) — Said Murad, an oud player, composer, and arranger from Jerusalem, is the founder and driving creativ…
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…
Sana Odeh — Sana Odeh is a Palestinian-American computer scientist and educator who has become one of the most i…
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…
Salvador Arnita (1914–1984) — Salvador Arnita, born in Jerusalem on 4 March 1914, was a pioneer of the classical-music renaissance…
Hani Alami — Hani Alami is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian telecommunications entrepreneur who has built some of the…
Givara Budeiri — Givara Budeiri is a veteran Palestinian broadcast journalist who has worked as a correspondent for 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…
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-…
Oday Dabbagh (1998–present) — Oday Dabbagh is a contemporary Palestinian forward widely regarded as the most successful homegrown…
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…
Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) — Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) was one of the best-known Arab Palestinian architects of the British Mand…
Jiryis (Girgis) Jawhariyyeh (1864–1914) — Jiryis (Girgis) Jawhariyyeh was a Jerusalemite Greek Orthodox notable, amateur oud player, and civic…