Notable Residents
- Asma Agbarieh (born 1974), Israeli Arab journalist and political activist
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Nobel Prize-winning author
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884–1963), historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel
- Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche (1870–1934), one of the founders of Tel Aviv; businessman
- Joseph Constant (1892–1969), sculptor and writer
- Ismail al-Faruqi (1921–86), Palestinian-American philosopher
- Lea Gottlieb (born 1918), Israeli founder and fashion designer of Gottex
- Victor Norris Hamilton (born c. 1919), Palestine-born American cryptologist
- J. E. Hanauer (1850–1938), author, photographer, and Canon of St George's church
- Yizhar Harari (1908–1978), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
- Nadia Hilou (born 1953), Arab-Israeli politician
- Raja El-Issa (1922–2008), Palestinian journalist
- Michel Loève (1907–79), probabilist and mathematical statistician
- Haim Ramon (born 1950), Israeli politician
- Sasha Roiz (born 1973), Canadian actor
- Yosef Sapir (1902–72), Israeli politician
- Rifaat Turk (born 1954), Arab-Israeli football player and manager, and deputy mayor of Tel Aviv
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