Mandate Period and After
| Name | Field | Speciality | Place of birth | Year of Birth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wasif Jawhariyyeh | Music | Oud composer | Jerusalem | 1897 |
| Sami Hadawi | Academia | land specialist and researcher | Jerusalem | 1904 |
| Ibrahim Abu Lughod | Academia | sociologist | Jaffa | 1929 |
| Lila Abu Lughod | Academia | professor, anthropology, women and gender studies | USA | 1950s |
| Salman Abu Sitta | Academia | Beersheba | 1938 | |
| Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad | Academia | academic | USA | 1948 |
| Naseer Aruri | Academia | academic | Jerusalem | 1934 |
| Hanna Batatu | Academia | historian | Jerusalem | 1926 |
| Izzat Darwaza | Academia | historian, politician, educator | Nablus | 1888 |
| Samih Farsoun | Academia | sociologist | Haifa | 1937 |
| Ismail al-Faruqi | Academia | philosopher and comparative religions professor | Jaffa | 1921 |
| Leila Farsakh | Academia | Middle East, politics | Jordan | 1967 |
| Rashid Khalidi | Academia | historian | USA | 1948 |
| Walid Khalidi | Academia | historian | Jerusalem | 1925 |
| Salem Hanna Khamis | Academia | economic statistician | Nazareth | 1919 |
| Laila Al-Marayati | Medicine | gynecologist | USA | 1962 |
| Khaled Mardam-Bey | Academia | programmer | Jordan | 1968 |
| Nur Masalha | Academia | academic, historian, editor | Galilee | 1957 |
| Joseph Massad | Academia | academic | Jordan | 1963 |
| Sari Nusseibeh | Academia | philosopher, diplomat | Syria | 1949 |
| Edward Said | Academia | professor of comparative literature, intellectual, and Palestinian Nationalist | Jerusalem | 1935 |
| Nadia Abu El Haj | Academia | Professor, Anthropologist | USA | 1962 |
| Rosemarie Said Zahlan | Academia | historian | Egypt | 1937 |
| Anis Sayigh | Academia | historian | Tiberias | 1931 |
| Yezid Sayigh | Academia | historian | USA | 1955 |
| Hashem El-Serag | Medicine | doctor and medical researcher | Libya | 1966 |
| Hisham Sharabi | Academia | intellectual | Jaffa | 1927 |
| Qustandi Shomali | Academia | Professor, Historian, Critic, Researcher | Beit Sahour | 1946 |
| Khalil Suleiman | Medicine | medical doctor | Jenin | 1943 |
| Helga Tawil Souri | Academia | Professor, Media scholar & researcher, filmmaker | Kuwait | 1969 |
| Ahmad Teebi | Academia | geneticist and dysmorphologist | Beirut | 1949 |
| Ali Abunimah | Literature | author, journalist | USA | 1971 |
| Said K. Aburish | Literature | author, journalist | Jerusalem | 1935 |
| Mourid Barghouti | Literature | poet | Ramallah | 1944 |
| Khalil Beidas | Literature | author | Nazareth | 1874 |
| Jamal Dajani | Literature | author, journalist, producer | Jerusalem | 1957 |
| Mahmoud Darwish | Literature | poet | Al-Birwa | 1941 |
| Emile Habibi | Literature | author | Haifa | 1922 |
| Suheir Hammad | Literature | poet | Jordan | 1973 |
| Nadia Hijab | Literature | author, journalist | Syria | 1950s |
| Jabra Ibrahim Jabra | Literature | poet, novelist, translator and literary critic | Bethlehem | 1919 |
| Sabri Jiryis | Literature | author | Fassuta | 1938 |
| Ghassan Kanafani | Literature | author | Acre | 1938 |
| Hasan Karmi | Literature | linguist and author | Tulkarm | 1905 |
| Ghada Karmi | Literature | author | Jerusalem | 1939 |
| Sayed Kashua | Literature | author and journalist | Tira | 1975 |
| Widad Kawar | Literature | author and collector | Bethlehem | 1932 |
| Sahar Khalifa | Literature | novelist | Nablus | 1942 |
| Daoud Kuttab | Literature | journalist, author | Jerusalem | 1955 |
| Taha Muhammad Ali | Literature | poet | Saffuriyya | 1931 |
| Salman Masalha | Literature | poet, writer, essayist and translator | Maghar | 1953 |
| Kamal Nasser | Literature | poet, activist | Gaza | 1925 |
| Mohammed Omer | Literature | journalist | Rafah | 1984 |
| Samih al-Qasim | Literature | poet | Jordan | 1939 |
| Nahid al-Rayyis | Literature | poet | Gaza | 1937 |
| Abu Salma | Literature | poet | Haifa | 1906 |
| Khalil al-Sakakini | Literature | author | Jerusalem | 1878 |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | Literature | poet | USA | 1952 |
| Serene Husseini Shahid | Literature | author, philanthropist, researcher and collector of Palestinian costumes | Jerusalem | 1920 |
| Anton Shammas | Literature | writer, poet and translator | Fassuta | 1950 |
| Khaled Abu Toameh | Literature | journalist | Tulkarm | 1963 |
| Fadwa Toukan | Literature | poet | Nablus | 1917 |
| Ibrahim Touqan | Literature | poet, writer of the poem Mawtini, the current national anthem of Iraq | Nablus | 1905 |
| Samir El Youssef | Literature | writer and critic | Lebanon | 1965 |
| May Ziade | Literature | author | Nazareth | 1886 |
| Mustafa Abu Ali | Film | film director, founder of Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema, eight films | Malha | 1940 |
| Hany Abu-Assad | Film | film director | Nazareth | 1961 |
| Muhammad Bakri | Film | film director | Bi'ina | 1953 |
| Cherien Dabis | Film | film director, writer | USA | 1976 |
| Annemarie Jacir | Film | film director, writer | Bethlehem | 1974 |
| Michel Khleifi | Film | film director (Wedding in Galilee) | Nazareth | 1950 |
| Clara Khoury | Film | actress | Haifa | 1976 |
| Makram Khoury | Film | actor, first Arab to win (Israel Prize – 1987) | Jerusalem | 1945 |
| Rashid Masharawi | Film | film director | Gaza | 1962 |
| Mai Masri | Film | film director | Beirut | 1959 |
| Elia Suleiman | Film | film director (Divine Intervention) | Nazareth | 1960 |
| Hiam Abbas | Film | actress | Nazareth | 1960 |
| Charlie Bisharat | Music | Grammy-winning violinist | ||
| Belly | Music | Rapper | Jenin | 1984 |
| Rim Banna | Music | singer/songwriter | Nazareth | 1966 |
| Ammar Hasan | Music | singer | Salfit | 1976 |
| Wissam Joubran | Music | composer and Oud player | Nazareth | 1983 |
| Reem Kelani | Music | singer | UK | 1970s |
| Shadia Mansour | Music | singer | UK | 1980s |
| Amal Murkus | Music | singer | Galilee | 1970s |
| Mohsen Subhi | Music | composer, arranger, oud and buzuq player | Ramallah | 1963 |
| DJ Khaled | Music | hip-hop producer, radio personality, and DJ | USA | 1975 |
| Simon Shaheen | Music | oud and violin virtuoso, composer | Galilee | 1955 |
| Massiv | Music | rapper | Germany | 1982 |
| Melechesh (band) | Music | Jerusalem | 1970s | |
| Habib Hassan Touma | Music | composer | Nazareth | 1934 |
| Fred Wreck | Music | hip-hop producer | USA | 1972 |
| Tamer Nafar | Music | rapper of DAM fame | Lod | 1979 |
| Sameh Zakout | Music | rapper | Ramle | 1980s |
| Laila Bagge Wahlgren | Music | manager and songwriter | Sweden | 1972 |
| Tarééc | Music | German singer | Germany | 1978 |
| DAM (band) | Music | Palestinian rap group | Lod | 1970s |
| Naji al-Ali | Art | cartoonist | al-Shajara | 1938 |
| Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan | Art | artist | Jericho | 1941 |
| Mustafa Al-Hallaj | Art | artist | Jaffa | 1938 |
| Mona Hatoum | Art | sculptor | Beirut | 1952 |
| Hasan Hourani | Art | painter | Hebron | 1974 |
| Bissan Rafe | Art | painter and writer | Kuwait | 1986 |
| Emily Jacir | Art | painter and photographer, artist | Bethlehem | 1970 |
| Hanna Jubran | Art | sculptor | Galilee | 1952 |
| Sliman Mansour | Art | painter | Birzeit | 1947 |
| Sama Raena Alshaibi | Art | photographer, artist | Iraq | 1980s |
| Ahlam Shibli | Art | photographer | Galilee | 1970 |
| Jafar Tukan | Art | architect | Jerusalem | 1938 |
| Hisham Zreiq | Art | artist | Nazareth | 1968 |
| Rami Kashou | Art | fashion designer | Ramallah | 1977 |
| Jaffa Phonix (band) | Music | band | Kuwait | 1980s |
| Zaman (band) | Music | Palestinian folk and flamenco band | Acre | |
| Yousef Beidas | Business | Intra Bank | Jerusalem | 1912 |
| Munib al-Masri | Business | PADICO | Nablus | 1934 |
| Hasib Sabbagh | Business | Consolidated Contractors International Company | Tiberias | 1920 |
| Naim Attallah | Business | Asprey, Quartet Publishing | Haifa | 1931 |
| Talal Abu-Ghazaleh | Business | Jaffa | 1938 | |
| Sam Bahour | Business | West bank businessman | USA | 1964 |
| Yasser Elshantaf | Business | Vice chairman of PhoenixBird, and CEO of Safadi Group | Gaza | 1983 |
| Tarab Abdul Hadi | Politics | Activist | Jenin | 1910 |
| Fu'ad Nassar | Politics (PCP) | Co-founded National Liberation League in Palestine | Nazareth | 1914 |
| Nabil Amr | Politics (Fatah) | presidential aide and negotiator | 1947 | |
| Yasser Arafat | Politics (Fatah) | First President of the PNA | Cairo | 1929 |
| Hakam Balawi | Politics (Fatah) | former ambassador of PLO to Tunisia and Algeria | Tulkarm | 1939 |
| Marwan Barghouti | Politics (Fatah) | founder of Tanzim and senior Fatah opposition figure | Kobar | 1959 |
| Mohammed Dahlan | Politics (Fatah) | Head of Preventive Security Service in Gaza | Gaza | 1961 |
| Saeb Erekat | Politics (Fatah) | presidential aide and senior negotiator | Jerusalem | 1955 |
| Qadura Fares | Politics (Fatah) | PNA minister and aide of Barghouti | ||
| Rawhi Fattuh | Politics (Fatah) | former interim President of the PNA | Barqa | 1949 |
| Faisal Husseini | Politics (Fatah) | former head of Jerusalem affairs | Baghdad | 1940 |
| Farouk Kaddoumi | Politics (Fatah) | former head of Fatah | Jinsafut | 1931 |
| Salah Khalaf | Politics (Fatah) | former top aide of Arafat | Jaffa | 1933 |
| Ahmed Qurei | Politics (Fatah) | former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority | Jerusalem | 1937 |
| Ali Hassan Salameh | Politics (PLO) | Qula | 1940 | |
| Nabil Shaath | Politics (Fatah) | former Foreign Affairs Minister | Safed | 1938 |
| Khalil al-Wazir | Politics (PLO) | former PLO military leader and top aide of Arafat | Ramla | 1938 |
| Dalal Mughrabi | Other | militant killed during the Coastal Road massacre | Lebanon | 1959 |
| Muhammad Abu Tir | Politics (Hamas) | Jerusalem | 1951 | |
| Mohammad Barghouti | Politics (Hamas) | |||
| Mohammed Deif | Politics (Hamas) | Leader of Hamas' military wing | 1960 | |
| Ismail Haniyeh | Politics (Hamas) | Gaza | 1963 | |
| Ahmed al-Ja'abari | Politics (Hamas) | Gaza | 1960 | |
| Wasfi Kabha | Politics (Hamas) | Prisoners' Affairs Minister | ||
| Khaled Meshaal | Politics (Hamas) | Secretary-General of Hamas | Silwad | 1956 |
| Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi | Politics (Hamas) | founder and former Secretary-General of Hamas | Yibna | 1947 |
| Ahmed Yassin | Politics (Hamas) | founder and spiritual leader | Al-Jura | 1937 |
| Mahmoud al-Zahar | Politics (Hamas) | former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Hamas foreign minister | Jerusalem | 1945 |
| Salah Shehade | Politics (Hamas) | leader of military wing of the Hamas organization | Gaza | 1953 |
| Yahya Ayyash | Politics (Hamas) | chief bombmaker planner of the Hadera bus station suicide bombing | Jerusalem | 1966 |
| Bassam Abu Sharif | Politics (PFLP) | former spokesperson of PFLP and PLO | 1946 | |
| George Habash | Politics (PFLP) | founder and former Secretary-General of PFLP | Lod | 1926 |
| Abu Ali Mustafa | Politics (PFLP) | former Secretary-General of PFLP | Jenin | 1938 |
| Leila Khaled | Politics (PFLP) | former PFLP militant and activist | Haifa | 1944 |
| Ahmed Saadat | Politics (PFLP) | current Secretary-General of PFLP | al-Bireh | 1953 |
| Riyad al-Malki | Politics (PFLP) | current Foreign Affairs Minister of PNA | 1955 | |
| Wadie Haddad | Politics (PFLP) | former PFLP militant and founder | Safed | 1927 |
| Abu Qatada | Politics | al-Qaeda Muslim religious preacher and militant | Bethlehem | 1959 |
| Abu Muthana | Politics | spokesman for the Palestinian Army of Islam | ||
| Awni Abd al-Hadi | Politics | Palestinian political figure | Nablus | 1889 |
| Haidar Abdel-Shafi | Politics | independent, head of Palestinian delegation to Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 | Gaza | 1919 |
| Salah Abdel-Shafi | Politics | independent, economist, Palestinian Ambassador to Sweden | Gaza | 1962 |
| Muhammad Zaidan | Politics | PLF | Syria | 1948 |
| Musa Alami | Politics | Jerusalem | 1897 | |
| Hanan Ashrawi | Politics | Third Way | Nablus | 1946 |
| Mustafa Barghouti | Politics | doctor and leader of the Palestinian National Initiative | Jerusalem | 1954 |
| Nayef Hawatmeh | Politics | DFLP | Jordan | 1935 |
| Ahmed Jibril | Politics | PFLP-GC | Jaffa | 1938 |
| Karimeh Abbud | Art | photographer | Shefa 'Amr | 1896 |
| Nimr al-Khatib | Politics | political leader, Haifa | Haifa | 1918 |
| Jabra Nicola | Politics | Trotskyist leader | Haifa | 1912 |
| Abu Nidal | Politics | Abu Nidal Organization | Jaffa | 1937 |
| Nahid al-Rayyis | Politics | Justice Minister of the Palestinian National Authority | Gaza | 1937 |
| Afif Safieh | Politics | Palestine's Ambassador to the Russian Federation | jerusalem | 1950 |
| Hasan Tahboub | Politics | former Head of the Supreme Islamic Council | Hebron | 1923 |
| Ruhi al-Khatib | Politics (local) | Mayor of East Jerusalem from 1957 to 1994; titular | Jerusalem | 1914 |
| Fahmi al-Abboushi | Politics (local) | appointed Mayor of Jenin in 1935 | Jenin | 1895 |
| Hussein Al-Araj | Politics (local) | former mayor of Nablus | ||
| Ramiz Jaraisy | Politics (local) | Mayor of Nazareth | 1951 | |
| Omar Hammayil | Politics (local) | mayor of al-Bireh | 1976 | |
| Mohammed Milhim | Politics (local) | former mayor of Halhul | 1929 | |
| Hadem Rida | Politics (local) | mayor of Jenin | ||
| Bassam Shaka | Politics (local) | former mayor of Nablus | 1930 | |
| Ghassan Shakaa | Politics (local) | former mayor of Nablus | 1943 | |
| Adly Yaish | Politics (local) | mayor of Nablus | ||
| Adel Zawati | Politics (local) | Former mayor of Jenine, Nablus, Hebron, Ruler of Yafa, Ramleh | Nablus | 1920 |
| Ahmad Tibi | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset from the Ta'al party,former political advisor to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat | Tayibe | 1958 |
| Azmi Bishara | Politics (Israel) | ormer member of Israeli Knesset, from the Balad party | Nazareth | 1956 |
| Jamal Zahalka | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset, from the Balad party | Kafr Qara | 1955 |
| Hana Sweid | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset with Hadash and mayor of Eilabun | Eilabun | 1955 |
| Tawfiq Ziad | Politics (PCP) | a poet, a former mayor of Nazareth and a former Hadash member of Israeli Knesset | Nazareth | 1929 |
| Ibrahim Sarsur | Politics (Israel) | Kneseet member Israel from the United Arab List party | Kafr Qara | 1959 |
| Taleb el-Sana | Politics (Israel) | Kneseet member Israel from the United Arab List party | Tel Arad | 1960 |
| Mohammad Barakeh | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset, from Hadash party | Shefa-'Amr | 1955 |
| Haneen Zoabi | Politics (Israel) | First Arab woman elected to the Knesset on an Arab party | Nazareth | 1969 |
| Rania of Jordan | Politics (Foreign) | Queen of Jordan, wife of King Abdullah II | Kuwait | 1970 |
| Alia al Hussein | Politics (Foreign) | late Queen of Jordan, 3rd wife of King Hussein | Cairo | 1948 |
| Antonio Saca | Politics (Foreign) | former president of El Salvador | El Salvador | 1965 |
| Shafik Handal | Politics (Foreign) | El Salvador politician | El Salvador | 1930 |
| Carlos Flores Facussé | Politics (Foreign) | president of Honduras | Honduras | 1950 |
| Said Musa | Politics (Foreign) | Prime Minister of Belize | Belize | 1944 |
| Pierre de Bané | Politics (Foreign) | Canadian | Haifa | 1938 |
| Naser Khader | Politics (Foreign) | member of the Parliament of Denmark | Syria | 1963 |
| Joe Hockey | Politics (Foreign) | Australian cabinet minister | Australia | 1965 |
| John H. Sununu | Politics (Foreign) | former Chief of Staff Pres. George H. Bush Administration | Cuba | 1939 |
| John E. Sununu | Politics (Foreign) | Senator New Hampshire | USA | 1954 |
| Huwaida Arraf | Politics | co-founder of ISM | USA | 1976 |
| Mubarak Awad | Politics | advocate of nonviolent resistance | Jerusalem | 1943 |
| Abdullah Yusuf Azzam | Religion (Islam) | Islamist scholar & activist | Jenin | 1941 |
| Bulus Farah | Politics | trade unionist | Haifa | 1910 |
| Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni | Politics | nationalist leader | Jerusalem | 1907 |
| Archbishop Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia | Religion (Christianity) | current Archbishop of Sebastia for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem | Galilee | 1965 |
| Riah Abu Assal | Religion (Christianity) | current Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem | Nazareth | 1937 |
| Naim Ateek | Religion (Christianity) | founder of Sabeel | Beit She'an | 1937 |
| Elias Chacour | Religion (Christianity) | Archbishop of Galilee, of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church | Galilee | 1939 |
| Michel Sabah | Religion (Christianity) | current Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem | Nazareth | 1933 |
| Munib Younan | Religion (Christianity) | Lutheran bishop | Jerusalem | 1950 |
| Rifat Odeh Kassis | Politics | human rights and community activist | Beit Sahour | |
| Mitri Raheb | Religion (Christianity) | Lutheran minister and author | Bethlehem | 1962 |
| Benny Hinn | Religion (Christianity) | evangelical preacher | Jaffa | 1952 |
| Anis Shorrosh | Religion (Christianity) | Evangelical preacher and debater | Nazareth | 1930s |
| Amin al-Husayni | Politics | former Mufti of Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 1895 |
| Ekrima Sa'id Sabri | Religion (Islam) | former Mufti of Jerusalem | ||
| Ahmad Abu Laban | Religion (Islam) | Imam in Denmark | Jaffa | 1946 |
| Raed Salah | Religion (Islam) | leader of the Northern branch of the Islamic Movement | 1958 | |
| Sheikh Taissir Tamimi | Religion (Islam) | Head of Islamic court in Palestinian territories | Hebron | |
| Omar Sheika | Sport | Professional Boxer | USA | 1977 |
| Salim Tuama | Sport | soccer player | Lod | 1979 |
| Ramsey Nijem | Sport | MMA fighter, The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos runner up | USA | 1988 |
| Walid Badir | Sport | soccer player, Israeli team, Captain of Hapoel Tel Aviv | Kafr Qasim | 1974 |
| Muhammad al-Durrah | Other | 12-year old boy shot under disputed circumstances | Gaza | 1988 |
| Fatma Omar An-Najar | Other | 64-year old grandmother and oldest Palestinian suicide bomber | 1942 | |
| Faris Odeh | Other | teenage boy shot while throwing stones | Gaza | 1985 |
| Rana Raslan | other | 1999 Miss Israel contest winner | Haifa | 1977 |
| Saeed Hotari | other | suicide bomber of the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing | ||
| Mahmoud Abbas | Politics (Fatah) | President of the PNA | Safed | 1935 |
| Tawfiq Canaan | Academic | Doctor and academic | Beit Jala | 1881 |
| Ahmad Shukeiri | Politics (PLO) | First chairman of the PLO | Lebanon | 1908 |
| Wael Zwaiter | Other | translator, assassinated | Nablus | 1930s |
| Omar Barghouti | Politics | political activist and analyst PACBI | Qatar | 1964 |
| Asma Agbarieh | Politics, journalism | journalist, leader of Organization for Democratic Action | Jaffa | 1974 |
| Muin Bseiso | Literature | Poet | Gaza | 1926 |
| Eyad al-Sarraj | Medicine | Psychiatrist and human rights activist | Beersheba | 1944 |
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