Notable Residents
- Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), poet
- Hanoch Bartov (b. 1926 in Petah Tikva), author and columnist
- Tal Burstein (b. 1980 in Petah Tikva), professional basketball player
- Shmuel Dayan (1891–1968), Zionist activist
- Israel Finkelstein (b. 1949 Petah Tikva), archaeologist
- Dudu Fisher (b. 1951 in Petah Tikva), cantor and stage performer
- Yehoshua Kenaz (b. 1937 in Petah Tikva), novelist
- A. D. Gordon (1856–1922), Labor Zionist ideologue
- Tamar Gozansky (b. 1940 in Petah Tikva), politician
- Avraham Grant (b. 1955 in Petah Tikva), former coach of Israel national football team and Chelsea F.C.
- Tzofit Grant (b. 1964 in Petah Tikva), television personality and Avraham Grant's wife
- Simcha Jacobovici (b. 1953 in Petah Tikva), filmmaker
- Haim Kaufman (b. 1936 in Petah Tikva), city council member, Knesset member, deputy to finance minister, businessman
- Itzik Kol (1932–2007), television and movie producer
- Samir Naqqash (1938–2004), Iraqi-Jewish author
- Zvi Nishri (Orloff) (1878–1973), Russian/Palestinian/Israeli pioneer in physical education
- Elyakum Ostashinski (b. 1909 in Petah Tikva), first mayor of Rishon LeZion
- Leah Rabin (1928–2000), wife of assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, lived in Petah Tikva from 1995 until her death in 2000
- Neta Rivkin (born 1991), rhythmic gymnast
- Pnina Rosenblum (b. 1954 in Petah Tikva), fashion model, businesswoman, and politician.
- Rami Saari (b. 1963 in Petah Tikva), poet, translator, linguist, and literary critic
- Dan Shechtman (b. 1941), winner of Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Giora Spiegel (b. 1947 in Petah Tikva), soccer player and coach
- Nahum Stelmach (1936–99), soccer player and figurehead of local team, Hapoel Petah Tikva
- Idan Tal (b. 1975 in Petah Tikva), soccer player
- Zahava Gal-On, Meretz politician
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