# List of Palestinians

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Palestinian nationalism Factions and leaders :
Yassin + Haniyeh RantisiMashalSinwarDeifDeifMabhouhHabashAbbasHawatmehNakhalah :
Map: Birthplaces or family origins Details below: p. parents from, b. born in, d. death. :
Palestine Liberation Organization
Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas
Also: President of the PNA
PLO political factions
Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
Palestinian People's Party (PPP)
Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF)
Arab Liberation Front (ALF)
Palestinian Democratic Union (FIDA)
Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF)
Palestinian Arab Front (PAF)
As-Sa'iqa
Related groups
Palestinian National Initiative
Leader Mustafa Barghouti :
Fatah
Founders
Yasser Arafat
p. Gaza City b. Cairo d. 2004 in Paris
Khaled Yashruti
Salah Khalaf
Khalil al-Wazir
Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas
b. Safed
(President of the PA)
Secretary-General
Jibril Rajoub
Vice Chairman
Mahmoud Aloul :
Fatah splinter groups
Al-Mustaqbal (electoral list)
Marwan Barghouti
Prisoner of Israel
see also: Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
Palestinian Mujahideen Movement
Militant wing Mujahideen Brigades
Former militant wings of Fatah
Raed Al Karmi
Founder of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Naif Abu-Sharah
Local commander in Nablus
Fadi Kafisha
Former head of the Tanzim in Nablus
Sirhan Sirhan
Zakaria Zubeidi
Local commander in Jenin
see also Tali Fahima
Samih Madhoun
d. killed by EQB
Ibrahim al-Nabulsi
see also: Lions' Den :
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Secretary General
George Habash
b. Lydda
Abu Ali Mustafa
Birth name: "Mustafa Ali Zabri"
b. 1938 Arraba, Jenin Jenin
See also: 17 October 2001
Ahmad Sa'adat
Prisoners of Israel since 2006
see also: Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
Deputy Secretary General
Jamil Mezher
Other key figures
Ghassan Kanafani
Schisms and splinter groups
PFLP-GC :
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Split from the PFLP in 1969.
Founder and current leader
Nayef Hawatmeh
b. 1938 As-Salt
Militant wing National Resistance Brigades
Spokesperson: Abu Khaled :
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Ziyad al-Nakhalah
b. Khan Yunis
Militant wing Saraya Al-Quds :
Hamas
List of leaders
Chairman of Hamas Shura Council (1987‑2004)
Ahmed Yassin
b. Al-Jura, d. 2004
Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi
b. Yibna, d. 2004
Chairman of Hamas Polit Bureau
Ismail Haniyeh
p. Al-Jura, b. Al-Shati, d. 2024
Khaled Mashal
b. Silwad
Leader in the Gaza Strip
Yahya Sinwar
p. Al‑Majal, b. Khan Yunis, d 2024
Head of International relations
Basem Naim
b. Beit Hanoun
Police and Disaster Management
Faiq Al-Mabhouh
p. Bayt Tima, d. 2024
Minister for Women's Affairs
Jamila al-Shanti
b. Jabalia, d. 2023, m. Widow of Rantisi
Militant wingEzzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades
Leader Mohammed Deif
Birth name: Mohammed Al-Masri
p. Kawkaba (near Kokhav Michael) and Al‑Qubayba, b. Khan Yunis
d. Failed attempt in 2014
d. Unconfirmed: 2024)
Related topics
Hamas government in the Gaza Strip
Hamas in Lebanon
All-Palestine Government in Gaza
Ashkelon incorporation into Israel :
Historical figures
Ezzedeen Al-Qassam
Namesake of the Qassam Brigades
Musa Alami
early Palestinian nationalist
b. 1897 in Jerusalem
Yaqub al-Ghusayn
b. 1899 in Ramla
George Antonius
b. 1891 Deir al-Qamar
al-Husayni family
Jamal al-Husayni
Musa al-Husayni :
Related topics
Ideologies
Palestinian nationalism
Islamism in the Gaza Strip
Islamic nationalism § Hamas
Present day
Palestinian political parties
Elections in Palestine
Palestinian political violence
Hamas government in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian Legislative Council
State of Palestine
Occupied Palestinian Territories
List of Palestinians
1967 to 1995
Palestinian fedayeen
History of Hamas
1948 to 1967
All-Palestine Government
Gaza Protectorate
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
Palestinian National Council
1918 to 1948
Mandatory Palestine
Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
Army of the Holy War
Society for the Defense of Palestine
Before 1918
Origin of the Palestinians :
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The following Lists of Palestinians are lists of notable people with either a self-designation (endonym) or a foreign appellation (exonym) as "Palestinian", or who were born in the region of Palestine.
Approximately 12 million people today identify as Palestinians, as defined in the Palestinian National Charter of 1968.

## Mandate period and after

The first list "Mandate period and after" consists of people who identify as "Palestinians" since the creation of Mandatory Palestine in 1920. The list does not include those Palestinian Jews or other Israeli citizens who are native to the geographic region of Palestine, unless they self-identify as "Palestinians".
| Name | Field | Speciality | Place of birth | Year of birth |
| Farah Baker | Social media | Reporter | Gaza strip | 1998 |
| Abeer Abu Ghaith | Business | technology entrepreneur, and social activist | Jordan | c. 1985 |
| Khaled Al-Hassan | Politics (Fatah) | political theorist, author, Fatah & PLO leader | Haifa | 1928 |
| 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 |
| Mai al-Kaila | Politics | health minister, ambassador | Jerusalem | 1955 |
| Awad Saud Awad | Journalism, Academia | Author on Palestinian folklore, journalist | Jubb Yusuf | 1943 |
| 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 |
| Sami Hadawi | Academia | land specialist and researcher | Jerusalem | 1904 |
| Nemah Hasan | Music | Singer-songwriter | Toronto | 1994 |
| Ameer Idreis | Literature | Writer, playwright, urbanist | Dubai | 1999 |
| Wasif Jawhariyyeh | Music | Oud composer | Jerusalem | 1897 |
| 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 |
| Basheer Nafi | Academia | academic | | 1952 |
| Ali H. Nayfeh | Academia | mathematician, mechanical engineer, physicist | Tulkarm | 1933 |
| 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 |
| Zuhair Al-Karmi | Academia, Natural science | author, scientific programs presenter on TV | Damascus | 1922 |
| Hashem El-Serag | Medicine | doctor and medical researcher | Libya | 1966 |
| Reem Kassis | Literature | cookbook author | Jerusalem | 1987 |
| 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 and 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 |
| Susan Abulhawa | Literature | author, journalist | Kuwait | 1970 |
| Mourid Barghouti | Literature | poet | Ramallah | 1944 |
| Khalil Beidas | Literature | author | Nazareth | 1874 |
| Huzama Habayeb | Literature | author | Kuwait | 1965 |
| Jamal Dajani | Literature | author, journalist, producer | Jerusalem | 1957 |
| Mahmoud Darwish | Literature | poet | Al-Birwa | 1941 |
| Khaled Ennasra | poet | journalist | Jenin | 1927 |
| Najwa Kawar Farah | Literature | author | Nazareth | 1923 |
| Rashida Tlaib | Politician | congresswoman | USA | 1976 |
| Emile Habibi | Literature | author | Haifa | 1922 |
| Bella Hadid | Fashion | model | USA | 1996 |
| Gigi Hadid | Fashion | model | USA | 1995 |
| Mohamed Hadid | Business | businessman | Nazareth | 1948 |
| 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 |
| Emily Jacir | Artist | professor, filmmaker | Bethlehem | 1975 |
| 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 | Tulkarm | 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 | Tulkarm | 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 |
| 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 Ziadeh | 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 |
| Lexi Alexander | Film | film director | Mannheim | 1974 |
| 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 Abbass | Film | actress | Nazareth | 1960 |
| Anwar Jibawi | Film | comedian | USA | 1991 |
| Nasri Tony Atweh | Music | lead singer of the band MAGIC! & singer/songwriter/record producer | Toronto | 1981 |
| Ramzi Aburedwan | Music | composer, viola player | Bethlehem | 1979 |
| Charlie Bisharat | Music | Grammy-winning violinist | USA | 1963 |
| Yacoub Shaheen (fr:Yacoub Shaheen) | Music | Winner of the fourth season of Arab Idol | Bethlehem | 1994 |
| Mohammed Assaf | Music | Winner of the second season of Arab Idol | Gaza | 1989 |
| 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/composer/musicologist | UK | 1963 |
| Shadia Mansour | Music | rapper/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 |
| Habib Hassan Touma | Music | composer | Nazareth | 1934 |
| Fred Wreck | Music | hip-hop producer | USA | 1972 |
| Tamer Nafar | Music | rapper of DAM fame | Lod | 1979 |
| Bashar Murad | Music | singer, songwriter, visual artist | Jerusalen | 1993 |
| Sameh Zakout | Music | rapper | Ramle | 1980s |
| Laila Bagge Wahlgren | Music | manager and songwriter | Sweden | 1972 |
| Tarééc | Music | German singer | Germany | 1978 |
| Dalal Abu Amneh | Music | singer and producer | Nazareth | 1983 |
| DAM (band) | Music | Palestinian rap group | Lod | 1970s |
| Fouad Awad | Art | theater director | Nazareth | 1956 |
| Alaa Minawi | Art | multidisciplinary artist, lecturer | Beirut | 1982 |
| Naji al-Ali | Art | cartoonist | al-Shajara | 1938 |
| Iman Al Sayed | Art | artist | Sharjah | 1984 |
| Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan | Art | artist | Jericho | 1941 |
| Mustafa Al-Hallaj | Art | artist | Jaffa | 1938 |
| Mona Hatoum | Art | sculptor | Beirut | 1952 |
| Nabil Anani | Art | artist | Halhoul | 1943 |
| Hasan Hourani | Art | painter | Hebron | 1974 |
| 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 | 1973 |
| Ahlam Shibli | Art | photographer | Galilee | 1970 |
| Jafar Tukan | Art | architect | Jerusalem | 1938 |
| Hisham Zreiq | Art | artist and film director (The Sons of Eialboun) | Nazareth | 1968 |
| Rami Kashou | Fashion | fashion designer | Ramallah | 1977 |
| Jaffa Phonix (band) | Music | band | Kuwait | 1980s |
| 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 | CEO of PhoenixBird Diversity Management GmbH | 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 | Ramleh | 1934 |
| Mohammad Shtayyeh | Politics/Fatah | economist/academic/minister | Nablus | 1958 |
| Muhammad Abu Tir | Politics (Hamas) | Directed terrorist activities, including the attempted poisoning in the early 1990s of Israel's water supplies and the activities of Hamas's military arm | Umm Tuba | 1951 |
| Mohammad Barghouti | Politics (Hamas) | | | |
| Mohammed Deif | Politics (Hamas) | Leader of Hamas' military wing. Directly involved in terrorist attacks such as the killings of IDF soldiers, suicide bombings and kidnappings. Deemed a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States' Department of State | Khan Younis | 1965 |
| Ismail Haniyeh | Politics (Hamas) | | Gaza | 1963 |
| Mousa Abu Marzook | Politics (Hamas) | Fundraiser for terrorist activities | Rafah | 1951 |
| 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 bomb maker 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, Germany, Austria, and UNOV | 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 Jenin, 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) | former 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) | Knesset member Israel from the United Arab List party | Kafr Qara | 1959 |
| Taleb el-Sana | Politics (Israel) | Knesset 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 |
| Nayib Bukele | Politics (Foreign) | president of El Salvador | El Salvador | 1981 |
| Carlos Flores Facussé | Politics (Foreign) | former president of Honduras | Honduras | 1950 |
| Said Musa | Politics (Foreign) | former 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 from New Hampshire | USA | 1964 |
| 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 and 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 |
| Faris Odeh | Other | teenage boy shot while throwing stones | Gaza | 1985 |
| Rana Raslan | Other | 1999 Miss Israel contest winner | Haifa | 1977 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fadi Elsalameen | Politics | political commentator and analyst | USA | 1983 |
| Layla Moran | Politics | British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon | UK | 1982 |
| Michael Malarkey | Film | actor and musician | Beirut | 1983 |
| May Calamawy | Film | actress | Bahrain | 1986 |
| Mayssoun Azzam | Media | TV anchor, news presenter, media instructor, and activist | | 1972 |

## Pre-Mandate

The second list "Pre-Mandate" consists of people with roots in the region of Palestine prior to the modern identity politics resulting from the creation of Mandatory Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. As well as native Palestinian Muslims and Christians, the list includes those Jews, Samaritans, Druze, and Dom who were native to the geographic region of Palestine. The list also include some famous names and titles as exonyms, prior to nationalism and national identity becoming commonplace in the modern era.
Chronologically or by floruit and regnal succession:
| Name | Field | Speciality | Place of birth | Year of Birth |
| Herod the Great | Politics | King of Judea (37–4 BCE), tried to kill Jesus | Idumea | c.72 BCE |
| Salome I | Politics | Queen regnant, toparchy of Iamnia, Azotus, Phasaelis (4 BCE–c.10 CE) | | c.65 BCE |
| Philip the Tetrarch | Politics | Tetrarch over the northeast part of Herod's kingdom (4 BCE–34 CE) | | c.26 BCE |
| Herod Archelaus | Politics | Ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea (4 BCE–6 CE) | | 23 BCE |
| Herod Antipas | Politics | Tetrarch over Galilee and Perea (4 BCE – 39 CE), had John the Baptist executed | | before 20 BCE |
| Herod Agrippa | Politics | King of Judea (41–44) | | 11 BCE |
| Herod Agrippa II | Politics | King over parts of Judea (53–66) | | 27/28 CE |
| Jesus | Religion (Judaism) | Founder of Christianity | | c.4 BCE |
| Mary, mother of Jesus | Religion (Judaism) | Mother of Jesus of Nazareth | | c.18 BCE |
| Saint Joseph | Religion (Judaism) | Husband of Mary, legal father of Jesus | | 1st century BCE |
| James, brother of Jesus | Religion (Judaism) | Brother of Jesus, first bishop of Jerusalem | | early 1st century |
| Saint Peter | Religion (Judaism) | Apostle of Jesus, primus inter pares among the Twelve Apostles | | 1st century BCE |
| John the Baptist | Religion (Judaism) | Cousin of Jesus, known for baptising him | A town in the Judaean mountains | late 1st century BCE |
| Elizabeth | Religion (Judaism) | Mother of John the Baptist, aunt of Jesus | | 1st century BCE |
| Zechariah | Religion (Judaism) | Father of John the Baptist, uncle-in-law of Jesus | | 1st century BCE |
| Judas Iscariot | Religion (Judaism) | Apostle of Jesus Christ, known for betraying Jesus | | |
| Yohanan ben Zakkai | Religion (Judaism) | Jewish sage, a primary contributor to the Mishnah | | 1st century CE |
| Pope Evaristus | Religion (Christianity) | Pope | Bethlehem | c.50 |
| Rabbi Akiva | Religion (Judaism) | Jewish scholar and tanna sage | Lod (Lydda) | c.60 |
| Simon bar Kokhba | Politics | Led Jewish revolt | | late 1st century(?) |
| Aristo of Pella | Religion (Christianity) | Early chronicler | Pella | c.100 |
| Justin Martyr | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Nablus | c.100 |
| Rabbi Meir | Religion (Judaism) | Jewish tanna sage | Asia Minor | 2nd century |
| Hegesippus (chronicler) | Religion (Christianity) | Early chronicler | Jerusalem | c.110 |
| Meleager of Gadara | Literature | Poet | Gadara | c.120 BCE |
| Antiochus of Ascalon | Academia | Philosophy | Ascalon | c.125 BCE |
| Judah the Prince | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | | 135 |
| Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop | Caesarea Palestinae | c.150 |
| Shimon ben Lakish | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Bosra | c.200 |
| Rav Zeira | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Babylonia | c.220 |
| Rabbi Jochanan | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Sepphoris | c.220 |
| Saint Reparata | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Caesarea Palestinae | c.250 |
| Eusebius | Academia and Religion (Christianity) | "Father of Church History" | Caesarea Palestinae | c.263 |
| Rabbi Assi | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Babylonia | c.270 |
| Saint Agapius of Palestine | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Gaza | c.270 |
| Procopius of Scythopolis | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Jerusalem | c.270 |
| Romanus of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Caesarea Palestinae | c.270 |
| Agapius of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop | Caesarea Palestinae | c.270 |
| Peter Apselamus | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Eleutheropolis | c.280 |
| Joseph of Tiberias | Religion (Christianity) | Christian convert from Judaism venerated as Saint Joseph of Palestine | Tiberias | c.285 |
| Hilarion | Religion (Christianity) | Monk | Gaza | c.291 |
| Rabbi Isaac the smith | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Galilee | 3rd–4th century |
| Saint George | Religion (Christianity) | Christian martyr | Lydda | c.300 |
| Zayya | Religion (Christianity) | Preaching | | c.309 |
| Acacius of Caesarea | Academia | Philosophy and the Arian controversy | Caesarea Palestinae | c.310 |
| Epiphanius of Salamis | Religion (Christianity) | Church father | Eleutheropolis | c.310 |
| Cyril of Jerusalem | Religion (Christianity) | Early Christian writings | Caesarea Palestinae | c.313 |
| Gelasius of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop | Caesarea Palestinae | c.340 |
| Eleazar ben Pedat | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | | c.350 |
| Sozomen | Academia | Historian | Gaza | c.400 |
| Hesychius of Jerusalem | Religion (Christianity) | Biblical exegesis | Jerusalem | c.400 |
| Aelia Eudocia | Religion (Christianity) | Byzantine empress; in Jerusalem 438–39, 443–460 | Athens | c.401 |
| Timotheus of Gaza | Academia | Grammarian | Gaza | c.460 |
| Choricius of Gaza | Academia | Philosophy | Gaza | c.460 |
| Aeneas of Gaza | Academia | Philosophy | Gaza | c.460 |
| Procopius of Gaza | Academia | Philosophy | Gaza | c.465 |
| Eutocius of Ascalon | Academia | Mathematics | Ascalon | c.480 |
| Procopius of Caesarea | Academia | Historian | Caesarea Palaestina | c.500 |
| Barsanuphius of Gaza | Religion (Christianity) | Hermit | | (fl. c. 520–543) |
| John the Prophet | Religion (Christianity) | Hermit | | (fl. c. 520–543) |
| Seridus of Gaza | Religion (Christianity) | Abbot | Gaza | (fl. c. 520–543) |
| Dorotheus of Gaza | Religion (Christianity) | Saint | Gaza | c.505 |
| Vitalis of Gaza | Religion (Christianity) | Monk | Gaza | c.550 |
| Maximus the Confessor | Religion (Christianity) | Monk, theologian, scholar | | c.580 |
| Benjamin of Tiberias | Politics | Tiberian leader in Jewish revolt against Heraclius | | 7th century CE |
| Pope Theodore I | Religion (Christianity) | Pope | Jerusalem | c.642 |
| Stephen the Sabaite | Religion (Christianity) | Monk | Gaza | c.725 |
| Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i | Religion (Islam) | founder of the Shafi fiqh of Sunni Islam | Gaza | c.767 |
| Theodorus and Theophanes | Religion (Christianity) | Monks | Jerusalem | c.775 |
| Ben Naphtali | Religion (Judaism) | rabbi and Masorete | Tiberias (?) | (fl. c. 890–940) |
| Aaron ben Moses ben Asher | Religion (Judaism) | Jewish scribe, Masorete | Tiberias | c. early 10th century |
| Sulayman al-Ghazzi | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop and poet | Gaza | c.940 |
| al-Muqaddasi | Academia | medieval geographer | Jerusalem | c.946 |
| Daniel ben Azariah | Religion (Judaism) | Gaon of the Land of Israel (1051–1062) | | 11th century |
| Godfrey of Bouillon | Politics | First ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1100) | | 1060 |
| Arnulf | Politics | First Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (1099, 1112–1118) | | |
| Baldwin I | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1100–1118) | | 1060s |
| Baldwin II | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1118–1131) | | c.1075 |
| Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem | Politics | Queen of Jerusalem (1131–1153) | | c.1105 |
| Ioveta of Bethany | Politics | Princess of Jerusalem and Abbess of Bethany | | c.1120 |
| Fulk | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1131–1143) | Angers | c. 1089/92 |
| Baldwin III | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1143–1163) | Jerusalem | 1130 |
| Amalric | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1163–1174) | | 1136 |
| Baldwin IV "the Leper" | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1174–1185) | | 1161 |
| Raymond III, Count of Tripoli | Politics | Regent (1174–76, 1185–86) | | 1140 |
| Sibylla | Politics | Queen of Jerusalem (1186–1190) | | c.1060 |
| Balian of Ibelin | Politics | Lord of Ibelin (1170–1193), surrendered Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 | | c.1143 |
| Guy of Lusignan | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1186–1192), lost Jerusalem to Saladin (1187) | | 1150 |
| Isabella I | Politics | Queen regnant of Jerusalem (1190–1205) | | 1172 |
| Conrad of Montferrat | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1190–1192) | | c. 1145/47 |
| Ibn Qudamah | Religion (Islam) | Hanbali jurist | | c.1147 |
| Henry I | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1192–1197) | | 1166 |
| Aimery of Cyprus | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1197–1205) | | before 1155 |
| Humphrey IV of Toron | Politics | Leading baron in the Kingdom of Jerusalem | Jerusalem | c.1166 |
| Angelus of Jerusalem | Religion (Christianity) | Saint | Jerusalem | c.1185 |
| Maria of Montferrat | Politics | Queen of Jerusalem (1205–1212) | | 1192 |
| John of Brienne | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1210–1225) | | c.1170 |
| John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut | Politics | Influential member of the Ibelin family | | c.1179 |
| Hugh III of Cyprus | Politics | King of Jerusalem (1268–1284) | | 1235 |
| Henry II | Politics | Last King of Jerusalem (1285–1291, empty title after 1291) | | 1270 |
| Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi | History of Palestine | historian | Jerusalem | c.1456 |
| Levi ibn Habib | Religion (Judaism) | Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (1525-c.1545) | | c.1480 |
| Joseph Karo | Religion (Judaism) | Codification of Jewish law Shulchan Aruch; Safed and Biriyya | Toledo | 1488 |
| Moses ben Joseph di Trani | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi of Safed (1525-c.1580) | 1500 | 1500 |
| Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz | Religion (Judaism) | Kabbalist and poet of Safed | Salonica | c.1500 |
| Moshe Alshich | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi and exegete, Safed | | 1508 |
| Moses ben Jacob Cordovero | Religion (Judaism) | Kabbalist, leader of mystical school in Safed | Safed (?) | 1522 |
| Joseph Nasi | Politics | Resettled Jews in Tiberias and Safed in 1561 | Portugal | 1524 |
| Isaac Luria | | Leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed | Jerusalem | 1534 |
| Hayyim ben Joseph Vital | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi in Safed | Safed | 1542 |
| Israel ben Moses Najara | Religion (Judaism) | Liturgical poet, exegete, rabbi of Gaza | Safed | c.1555 |
| Yom Tov Tzahalon | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi, author of responsa, at Safed | | c.1559 |
| Khayr al-Din al-Ramli | Religion (Islam) | Hanbali jurist | | c.1585 |
| Abraham Amigo | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi | | c.1610 |
| Nathan of Gaza | Religion (Judaism) | Prophet for "false messiah" Sabbatai Zevi | Jerusalem | 1643/4 |
| Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia | Judaism & politics | Rabbi, restored the Jewish community in Tiberias (1740) | Hebron | 1660 |
| Moses Hagiz | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi, activist, opponent of Sabbateanism | Jerusalem | 1671 |
| Zahir al-Umar | Politics | 18th century ruler of the Galilee | Arraba | c.1690 |
| Amram ben Diwan | Religion (Judaism) | Miracle-working rabbi | Jerusalem | 18th c. (d. 1782) |
| Ahmad Agha Duzdar | Politics | 19th century mayor of Jerusalem | | 1800s |
| Aqil Agha | Politics | strongman of northern Palestine | Gaza or Nazareth area, Sidon Eyalet | c.1820 |
| Yousef Al-Khalidi | Politics | Ottoman parliament representative | Jerusalem | c.1829 |
| Yosef Rivlin | Religion (Judaism), community leader | rabbi and head of the Central Committee of the Ashkenazi community (1863–1897) | Jerusalem | 1836 |
| Mariam Baouardy | Religion (Christianity) | Modern saint / miracle | I'billin | 1846 |
| Jacob ha-Cohen Sekili | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi and dayan (religious judge) | Tiberias | 1846 |
| Ruhi Khalidi | Academic | writer, teacher, activist and politician | Jerusalem | 1864 |
| Ya'akov Moshe Toledano | Religion (Judaism) | Chief rabbi of Cairo, Alexandria, Tel Aviv. Minister of Religion (1958–1960). | Tiberias | 1880 |
| Yisroel Ber Odesser | Religion (Judaism) | Rabbi, initiated a hasidic movement | Tiberias | c.1888 |