The following is a list of prominent Palestinians, both from Palestine and from the Palestinian diaspora.

Academic figures

• Ibrahim Abu Lughod , sociologist
• Salman Abu Sitta , academic
• Naseer Aruri , academic
• Samih Farsoun , sociologist
• Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, philosopher and student of religion
• Mujid S. Kazimi , nuclear physicist
• Rashid Khalidi , historian
• Walid Khalidi , historian
• Khaled Mardam-Bey, programmer (Palestinian mother)
• Sari Nusseibeh, philosopher, diplomat
• Mazin Qumsiyeh , geneticist
• Edward Said, literary critic
• Elias Sanbar , historian
• Anis Sayigh , historian
• Yezid Sayigh , historian
• Yusif Sayigh , economist
• Hisham Sharabi , intellectual
• Ahmad Teebi, geneticist and dysmorphologist

Cultural figures

Writers

• Mahmoud Darwish, poet
• Emile Habibi , author
• Nathalie Handal , poet, editor
• Ghassan Kanafani, author
• Ghada Karmi , author
• Sahar Khalifa , novelist
• Naomi Shihab Nye, poet (Palestinian father)
• Khalil al-Sakakini , author
• Abu Salma, poet
• Fadwa Tuqan , poet
• Ibrahim Tuqan , poet

Stage and screen

• Hany Abu-Assad , film director
• Mohammed Bakri , actor
• Hanna Elias , film director (The Olive Harvest )
• Elia Suleiman , film director (Divine Intervention)
• Tawfik Abu Wael , film director (Atash )

Musicians

• El-Funoun , dance company
• Kamilya Jubran , singer
• Reem Kelani , singer
• Simon Shaheen , oud virtuoso, composer

Visual artists

• Naji al-Ali , cartoonist
• Mona Hatoum, sculptor
• Omayya Joha , cartoonist
• Jafar Tukan , architect

Political figures

Politicians

PLO

• Mahmoud Abbas
• Nabil Amr
• Suha Arafat
• Yassir Arafat
• Hanan Ashrawi
• Hakam Balawi
• Marwan Barghouti
• Mohammed Dahlan
• Saeb Erekat
• Faisal Husseini
• Ahmed Qurei
• Nabil Shaath

Hamas

• Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
• Khaled Mashal
• Ahmed Yassin

Other

• Abu Abbas, PLF
• George Habash, PFLP
• Abu Ali Mustafa , PFLP
• Abu Nidal, Abu Nidal Organization
• Ahmed Jibril, PFLP-GC
• Ahmed Saadat , PFLP
• Nayef Hawatmeh , DFLP

Foreign

• Antonio Saca, president of El Salvador

Activists

• Huwaida Arraf , co-founder of ISM
• Mubarak Awad, advocate of nonviolent resistance
• Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Islamist scholar & activist
• Mustafa Barghouti, human rights activist
• Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert Kennedy

Religious figures

Christianity

• Riah Abu Assal , current Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem
• Elias Chacour, Melkite Catholic priest
• Michel Sabah, current Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Munib Younan , Lutheran bishop

Islam

• Amin al-Husayni, former Mufti of Jerusalem
• Ikrimeh Sabri , current Mufti of Jerusalem

See also

• Palestine; Palestinian; Palestinian music
• List of people by nationality

External links

• Palestine Facts: Personalities
• Palestinian Artists