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The following are lists of Palestinian people or Palestinians.
The first list consists of Palestinian people since the creation of Mandatory Palestine in 1920. They are the modern descendants of people who have lived in Palestine over the centuries and today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab.[1] This list does not include those Palestinian Jews who made up part of the population of Palestine prior to the creation of Israel, since very few identify as "Palestinian" today.
The second list consists of people who were born in the region of Palestine prior to the modern identity politics resulting from the creation of Mandatory Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Whilst the history of a distinct Palestinian national identity is a disputed issue amongst scholars,[2] modern Palestinians identify with the people born in the region of Palestine throughout history. According to Rashid Khalidi, the modern Palestinian identity encompasses the heritage of all ages from biblical times up to the Ottoman period.[3] According to Palestinian author Walid Khalidi: "the Palestinians considered themselves to be descended not only from Arab conquerors of the seventh century but also from indigenous peoples who had lived in the country since time immemorial."[4] and according to Palestinian anthropologist Ali Qleibo: "in their customs and manners, fossils of these ancient civilizations survived until modernity—albeit modernity camouflaged under the veneer of Islam and Arabic culture."[5] Genetic analysis suggests that a majority of the Muslims of Palestine, inclusive of Arab citizens of Israel, are descendants of Christians, Jews and other earlier inhabitants of the southern Levant whose core may reach back to prehistoric times.
Mandate period and after
Name | Field | Speciality | Place of birth | Year of Birth |
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Ihsan Abbas | Academia | professor, critic | Ayn Ghazal | 1920 |
Ibrahim Abu Lughod | Academia | sociologist | Jaffa | 1929 |
Lila Abu Lughod | Academia | professor, anthropology, women and gender studies | USA | 1950s |
Hasan Yahya | Academia | professor, sociologist, thinker and writer, | Majdal Yaba-Jaffa | 1944 |
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 |
Sami Hadawi | Academia | land specialist and researcher | Jerusalem | 1904 |
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 |
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 |
Khaled Ennasra | Poet | Journalist | Jenin | 1927 |
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 |
Emily Jacir | Artist | professor, filmmkaker | 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 | 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 | USA | 1963[6] |
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 |
Fouad Awad | Art | Theater Director | Nazareth | 1956 |
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 |
Nabil Anani | Art | artist | Halhoul | 1943 |
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 and film director (The Sons of Eialboun) | 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 [7] | Nablus | 1934 |
Hasib Sabbagh | Business | Consolidated Contractors International Company | Tiberias | 1920 |
Naim Attallah | Business | Asprey, Quartet Publishing | Haifa | 1931 |
Farouk Khalil Toukan | Business | Toukan Enterprise, CICON | Nablus | 1937 |
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 | 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, 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) | 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 by Israeli soldiers | 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 |
Fadi Elsalameen | Politics | political commentator and analyst | USA | 1983 |
Pre-Mandate
Name | Field | Speciality | Place of birth | Year of Birth |
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Jesus | Religion (Christianity) | Founder of Christianity | Nazareth | c.30 |
Acacius of Caesarea | Academia | Philosophy and the Arian controversy | Caesarea Palestinae | c.310 |
Rabbi Jochanan | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Tzippori | c.220[8] |
Eleazar ben Pedat | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | c.350 | |
Judah the Prince | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | 135 | |
Shimon ben Lakish | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Bosra | c.200 |
Rabbi Isaac the smith | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Galilee | |
Rabbi Assi | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Babylonia | c.270 |
Rav Zeira | Religion (Judaism) | Talmudic rabbi | Babylonia | c.220 |
Antiochus of Ascalon | Academia | Philosophy | Ascalon | c.125 BCE |
Eutocius of Ascalon | Academia | Mathematics | Ascalon | c.480 |
Pope Theodore I | Religion (Christianity) | Pope | Jerusalem | c.642 |
Sozomen | Academia | Historian | Gaza | c.400 |
Eusebius | Academia and Religion (Christianity) | "Father of Church History" | Caesarea Palestinae | c.263 |
Romanus of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Caesarea Palestinae | c.270 |
Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop | Caesarea Palestinae | c.150 |
Gelasius of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop | Caesarea Palestinae | c.340 |
Agapius of Caesarea | Religion (Christianity) | Bishop | Caesarea Palestinae | c.270 |
Hesychius of Jerusalem | Religion (Christianity) | Biblical exegesis | Jerusalem | c.400 |
Hegesippus (chronicler) | Religion (Christianity) | Early chronicler | Jerusalem | c.110 |
Aristo of Pella | Religion (Christianity) | Early chronicler | Pella | c.100 |
Meleager of Gadara | Literature | Poet | Gadara | c.120 BCE |
Timotheus of Gaza | Academia | Grammarian | Gaza | c.460 |
Choricius of Gaza | Academia | Philosophy | Gaza | c.460 |
Procopius of Caesarea | Academia | Historian | Caesarea Palaestina | c.500 |
Dorotheus of Gaza | Religion (Christianity) | Saint | Gaza | c.505 |
Procopius of Gaza | Academia | Philosophy | Gaza | c.465 |
Aeneas of Gaza | Academia | Philosophy | Gaza | c.460 |
Saint Agapius of Palestine | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Gaza | c.270 |
Angelus of Jerusalem | Religion (Christianity) | Saint | Jerusalem | c.1185 |
Peter Apselamus | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Eleutheropolis | c.280 |
Cyril of Jerusalem | Religion (Christianity) | Early Christian writings | Caesarea Palestinae | c.313 |
Maximus the Confessor | Religion (Christianity) | Monk, theologian, scholar | c.580 | |
Hilarion | Religion (Christianity) | Monk | Gaza | c.291 |
Epiphanius of Salamis | Religion (Christianity) | Church father | Eleutheropolis | c.310 |
Justin Martyr | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Nablus | c.100 |
Procopius of Scythopolis | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Jerusalem | c.270 |
Saint Reparata | Religion (Christianity) | Martyr | Caesarea Palestinae | c.250 |
Stephen the Sabaite | Religion (Christianity) | Monk | Gaza | c.725 |
Theodorus and Theophanes | Religion (Christianity) | Monks | Jerusalem | c.775 |
Vitalis of Gaza | Religion (Christianity) | Monk | Gaza | c.550 |
Zayya | Religion (Christianity) | Preaching | c.309 | |
Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i | Religion (Islam) | founder of the Shafi fiqh of Sunni Islam | Gaza | c.767 |
al-Muqaddasi | Academia | medieval geographer | Jerusalem | c.946 |
Ibn Qudamah | Religion (Islam) | Hanbali jurist | c.1147 | |
Khayr al-Din al-Ramli | Religion (Islam) | Hanbali jurist | c.1585 | |
Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi | History of Palestine | historian | Jerusalem | c.1456 |
Daher el-Omar | Politics | 18th century ruler of the Galilee | Tiberias area | c.1690 |
Ahmad Agha Duzdar | Politics | 19th century mayor of Jerusalem | c.1800s | |
Yousef Al-Khalidi | Politics | Ottoman parliament representative | Jerusalem | c.1829 |
Mariam Baouardy | Religion (Christianity) | Modern saint / miracle | I'billin | 1846 |
See also
References
- ^ Dowty, Alan (2008). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Polity. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-7456-4243-7.
Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture.
- ^ Likhovski, Assaf (2006). Law and identity in mandate Palestine. The University of North Carolina Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8078-3017-8.
- ^ Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian identity: the construction of modern national consciousness, Columbia University Press, 2009 p.18.
- ^ "(With reference to Palestinians in Ottoman times) Although proud of their Arab heritage and ancestry, the Palestinians considered themselves to be descended not only from Arab conquerors of the seventh century but also from indigenous peoples who had lived in the country since time immemorial, including the ancient Hebrews and the Canaanites before them. Acutely aware of the distinctiveness of Palestinian history, the Palestinians saw themselves as the heirs of its rich associations."
- ^ "Throughout history a great diversity of peoples has moved into the region and made Palestine their homeland: Canaanites, Jebusites, Philistines from Crete, Anatolian and Lydian Greeks, Hebrews, Amorites, Edomites, Nabateans, Arameans, Romans, Arabs, and European crusaders, to name a few. Each of them appropriated different regions that overlapped in time and competed for sovereignty and land. Others, such as Ancient Egyptians, Hittites, Persians, Babylonians, and Mongols, were historical 'events' whose successive occupations were as ravaging as the effects of major earthquakes ... Like shooting stars, the various cultures shine for a brief moment before they fade out of official historical and cultural records of Palestine. The people, however, survive. In their customs and manners, fossils of these ancient civilizations survived until modernity—albeit modernity camouflaged under the veneer of Islam and Arabic culture."
- ^ http://imeu.net/news/article0018459.shtml
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External links
Riad Hassan Professor of Arabic at Bunker Hill College in Boston