Jerusalem - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Ancient
  • Abdi-Heba, Hurrian chieftan
  • Melchizedek, King of Salem and priest
  • Araunah, Jebusite vendor of land
  • Zadok, Levitical High Priest
  • King David (c. 1040 BCE-c. 970 BCE), second King of the united Kingdom of Israel
  • Solomon the Great (c. 1011 BCE-c. 931 BCE), third King of Israel
  • James the Just (d. 69), Christian Bishop of Jerusalem
Mediaeval
  • al-Muqaddasi (946-1000), Arab geographer
  • Fulk, King of Jerusalem, (1131−1143)
Modern
  • Khalil al-Sakakini (born 1878)
  • Yousef Al-Khalidi (born 1829)
  • Musa Alami (born 1897)
  • Sami Hadawi (born 1904)
  • Yousef Beidas (born 1912)
  • Ruhi al-Khatib (born 1914)
  • Serene Husseini Shahid (born 1920)
  • Jafar Tukan (born 1938)
  • Makram Khoury (born 1945)
  • Edward Said (born 1935)
  • Hanna Batatu (born 1926)
  • Naseer Aruri (born 1934)
  • Walid Khalidi (born 1925)
  • Ghada Karmi (born 1939)
  • Said K. Aburish (born 1935)
  • Jamal Dajani (born 1957)
  • Daoud Kuttab (born 1955)
  • Afif Safieh (born 1950)
  • Mustafa Barghouti (born 1954)
  • Yahya Ayyash (born 1966)
  • Saeb Erekat (born 1955)
  • Ahmed Qurei (born 1937)
  • Mahmoud al-Zahar (born 1945)
  • Amin al-Husayni (born 1895)
  • Munib Younan (born 1950)
  • Mubarak Awad (born 1943)
  • Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (born 1907)
  • Naomi Ben-Ami (born 1960), Israeli government official and head of Lishkat Hakesher
  • Amram Blau
  • Rachel Bluwstein
  • Trude Dothan (born 1923), archaeologist
  • Shlomo Hillel
  • William Holman Hunt
  • Helena Kagan
  • Ephraim Katzir (1916–2009), biophysicist and fourth President of Israel
  • Teddy Kollek (1911–2007), mayor of Jerusalem and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation
  • Dan Meridor
  • Sallai Meridor
  • Shlomo Moussaieff (1852–1922), a founder of the Bukharim neighborhood
  • Uzi Narkiss
  • Ezra Nawi
  • Yoni Netanyahu (1946–76), commander of Sayeret Matkal; killed in action during Operation Entebbe
  • Sari Nusseibeh (born 1949), writer and philosopher.
  • Amos Oz (born 1939), writer, novelist, and journalist
  • Herbert Plumer
  • Natalie Portman (born 1981), actress
  • Menachem Porush
  • Yitzhak Rabin (1922–95), general and the fifth Prime Minister of Israel
  • Reuven Rivlin
  • Afif Safieh (born 1950), Palestinian diplomat
  • Conrad Schick
  • Nahman Shai
  • Chemi Shalev
  • Michael Sfard
  • Menachem Ussishkin
  • Matan Vilnai
  • Yigael Yadin
  • A.B. Yehoshua
  • Rehavam Ze'evi

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