List of Bahranis

The Baharna are one of ethnically diverse Bahrain's many ethnic groups. The following is a list of notable Bahrani figures

Academics

• Ali Al-Ahmed, Bahraini Political activist, public speaker, scholar, writer
• Nadhmi Al-Nasr, Saudi interim president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• Kamal Al-Yahya, geophysicist and an oil company executive
• Zainab Bahrani, Iraqi art historian.
• Abdulhadi Khalaf, Bahraini leftist political activist and academic

Actors

• Ali Al-Sebaa, Saudi television actor

Bloggers

• Ali Abdulemam, Bahraini blogger and contributor to Global Voices^[1]
• Mahmood Al-Yousif, Bahrani blogger and political activist^[2]

Businesspeople

• Mahdi Al Tajir, businessman from the United Arab Emirates, based in the United Kingdom^[3]

Film directors

• Ramin Bahrani, Iranian American director and screenwriter
• Shahriar Bahrani, Iranian film director

Journalists

• Mansoor Al-Jamri, son of Bahrain's spiritual leader, Sheikh Abdul-Amir Al-Jamri

Musicians

• Mohammed Haddad, composer and music critic
• Majeed Marhoon, saxophonist and a former Leftist political activist with the National Liberation Front of Bahrain
• Majid Al-Maskati, singer of the Canadian R&B duo Majid Jordan

Philosophers

• Kamal al-Deen Maitham al-Bahrani, famous 13th century philosopher

Poets and writers

• Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, one of the greatest poets of Bahrain and the Persian Gulf
• Thuraya Al Arrayedh, daughter of Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh
• Ali Al Jallawi, poet, researcher, and writer
• Ayat Al-Qurmezi, poet
• Mohammed Hasan Kamaluddin, Bahraini former minister, poet, ex-diplomat, historian, writer, and researcher

Politicians

• Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar, Saudi political activist
• Majeed Al Alawi, Bahrain’s Minister of Labour Affairs
• Jawad Al-Arrayedh is Bahrain’s first Shia Deputy Prime Minister
• Nazar Al Baharna, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain
• Abdul Amir al-Jamri, spiritual leader of the Bahrani people
• Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, Bahraini human rights activist and hunger striker
• Massouma al-Mubarak, Kuwait's first female minister
• Nimr al-Nimr, spiritual leader of the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests
• Hussain Al-Qallaf Al-Bahrani, member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly
• Nada Haffadh – Bahrain's first ever female cabinet minister when she was appointed Minister of Health
• Hasan Mushaima, Bahraini political activist
• Isa Qassim, spiritual leader of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He was the leader and founder of the Islamic Awareness Institution
• Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist
• Ali Salman, leader of the largest political party in Bahrain

Rebels

• Abu al-Bahlul al-Awwam, member of the Abdul Qays tribe who deposed the Qarmatians in Bahrain
• Sayyid Shubar al-Sitri, attempted a coup d'état in 1895, however it failed due to lack of support from Shi'a clerics

Religious figures

Grand Ayatollahs

• Shaykh Ahmad, founder of the Shaykhí school of thought
• Maitham Al Bahrani, renowned 13th-century Shi'a cleric and theologian
• Yusuf Al Bahrani, renowned 18th-century Shi'a cleric
• Alaaeldeen Alghurayfi, Iraqi Shi'a Marja
• Salih Al-Karzakani, renowned 17th-century Shi'a cleric
• Abbas Almohri, renowned 20th-century Shi'a cleric
• Abdullah al Samahiji, renowned 18th-century Shi'a cleric

Sports

• Ismael Abdullatif, Bahraini football player
• Sayed Mohamed Adnan, Bahraini football player
• Hamad Al Fardan, Bahraini racing driver
• Tareq Al-Farsani, Bahraini Bodybuilder
• Husain Ali, Bahraini football player
• Hussein Taher Al-Sabee, Saudi long jumper
• Hussein Al-Sadiq, Bahraini football player
• Jamal Al-Saffar, Saudi sprinter
• Abbas Ayyad, Bahraini football player
• A'ala Hubail, Bahraini football player
• Mohamed Hubail, Bahraini football player^[4]
• Sayed Mohammed Jaffer, Bahraini football player
• Abbas Ahmed Khamis, Bahraini football player
• Hussain Salman, Bahraini football player

References

1. "Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam flees to UK". BBC News. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
2. "Gulf Daily News » Local News » 60 Second Interview". Retrieved 2 January 2016.
3. "#1062 Mahdi Al-Tajir - Forbes.com". Retrieved 2 January 2016.
4. "Bahrain player Mohammed Hubail jailed for protesting government - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

Further reading

• Rival Empires of Trade and Imami Shiism in Eastern Arabia, 1300-1800, Juan Cole, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, (May, 1987), pp. 177–203

External links

• The 1922 Bahrani uprising in Bahrain