List of Palestinians

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The following Lists of Palestinians are lists of people with either a self-designation (endonym) or a foreign appellation (exonym) as "Palestinian", or who were born in the religion of Palestine.

Anyone with roots in the region that is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza is technically a Palestinian,^{[1][2][3][4][5]} but today the term predominantly associates with the descendants of the non-Jewish population of the region.^[3][6][7]

Whilst the history of a distinct Palestinian national identity is a disputed issue amongst scholars,^[8][9][10] and politicians,^[11][12][13] approximately 12 million people today identify as Palestinians,^[14] as defined in the Palestinian National Charter of 1968.^[15]

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. Palestinian Jews,^[16] Samaritans, Druze, and Dom are native to the geographic region of Palestine, but the lists does not include them, since today very few self-dentify as "Palestinians".^[17]

Name	Field	Speciality	Place of birth	Year of Birth
Khaled Al-Hassan	Politics(Fatah)	political theorist, author, Fatah & PLO leader	Haifa	1928
Majid Sirhan	Journalist	broadcaster	Halhoul	1939
Lila Abu Lughod	Academia	professor, anthropology, women and gender studies	USA	1950s
Hasan Yahya	Academia	professor, sociologist, thinker and writer,	Amman Jordan	2000
Salman Abu Sitta	Academia		Beersheba	1938
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad	Academia	academic	USA	1948
Izzat Darwaza	Academia	historian, politician, educator	Nablus	1888
Hasan Dardas	Academia	historian, politician, educator	Hebron	1938
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
Chaker Khazaal	Arts	Writer	Beirut/Palestinian Refugee	1987
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
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
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, 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
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
Ramzi Aburedwan	Music	composer, viola player	Bethlehem	1979
Charlie Bisharat	Music	Grammy-winning violinist	USA	1963[18]
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	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
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
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	Fashion	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 [19]	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	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
Dalal Mughrabi	Other	militant killed during the Coastal Road combat engagement with Israeli military	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)	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)	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	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 & 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
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
Mohammed al-Qeq	Journalist	94 days of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention by Israeli military	Palestine	1983

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 Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Samaritans, Druze, Palestinian Jews, and Dom are native to the geographic region of Palestine, but the list also include some famous names and titles as exonyms, prior to nationalism and national identity becoming commonplace in the modern era.

Name	Field	Speciality	Place of birth	Year of Birth
Jesus	Religion (Judaism)	Founder of Christianity	Bethlehem	c.30
Acacius of Caesarea	Academia	Philosophy and the Arian controversy	Caesarea Palestinae	c.310
Rabbi Jochanan	Religion (Judaism)	Talmudic rabbi	Tzippori	c.220[20]
Saint George	Religion (Christianity)	Christian martyr	Lydda	c.300
Eleazar ben Pedat	Religion (Judaism)	Talmudic rabbi		c.350
Judah the Prince	Religion (Judaism)	Talmudic rabbi		135
Pope Evaristus	Religion (Christianity)	Pope	Bethlehem	c.50
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
Abraham Amigo	Religion (Judaism)	Rabbi		c.1610
Moses Hagiz	Religion (Judaism)	Rabbi, activist, opponent of Sabbateanism	Jerusalem	1671
Zahir al-Umar	Politics	18th century ruler of the Galilee	Arraba	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

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6. Dowty, Alan (2008). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Polity. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-7456-4243-7. since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture.
7. Butenschon, N.A. Ed.; Davis, U. Ed.; Hassassian, M. Ed. "Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications" (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000), p. 210.
8. Likhovski, Assaf (2006). Law and identity in mandate Palestine. The University of North Carolina Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8078-3017-8.
9. Bishara, Azmi (Prof.) (8 January 2009). "Professor Azmi Bishara: There Is No "Palestinian Nation", Never Was !". Channel Two (Israel). www.youtube.com. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
10. Bar-Hayim, David (Rabbi) (25 December 2013). "The Palestinian People: One of History's Great Lies- Interview with Rabbi David Bar-Hayim". www.Machon Shilo.org. www.youtube.com. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
11. Awni Abd al-Hadi testified to the Peel Commission (1937), "There is no such country [as Palestine].... Palestine is a term the Zionists invented.... Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
12. Gingrich, Newt (10 December 2011). "Palestinians are an invented people, says Newt Gingrich". Interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHWJWJocD6A) (Guardian News and Media Limited). Retrieved 24 June 2015.
13. Hammad, Fathi (23 March 2012). "Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security: Palestinians are a myth, "they are just saudis and egyptians"". Al-Hekma TV (Egypt). www.youtube.com. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
14. According to Rashid Khalidi, the modern Palestinian identity encompasses the heritage of all ages from biblical times up to the Ottoman period. (Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian identity: the construction of modern national consciousness, Columbia University Press, 2009 p.18.) 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." ("(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.") 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." ("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."
    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.(Gibbons, Ann (October 30, 2000). "Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry". ScienceNOW. American Academy for the Advancement of Science.. Studies cited are: M. F. Hammer, et al. (2000). "Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97 (12): 6769–6774. doi:10.1073/pnas.100115997. PMC 18733. PMID 10801975. Missing |last2= in Authors list (help) and Almut Nebel, et al. (2000). "High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews". Human Genetics 107 (6): 630–641. doi:10.1007/s004390000426. PMID 11153918. Another study says; "Our recent study of high-resolution microsatellite haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool." "Almut Nebel, Dvora Filon, Bernd Brinkmann, Partha P. Majumder, Marina Faerman, and Ariella Oppenheim,'The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East,' American Journal of Human Genetics, November 2001; 69(5): 1095–1112. 10.1086/324070,PMCID: PMC1274378.)
15. "those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally resided in Palestine regardless of whether they were evicted from it or stayed there. Anyone born, after that date, of a Palestinian father—whether in Palestine or outside it—is also a Palestinian (..) the Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the creation of Israel in 1948 are considered Palestinians." "The Palestinian National Charter". Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
16. Image of a passport of a Palestinian Jew (1939)
17. After crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt, Roman Emperor Hadrian applied the disparaging name Syria Palæstina to the region, that was formerly known as Kingdom of Israel. That name revived the ancient name of the Pentapolis Philistia, in an attempt to suppress Jewish connection to the land. (H.H. Ben-Sasson: A History of the Jewish People, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-674-39731-2, page 334: "In an effort to wipe out all memory of the bond between the Jews and the land, Hadrian changed the name of the province from Iudaea to Syria-Palestina, a name that became common in non-Jewish literature." - Ariel Lewin: The archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine. Getty Publications, 2005, ISBN 0-89236-800-4, p. 33. "It seems clear that by choosing a seemingly neutral name - one juxtaposing that of a neighboring province with the revived name of an ancient geographical entity (Palestine), already known from the writings of Herodotus - Hadrian was intending to suppress any connection between the Jewish people and that land." - 'The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered', by Peter Schäfer, ISBN 3-16-148076-7) Some scholars describe the Roman persecution of the Jews in Syria Palæstina after the Bar Kokhba revolt (135 CE) as a genocide (Totten, S.: Teaching about genocide: issues, approaches and resources. p24. ) for it resulted in an extensive depopulation of Jewish communities, more so than the First Jewish–Roman War of 70 CE (Taylor, J. E. The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford University Press. Up until this date the Bar Kokhba documents indicate that towns, villages and ports where Jews lived were busy with industry and activity. Afterwards there is an eerie silence, and the archaeological record testifies to little Jewish presence until the Byzantine era, in En Gedi. This picture coheres with what we have already determined in Part I of this study, that the crucial date for what can only be described as genocide, and the devastation of Jews and Judaism within central Judea, was 135 CE and not, as usually assumed, 70 CE, despite the siege of Jerusalem and the Temple's destruction)
18. http://imeu.net/news/article0018459.shtml
20. Jeffrey L. Rubenstein (27 June 2002). Rabbinic stories. Paulist Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-8091-4024-4. Retrieved 2 August 2011.

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