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Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Rafiq al-Tamimi

George Antonius

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

1905 - 21 May 1985

1907 - 27 July 2006

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

1910 - 26 February 1971

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1927 - 13 January 2005

1928 - 1 September 2020

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Arts and Literature

1859 - 21 July 1921

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

1893 - 27 April 1940

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

1917 - 12 December 2003

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

1938 - 16 December 2020

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Leadership and Militancy

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

Freih Abu Middein

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

9 February 1963

Politics and Media

Hafiz al-Sa’id

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1860 - 13 April 1930

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1880 - 16 June 1946

Raghib al-Nashashibi

1882 - 22 April 1942

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Mu‘in al-Madi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1929 - 2 June 2016

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 3 August 1978

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943 - 10 March 2026

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

Society and Economy

1875 - 9 February 1949

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

1894 - 19 March 1949

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1923 - 12 May 2004

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012