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Revolutionaries and Activists
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966
Politicians
Sa‘id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Political Leaders
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Scholars and Historians
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Journalists
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Politicians
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - 1930
Scholars and Historians
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Educators
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Journalists
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Educators
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Clerics
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Revolutionaries and Activists
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Businessmen and Economists
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Politicians
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Politicians
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Clerics
Shaykh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Journalists
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - August 1943
Scholars and Historians
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Writers and Novelists
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Educators
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Politicians
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Writers and Novelists
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Businessmen and Economists
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Politicians
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Politicians
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Scholars and Historians
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Politicians
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Scholars and Historians
George Antonius
1892 - 1942
Educators
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Educators
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Revolutionaries and Activists
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Political Leaders
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Journalists
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Educators
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Scholars and Historians
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Artists
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Educators
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Journalists
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Political Leaders
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Businessmen and Economists
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Feminist Figures
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Writers and Novelists
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Writers and Novelists
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Poets
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Scholars and Historians
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Politicians
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Scholars and Historians
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Clerics
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 2001
Revolutionaries and Activists
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Political Leaders
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Poets
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Clerics
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Trade Unionists
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Businessmen and Economists
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Revolutionaries and Activists
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Political Leaders
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Feminist Figures
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Educators
Hind al-Husseini
25 April 1916 - 1994
Poets
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Writers and Novelists
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
1919 - 1994
Scholars and Historians
Emile Tuma
1919 - 1985
Politicians
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Writers and Novelists
Ihsan Abbas
1920 - 29 July 2003
Writers and Novelists
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Feminist Figures
Samiha Khalil
1923 - 26 February 1999
Feminist Figures
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Writers and Novelists
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925
Politicians
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Poets
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Writers and Novelists
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Feminist Figures
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Scholars and Historians
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Writers and Novelists
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 02 February 2022
Politicians
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Poets
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Political Leaders
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Educators
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Artists
Ismail Shammut
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Scholars and Historians
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Revolutionaries and Activists
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988
Scholars and Historians
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Artists
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Writers and Novelists
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Clerics
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Poets
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014
Political Leaders
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Poets
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Artists
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Politicians
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Revolutionaries and Activists
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Scholars and Historians
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Politicians
Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
1947 - 17 April 2004
Revolutionaries and Activists
Fathi Shiqaqi
4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995
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