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This is a list of notable people who were born, lived or are/were famously associated with
Jerusalem . The list is in chronological order.
List
Ancient
Melchizedek , Jebusite King of Salem and priest who blesses
Abram
Abdi-Heba ,
Hurrian chieftain
Zadok ,
Levitical
High Priest
King David (c. 1040 BCE – c. 970 BCE), second King of the united
Kingdom of Israel
Araunah , Jebusite vendor of land
Solomon the Great (c. 1011 BCE – c. 931 BCE), third King of Israel
Hezekiah , thirteenth king of
Judah
Isaiah , a major prophet of
ancient Israel living around the time of 8th-century BC Kingdom of Judah
Joel , a prophet of ancient Israel, the second of the
twelve minor prophets
Antiquity
Medieval
Modern
born 1820–1849
born 1850–1879
born 1880–1909
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Israeli
Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of
modern Hebrew
fiction
Helena Kagan (1889–1978), physician, Israeli pioneer in pediatrics
Rachel Bluwstein (1890–1931),
Hebrew poet
Ludwig Blum (1891–1975),
Czechoslovakia -born Israeli painter, known as "the painter of Jerusalem"
Daniel Auster (1893–1963), three time
Mayor of Jerusalem
Haj Amin al-Husayni (1897–1974),
Palestinian Arab nationalist and influential
Muslim leader in
Mandatory Palestine
Yaakov Ades (1898–1963),
Sephardi
Hakham ,
Rosh Yeshiva , and Rabbinical High Court judge
born 1910s
born 1920s
Yitzhak Navon (1921–2015), politician (fifth President of Israel), diplomat, and author
Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995), general, the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, and
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Trude Dothan (1922–2016),
Austrian Jewish archaeologist in Israel
Yitzchok Scheiner (1922–2021), rabbi
Shlomo Hillel (1923–2021),
Israeli diplomat,
Speaker of the Knesset ,
Minister of Police and
Minister of Internal Affairs
Zundel Kroizer (1924–2014), rabbi
Walid Khalidi (born 1925), Palestinian historian
Uzi Narkiss (1925–1997), Israeli general and commander of the Israel Defense Forces units in the Central Region during the
Six-Day War
Georgette Rizek (1925-2018), Palestinian philanthropist and activist
Rehavam Ze'evi (1926–2001),
assassinated Israeli general, historian, founder of the
Moledet party, and
Minister of Tourism
Yaakov Blau (1929–2013), rabbi
born 1930s
Reuven Adiv (1930–2004), Israeli and international actor, director and drama teacher
Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli-American
mathematician and game-theorist, received the
Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through
game-theory analysis
Naseer Aruri (1934–2015), Palestinian scholar and activist
Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian author and political theorist
A.B. Yehoshua (1936–2022), Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
Shlomo Aronson (1936–2018), Israeli
landscape architect
Yehoram Gaon (born 1939), Israeli singer, actor, director, producer, TV and radio host, and public figure
Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist
Reuven Rivlin (born 1939), former
Minister of Communications and
Speaker of the Knesset , former
President of Israel
Ada Yonath (born 1939), Israeli
crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the
ribosome , winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009
born 1940s
Matan Vilnai (born 1944),
Minister of Science, Culture & Sport ,
Minister of Science and Technology ,
Minister for Home Front Defense , Ambassador to China,
IDF
Major General
Makram Khoury (born 1945),
Israeli Arab actor and winner of the
Israel Prize
Ehud Olmert (born 1945), former Mayor of Jerusalem and Prime-Minister of Israel
Mahmoud al-Zahar (born 1945), co-founder of
Hamas
Yoni Netanyahu (1946–1976), commander of
Sayeret Matkal ; killed in action during
Operation Entebbe
Esther Farbstein (born 1946),
Holocaust scholar
Nahman Shai (born 1946),
Israeli journalist, Deputy
Speaker of the Knesset,
IDF spokesman
Dan Meridor (born 1947)
Israeli
Minister of Justice ,
Minister of Finance , and
Deputy Prime Minister
born 1950s
Munib Younan (born 1950), president of the
Lutheran World Federation
Mustafa Barghouti (born 1954),
Palestinian physician, activist, and
PLO politician
Anat Hoffman (born 1954), Israeli activist and director of
Women of the Wall
Francis Martin O'Donnell (born 1954), former
United Nations diplomat, Ambassador of
Sovereign Military Order of Malta , author
Saeb Erekat (1955–2020), Palestinian negotiator of the
Oslo Accords with Israel
Sallai Meridor (born 1955),
Israeli Ambassador to the United States , Chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Israel and the
World Zionist Organization
Jamal Dajani (born 1957), Palestinian-American journalist and producer, co-founder of Arab Talk Radio
Uri Malmilian (born 1957), Israeli soccer player with most appearances for
Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
Eli Ohana (born 1957), all-time top-scorer for Israel's
Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
born since 1960
Guy Starik (born 1965), Olympian shooter with world record in
50 m rifle prone
Elisha Abas (born 1971), Israeli pianist, composer, and former professional soccer player
Jonah Lotan (born 1973), actor
Natalie Portman (born 1981), Israeli-American actress, lived in Jerusalem until she was three years old
Rucka Rucka Ali (born 1987), Israeli-American parody rapper and musical artist
Shahar Pe'er (born 1987), Israeli tennis player, highest world singles ranking # 11, highest world doubles ranking # 14
Or Sasson (born 1990), Israeli Olympic medalist judoka
unknown date of birth
Honorary citizens
People awarded the
honorary citizenship of Jerusalem are:
See also
References
External links
Media related to
People of Jerusalem at Wikimedia Commons