List of people from Jerusalem

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This is a list of notable people who were born, lived or are/were famously associated with Jerusalem.

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[]

  • Judas Maccabeus (d. 160 BCE), leader of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire
  • Herod the Great, (d. 4 BCE), a Roman client king of Judea who expanded the Second Temple in Jerusalem and built the fortress at Masada
  • Hillel the Elder (110 BCE – 10 CE), a famous Jewish religious leader and one of the most important figures in Jewish history, associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud
  • Josephus (37–100), Jewish-Roman historian
  • James the Just (d. 69), Jewish-Christian Bishop of Jerusalem
  • Simon bar Kokhba (d. 135), leader of the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE

Medieval[]

  • al-Muqaddasi (946–1000), Arab geographer
  • Aaron of Jerusalem, was a Karaite scholar of the eleventh century
  • Ibn al-Qaisarani (1056–1113), Arab historian
  • Judah Halevi (1075–1141), Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher
  • Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1131–1143), King of the Crusader State in Jerusalem
  • Nahmanides (1194–1270), prominent medieval Jewish rabbi and physician

Modern[]

born 1820–1849
born 1850–1879
born 1880–1909
born 1910s
born 1920s
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 (born 1936), 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
born 1950s
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
  • Natalie Portman (born 1981), Israeli-American actress, lived in Jerusalem until she was three years old
  • 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

Honorary citizens[]

People awarded the honorary citizenship of Jerusalem are:

Date Name Notes
29 November 2015 Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Winner.[1]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Elie Wiesel Named Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem". 24 December 2015.

External links[]

Media related to People of Jerusalem at Wikimedia Commons

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