List of people from Nablus

The following list includes notable people from the city of Nablus.

Modern era[]

• Awni Abd al-Hadi - 20th century Palestinian politician
• Hani Awijan - former head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in Nablus
• Nasib al-Bitar - former Islamic court judge
• Izzat Darwaza - Palestinian Arab nationalist leader in early 20th century
• Aziz Dweik - Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council
• Mohamed Ali Eltaher - Palestinian journalist and newspaper editor
• Fadi Kafisha - former head of Tanzim militant group in Nablus
• Sahar Khalifeh - Palestinian writer
• Munib Masri - Palestinian billionaire
• Ahmed Sheikh - editor-in-chief of Al-Jazeera
• Ahmad Toukan - late Prime Minister and educator
• Fadwa Touqan - Palestinian poet
• Fawwaz Tuqan - writer, professor and former minister
• Ibrahim Touqan - Palestinian poet
• Abdel Wael Zwaiter - translator

Pre-modern period[]

• Ibn al-Sal'us, a 13th-century merchant and Mamluk vizier
• Justin Martyr, second century Christian apologist
• - anti-Fatimid rebel who moved to Baniyas to continue his agitation against the Fatimid Caliphate^[1]
• Yoseph ben Ab-Hisda ben Yaacov ben Aaharon - former Samaritan high priest

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