- male, 1367 years old
- al-Hasan al-Basri (Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Abi-l-Hasan Yasar al-Basri), (642 - 728 or 737), was a well-known Arab theologian and scholar of Islam...
- male, deceased (869)
- Al-Jahiz (real name Abu Uthman Amr Ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Fuqaimi al-Basri) (born in Basra, c. 781 - December 868 or January 869) was a famous Arab...
- male, deceased (1039)
- "' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
- male
- Muhammad Ibn Sirin (Arabic,محمد بن سيرين was a Muslim interpreter of dreams who lived in the 8th century. He is a contemporary of Anas ibn Malik....
- male, deceased (825)
- Abu ’Ubaida or Ubayda (728-825) was a Muslim scholar. Born in Basra, he was a "mawla" (“client”) of a family from the Arab tribe of Quraish, and “w...
- female, deceased (801)
- Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Quaysiyya or simply Rabia Al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) was a female Sufi saint.
- male, 89 years old
- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, a recognized authority in Halakha ("Jewish law"). He is the former Sephardic chief rabbi of...
- male, deceased (791)
- Khalíl ibn Ahmad Al Farāhídi was a writer and philologist from southern Arabia (modern day Oman) who compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic lan...
- male, deceased (828)
- Al-Asma'i or Asma`i [Abu Sa`id `Abd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Asma`i] (c. 740-828) was an Arab scholar of the so-called Basra school. He was born of...
- male, 75 years old
- Saadi Youssef (born 1934) is an Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher and political activist. He has published thirty volumes of poetry and...
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