- Amira Hass
Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem.
- Saeb Erekat
Saeb Erakat was the chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee, from which he negotiated with Israel regarding the Oslo Accords from 1995 until his resignation in protest from the Palestinian government, in May 2003. He quickly reconciled with his party, and was reappointed to the post in September 2003. Erekat has participated in numerous peace negotiations with Israel, including Camp David meetings in 2000, and negotiations at Taba in 2001.
- Yuval Diskin
Yuval Diskin is the 12th and current Director of Shabak. In the Israel Defense Forces, Diskin served as deputy company commander of Sayeret Shaked (the command Sayeret of the Israeli Southern Command). In 1978, he was recruited to the Shabak and served as area coordinator for the Nablus district. During the 1982 Lebanon War, Diskin operated in Beirut and Sidon. In 1984, he became the coordinator of Nablus District, and by 1989, also the Jenin and Tulkarm districts.
- Joseph
Joseph or Yosef, <small>Standard</small> "Yosef" <small>Tiberian</small> ', Arabic: يوسف, Yusuf ; "He (The Lord) increases/may add"), is a major figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). He was Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first.. Joseph is one of the best-known figures in the torah, …
- Mahdi Abdul Hadi
Mahdi Abdul Hadi (b. Nablus, 1944) studied law at Damascus University in Syria becoming a lawyer on graduation. In the 1970s Abdul Hadi and Yousef Nasser founded "Al-Fajr" newspaper to promote debate about the Palestinian issue. In 1977 he founded the Arab Thought Forum, a Palestinian think-tank that inspired and developed the National Guidance Committee.
- Mahmoud Aloul
Mahmoud al-Aloul is the governor of the Palestinian Authority's Nablus governorate in the Central Highlands of the West Bank.
- Ghassan Shakaa
Ghassan Shakaa (1943-) is the former mayor of Nablus, one of the largest cities in the West Bank. Former Nablus mayor Bassam Shaka is his first cousin. Shakaa was appointed to his position by Yasser Arafat. After his brother was assassinated by a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Ghassan published an open letter in which he called for the Palestinian Authority to restore order to his politically divided city.
- Sahar Khalifa
Sahar Khalifa is a Palestinian writer born in 1942 in Nablus of the West Bank. After teaching at the university of Birzeit, in the Palestinian occupied territories, she studied Anglo-Saxon literature in the US, at the University of Iowa, before returning to Palestine in 1988. There she founded - and runs todate - the Center for Feminine Studies. She is considered as one of the most prominent Palestinian writers.
- Hani Awijan
Hani Awijan (1977 - July 29, 2006) was an Islamic militant in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) military wing, The Al-Quds brigades. He was reportedly the leader of the Nablus branch in the West Bank. He had been implicated in a series of attacks against Israelis. Awijan was shot by Israeli undercover agents operating in Nablus as he was playing soccer with members of his family and friends, according to the Associated Press.
- Adly Yaish
Adly Yaish is the mayor of the Nablus Municipality (Dec. 2005 - Present) in the central highlands of the West Bank under the Palestinian National Authority. On 24 May2007 he was arrested by Israeli forces, along with Fayyad Aghbar, a Nablus councilor. The Nablus municipality is campaigning for his release.
- Hatem Bazian
Dr. Hatem Bazian is a senior lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic Law and Society, Islam in America, Religious Studies, and Arabic language. During the Spring of 2006, he taught Middle Eastern Politics at the East Bay's Saint Mary's College of California. He also teaches Arabic and Maliki Fiqh at the Zaytuna Institute.
- Sahar Khalifeh
Sahar Khalifeh , born the fifth girl to a Palestinian family in Nablus, West Bank, was seen as a disappointment to her parents from the start. In order to preserve the Palestinian bloodline, name, and inheritance, a son was necessary. Growing up with such discontent, Khalifeh learned that the existence of females was seen solely for "miserable, useless, worthless sex," as Khalifeh writes. Growing up female meant that there would be many rules surrounding her life.
- Kfar Tapuach
Kfar Tapuach ("lit." Apple-ville) is an Israeli settlement in the Samaria region of the West Bank, founded in 1978. It is one of the five Jewish villages in the region south of Nablus/Shechem, and sits astride one of the most vital traffic junctions in the West Bank. Kfar Tapuach is one of the most ethnically diverse Israeli settlements. Founded by a core of Yemenite Jews nearly 30 years ago, over the years it has absorbed Russian and American Jews, …
- Ahmed Sheikh
Ahmed Sheikh (born 1967) is a Palestinian journalist and the current editor-in-chief of the Qatar-based television channel Al Jazeera. Ahmed Sheikh was born in Nablus on the West Bank. He left his homeland in 1968 to study in Jordan.
- Hussein Al-Araj
Hussein Al-Araj was the mayor of Nablus, one of the largest cities in the West Bank. He was in office from April 1, 2004. He was later replaced by Local Government Committee Led by Ghassan Hammouz in 2005.
- Ernie Ross
Ernest Ross (born 27 July 1942) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour member of Parliament for Dundee West from 1979 until his retirement at the 2005 general election. Ross was a senior quality control engineer at Timex and joined Labour Party in 1973. In April 1981, he took part in a good-will delegation from Dundee to visit Nablus and Kuwait City.
- Abdel Aziz Duwaik
Abdel Aziz Duwaik is a member of Hamas, and the current Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Duwaik was a university professor at An-Najah National University in Nablus on the West Bank. Duwaik has been arrested many times and was exiled from the Palestinian territories and sent to southern Lebanon along with 400 other Hamas members by the Rabin administration in 1992. Abdel Aziz Duwaik was arrested by Israel on June 29, …
- Isabella Of Jerusalem
Isabella of Jerusalem (1172 - 1205) was Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192-1205. She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena, a grandniece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, who had received the town and territory of Nablus as a dower from her husband the king. She married four times.
- Bassam Shakaa
Bassam Shakaa (1930-) was elected mayor of Nablus in 1976. Former Nablus mayor Ghassan Shakaa is his first cousin. Shakaa had been a PLO supporter and outspoken critic of the Camp David accords, and was subsequently accused of inciting terrorism by his public statements and was issued an expulsion order in 1979. Felicia Langer successfully defended him from the charges.
- Fadi Kafisha
Fadi Kafisha (died August 31, 2006) was the head of the Tanzim in Nablus. Kafisha was responsible for organizing many suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis and creating many explosive belts. In 2004 Kafisha was wounded during a confrontation with IDF soldiers and his arm was amputated. His contact in Lebanon working for Hezbollah, Kais Ubaid, sent him an artificial arm from Germany.
- Nazeh Darwazi
Nazeh Darwazi (died 19 April 2003), was a cameraman for the U.S. news agency APTN, who was killed in Nablus in the West Bank, according to an eyewitness, by a bullet in the head fired by an Israeli soldier from a distance of about 20 yards (18 meters). When he was killed he was wearing a yellow jacket marked "press" and was with a group of half a dozen journalists covering clashes between some young Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.
- Roi Klein
Roi Klein (1975-July 26 2006) born in Raanana, Israel was a Major in the Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces. Klein was killed in the Battle of Bint Jbeil during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict after jumping on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Klein began his IDF service in the Egoz Reconnaissance Unit. In 2002 Klein received a Chief Of Staff Citation for his conduct during an ambush near Nablus where 5 Palestinian terrorists were killed.
- Fadwa Toukan
Fadwa Toukan (also transliterated as "Fadwa Tuqan",, ; b. 1917 in Nablus, d. 2003), known as the "Poet of Palestine", was a well-known for her representations of resistance in contemporary Arab poetry.
- Nafez Assaily
Nafez Assaily (Arabic:)was born in 1956 in the former Jordanian territory of the West Bank, in Hebron. Though a Sufi Muslim, he received his early education at Christian schools in Jerusalem, and then began his tertiary studies at An-Najah National University in Nablus, where he majored in English. There he was impressed, if not wholly convinced, by writers on non-violence as varied as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Martin Buber.
- Saloum Cohen
Saloum Cohen also known as Shalom ben Amram ben Yitzhaq (January 131922-February 92004) was the Samaritan High Priest. He lived in Nablus in the West Bank. He was elected as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996. He became High Priest in 2001. He was a friend of Yasser Arafat. His successor as High Priest is Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq.
- Hussein Khalili
Hussein Khalili (born 1973) is a Palestinian member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Hussein worked with others to establish a base for the ISM in regions where armed resistance dominated. The ISM was able to be established in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem. The purpose was to try to protect civilians from the aggression of the Israeli occupation forces, …
- John Of Ibelin, The Old Lord Of Beirut
John of Ibelin (c. 1179-1236), the "Old Lord of Beirut," was a powerful crusader noble in the 13th century. He was the son of Balian, Lord of Nablus and Ibelin, and Maria Comnena, widow of Amalric I of Jerusalem. By 1198 he had become constable of Jerusalem; the fact that he was the half-brother of Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem gave him considerable influence. At the time he was a vassal of Ralph of Tiberias, …
- Naif Abu-Sharah
Naif Abu-Sharah was the local commander of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Nablus. He was killed in a conflict with the Israeli Defence Force
- Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq
Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq (b. 1927 in Nablus) is the Samaritan High Priest. He succeeded his cousin Saloum Cohen in 2004. According to tradition he is the 131st holder of this post since Aaron. Before retirement he worked as a mathematics teacher.
- Ahmad Khaldi
Ahmed Mubarak el-Khaldi has been the Minister of Justice of the Palestinian National Authority since March 2006 when Hamas won the elections and took clear control of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Dr. el-Khaldi is a former professor of law and dean of the College of Law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, in the West Bank. For several years, he has been instrumental in drafting a permanent Palestinian Constitution.
- Hodierna Of Tripoli
Hodierna of Tripoli (c. 1110 - c. 1164) was the daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem and the Armenian noblewoman Morphia. She was countess of Tripoli through her marriage to Raymond II of Tripoli. Hodierna was the third of four daughters; her older sisters were Melisende (wife of Fulk of Jerusalem) and Alice (wife of Bohemund II of Antioch), and her younger sister was Ioveta (abbess of Bethany).
- Awni Abd Al-Hadi
Awni Abd al-Hadi (1889 - 1970) was a Palestinian political figure. He was educated in Beirut, Istanbul, and at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 1911 Hadi was a founding member of the "al-Fatat" nationalist society, which was devoted to Arab independence and unity and was among the organizers of the 1913 Arab Nationalist Congress in Paris. He served as private secretary of Faisal I of Iraq at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
- Ali al Sartawi
Ali Sartawi is a Palestinian professor and politician. He served as Minister of Justice in the national unity government of the Palestinian National Authority since the end of March 2007. From 2006 to 2007 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at An-Najah National University. Since 1999 he had been a professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine.
- Marinus Of Neapolis
Marinus was neo-Platonist philosopher born in Neapolis (modern Nablus), Palestine in the mid 5th century CE. He was probably a Samaritan, or possibly a Jew. He came to Athens at a time when, with the exception of Proclus, there was a great dearth of eminent men in the neo-Platonic school. It was for this reason rather than for any striking ability of his own that he succeeded to the headship of the school on the death of Proclus in 485.
- Mohammed A. Salameh
Mohammed A. Salameh (born September 1, 1967) is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing.
- Maria Komnene Queen consort of Jerusalem
Maria Komnene or Comnena, was the second wife of King Amalric I of Jerusalem and mother of Queen Isabella of Jerusalem. She was the daughter of John Komnenos, sometime Byzantine dux in Cyprus, and Maria Taronitissa, a descendant of the ancient Armenian kings. Her sister Theodora married Prince Bohemund III of Antioch, and her brother Alexios was briefly, in 1185, a pretender to the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
- Shakeeb Dallal
Shakeeb Ahmed was born in the city of Dhaka, Palestine in 1920, the son of Jamil H. Dallal, who was active in the 1936 Arab Uprising against the British Mandate. He was one of the founders of Ba'ath party and was a member of the PLO and a member of its PNC, the Palestinian National Council. In his younger years, he was an important participant in the Palestine Arab Workers Society, the first Labor Union in Palestine, founded by Sami Taha, …
- Abdel Wael Zwaiter
Abdel Wael Zwaiter was a Palestinian translator and the first target of Israel's Operation Wrath of God campaign following the 1972 Munich massacre. Born in Nablus the mid-1930s, he went to Iraq to study Arabic literature and philosophy at the University of Baghdad. Zwaiter moved first to Libya and then Rome, where he was a PLO representative and worked as a translator for the Libyan embassy. In addition to his native Arabic, Zwaiter spoke French, Italian, and English.
- Warmund, Patriarch Of Jerusalem
Warmund, also "Garmond", "Gormond", "Germond", "Guarmond", or "Waremond", was a Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1118 to his death at Sidon in 1128. He was from Picquigny in Picardy. In 1120, with King Baldwin II, he convened the Council of Nablus. The canons of the council served as a sort of concordat between the church of Outremer and the Crusader States.
- Abu Muhammad Asem Al-Maqdisi
Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi or more fully Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi (أبو محمد عصام المقدسي) is the assumed name of Isam Mohammad Tahir al-Barqawi (عصام محمد طاهر البرقاوي), a Jordanian-Palestinian Islamic scholar and jihadist writer. He is best known as the spiritual mentor of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the initial leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.