List of Famous Arabs
This is a list of famous Arab figures through history and modern day
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (inventor, scientist)
- Abd ar-Rahman I Al-Dakhil, the "The Falcon of the Quraish" (founder of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba)
- Ahmed Zewail (scientist)
- Alhazen or better known as Ibn Al Haitham (physics scientist, scholar)
- Al-Mutanabbi (poet)
- Al-Waleed bin Talal (businessman)
- Amin Maalouf (author)
- Antarah ibn Shaddad (poet, hero)
- Anwar El Sadat (was the third President of Egypt)
- Averroes also known as Ibn Rushd (scholar, scientist)
- Boutros Boutros Ghali (former UN chairman)
- Carlos Slim Helu (businessman)
- Cheb Khaled (musician)
- Edward Said (western philosophy)
- Elie Saab (fashion)
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia (political leader)
- Farouk El-Baz (scientist)
- Colonel Gadafi (political leader)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Georgina Rizk (fashion)
- Harun Al-Rashid (caliph)
- Hassan al-Turabi (religious and Islamist political leader in Sudan)
- Ibn Battuta (scholar, explorer)
- Ibn Majid (navigator, cartographer)
- Ibn Saud (founder of KSA)
- Imru' al-Qais (poet)
- Khalid ibn al-Walid (military commander)
- Khalil Gibran (artist, poet, philosopher)
- Omar al-Bashir (current President of Sudan)
- Omar Sharif (actor)
- Osama Bin Laden (founder of Alqaeda)
- Mohamed ElBaradei (former IAEA chairman)
- Muhammad Bin Abdullah (prophet, political leader)
- Naji Al-Ali (cartoonist)
- Naomi Shihab Nye (poet, songwriter, and novelist)
- Reem Acra (fashion)
- Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya (poet, hero)
- Saddam Hussein (former Iraqi president)
- Taha Hussein (author)
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (military commander)
- Umm Kulthum (singer)
- Zaha Hadid (engineer)
- Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (founder of UAE)
See also
- Arabic language
- Arab people
- List of Arab scientists and scholars
- List of Jews from the Arab World
- List of Lebanese people
- List of Muslim scientists