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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. The list is in chronological order.

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Ancient

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Antiquity

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Medieval

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Ottoman era

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Modern

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born 1820–1849
born 1850–1879
born 1880–1909
born 1910s
born 1920s
born 1930s
born 1940s
born 1950s
born since 1960
unknown date of birth

Honorary citizens

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People awarded the honorary citizenship of Jerusalem are:

Date Name Notes
29 November 2015Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)1986 Nobel Peace Prize Winner[31]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Blenkinsopp, Joseph (2015). Abraham: The Story of a Life. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8028-7287-6.
  2. ↑ Cline, 2004, pp. 6, 8.
  3. ↑ Cline, 2004, p. 314.
  4. ↑ Carr, David M. (2011). An Introduction to the Old Testament: Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts of the Hebrew Bible. John Wiley & Sons. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-44435623-6. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  5. ↑ Falk, Avner (1996). A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-83863660-2. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  6. ↑ 2 Samuel 8:16–18
  7. ↑ Andrews, Stephen J.; Bergen, Robert D. (2009). I & II Samuel. B&H. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8054-9466-2.
  8. ↑ Grabbe, Lester. The Dawn of Israel: A History of Canaan in the Second Millennium BCE. 2023. T&T Clark. p. 255-259. "It is essentially a folktale about an Eastern potentate – it is royal legend or Königsnovelle." "Thus, it looks difficult to discover much in the Solomon story that strikes the critical reader as likely to be historical." "[T]he temple story has been inflated into a legendary extravaganza." "[T]he Solomon story is the most problematic of those relating to the early Israelite kings, providing the thickest cloud of obscurity over the history that lies behind it."
  9. ↑ "Impression of King Hezekiah's royal seal discovered in excavations in Jerusalem: First seal impression of an Israelite or Judean king ever exposed in situ in a scientific archaeological excavation". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  10. ↑ Ian Young, Robert Rezetko, Martin Ehrensvärd (2008). Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: An introduction to approaches and problems. p. 267. Ben Sira was a resident of Jerusalem during the early second century BC{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Barnes, Timothy David (2010). Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History. Mohr Siebeck. p. 121. Eusebius begins with Procopius, a native of Aelia (Jerusalem) [...]
  12. ↑ Friedmann 1992, pp. 194–195.
  13. ↑ Galor, Katharina; Bloedhorn, Hanswulf (2013). The Archaeology of Jerusalem. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11195-8. Shaddad ibn Aws was buried in the Golden Gate cemetery in the seventh century
  14. ↑ Johns 2003, p. 416.
  15. ↑ Max Van Berchem, MIFAO 44 - Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Part 2 Syrie du Sud T.2 Jérusalem Haram (1927), p13-14 (no.146): “L’émir Muhammad mourut à Damas en 334 (946) et son corps fut transporté et inhumé à Jérusalem. L’émir Unūdjūr mourut en 349 (960) et son corps fut porté à Jérusalem et inhumé à côté de celui de son père. L’émir ‘Ali mourut en 355 (966) et son corps fut transporté à Jérusalem et inhumé à côté de ceux de son père et de son frère. Enfin l'ustādh Kāfūr mourut en 357 (968) et son corps fut transporté et inhumé à Jérusalem, sans doute auprès de ceux de ses maîtres. Ainsi les Ikhshidides avaient leur caveau funéraire à Jérusalem. Bien plus, un auteur contemporain précise que «l'émir Ali fut transporté dans un cercueil à Jérusalem et enterré, avec son frère et son père, ce tout près du Bāb al-asbāt ou porte des Tribus (1). Ce nom désignait et désigne encore la porte du Haram désigne encore la porte du Haram qui s'ouvre dans l'angle nord-est de l'esplanade (2), et précisément derrière le n° 146, à l'intérieur du mur d’enceinte.”
  16. ↑ Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge. 2023. p. 188. "Al-Tamīmī was born in Jerusalem and received his medical training from a local physician, a Christian monk named Zakhariyya ibn Thawaba
  17. ↑ Sarton, George (1927). Introduction to the History of Science: Volume 1. p. 659. IBN TAHIR Mutahhar ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi (or al-Muqaddasi, i.e., the native or inhabitant of the Holy City). From Jerusalem
  18. ↑ Hillenbrand, Carole (1999). The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Edinburgh University Press. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-7486-0630-6. [...] born of Christian parents in Jerusalem under Frankish occupation [...]
  19. ↑ Dascalu, Raphael (2015). "Between Intellect and Intoxication: An Exploration of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi's Commentary to the Book of Jonah". Jewish Quarterly Review. 105 (1). Project MUSE: 42–71. It is not clear whether the gentilic Ha-Yerushalmi—in Arabic al-Qudsi, al-Muqaddasi, or al-Maqdasi—was applied to him personally or inherited patrilineally (as may have been the case with his son, Joseph b. Tanḥum Ha-Yerushalmi).
  20. ↑ Gerber, H. (2008). Remembering and Imagining Palestine:Identity and Nationalism from the Crusades to the Present. pp. 49–51. A major source for the history of Palestine [...] is a history of Jerusalem and Hebron written in the 1490s by Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali al-Ulaymi, a scholar and resident of Jerusalem (d. 1519).
  21. ↑ Beška, Emanuel (2007). "Responses of Prominent Arabs Towards Zionist Aspirations and Colonization Prior to 1908". Asian and African Studies. 16 (1). Tahir Muhammad Efendi ibn Mustafa al Husayni (1842 - 1908) The case of Muhammad Tāhir al-Husayni is a good example of the stable position enjoyed by prominent families in Levant in general and in Jerusalem in particular. He was born into the notable al-Husayni family, in which the position of Mufti of Jerusalem was de facto hereditary. His father Mustafa held this post since the 1840s.
  22. ↑ "Yusuf Diya' al-Khalidi (1842-1906)". Jerusalem Story. He was the only Palestinian elected member of the first Ottoman parliament, and he represented Jerusalem.
  23. ↑ "Christians Celebrate Beatification of Palestinian Nun". Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation. 27 November 2009. Archived from the original on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  24. 1 2 Bar-Am, Aviva; and Bar-Am, Shmuel. "On a small Jerusalem street, a historic literary rivalry Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon and historian Josef Klausner were once grouchy neighbors in Jerusalem’s Talpiot. And they’re not the only major figures with echoes in the leafy neighborhood", The Times of Israel, December 24, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2026.
  25. ↑ Marcela A. Garcia Probert. "Chapter 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets". Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context: 253–274. Jawrat al-ʿenāb was located nearby Bab al-Khalil outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City [...] At jawrat al-ʿenāb there was a well-known amulet maker, Shaykh Maḥmūd Basha al-ʿAskarī also known as Sheikh al-Falakī. His amulets were famous in Jerusalem.
  26. ↑ Jawhariyyeh, Wasif (2013). The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948. He was one of the well-known figurs of Jerusalem and the brother of Sheikh Musa al-Budeiri.
  27. ↑ Nashef, Khaled (November 2002). "Tawfik Canaan: His Life and Works" (PDF). Jerusalem Quarterly (16): 25. doi:10.70190/jq.I16.p12. Retrieved 21 July 2009. Tawfik Canaan [...] a distinguished physician in Jerusalem before 1948, and later as the director of the Augusta Victoria Hospital, he enjoyed an eminent status in Palestinian society, particularly in Jerusalem
  28. ↑ Tamari, Salim; Turjman, Ihsan Salih (2011). A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past. California University Press. pp. 31, 68. ISBN 9780520259553. [...] Aref Shehadeh, also of Jerusalem [...] received his early education at the al-Ma'muniyyeh Intermediate School [...]
  29. ↑ Katz, Hayah (2023). The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology: Between Hegemony and Marginalization. Taylor & Francis. Dmitiri Baramki was born in Jerusalem in 1909 to an Orthodox Christian family [...]
  30. ↑ Berger, Joseph. "Abraham Twerski, Who Merged 12 Steps and the Torah, Dies at 90", The New York Times, February 6, 2021. Accessed May 10, 2026. "He died on Jan. 31 at a hospital in Jerusalem, the city where he had lived full time for the past five years."
  31. ↑ "Elie Wiesel Named Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem". 24 December 2015.

Bibliography

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  • Cline, Eric H. (2004). Jerusalem Besieged From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. University of Michigan Press.
  • Friedmann, Yohanan, ed. (1992). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XII: The Battle of al-Qādisīyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0733-2
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