List of Famous people born in Al Madinah Region, Saudi Arabia
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, also referred to as Ibn Shihab or al-Zuhri, was a tabi'i Arab jurist and traditionist credited with pioneering the development of sīra-maghazi and hadith literature.
Muhammad ibn Ismail
Imam Muhammad ibn Imam Ismāʿīl alias Maymūn Al-Qaddāḥ was the son of Isma'il ibn Jafar; he was an Ismāʿīlī Imam. The majority of Ismāʿīlī follow his descendants through his son Wafi Ahmad. His descendants further founded the Fatimid Caliphate, later called the Nizari and Mustaali. Imam Muhammad ibn Imam Ismail can be considered the first proper Ismaili Imam since Imam Isma'il ibn Ja'far predeceased his father Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq and thus he was able to act independently of previous Imams. From him came all other Ismaili Imams and subsequent sub-sects of Ismailism and it' offshoots.
Talal Asad
Talal Asad is a Saudi-born British cultural anthropologist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Asad has made important theoretical contributions to postcolonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Michel Foucault, Asad "complicates terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed".
Ali Awagi
Ali Awaji is a Saudi professional footballer who plays for Al-Tai as a winger for the Saudi Arabian national team.
Ahmed Khaled Mustafa
Ahmed Khaled Mustafa is an Egyptian author, famous for his book Antichrist.
Bandar Al Hajjar
Bandar bin Mohammed bin Hamza Asaad Al Hajjar is a Saudi Arabian economist and former Hajj minister. He was removed from post over 2015 Hajj stampede.
Omar al-Saqqaf
Fahd Al-Ahmadi
Ali Saleh Mohammed Ali Jaber
Ali Saleh Mohammed Ali Jaber or better known as Sheikh Ali Jaber was a Saudi Arabian-born preacher and scholar with Indonesian nationality. He has also been a judge on Hafiz Indonesia and has been a Da'i in various studies on various national television stations.
Turki Al-Khodair
Turki Al-Khodair is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ohod.