List of Famous people born in Capital Governorate, Bahrain

Ibrahim Bahar was a Bahraini actor.

Mohammed Tayeb Al Alawi is a Bahrain association footballer currently playing for Al-Najma and the Bahrain national football team as a striker.

Ali Al Shargawi is a leading Bahraini poet, lyricist and playwright whose work has been translated into English, German, Bulgarian, Russian, Kurdish, and French. Born in Manama in 1948, he started publishing his poetry in 1968, and quickly gained prominence in Arab newspapers and magazines.

Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa is a Bahraini diplomat who served as Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 until January 2020. Sheikh Khalid became only the second foreign minister in Bahrain's history after replacing the Sheikh Mohammad bin Mubarak Al Khalifa who then became Bahrain's Deputy Prime minister.

Abdulla Yusuf Helal is a Bahraini professional footballer who plays as a striker, and who currently plays for Slavia Prague, and Bahrain national team.

Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa is a member of the Bahraini royal family and a painter. He is the first president and the current honorary president of the Bahrain Arts Society. He has painted over a period of 40 years, painting artistic genres such as Realism developed to Impressionism, which gradually evolved to Individualism, a notable prelude to his recent work, a dual concept of Abstract and the colour field. He is often considered to be one of the kingdom's most famous artists.

Ali Assadalla, also known simply as Ali Asad, is a Qatari footballer who currently plays for Al Sadd as a midfielder. He also currently plays for the Qatar national team.

Sameera bint Ibrahim Rajab is a Bahraini politician and former member of Majlis al-shura and Minister of State for Information.

Meriam bint Abdullah Al-Khalifa is a member of the Bahraini Royal House of Al-Khalifa. She is best known for fleeing her family and native Bahrain to the United States to elope with US Marine Lance Corporal Jason Johnson, who was, at the time, stationed in Bahrain as part of a counter-terrorism unit providing security for expatriate Americans. After she was smuggled into the United States with help from Lance Corporal Johnson and being threatened with deportation by United States Customs, she was permitted to stay and apply for asylum, claiming that she feared honor violence by her family in retaliation for fleeing her country and entertaining a romantic relationship with a non-Muslim. Her story was featured heavily in the American press, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, and was turned into a television movie.