List of Famous people born in Haifa District, Israel

Hava Siegelmann is a professor of computer science, and a world leader in the fields of Lifelong Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Computational Neuroscience. Her academic position is in the school of Computer Science and the Program of Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; she is the director of the school's Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Lab. She was loaned to the federal government DARPA 2016-2019 to initiate and run their most advanced AI programs including her Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) program. and Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deceptions (GARD). She received the rarely awarded Meritorious Public Service Medal - one of the highest honors the Department of Defense agency can bestow on a private citizen.

Misha Segal is an Israeli music producer and film composer. He studied music, film, and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and apprenticed under Dieter Schöhnbach in Germany. Segal also studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, after which point he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Segal has stated that he has been influenced by jazz, Elton John and The Beatles.

Einat Kalisch-Rotem is an Israeli urban planner and mayor of Haifa. She is the first female mayor to lead any of the three major cities in Israel.

Shabtai Shavit was director general of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996.

Avinoam Lerner is an Israeli-American film producer, primarily of American action movies. Lerner is the founder and CEO of Millennium Films.

Marco Balbul is a former Israeli football defender and the manager of Maccabi Haifa.

Ziva Rodann, known first as Ziva Shapir, is an Israeli-American actress and mime artist. She was a Hollywood film star and a frequent guest star on television series from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.