List of Famous people born in Jerusalem Governorate

Salah Hamouri, born 25 April 1985 to a French mother and a Palestinian father, is a lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. His wife – who is French – has been barred since January 2016 from entering Israel or the Occupied West Bank to visit him.

Yitzhak Rachamim Navon was an Israeli politician, diplomat, and author. He served as the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left Alignment party. He was the first Israeli president born in Jerusalem and the first Mizrahi Jew to serve in that office.

Tom Segev is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.

Kamil al-Husayni was a Sunni Muslim religious leader in Palestine and member of the al-Husayni clan. He was the Hanafi Mufti of Jerusalem from 1908, and in 1918 the British Mandate authorities appointed him as the first "Grand Mufti of Jerusalem", a title they had copied from the Grand Mufti of Egypt. The British referred to him as "the representative of Islam in Palestine and a member of the oldest nobility of the country".

Firyal Irshaid is a Jordanian humanitarian and philanthropist.

Roni Alsheikh is an Israeli former intelligence officer and head of the Israel Police. After serving as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Alsheikh served as deputy head of Shin Bet prior to serving as Police Commissioner between 2015 and 2018.

Moshe Levinger was an Israeli Religious Zionist activist and an Orthodox Rabbi who, since 1967, had been a leading figure in the movement to settle Jews in the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. He is especially known for leading Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1968, and for being one of the principals of the now defunct settler movement Gush Emunim, founded in 1974, among whose ranks he assumed legendary status. Levinger was reportedly involved in violent acts against Palestinians.

Ahmet Kutsi Tecer was a Turkish poet and politician.

Cemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Reşit Rey (1900–1959) wrote the librettos.

Chaïm Nissim was an activist, ecological militant and perpetrator of the rocket attack of 18 January 1982 on the Superphénix nuclear plant, and Green politician.