List of Famous people born in Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Samia al-Amoudi
Samia al-Amoudi is a Saudi Arabian consultant obstetrician and gynecologist. She is the head of the Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in breast cancer. She is best known for her work in raising breast cancer awareness, after she was herself diagnosed with the disease. She was also the first woman from the Gulf Cooperation Council to win a seat at the Union for International Cancer Control board.
Thuraya Qabil
Thuraya Muhammad Qabil is a Saudi Arabian poet and journalist.
FALEH AL DHAHRI
Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja
Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja is the former Saudi ambassador and he served as the minister of culture and information between 2009 and 2014.
Imran ibn Husain
Imran ibn Husain ibn ‘Ubayd ibn Khalaf al-Khuzā’i was one of the Sahaba (Companions) of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and a well-known reciter of the Quran, a Qadhi (Judge) and narrator of hadith.
Umayya ibn Abi Salt
Abu Mihjan
Abū Miḥjan ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb called al-Thaqafī, was an Arab poet of the Jāhiliyya and the early Islamic period.
Aliya bint Ali
Queen Aliya bint Ali of Hejaz, was an Arabian princess and a queen consort of Iraq. She was the spouse and first cousin of King Ghazi of Iraq and the queen mother of King Faisal II of Iraq. She was the second and last Queen of Iraq.
Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi
Mutlaq Hamid Al-Thubeiti Al-Otaibi was a Saudi Arabian writer and poet., and he was a member of the faculty of sharia at the University of Umm al-Qura. and he was the President of the Scientific Research Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia, he is considered by many as one of the greatest Saudi poets of all times.
Urwa bint Kariz
Arwa bint Kurayz was the mother of Uthman ibn Affan, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the third of the Rashidun or "Rightly Guided Caliphs".