List of Famous people born in Saudi Arabia
Michael Mmoh
Michael Mmoh is an American tennis player. He won the USTA junior national championship in 2016. He has won 2 ATP Challenger titles and 4 ITF Futures tournaments, including his first at the age of 16.
Hussein Sulaimani
Hussein Omar Abdulghani Sulaimani is a former Saudi Arabian football player who played as a left back in the Saudi Professional League.
Reem Abdullah
Norah Al otaibi known as Reem Abdullah is a Saudi Arabian actress. She worked with comedians Nasser Al Qasabi and Abdullah Al-Sadhan in the 2007 television series Tash Ma Tash. In 2012, she was cast by the Saudi director Haifa Al-Mansour in the film Wadjda, which received critical acclaim.
Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh
Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar who is the current Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. As such he is head of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars and its sub-committee, the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas.
Saad Khader
Saad Khader is a Saudi Arabian television actor, director and producer. He is the first man presenting a Saudi film called Mowad Ma Majhoal, he is considered as one of the greatest Saudi actors of all times.
Mashhur bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Mashour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is a member of the House of Saud and a member of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Allegiance Council. He is the half-brother of King Salman and the father-in-law of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr
Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr is a Saudi Arabian political prisoner who has participated in the Saudi Arabian protests during the Arab Spring as a teenager. He was arrested in February 2012, sentenced to death in May 2014, and previously awaited ratification of his sentence by King Salman of Saudi Arabia, which was to be carried out by beheading and crucifixion, respectively. Al-Nimr's trial was called unfair by Professor of Human Rights Law Christof Heyns, and Amnesty International, as well as French President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who called for the execution to be stopped. Ali al-Nimr is the nephew of Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, who was one of the 47 executed citizens during the 2016 Saudi Arabian mass execution. Ali al-Nimr's death sentence is presumed to have been overturned in April 2020 following several announcements from the Saudi government that people convicted as minors under 18 years of age are not to be executed.
Abu Zubaydah
Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi Arabian national currently held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He is held under the authority of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF).
Sami Al-Jaber
Sami Abdullah Al-Jaber is a retired football striker from Saudi Arabia. He spent the majority of his career from 1988 to 2008 with Al-Hilal.
Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Khalid bin Salman Al Saud, is the ninth son and tenth child of King Salman of Saudi Arabia. On 27 September 2022, he was appointed as Saudi Arabia's defense minister.