List of Famous people born in Yemen

Major General Aidarus Qassem Abdulaziz al-Zoubaidi is the current president and commander of the Southern Transitional Council and the de facto leader of the Southern Movement in Yemen. He previously served as the governor of Aden Governorate from December 2015 to April 2017.

Abdul Majeed al-Zindani is a leading Islamist, founder and head of the Iman University in Yemen, head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood political movement and founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, based in Saudi Arabia. He has been described by Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal as "a charismatic Yemeni academic and politician." and by CNN as "a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard".

Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher is a Yemeni politician and former Prime Minister of Yemen from 4 April 2016 to 15 October 2018 as part of the internationally recognized Aden. On 22 September 2016, Dagher returned to Yemen by flying from Riyadh along with seven ministers to Aden.

Jalal Ali bin al-Rowaishan was the former Interior Minister of the internationally recognised Yemeni government from 9 November 2014 to 2015. In October 2016, he was said to be killed by an airstrike by Saudi warplanes but the Houthis did not say whether Rowaishan was in the building at the time of the attack.

Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah is a Yemeni politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 2014 and 2016, as well as Vice President of Yemen from 2015 until he was sacked on April 3, 2016 by President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed is a Yemeni politician who has been the Prime Minister of Yemen since 18 October 2018. He previously served as the minister of public works in Bin Dagher's cabinet.

John Aden Gillett is a British actor best known for playing the role of Jack Maddox on the BBC series The House of Eliott.

Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh is the nephew of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and was a commander of the approx. 50,000 strong Central Security Organization from 2001 to 21 May 2012. His father is Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was replaced with Major General Fadhel Bin Yahiya al-Qusi.

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994. He is a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party.