List of Famous people with last name Matar

Ismail Matar Ibrahim Khamis Al Mukhaini Al Junaibi is an Emirati footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Al Wahda and captains the UAE national team.

Moataz Matar is an Egyptian journalist who became famous after the 2011 revolution thanks to his program Mu'taz broadcast on El-Sharq satellite channel. He is known for his harsh criticism of the Egyptian government after the 2013 coup d'etat, as well as the deterioration of the political situation in the Arab World in general.

Ahmed Mattar is a revolutionary Iraqi poet who has been living in exile for decades, most recently in London.

Hisham Matar is an American born British-Libyan writer. His memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 2017 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar's essays have appeared in the Asharq al-Awsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to wide acclaim on 3 March 2011. He lives and writes in London.