List of Famous Sagittarians

Izz Al-Din Manasirah was a Palestinian poet, critic, intellectual and academic born in the town of Bani Naim, Hebron Governorate, Palestine. Winner of several prizes as a cadet and an academic, he was a poet of the Palestinian resistance from the late 1960s on, and his name was associated with armed and cultural resistance. He was with such poets as Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Tawfiq Ziad, or as they are collectively called, the "Big Four in Palestinian Poetry." He sang poems by Marcel Khalife and others and was famous for his poems "Jafra" and "The Green Kannah."

Sheikh Abdullah Awad Al Juhany is one of the Imams of the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. He holds a B.A from the faculty of Qur'an at The Islamic University of Madinah, and a doctorate (Ph.D) from Umm al-Qura University in Mecca.