The

Baharna The Baharna ( ar, بحارنة) are the indigenous Shia Muslim inhabitants of Bahrain who inhabited the area before the arrival of Sunni Muslim Arab tribes from Najd, particularly by Banu Utbah in the 18th century which the Bahraini royal fami ...

are one of ethnically diverse Bahrain's many

ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

s. The following is a list of notable Bahrani figures

Academics

Ali Al-Ahmed Ali Abbas al-Ahmed (alt.: Ali AlAhmed) ( ar, علي عباس آل أحمد, Gulf pronunciation: ; born 1966, is a Saudi analyst focusing on the politics of the Persian Gulf region: including terrorism, Islamic movements, Wahhabi Islam, Saudi poli ...

, Bahraini political activist, public speaker, scholar, writer * Zainab Bahrani, Iraqi art historian *

Abdulhadi Khalaf Abdulhadi Khalaf ( ar, عبد الهادي خلف, born 1945) is a Bahraini leftist political activist and senior lecturer in the Sociology department at Lund University. He is regarded as a specialist in the politics of the Persian Gulf region. ...

, Bahraini leftist political activist and academic

Actors

* Ali Al-Sebaa, Saudi television actor

Bloggers

* Ali Abdulemam, Bahraini blogger and contributor to Global Voices * Mahmood Al-Yousif, Bahrani blogger and political activist

Businesspeople

* Amin H. Nasser, CEO of Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco *

Nadhmi Al-Nasr Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr is the CEO of NEOM project and is the former Executive Vice-President for Administration and Finance at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and had held this office since 2008. He was born in 1956 in Saihat. He w ...

, CEO of

NEOM Neom (styled NEOM; ''Neom,'' ) is a city being built in Tabuk Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and function as a tourist destination. The site is north of the Red Sea, east of Egypt acr ...

Mahdi Al Tajir Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir ( ar, محمد مهدي التاجر) (born 26 December 1931) is a Bahraini- Emirati businessman based in the United Kingdom. He was the first United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United Kingdom and non resident ambassa ...

, businessman from the United Arab Emirates, based in the United Kingdom * Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Bahraini merchant and trader *

Yara Salman Yara Salman (born 16 August 1994) is a Bahraini businesswoman who started her business career by taking over the running of the food franchise Burger Land from her father at 17 years old. She then went on to found several beauty, hospitality, an ...

, Bahraini businesswomen who introduced cryotherapy to the country

Film directors

Ramin Bahrani Ramin Bahrani ( fa, رامین بحرانی; born March 20, 1975) is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's ''Chop Shop'' (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the ...

Iranian American Iranian Americans are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship. Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busin ...

director Director may refer to: Literature * ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine * ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker * ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty Music * Director (band), an Irish rock band * ''D ...

and

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Shahriar Bahrani Shahriar Bahrani ( fa, شهریار بحرانی) is an Iranian director. Selected filmography * 2009: The Kingdom of Solomon * 2000: Saint Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, ...

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

film

Journalists

* Mansoor Al-Jamri, son of Bahrain's spiritual leader, Sheikh Abdul-Amir Al-Jamri * Leila Al Mutawa (born 1987), novelist and journalist

Musicians

Mohammed Haddad Mohammed Haddad ( ar, محمد حداد) (born 2 October 1975) is a Bahraini composer and music critic. He is an active artist in the music scene of Bahrain and a leading composer in the film scores of Bahraini films. He is best known for his wo ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and music critic *

Majeed Marhoon Majeed Marhoon ( ar, مجيد مرهون) (1945–2010) was a Bahraini saxophonist, and a former leftist political activist with the National Liberation Front of Bahrain. He spent 22 years in prison in Bahrain between 1968 and 1990, accused of p ...

saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pro ...

and a former

Leftist Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

political activist with the National Liberation Front of Bahrain * Majid Al-Maskati, singer of the Canadian R&B duo

Majid Jordan Majid Jordan is a Canadian R&B duo, consisting of singer Majid Al Maskati and producer Jordan Ullman from Toronto, Ontario. They formed in 2011 and signed to OVO Sound, the record label co-founded by rapper Drake, producer Noah "40" Shebib and O ...

Philosophers

* Kamal al-Deen Maitham al-Bahrani, famous 13th century philosopher

Poets and writers

* Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, one of the greatest poets of Bahrain and the Persian Gulf * Thuraya Al Arrayedh, daughter of Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh * Ali Al Jallawi, poet, researcher, and writer *

Ayat Al-Qurmezi Ayat Hassan Mohammed Al-Qurmezi ( ar, آيات حسن محمد القرمزي; also Al-Qormezi, al-Ghermezi; born 1 January 1991) is a poet and student at the University of Bahrain Teaching Institute in Bahrain. Al-Qurmezi became famous in Bahr ...

, poet *

Mohammed Hasan Kamaluddin Mohammed Hasan Kamaluddin (Arabic: محمد حسن كمال الدين, born 1941) is a Bahraini former cabinet minister, member of parliament, ex-diplomat, poet, historian, writer and researcher. He is best known for having published the first Enc ...

, Bahraini former minister, poet, ex-diplomat, historian, writer, and researcher

Politicians

Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar Abdulwahid Ahmad Hassan AlAbduljabbar ( ar, عبدالواحد احمد حسن العبدالجبار) was a Saudi political activist. Born in 1935 in Qatif, died June 15, 1970, of torture in the garden of the prison in Jeddah by Saudi authoritie ...

, Saudi political activist * Majeed Al Alawi, Bahrain's Minister of Labour Affairs *

Jawad Al-Arrayedh Jawad Salem Al Arrayed (born 1941) is a lawyer and former cabinet member in Bahrain. Currently, he is President of the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs (effectively, the General Counsel to the Cabinet) and former deputy prime ministers in ...

, Bahrain's first Shia Deputy Prime Minister * Nazar Al Baharna, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain *

Abdul Amir al-Jamri Sheikh Abdul Amir al-Jamri ( ; ar, شيخ عبدالأمير الجمري; 1 March 1938 – 18December 2006) was one of the most prominent Shia clerics and opposition leaders in Bahrain. He was also a writer and a poet. Born in the village of ...

, spiritual leader of the Bahrani people *

Abdulhadi Al Khawaja Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja ( ar, عبد الهادي عبد الله حبيل الخواجة) is a Bahraini political activist. On 22 June 2011, al-Khawaja and eight others were sentenced to life imprisonment following the suppression o ...

, Bahraini human rights activist and hunger striker *

Massouma al-Mubarak Massouma al-Mubarak (born 1947) is Kuwait's first female government minister, sworn in on 20 June 2005. She was educated in the United States and is a professor of political science. Biography Massouma went to the US for higher education in 1971 ...

, Kuwait's first female minister *

Nimr al-Nimr Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr ( ar, نمر باقر النمر, Nimr Bāqir an-Nimr, Bakir al-Nimr, al-Nemr, al-Namr, al-Nimer, al-Nemer, al-Namer; 21 June 1959 – 2 January 2016), commonly referred to as Sheikh Nimr, was a Shia sheikh in ...

, spiritual leader of the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests * Hussain Al-Qallaf Al-Bahrani, member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly * Nada Haffadh, Bahrain's first ever female cabinet minister when she was appointed Minister of Health *

Hasan Mushaima Hasan Mushaima ( ar, حسن مشيمع) is an opposition leader in Bahrain and the secretary-general of the Haq Movement, an important opposition party in Bahrain. Before forming Haq, he was a founding member of Al Wefaq and a leading figure in t ...

, Bahraini political activist *

Isa Qassim Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim (Arabic: آية الله الشيخ عيسى أحمد قاسم) is Bahrain's leading Shia cleric and a politician. He is the spiritual leader of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He is the fou ...

, spiritual leader of

Al Wefaq Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society ( ar, جمعية الوفاق الوطني الإسلامية; ), sometimes shortened to simply Al-Wefaq, was a Shi'a Bahraini political party, that operates clandestinely after being ordered by the highest co ...

, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He was the leader and founder of the Islamic Awareness Institution *

Nabeel Rajab Nabeel Ahmed Abdulrasool Rajab ( ar, نبيل أحمد عبدالرسول رجب, born on 1 September 1964) is a Bahraini human rights activist and opposition leader. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch's Middle East ...

, Bahraini human rights activist *

Ali Salman Ali Salman Ahmed Salman ( ar, علي سلمان أحمد سلمان) is a Bahraini Twelver Shi'a cleric and the Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq political society. In January 1995, the Bahraini government forcibly exiled him to Dubai for leadi ...

, leader of the largest political party in Bahrain * Hussain Al Baharna, lawyer * Faisal Junaid, notable politician, economist, businessman, human rights advocater, owner of Junaid Perfumes, and mental health awareness champion

Rebels

* Abu al-Bahlul al-Awwam, member of the Abdul Qays tribe who deposed the Qarmatians in Bahrain *

Sayyid ''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali ...

Shubar al-Sitri, attempted a

coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

in 1895, however it failed due to lack of support from Shi'a clerics

Religious figures

Grand Ayatollahs

Shaykh Ahmad Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

, founder of the Shaykhí school of thought * Maitham Al Bahrani, renowned 13th-century Shi'a cleric and theologian *

Yusuf Al Bahrani Yūsuf ibn ʾAḥmad (1695–1772) ( ar, يوسف البحراني) was a Bahraini theologian and a key figure in the intellectual development of Twelver Shia Islam. Yusuf grew up in Safavid-ruled Bahrain, at a time of intellectual ferment betwee ...

, renowned 18th-century Shi'a cleric * Alaaeldeen Alghurayfi, Iraqi

Shi'a Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

Marja * Salih Al-Karzakani, renowned 17th-century Shi'a cleric * Abbas Almohri, renowned 20th-century Shi'a cleric * Abdullah al Samahiji, renowned 18th-century Shi'a cleric

Sports

* Ismael Abdullatif, Bahraini football player *

Sayed Mohamed Adnan Sayed Mohamed Adnan ( ar, سيد محمد عدنان; born 5 February 1983) is a Bahraini footballer who once played for the national team, and currently playing for Al Hidd. International career He was a member of the Bahrain national football ...

, Bahraini football player * Hamad Al Fardan, Bahraini racing driver * Tareq Al-Farsani, Bahraini bodybuilder *

Husain Ali Husain Ali (born 31 December 1981) is a Bahraini retired football player known as Husain Pelé. He last played for Al-Shabab of Bahrain and was a former player for the Bahrain national team. He was top goalscorer in the Bahrain Premier League ...

, Bahraini football player * Hussein Taher Al-Sabee, Saudi long jumper * Hussein Al-Sadiq, Bahraini football player * Jamal Al-Saffar, Saudi sprinter * Abbas Ayyad, Bahraini football player *

A'ala Hubail A'ala Ahmed Mohamed Hubail ( ar, علاء أحمد محمد حبيل; born 25 June 1982) is a Bahraini former professional footballer who played as a striker. With the Bahrain national team, he was the top scorer in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup. 201 ...

, Bahraini football player * Mohamed Hubail, Bahraini football player * Sayed Mohammed Jaffer, Bahraini football player * Abbas Ahmed Khamis, Bahraini football player * Hussain Salman, Bahraini football player

References

External links

The 1922 Bahrani uprising in Bahrain

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