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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 groups. The following is a list of notable Bahrani figures

Academics

* Ali Al-Ahmed, Bahraini political activist, public speaker, scholar, writer * Zainab Bahrani, Iraqi art historian * Abdulhadi Khalaf, 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, CEO of

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* Mahdi Al Tajir, businessman from the United Arab Emirates, based in the United Kingdom * Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Bahraini merchant and trader * Yara Salman, Bahraini businesswomen who introduced cryotherapy to the country

Film directors

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and screenwriter * Shahriar Bahrani,

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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, composer and music critic * Majeed Marhoon,

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

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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, poet * Mohammed Hasan Kamaluddin, Bahraini former minister, poet, ex-diplomat, historian, writer, and researcher

Politicians

* Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar, 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, Bahraini human rights activist and hunger striker *

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, 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

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* 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, Bahraini political activist * Isa Qassim, 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 *

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Shubar al-Sitri, attempted a

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

Religious figures

Grand Ayatollahs

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