List of Jordanians

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The following is a list of notable people from Jordan:

Political leaders

• Sherif Hussein ibn Ali
• King Abdullah I of Jordan
• King Talal of Jordan
• King Hussein I
• King Abdullah II of Jordan
• HE Wasfi Al-Tal
• Queen Noor of Jordan
• Queen Rania of Jordan

Politicians

• Maha Ali
• Ismael Babouk, first Mayor of Jordan's capital, Amman (1909-1911).
• Fahad Ensour
• Faisal al-Fayez
• Thouqan Hindawi, former minister
• Awn Khasawneh, former Prime Minister and former judge of the International Court of Justice.
• Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai
• Abdelsalam Al-Majali
• Ina'am Al-Mufti, first Jordanian woman to hold government office
• Ali Abu al-Ragheb
• Ali Suheimat
• Sheikh Attallah Suheimat
• Salah Suheimat, MP
• Tareq Suheimat
• Bahjat Talhouni, former Prime Minister
• Fayez Tarawneh

Novelists, poets, researchers and writers

• Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan
• Samer Libdeh - researcher, writer
• Suleiman Mousa - historian, writer
• Haider Mahmoud - poet, writer
• Abdel-Rahman Munif - novelist
• Samer Raimouny - poet, activist
• Mustafa Wahbi (Mustafa Wahbi Al Tal) - poet
• Kameel Reehani - poet, journalist

Military men

• Captain Muath al-Kasasbeh - Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot captured, held hostage, and burned alive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Habis Al-Majali
• Abdelsalam al-Majali
• Major General Ibrahim Khasawneh - former Deputy Director of the Jordanian Royal Medical Services.
• General Muhammad Suheimat (died 1968)

Physicians

• Abdelsalam al-Majali
• Daoud Hanania
• Tareq Suheimat
• Abdallah Daradkeh

Athletes

• Amer Deeb
• Dima and Lama Hattab - ultramarathon runners

Musicians

• Mahmoud Radaideh
• Zade Dirani

Artists

• George Aleef
• Muhanna Al-Dura
• Wijdan Ali
• Mahmoud Taha

Former ambassadors

• Nabil Talhouni^[1]

Business people

• Iman Mutlaq
• Mohammed Shehadeh

Other

• Shereen Audi (born 1970), visual artist
• Margo Haddad (born 1988), actress
• Mona Saudi (born 1945), sculptor

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