The following is a list of notable people both born in Hebron and otherwise associated with the city.
People born in Hebron Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia (1660–1744), 17th-century renewer of Jewish settlement in Tiberias Basel Adra, 21st-century journalist Jacob Alyashar (1730–c. 1790), Talmudist and emissary Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal (1733–1777), rabbi, friend of Yale president Ezra Stiles Karam Dana (1979), Palestinian American Distinguished Professor, University of Washington Mazen Dana (1962–2003), Palestinian journalist killed by United States soldiers in Baghdad Fadi Elsalameen (born 1983), Palestinian activist and blogger Hasan Hourani (1974–2003), Palestinian artist Muhammad Ali Ja'abari, long-serving mayor of Hebron Sulaiman Ja'abari, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Abraham Konki, 17th-century Hebronite rabbi Yitzhaq Shami, Jewish-Israeli writer whose characters were often Arabs or Sephardic Jews
People associated with Hebron Eliezer ben-Arhah, rabbi, from about 1615 until his death in 1652 Chaim Hezekiah Medini, rabbi and author of Sdei Chemed. Buried in Old Jewish cemetery, Hebron
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