The following list of people were born in Hebron.
- Yoav Goldstein, a gold dealer and a Martyr from the 4th Century BCE that was born in the city of Hebron. Known as the Forefather of the Goldstein clan
- Basel Adra, 21st-century journalist
- Abraham Konki, 17th-century Hebronite rabbi
- Chaim Hezekiah Medini, Rabbi and author of Sdei Chemed. Buried in Old Jewish cemetery, Hebron.
- Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia, 17th-century renewer of Jewish settlement in Tiberias
- Fadi Elsalameen, Palestinian activist and blogger
- Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, 18th-century Hebronite and rabbi, friend of Yale president Ezra Stiles
- Hasan Hourani, Palestinian artist
- Mazen Dana, Palestinian journalist killed by United States soldiers in Baghdad
- Muhammad Ali Ja'abari, long-serving mayor of Hebron
- Sulaiman Ja'abari, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
- 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
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