Harari (surname)

Harari is a surname of multiple origins.

Harari (הררי) is a Jewish surname that can be translated from Hebrew as 'mountainous' or as 'mountain dweller' (cf. Bergmann).

It is also found among the Harari people from the city of Harar in Ethiopia.

People
American film director
 * Shamah ben Ageh Harari (aka Shammah), one of King David's Warriors (fl. 1010 BCE – 970 BCE)
 * Abdullah al-Harari (1906–2008), Ethiopian Harari scholar, founder in Lebanon of the Habashi (Al Ahbash) Order
 * Arthur Harari (born 1981), French film director, screenwriter and actor
 * Clément Harari (1919–2008), Egyptian-born French film and television actor
 * Hananiah Harari (1912–2000), American painter and illustrator
 * Haim Harari (1940), Israeli scientist, after whom the Harari Rishon Model is named; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
 * Ilan Harari (1959), former Israeli brigadier general
 * Michael Harari (1927–2014), Israeli intelligence officer
 * Jon Harari, CEO of WindowsWear
 * Yizhar Harari (1908–1978), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
 * Yuval Noah Harari (1976), historian, based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Robert Harari (born 1976),