List of Bahranis

The Baharna are one of the many East Arabian groups. The following is a list of notable Bahrani figures.

Academics

 * Ali Al-Ahmed, Bahraini political activist, public speaker, scholar, writer
 * Abdulhadi Khalaf, Bahraini leftist political activist and academic

Actors

 * Ali Al-Sebaa, Saudi television actor
 * Sabrin Burshid, actress

Artists

 * Abdullah Al Muharraqi, Bahraini artist considered the founder of modern art in the Persian Gulf region

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 NEOM
 * Mahdi Al Tajir, businessman from the United Arab Emirates, based in the United Kingdom
 * Yara Salman, Bahraini businesswomen who introduced cryotherapy to the country

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

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

 * Masouma Abdelrahim, Bahraini politician sworn into the 2018 Council of Representatives. Head of drug and alcohol unit at the Ministry of Health
 * Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar, Saudi political activist
 * Majeed Al Alawi, Bahrain's Minister of Labour Affairs
 * Jawad Al-Arrayedh, Bahrain's first Shia Deputy Prime Minister
 * Nazar Al Baharna, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain
 * Abdul Amir al-Jamri, spiritual leader of the Bahrani people
 * Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, Bahraini human rights activist and hunger striker
 * Massouma al-Mubarak, Kuwait's first female minister
 * Nimr al-Nimr, spiritual leader of the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests
 * 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, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He was the leader and founder of the Islamic Awareness Institution
 * Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist
 * Ali Salman, leader of the largest political party in Bahrain
 * Hussain Al Baharna, lawyer

Rebels

 * Abu al-Bahlul al-Awwam, member of the Abdul Qays tribe who deposed the Qarmatians in Bahrain
 * Sayyid Shubar al-Sitri, attempted a coup d'état in 1895, however it failed due to lack of support from Shi'a clerics
 * Abdullah bin Ali Al Uyuni, rebel against the Qarmatians in the Overthrowing of the Qarmatians

Grand Ayatollahs

 * Shaykh Ahmad, founder of the Shaykhí school of thought
 * Maitham Al Bahrani, renowned 13th-century Shi'a cleric and theologian
 * Yusuf Al Bahrani, 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

Ayatollahs

 * Yasser Al-Habib controversial Kuwaiti ayatollah

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