List of Libyans

This is a list of notable people from Libya.

Educators and teachers

Carneades Hellenistic Academic Skeptic Philosopher
Aristippus Ancient Greek philosopher, founder of Cyrenaicism
Lacydes of Cyrene, Academic Skeptic philosopher, was head of the Platonic Academy at Athens
Zuhra Ramdan Agha Al-Awji
Mohammed Shegewi (died 2007)

Hani Shennib MD

Sulaiman al-Barouni (1872–1940), resistance leader against Italian colonization
Omar al-Mukhtar (1862–1931), Libyan hero and resistance leader under against Italian colonization
Sayyid Ahmed Sharif es Senussi, Libyan resistance leader and chief of the Senussi order
Ramadan Sewehli (1879–1920), Libyan resistance leader and the founder of Tripolitanian Republic
Omar Shegewi (unknown-1928), Libyan resistance fighter who was later sentenced to death

Idris I of Libya, King of Libya (1951–1969) and the Chief of the Senussi Muslim order
Queen Fatima (1918–2009), former queen of Libya
Sayyid Hassan ar-Rida
Sayyid Ahmed Sharif es Senussi, Chief of the Senussi Muslim order
Sayyid Muhammad bin 'Ali as-Senussi

Battaros, legendary Libyan king
Shoshenq I, founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt.
Shoshenq II, pharaoh of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt.
Osorkon the Elder, fifth king of the twenty-first dynasty of Ancient Egypt and was the first Pharaoh of Libyan origin[2]
Osorkon The Elder, first Libyan king of Egypt and founder of the Libyan Dynasty in face actually nearly all of the 22, 23, 24 dynasties in ancient Egypt were ruled by Libyans
Siamun the sixth pharaoh of Egypt
Septimius Severus (146–211), 21st Roman Emperor (193–211), born in Libya
Geta, shared his brother Caracalla the throne of Rome before he was murdered in 211
Caracalla 23rd Caesar of Rome, son of Septimius Severus
Ahmed Karamanli (1686–1745), pasha (ruler) of Tripolitania (1711–1745)
Yusuf Karamanli (died 1838), pasha of Tripolitania (1795–1832)
Idris I of Libya (1890–1983), King of Libya (1951–1969).
Umar Mihayshi (died 1984), Libyan army officer
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011), Libyan leader (1969–2011).
Mustafa Abdul Jalil (born 1952), former Minister of Justice, and President of the National Transitional Council (5 March 2011 – 8 August 2012)
Zentani Muhammad az-Zentani

Eratosthenes (276 BC–194 BC), Hellenistic mathematician, geographer and astronomer, born in Libya
Theodorus of Cyrene (c. 5th century BC), mathematician

Don Coscarelli, horror film director
Maysoon Shaladi, British actress, model, TV presenter, Big Brother UK contestant

ar:شمس الدين عرابي
Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Gates, Henry Louis (2012-02-02). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.

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