Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Gobernación de Nayaf

Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Murra ibn ʹAbd al-Ŷabbār Alŷʿafy al-Kindī, llamado Al-Mutanabbi, en árabe original أبو الطيب أحمد بن الحسين المتنبّي fue un poeta del califato abasí del siglo X perteneciente a la corriente neoclásica, considerado como el mayor poeta árabe de todos los tiempos. De él dijo el gran poeta sirio Adonis: "Al-Mutanabbi estaba convencido de que la poesía es una obra cósmica que dice la persona, la sociedad y el universo a un tiempo, y es esa su contribución extraordinaria".

Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʽmān ibn Ṯābit fue un teólogo y jurista musulmán.

Muqtada al-Sadr es un clérigo chií y uno de los políticos iraquís más influyentes a pesar de que nunca ha ostentado un cargo en el gobierno. Dirige el partido Movimiento Sadrista especialmente implantado en los barrios pobres chiís y la milicia Ejército de al-Mahdi, una de las más poderosa de Irak.

Abū Yūsuf Ya´qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī. Su padre era gobernador de Kufa, por lo que le fue fácil relacionarse con la corte abasí, al grado que llegó a ser preceptor de un hijo del califa Al Mu'tasim. Al-Kindi trabajó en filosofía, astrología, astronomía, cosmología, química, lógica, matemática, música, medicina, física, psicología y meteorología.

Sa'id ibn Jubayr (665–714), also known as Abū Muhammad, was originally from Kufa, in modern-day Iraq. He was regarded as one of the leading members of the Tabi'in. Sa'īd is held in the highest esteem by scholars of the Shi'a and Sunni Islamic tradition and was considered one of the leading jurists of the time. He also narrated several hadith from Ibn Abbas.

Ali ibn Husáyn ibn Ali. Fue el cuarto Imán de los chiitas y es respetado asimismo por los musulmanes sunitas por su pertenencia a la Ahl al-Bayt o Casa de Mahoma.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Saeed al-Tabataba'i al-Hakim is a senior Iraqi Twelver Shi'a marja, one of the Big Four Grand Ayatollahs of the Hawza of Najaf and one of the most senior Shia clerics in Iraq after Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Faiq Al Sheikh Ali is an Iraqi lawyer and politician of currently serving as a Member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq since 2014 and is the Secretary-General of the People's Party for Reform. In parliament, he is a member of the Judiciary (Legal) Committee. He led the Civilized Alliance for the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election.

El gran ayatolá Mahmud Hashemi Shahroudi fue un religioso y político iraní y Marja chiita.

Sayyid Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab, was a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Al-Hakim spent more than 20 years in exile in Iran and returned to Iraq on 12 May 2003. Al-Hakim was a contemporary of Ayatollah Khomeini, and The Guardian compared the two in terms of their times in exile and their support in their respective homelands. After his return to Iraq, al-Hakim's life was in danger because of his work to encourage Shiite resistance to Saddam Hussein and from a rivalry with Muqtada al-Sadr, the son of the late Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, who had himself been assassinated in Najaf in 1999. Al-Hakim was assassinated in a bomb attack in Najaf in 2003 when aged 63 years old. At least 75 others in the vicinity also died in the bombing.