34 Notable alumni of Kuwait University
Updated: June 08, 2026 EliteDegrees
Kuwait University is ranked #1,869 in the world and #1 in Kuwait by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from Kuwait University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Kuwait University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Najma Idrees
1953-. (aged 73)
poet
columnist
writer
Najma Abdullah Idrees is a Kuwaiti poet, columnist, and scholar.
2. Hayat Alyaqut
1981-. (aged 45)
writer
Hayat Alyaqout is a Kuwaiti writer and publisher. She founded Nashiri, considered the first Arabic nonprofit online publishing house, in 2003.
3. Moudi A. Al-Humoud
Moudi A. Al-Humoud, is currently the Founding Administrative Board, Chair of Abdullah Al-Salem University in Kuwait and she is a professor of management at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. She served as president of Arab Open University, a pan Arab university operating in Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan and Palestine.
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4. Lamees Dhaif
1977-. (aged 49)
journalist
Lamees Dhaif is a Bahraini journalist, renowned for social criticism, including satirical articles. She has written in various newspapers, including AlAyam, Akhbar Al Khaleej, AlYaum, AlWaqt, AlQabas, and AlRai in the Persian Gulf region. Currently, she has a column in AlShabiba newspaper.
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5. Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi
1974-. (aged 52)
politician
Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi is a journalist, former student leader and politician from Kuwait. He is the first chairman of the Youth Association of Kuwait (then National Democratic Youth Association) and a founding member of the Democratic Ticket, a student group which runs for elections at Kuwait University – College of Science's student society. He is best known for being the...
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6. Bilal M. Ayyub
1958-. (aged 68)
civil engineer
scientist
Bilal M. Ayyub is a researcher in risk analysis and reliability engineering. He has been a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since 1983, and is also the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at its A. James Clark School of Engineering.
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7. Huzama Habayeb
1965-. (aged 61)
poet
writer
Huzama Habayeb is a Palestinian novelist, storyteller, columnist, translator, and poet who has won multiple awards such as the Mahmoud Seif Eddin Al-Erani Award for Short Stories, Jerusalem Festival of Youth Innovation in Short Stories, and Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Upon graduating from Kuwait University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English language and Literature, she pursued...
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8. Hessa Al Jaber
1959-. (aged 67)
engineer
politician
Hessa bint Sultan Al Jaber is a Qatari engineer, academic and politician. She was the first Minister of Information and Communications Technology in Qatar following the formation of a new cabinet by the Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani in 2013. In 2017 she was one of four women appointed to the Consultative Assembly, becoming one of the country's first...
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9. Raja Al Gurg
executive president
Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg is a businesswoman in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, currently serving as the chairperson and managing director of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group.
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10. Ibtihal Al-Khatib
1972-. (aged 54)
writer
academic
human rights defender
journalist
Ibtihal Al-Khatib is a Kuwaiti academic, journalist, and prominent advocate of secular liberal values in Middle Eastern societies. She is a professor at the Kuwait University in the department of English Language and Literature. She has been the subject of controversy because of her outspoken defense of secularism, separation of church and state, and civil rights, including gay rights.
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11. Khaled Al-Duwaisan
1947-. (aged 79)
diplomat
Khaled Abdulaziz Al-Duwaisan is a Kuwaiti diplomat and the previous ambassador to the United Kingdom, a role he has held since 1993. He was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in London.
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12. Abdulwahab Hussain
1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Abdulwahab Hussain Ali Ahmed Esmael is a Bahraini political activist, writer, religious figure and philosopher. He was one of the most prominent opposition leaders in the 1990s uprising when he was arrested twice for a total length of five years in which he was allegedly subjected to solitary confinement and torture. After his release in 2001, he supported government reform...
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13. Abdulwahab Al-Babtain
1985-. (aged 41)
Abdulwahab Mohammad Al-Babtain is a Kuwaiti politician, who is a former member of the Kuwait Parliament. In the Kuwaiti General Election of 2016, which was his first time running for office, he secured the first seat in the third constituency with 3,730 votes. Al-Babtain served on several parliamentary committees, including the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee and the Public Money...
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14. Bothayna El Essa
1982-. (aged 44)
writer
novelist
Bothayna El Essa is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature.
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15. Worawi Makudi
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
association football referee
Worawi Makudi, also referred in the media as Bung Yee (Thai: บังยี, RTGS: Bang Yi) is a Thai former football official. He was a member of the FIFA Council from 1997 to 2015. He served as the Football Association of Thailand's General Secretary from 1996 to 2007, before being elected president in 2007.
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16. Emmanuel Gharib
1950-. (aged 76)
Christian minister
Emmanuel Benjamin Gharib is a Kuwaiti pastor of the Kuwait Presbyterian Church and the chairman of the National Evangelical Church of Kuwait, a campus where nearly 100 Christian denominations gather for prayer.
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17. Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah is the Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs in Kuwait.
18. Saleh Al-Mulla
1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Saleh Mohammad Al-Mulla was elected two times to the National Assembly of Kuwait in 2008 and 2009 after snap elections, representing the third district, and generally affiliates with the liberal deputies. Born in 1971, Al-Mulla studied business at Kuwait University and received a M.A in political science from Harvard University and he was previously a diplomat representing Kuwait in the...
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19. Alaa Hussein Ali aljabr
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
Ala'a Hussein Ali Al-Khafaji Al-Jaber is a Kuwaiti-born Iraqi military officer who served as the head of the Republic of Kuwait, a brief puppet government in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
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20. Musallam Al-Barrak
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Musallam Al-Barrak is a Kuwaiti politician. He was a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly representing the fourth district.
21. Khaled El Sheikh
1958-. (aged 68)
singer
Khaled El Sheikh is a Bahraini singer.
22. Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari
1975-. (aged 51)
businessperson
Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba, from 2002 to 2016. He has never been charged with war crimes.
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23. Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
1953-. (aged 73)
crown prince
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah is Crown Prince of Kuwait. A senior member of the Al-Sabah ruling family, he held various government positions from 2006 to 2022, serving as Foreign Minister from 2011 to 2019 and as Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022. He was appointed Crown Prince by Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on 1 June 2024.
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24. Amal Al Awadi
1989-. (aged 37)
actor
Amal Al-Awadhi is a Kuwaiti actress and TV presenter.
25. Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
1942-2024 (aged 82)
politician
Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah was a Kuwaiti royal and politician who served as the prime minister of Kuwait from 2011 to 2019. He previously served as minister of defense as well as deputy prime minister. In April 2021 a Kuwaiti court ordered his detention on corruption charges.
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26. Noha Nabil
1983-. (aged 43)
writer
poet
television presenter
influencer
Noha Nabil S Mohammad is a social media influencer. In 2017, she was listed by Forbes among the Top 10 Most Influential Arab Women in Social Media.
27. Yasser Al-Habib
1979-. (aged 47)
orator
writer
cleric
Sheikh Yasser al-Habib is a Kuwaiti Shia scholar, and the head of the London-based Mahdi Servants Union, as well as Al-Muhassin mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and the writer of The Lady of Heaven. Al-Habib's work focuses on Islamic history, drawing on Shia and Sunni sources.
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28. Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
1963-. (aged 63)
sports official
politician
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, also known as Ahmad Al-Fahad, is a Kuwaiti politician and former sports administrator who is a member of the ruling House of Sabah.
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29. Khaled Mashal
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian politician who served as the second chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017, when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. He has been the acting leader of Hamas twice, from July 2024 until August 2024 and since October 2024, after both leaders were assassinated by Israel. He is regarded as one...
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30. Huda Hussein
1965-. (aged 61)
actor
Huda Hussein is an Iraqi actress and producer born and residing in Kuwait. She is the third name on demand in Gulf TV after Hayat Al-Fahad and Souad Abdullah.
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31. Halema Boland
1980-. (aged 46)
television presenter
television actor
radio personality
Halema or Halimeh Boland is a Kuwaiti television presenter and former fashion model well known in the Middle East and North Africa region.
32. Shahd Alshammari
university teacher
screenwriter
writer
Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti writer, academic scholar and assistant professor of the English language. She is well known for her researches that focus on human and women's rights, disability issues and, recently, illness narrative. She published six books, in total, three of which she was the author, and the other three co-author. Additionally, she participated in over 15 conference,...
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33. Jenan Boushehri
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Jenan Mohsin Ramadan Boushehri is a Kuwaiti politician. She was one of the first two women to run for election in Kuwait, and held various positions in the Cabinet until her resignation on 12 November 2019.
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34. Princess Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifa
1952-. (aged 74)
diplomat
lawyer
politician
Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa is a lawyer and diplomat from Bahrain. From 1999 to 2004, she served as Bahrain’s first female ambassador, accredited to France. She was also among the first women to practice law in Bahrain. From 2006 to 2007, she held the office of President of the United Nations General Assembly, becoming the third woman to occupy this position.
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