Notable inmates

Abdul Majid Muhammed (Persian: عبدالمجید محمد) is a citizen of Iran who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 555.

Abdul Qayyum "Zakir" (born 1973), also known by the nom de guerre Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, is a Taliban militant commander and the acting Deputy Minister of Defense of the current de facto government of Afghanistan.

Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost (Urdu: عبد الرحیم مسلم دوست; born 1960) is an Afghan Salafi jihadist militant who served primarily with the Taliban, and later, as a founding member of ISIS–K.

Abdul Rahman Noorani is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.

Abdul Razaq (born 1971), a young Afghani man, was the first detainee to be released from the U.S.

Abdul Zahir (عبدالظاهر; born 1972) is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi (also transliterated as Abdullah al Noaimi; born March 9, 1982, in Manama, Bahrain) is a Bahraini, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. .

Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari (born 17 September 1973) is a citizen of Kuwait, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Abdullah Mehsud (Pashto: عبدالله مهسود; Urdu: عبدالله محسود; 1977 – 24 July 2007) was a Pashtun militant commander who was killed by Pakistani Army in Zhob after security forces raided his dwelling in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan.

Abdullah Mujahid (born 1971) is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba — to an Afghan prison.

Abdullahi Sudi Arale (Somali: Cabdillaahi Suudi Caraale; born 1964) is a citizen of Somalia who was held for two and a half years in extrajudicial detention by the United States.

Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu (born November 11, 1973) is a citizen of Kenya who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Abdul Malik was captured in February 2007, on suspicion of leading a terrorist bomb-plot in Mombasa.

Abdumuqit Vohidov is a citizen of Tajikistan who was held in extrajudicial detention, for five years, in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (born 1990) is a Somali pirate.

Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania.

Abib Sarajuddin (born 1942) is an Afghan citizen who was held without charge by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba as Extrajudicial Detention (ISN 458).

Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité (30 April 1968 – 25 March 2026), better known as Toumba Diakité, was a Guinean politician and convicted criminal. From 2008 to 2009, Diakité was the aide-de-camp of President Moussa Dadis Camara, whom he tried to assassinate, and head of the presidential guard.

Abraham Asscher (19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950) was a Dutch Jewish businessman from Amsterdam, a politician, and a leader of his community who attained notoriety for his role during the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940–1945).