Yasser Arafat - Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ياسر عرفات

 Arafat was born in Cairo to Palestinian parents.   His father, , was a Gazan; Yasser's paternal grandmother was Egyptian.

Arafat's father worked as a textile merchant in Cairo's predominantly Jewish quarter  , the Sakakini District. His paternal grandmother was an Egyptian from the Radwan family of Cairo's Abbasiya District, according to Arafat's biography by Said K. Aburish. Arafat was the second-youngest of seven children and was (along with his younger brother Fathi) the only offspring born in Cairo. His mother, Zahwa Abul Saoud, died from a kidney ailment in 1933, when Arafat was four years of age. 
Arafat's first connection to Jerusalem came when his father, unable to raise seven children alone, sent him and his brother Fathi to their mother's family in the Moroccan Quarter of the Old City. They lived there with their uncle Selim Abul Saoud for four years. In 1937, their father recalled them to be taken care of by their older sister, Inam. Arafat had a deteriorating relationship with his father; when he died in 1952, Arafat did not attend the funeral. Neither did he visit his father's grave upon his return to Gaza.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat#Birth_and_childhood