Hilmi Hanoun (Arabic: حلمي حنون; 1913–2001) was a Palestinian businessman, journalist and politician.
[1][2] His mother, Asya, was the sister of Yousef Haikal and was a graduate of the English Girls' School in Jaffa.
[3] The family left Jaffa in the early period of World War I and settled in Tulkarm in November 1914.
[1] Following his graduation Hanoun was involved in the citrus marketing business and became a member of the Jaffa Chamber of Commerce.
[1] Hanoun was one of the early individuals at the beginning of the 1970s who regarded the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole and official representative of the Palestinians wherever they were living.
[7] Unlike other leading Palestinian figures Hanoun did not accept the meeting invitation of the Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin to improve the conditions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip residents in June 1988.