Until March 3rd, the Pentagon had declined to identify the detainees at Guantanamo Bay Military Prison, most of whom were captured in Afghanistan during and after the 2001 war there. As a result of an Associated Press Freedom of Information Act request and lawsuit, the Department of Defense released the unredacted transcripts of Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Administrative Review Boards; the names revealed through this release are in the process of being added to this list. Below is the largest list of names made public thus far, encompassing: almost 500 men whose identities have appeared in media reports, on Arabic Web sites, legal documents, habeas corpus petitions and from the CSRT tribunals.
Some names came from family members of detainees who have sent letters home through the International Committee of the Red Cross. 153 people on the list have been sent back to their home countries for further detention or for release. They are marked with a "Yes" under "Released" on this page. Several of those have been interviewed by reporters.
Many names came from two Web sites that monitor the status of Guantanamo detainees: the Arabic-language Alasra (www.alasra.org) and the Britain-based CagePrisoners (www.cageprisoners.com). The two sites, which advocate the release of the detainees, have published lists of names, photographs and documents provided by families. Alasra is registered to an unknown individual in Saudi Arabia, and CagePrisoners is registered to a group of Muslim computer programmers based in Britain. Sixty-two names came from an official publication of the Yemeni Defense Ministry in January, and the names of 58 Pakistanis were published by a Pakistani newspaper in October 2002. In that same month, al Qaeda supporters in Afghanistan distributed a list naming "57 al Qaeda members" who were prisoners at Guatanamo.
For four years, Washington Post researchers have been compiling the names and countries of origin of detainees from unofficial, public sources: news accounts, legal documents, interviews with attorneys and relatives, and information from detainee support sites on the Web. The Post is printing only names that it has verified from a single reputable source or multiple sources. Some names have been transliterated from Arabic or have alternative spellings.
| Name | Nationality | Released |
| Abasin, Said | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Abdul Ghaffar, Mulla | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Agha, Ismail (Muhammad Ismail) | Afghanistan | Yes |
Ahmed, Feda
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Akhber, Mohammed | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Ali, Sahibzada Usman | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Aslam, Noor | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Bacha, Saki | Afghanistan | No |
| Bader, Abdul Manan | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Badr, Badrzaman | Afghanistan | Yes |
Barhoumi, Sufyian
| Afghanistan | No |
Darwaish, Naibullah
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Ehsannullah | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Esmhatulla, Qari | Afghanistan | No |
| Farooq, Muhammad Naim | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Fazil or Fadhil, Mullah | Afghanistan | No |
| Ghafar, Maulvi Abdul | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Ghulab, Sher | Afghanistan | Yes |
Gul, Janat
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Gul, Lall | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Gul, Mohammad | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Gul, Nate | Afghanistan | Yes |
Gul, Zaman
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Habibulla, Nur | Afghanistan | Yes |
Jalil, Mullah
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Jan, Said Amir | Afghanistan? | No |
| Khairkhwa, Khairullah | Afghanistan | No |
| Khan, Alif | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Khan, Aziz | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Khan, Haji Mohammed | Afghanistan | Yes |
Khan, Hukumra
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Khan, Juma | Afghanistan | No |
| Khan, Merza | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Khandan, Kadir | Afghanistan | No |
| Koochi, Naeem | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Mazloom, Fazel | Afghanistan | No |
| Mohammed | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Mohammed, Hajii Faiz | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Mohammed, Jan | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Mohammed, Taj | Afghanistan | No |
| Mohammed, Wazir | Afghanistan | No |
| Muhammad, Mirza | Afghanistan | No |
| Muhibullah | Afghanistan | No |
| Mujahid, Abdullah | Afghanistan | No |
Muslimdost, Abdul Rahim
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Naqibullah | Afghanistan | Yes |
Nasim, Mohammed
| Afghanistan | Yes |
Noor, Habib
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Osman, Haji | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Osman, Mohammad | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Qudus, Abdul | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Rahim, Abdur | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Rahman, Abdul | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Rahman, Asadullah | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Rahmatullah | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Raouf, Mullah Abdel | Afghanistan | No |
Rasoul, Mohammad
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Razeq, Abdul | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Rehman, Abdul | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Ruhani, Gholam | Afghanistan | No |
| Russol, Habir | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Rustam | Afghanistan | No |
| Sabitullah | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Sarajudim | Afghanistan | Yes |
Shabeen, Naquibullah
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Shah, Hafizullah | Afghanistan | No |
Shah, Qalander
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Shah, Rostum | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Shah, Sliman | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Shah, Sulaiman | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Shah, Zakhim | Afghanistan | Yes |
Shahzada, Haji
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Shakur, Mullah | Afghanistan | No |
| Shehzada, Mullah | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Sidiq, Muhammad | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Tahir, Mohammad | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Ullah, Asad | Afghanistan | No |
| Wali, Badshah | Afghanistan | Yes |
| Wazir, Mohammed | Afghanistan | Yes |
Wazir, Padsha
| Afghanistan | Yes |
| Zaeef, Mohammed | Afghanistan | No |
Zahir, Abdul
| Afghanistan | No |
| Name | Nationality | Released |
| Aamer, Shaker Abdur-Raheem | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Anazi, Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Areeni, Khalid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Aseemi, Fahd Sultan Ubaid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Aushan, Abdul Aziz Sad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Aushan, Salih bin Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Al Aushan, Salman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Awfi, Mazin Salih Musaid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Badaah, Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Bahooth, Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad< | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Barakati, Khalid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Bedani, Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Fawzan, Fahd Fawzan | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Fifi, Jaber | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Fouzan, Fahd | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Ghamdi, Abdur Rahman Uthman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Ghamdi, Khalaf Awad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Ghamdi, Saeed Farhah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Ghamdi, Zaid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Ghanimi, Abdullah Muhammad Salih | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Habardi, Mane Shaman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Harbi, Ibrahim Daifullah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Harbi, Mish or Misal | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Harbi, Tariq | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Jowfi, Rashid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Juaid, Rami Sad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Judaan, Hamood | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Juhani, Badr | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Juhdali, Ziyad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Jutaili, Fahd bin Salih bin Sulaiman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Kaabi, Jamil Ali | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Khalafi, Asim | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Khalidi, Sulaiman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Khowlani, Idrees | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Maaliki, Sad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Marrah, Khalid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Matrafi, Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Mosleh, Abdullah Hamid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Muraqi, Khalid bin Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Musa, Abdul Wahab | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Nasir, Ibrahim Muhammad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Noofayee, Abdalaziz Kareem Salim | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Nukhailan, Naif | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Nur, Anwar Hamdan | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Nusairi, Adil Uqla Hasan | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Omar, Wasim Awad Al Wasim | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Omari, Musa bin Ali bin Saeed | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Oshan, Salih | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Al Otaibi, Bandar | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Owshan, Abdul Aziz Sad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Owshan, Saleh bin Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Owshan, Salman or Sulieman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qaaid, Rashid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qahtani, Abdullah Hamid al Muslih | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qahtani, Jaber Hasan | Saudi Arabia | No |
Al Qahtani, Jabran Said Bin
| Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qahtani, Mohamed | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qahtani, Sad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qurashi, Muhammad Abdur-Rahman Abid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Qurbi, Mohammed Barak Salem | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Rabeesh, Yusuf | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Salam, Abd | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Sayegh, Adnan Muhammad Ali | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Shaher, Salem | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Shahrani, Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman< | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Shammari, Majed Afas Radi al-Tumi | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Al Shamri, Anwar Hamdan al Noor | Saudi Arabia | No |
Al Sharbi, Ghassan Abdullah
| Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Shehri, Abdus Salam Ghaithan | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Shehri, Yusuf Muhammad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Sulami, Yahya | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Umar, Ibrahim bin Umar | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Al Unzi, Abdullah Thani Faris Al Sulami | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Unzi, Khalid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Unzi, Rakan | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Unzi, Sultan Sari Saail | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Usaymi, Nayif Fahd Mutliq | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Utaibi, Bajad bin Daifillah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Utaibi, Bandar | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Utaibi, Muhammad Suroor | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Utaibi, Naif Fahd Al Aseemi | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Zabe, Slah Muamed Salih | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Zahrani, Khalid | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Al Zahrani, Sad Ibrahim Ramzi al-Jundubi | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Al Zahrani, Yasser Talal | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Alfaldi, Abdul Aziz Sa'ad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| As Sabeei, Abdul Hadi Muhammad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| As Sabeei, Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | No |
| As Sabeei or Al Sabeei, Muhammad Jayid | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Aseeri, Turki Mashawi Zayid Ale Jabali | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shabani, Fahd Abdullah | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Ash Shahrani, Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shaibani, Bandar | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shaibani, Bandar | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shamari, Zain | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shamri, Anwar Hamdan al Noor | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shareef, Fahd Umar | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shareef, Sultan | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Sharikh, Abdul Hadi | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Sharikh, Abdur Razzaq | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shehri, Saeed Abdul Jabir ale Khutaim | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shehri, Saleem | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shehri, Salim | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ash Shehri, Yusuf Muhammad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ashadouki, Mishale | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
| Bukhari, Abdul Hakeem | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Fouzan, Fahed | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Ghazi, Fahd Abdullah Ahmad | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Hamza, Abu | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Joaid, Abdul Rahman | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Muqaddam, Murtada | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Noor, Yusuf Khaleel | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Saud, Abu | Saudi Arabia | No |
| Turkistani, Saddiq Ahmad | Uighur (China) by birth | No |
| Name | Nationality | Released |
| Abd, Allah Ab Aljalil Abd Al Rahman | Yemen | No |
| Abdalla, Emad | Yemen | No |
| Abdoh, Atag Ali | Yemen | No |
| Abdulraheem, Othman | Yemen | No |
| Ahmed, Fahmi Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Ahmed, Faruq Ali | Yemen | No |
| Al Adahi, Mohamed | Yemen | No |
| Al Ansari, Faris Muslim | Yemen | No |
| Al Asadi, Mohamed Ahmed | Yemen | No |
| Al Askari, Mohsin Ali | Yemen | No |
| Al Assani, Fahmi Salem | Yemen | No |
| Al Azraq, Majid Hamoud | Yemen | No |
| Al Baasi, Mohsin Abdullah | Yemen | No |
Al Bahlul, Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman
| Yemen | No |
| Al Baidhani, Abdulkhaliq | Yemen | No |
| Al Busayss, Adil Said Al Haj Obeid | Yemen | No |
| Al Darbi, Ahmed | Yemen | No |
| Al Dhabbi, Khalid Mohamed Saleh | Yemen | No |
| Al Dhabi, Salah Mohamed Saleh | Yemen | No |
| Al Dini, Omar Saeed | Yemen | No |
| Al Ghaith, Abdurahman ba | Yemen | No |
| Al Habashi, Raafat | Yemen | No |
| Al Haimi, Basheer Al Marwali | Yemen | No |
| Al Haj, Sarqawi | Yemen | No |
| Al Hamd, Adel Saleh | Yemen | No |
| Al Hamiri, Abdullah Mohammed | Yemen | No |
| Al Hassan, Sameer Naji | Yemen | No |
| Al Jayfi, Issam Hamid Ali | Yemen | No |
| Al Kazimi, Ali Nasser | Yemen | No |
| Al Kouri, Farouq Ahmed | Yemen | No |
| Al Madhoni, Musaab | Yemen | No |
| Al Mahdi, Ali Yahya Mahdi | Yemen | No |
| Al Marwalah, Bishir Naser Ali | Yemen | No |
| Al Matari, Fahd Al Haimi | Yemen | No |
| Al Muhajiri, Abdulmajeed | Yemen | No |
| Al Mujahid, Mahmoud Abdulaziz | Yemen | No |
| Al Qadasi, Khalid Massah | Yemen | No |
| Al Rabahi, Abdullah Ameen | Yemen | No |
| Al Radai, Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj | Yemen | No |
| Al Rahabi, Abdulmalik Abdulwahhab | Yemen | No |
| Al Raimi, Ali Yahya Mahdi | Yemen | No |
| Al Raimi, Ismail Ali | Yemen | No |
| Al Razehi, Ali Ahmed Mohammad | Yemen | No |
| Al Salami, Ali Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Al Salami, Saleh Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Al Samh, Adil Abu | Yemen | No |
| Al Sarim, Saeed Ahmed | Yemen | No |
| Al Shamiri, Mustafa | Yemen | No |
| Al Shulan, Hani Abdul Muslih | Yemen | No |
| Al Siblie, Abdullah Yahya Yousuf | Yemen | No |
| Al Suwaidi, Abdulaziz | Yemen | No |
| Al Tawlaqi, Fahmi | Yemen | No |
| Al Tis, Ali Hussain | Yemen | No |
| Al Wahab, Abd al Malik Abd | Yemen | No |
| Al Warifi, Mukhtaar | Yemen | No |
| Al Yafii, Al Khadir Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Al Zuhairi, Ahmed Zaid | Yemen | No |
| Amer, Jalal Salim bin | Yemen | No |
| Amro, Jalal Salem bin | Yemen | No |
| Anam, Suhail Abdo | Yemen | No |
| Anam, Suhail Abdo | Yemen | No |
| Aqeel, Sulaiman bin | Yemen | No |
| Batarfi, Ayman Saeed | Yemen | No |
| Bawazir, Mohammed | Yemen | No |
| Bin Attash, Hassin | Yemen | No |
| Ghanem, Mohamed Ragab Abu | Yemen | No |
| Hamada, Mohamed | Yemen | No |
Hamdan, Salim Ahmed
| Yemen | No |
| Hamdoon, Zahir Omar bin | Yemen | No |
| Hassan, Imad Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Hassan, Mohammad Mohammad | Yemen | No |
| Hatem, Saeed | Yemen | No |
| Ismail, Yasin Qasem Muhammad | Yemen | No |
| Kassim, Khalid Ahmed | Yemen | No |
Khamsan, Karam Khamis Sayd
| Yemen | Yes |
| Khasraf, Mohamed Nasser Yahya Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Mohammed, Hussein Salem | Yemen | No |
| Mujarrad, Talal Ahmed Mohamed | Yemen | No |
| Murshid, Ayoub | Yemen | No |
| Omar, Othman Ali | Yemen | No |
| Qaid, Yaseen | Yemen | No |
| Qassim, Khalid Ahmed | Yemen | No |
| Quraish, Nasr Abdullah | Yemen | No |
| Rabeii, Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammad | Yemen | No |
| Rashid, Hani Saleh | Yemen | No |
| Salam, Mohammed Ahmed | Yemen | No |
| Salman, Mohamed bin | Yemen | No |
| Shaalan, Hani Abdo Muslih | Yemen | No |
| Utain, Riyad | Yemen | No |
| Uthman, Abdur Rahim Mohammad Uthman | Yemen | No |
| Wazeer, Abdullah ba | Yemen | No |
| Zaid, Walid Said bin Said | Yemen | No |