Gemayel (; ; romanized: ''al-Jumayyil'') is the name of a prominent Lebanese Maronite Christian family based in Bikfaya,

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

History

The family is mentioned in bureaucratic records as among the inhabitants of Bikfaya as early as the 16th century. Between that time until the 18th century they were the

sheikh Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

s of the village. In 1642 Sheikh Abu Aoun was the joint governor of the subdistrict of Bsharri alongside the

Druze The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...

chief Zayn al-Din of the

Sawwaf family Al-Sawwaf () were a Druze family of chiefs active in Mount Lebanon and Wadi al-Taym in the late 15th–early 18th centuries. They were based in the Matn area and historically opposed the Ma'n dynasty and Shihab dynasty. They were eliminated by th ...

Notable members

Philip Gemayel Philip Gemayel (born in 1740 in Bikfaya, Lebanon – died on April 12, 1796 in Bkerké, Lebanon) (or Filibus Al-Jumayyil, ''Philibos Gemaiel'', ar, فيليبس الجميّل) was the 65th Maronite Patriarch of Antioch for a few months in 1795 ...

, Maronite patriarch from 1795 to 1796 * Pierre Gemayel (1905–1984), Lebanese political leader and founder of the Kataeb Party * Geneviève Gemayel (1908–2003), Lebanese political figure, pilot and artist * Roland Gemayel (born 1999), king of ATCL, founder of the "Tout va bien" party *

Maurice Gemayel Maurice Gemayel ( ar, موريس الجميل; Lebanon, 1910 — October 31, 1970) was a Lebanese Maronite politician who served several times as minister and MP for the Metn. He was also a prominent figure for the Kataeb Party which was founde ...

(1910–1970), Member of Parliament, brother-in-law of Pierre Gemayel * Amine Gemayel (born 1942), President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988, son of Pierre Gemayel * Bachir Gemayel (1947–1982), son of Pierre Gemayel and Lebanese military commander, politician and president-elect * Joyce Gemayel, former First Lady of Lebanon, Amine Gemayel's wife * Pierre Amine Gemayel (1972–2006), Lebanese politician, government minister, assassinated son of President Amine Gemayel * Samy Gemayel (born 1980), Lebanese politician, son of Amine Gemayel and brother of Pierre Amine Gemayel *

Solange Gemayel Solange Gemayel (born 1949) is a Lebanese political figure and former First Lady of Lebanon. The widow of former President-elect Bachir Gemayel (1947–1982), who was assassinated days before he was due to take office in 1982, she helped to found ...

(born 1949), former First Lady of Lebanon, widow of former President-elect Bachir Gemayel and was a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2009 * Nadim Gemayel (born 1982), Lebanese politician, son of Bachir Gemayel *

Boutros Gemayel Boutros Gemayel (29 June 1932 – 21 August 2021) was an emeritus Maronite Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus. Life Boutros Gemayel received on 12 April 1959 the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood. On 11 June 1988 h ...

, Archbishop of Cipro, Cyprus

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