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individuals born and residing mainly in
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 ...
. Lebanese expatriates residing overseas and possessing Lebanese citizenship are also included.


Activists

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Lydia Canaan Lydia Canaan ( ar, ليديا كنعان) is a Lebanese singer-songwriter and humanitarian activist. Credited as the first internationally successful Lebanese recording artist,Sinclair, David. "Global Music Pulse", ''Billboard'', New York, De ...
– activist, advocate, public speaker, and United Nations delegate *
Jill Kelley Jill Kelley (born June 3, 1975) is a Lebanese-American philanthropist, activist, and diplomatic advisor. She is also a former South Korean Honorary Consul, and a former honorary ambassador to U.S. Central Command under General James N. Matti ...
– advocate, socialite, and former diplomat * Sandra Melhem
LGBT rights Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, , 33 ...
activist * Aya Mouallem (born 1998) zi– electrical engineer, and gender equality activist


Arts and entertainment


Beauty pageant winners

* Dina Azar – Miss Lebanon 1995 * Joëlle Behlock – Miss Lebanon 1997 * Valerie Abou Chacra – Miss Lebanon 2015 *
Jihane Almira Chedid Jihane Almira Chedid (Hanacaraka: , ar, جيهان الميرا شديد; ; born February 4, 2000) is an Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly Ambassador, actress, fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Puter ...
Puteri Indonesia Pariwisata 2020, Miss Supranational Asia 2021 *
Rina Chibany Rina Chibany ( ar, رينا شيباني) (born 1991) is a Lebanese beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Lebanon 2012. She represented her country in the 2012 Miss Universe competition. Rina competed for the Miss Lebanon Miss Le ...
– Miss Lebanon 2012 *
Rima Fakih Rima Fakih Slaiby ( ar, ريما فقيه; born September 22, 1985) is a Lebanese American model, philanthropist, former professional wrestler and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 2010. Having previously been crowned Miss Mic ...
Miss USA 2010 Miss USA 2010 was the 59th Miss USA pageant, held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 16, 2010 which was broadcast live on NBC. Kristen Dalton of North Carolina, crowned her succ ...
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Sonia Fares Sonia Fares is a fashion designer and former Miss Lebanon who participated in Miss Universe Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tad ...
– Miss Lebanon 1969 * Lamitta Frangieh – Miss World Lebanon 2004 *
Karen Ghrawi Karen Ghrawi ( ar, كارين غراوي) is a Lebanese beauty pageant titleholder/ Interior Designer who was crowned Miss Lebanon 2013. She represented Lebanon at the Miss Universe 2013 in Russia/Moscow and Miss World 2013 in Indonesia/Bali pa ...
– Miss Lebanon 2013 *
Saly Greige Saly Greige ( ar, سالي جريج) is a Lebanese engineer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Lebanon 2014. She represented Lebanon at Miss World 2014 and Miss Universe 2014. Career Greige studied civil engineering at t ...
– Miss Lebanon 2014 * Perla Helou – Miss Lebanon 2017 *
Annabella Hilal Annabella Samir Hilal (born in Achrafieh, Beirut) is a Lebanese model and TV presenter. Biography Hilal was born into an Eastern Orthodox Christian family, and (aside from Arabic), is fluent in English and French. Hilal studied at the "Co ...
– Miss World Lebanon 2006 *
Dominique Hourani Dominique Hourani ( ar, دومينيك حوراني; born 7 August 1985) is a Lebanese recording artist, actress, beauty queen, and former model. Personal life In 2007, Hourani married her second husband, an Iranian-Dutch businessman named Alir ...
– Miss Intercontinental 2003 *
Bethany Kehdy Bethany Kehdy (Arabic: بيثاني كعدي) (born 29 August 1981) is a Lebanese-American culinary expert and cookbook author specializing in the cuisines of the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa. Early life Bethany was born in ...
– Miss World Lebanon 2001 *
Nadine Wilson Njeim Nadine Wilson Njeim ( ar, نادين ويلسون نجيم) is a Lebanese beauty queen who was elected Miss Lebanon 2007. She represented her country in Miss World 2007 in China and Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico. Post-pageant career After pass ...
– Miss Lebanon 2007 *
Nadine Nassib Njeim Nadine Nassib Njeim ( ar, نادين نسيب نجيم; born 7 February 1984) is a Lebanese Tunisian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was elected Miss Lebanon 2004. She represented her home country in Miss Universe 2005 in Thailand. A ...
– Miss Lebanon 2004 *
Gabrielle Bou Rached Gabrielle Bou Rached (Arabic: غابريال بو راشد; b. 13 December 1985 in Jezzine) is a Lebanese model, actress and motorcyclist. In 2005 she was crowned Miss Lebanon. After 2015, she shifted her focus on motorcycling and was appointed ...
– Miss Lebanon 2005 *
Daniella Rahme Daniella Yousef Rahme ( ar, دانييلا يوسف رحمة) is a Lebanese Australian actress and TV presenter. She was the winner of Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2010, and winner of '' Dancing with the Stars: Raqs el Noujoum'' season 2. Early life Da ...
– Miss International Lebanon 2010 *
Maya Reaidy Maya Reaidy ( ar, مايا رعيدي, born 14 November 1995) is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Lebanon 2018. She represented Lebanon at the Miss Universe 2018 pageant in Bangkok, Thailand. Personal life Reaidy was born and r ...
– Miss Lebanon 2018 *
Georgina Rizk Georgina Rizk ( ar, جورجينا رزق, Jūrjīnā Rizq, born 23 July 1953) is a Lebanese model, socialite, and beauty queen. She represented Lebanon at the Miss Universe pageant and won, making her the first Lebanese and Middle Eastern/West ...
– Miss Lebanon 1970/
Miss Universe 1971 Miss Universe 1971 was the 20th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States on 24 July 1971. At the end of the event, Marisol Malaret of Puerto Rico crowned Georgina Rizk of Lebanon as Mis ...
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Pamela Saadé Pamela Saadé, better known as Shiraz ( ar, شيراز) is a Lebanese artist that has released popular hits. She represented Lebanon in Miss Earth. Career In 2015, Shiraz released Kif Badak Aani Tghib that was a great success, and later in 2 ...
– Miss Earth Lebanon 2008 *
Christina Sawaya Christina Sawaya ( ar, كريستينا صوايا) (born 16 August 1980) is a Lebanese beauty queen. As part of her modelling career, Christina entered a series of pageants between 1998 and 2002 in which she became the winner of Miss Universit ...
– Miss Lebanon 2001/
Miss International 2002 Miss International 2002, the 42nd Miss International pageant, was held on 30 September 2002 in Tokyo, Japan at the Century Hyatt. Małgorzata Rożniecka of Poland crowned her successor Christina Sawaya of Lebanon at the end of the event. This ...
* Marlène Talih – Miss Lebanon 1966 *
Rosarita Tawil ''Rosarita Tawil'' ( ar, روزاريتا طويل) is a Lebanese humanitarian activist, model, fashion designer and beauty pageant title-holder who was crowned Miss Lebanon, Miss Lebanon 2008. Early life Tawil was born on July 23 1988 in Beirut ...
– Miss Lebanon 2008


Dancers

* Mousbah Baalbaki – belly dancer *
Dany Bustros Dany Bustros ( ar, داني بسترس, 8 October 1959 – 27 December 1998) was a Lebanese belly dancer, socialite and stage actress. She was a member of the Bustros family, an aristocratic Beiruti family. At the height of her career she was ...
(1959 – 1998) belly dancer, socialite, stage actress *
Alissar Caracalla Alissar Abdel-Halim Caracalla is a Lebanon, Lebanese dance instructor, choreography, choreographer and art director. She is the founder and director of the Orientalist Dance Company and CDS, the Caracalla School of Dance, which is simply known as ...
(born 1974) – dance instructor, choreographer and art director * Pierre Khadra – dancer, choreographer, and director * The Mayyas – all-female alternative precision dance group * Alexandre Paulikevitch – dancer, civil rights activist


Fashion designers

* Reem Acra – fashion designer * Houssein Bazaza – fashion designer * Georges Chakra – fashion designer *
Nicolas Jebran Nicolas Jebran ( ar, نيكولا جبران) is a Lebanese fashion designer famous for haute couture in addition to his line of accessories, shoes and bags called "Jebran". Jebran started showing interest in art very early on. In 1999 he took ...
– fashion designer * Rabih Kayrouz – fashion designer *
Zuhair Murad Zuhair Murad ( ar, زهير مراد) (born in July 1971) is a Lebanese fashion designer. He was born in 1971 in Ras Baalbek, Lebanon. Biography Zuhair Murad was born to a Melkite Catholic family in Ras Baalbek. Shortly after high school, M ...
– fashion designer *
Elie Saab Elie Saab ( ar, إيلي صعب; born 4 July 1964) is a Lebanese fashion designer. His main workshop is in Lebanon, with additional workshops in Milan and Paris. He started his business in the early 1980s and specialized in bridal couture (ex ...
– fashion designer * Tony Ward – fashion designer


Film, television, and radio personalities

* Hicham Abou Sleiman – actor *
Borhane Alaouié Borhane Alaouié (1 April 1941 – 9 September 2021) was a Lebanese film director.Philippe Aractingi Philippe Aractingi (born 1964, Beirut, Lebanon) is a film director and producer. He was born in Beirut, Aractingi is Franco- Lebanese. Early life At the age of 8, his father gave him his first camera. He lived on the demarcation line, at the hea ...
– Lebanese-French film director * Mayssa Assaf – TV personality *
Jihad Al-Atrash Jihad Al-Atrash (, 28 August 1943) is a Lebanese actor and voice actor. Filmography Film *The Lebanon I Dream Of - Himself. 2009 *Tuff Incident - Imam Husayn voice. 2007 *Alebaa Procession - Imam Husayn ibn Ali voice. 2005 Television *'' ...
– actor *
Maroun Bagdadi Maroun Bagdadi (also Baghdadi; ar, مارون بغدادي, ; January 21, 1950 – December 10, 1993) was a Lebanese film director known for his vivid portrayal of Lebanon's civil war. Bagdadi was internationally the best-known Lebanese filmmake ...
– film director * Hisham Bizri – film director *
Rowan Blanchard Rowan Blanchard (born October 14, 2001) is an American actress and political activist. She was included on a list of ''Times list of Most Influential Teens in 2015. She first became known for starring as Rebecca Wilson in '' Spy Kids: All t ...
– American actress * Maguy Bou Ghosn – actress * Lucien Bourjeily – film and theater director, playright, political activist *
Bassem Breish Bassem Breish (Arabic: باسم بريش, also spelled Bassem Breiche) is a Lebanese film director and writer, who was recently notable for being a member of the team which made Shankaboot, a Lebanese series available through the internet whic ...
– film director * Takla Chamoun – actress * Ely Dagher – film director * Sami Daher – actor * Jean Daoud – film director * George Diab – actor *
Ziad Doueiri Ziad Doueiri ( ar , زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963) is a Lebanese film director, cinematographer and writer. He is best known for his award-winning films ''West Beirut'' (1998) and '' The Insult'' (2017), a film that was nominated a ...
– film director * Imad Feghaly – actor * Lamitta Frangieh – actress * Daizy Gedeon – Australian-Lebanese filmmaker *
Marcel Ghanem Marcel Ghanem ( ar, مارسيل غانم) (born 1964) is a Lebanese journalist. He hosted the widely popular Lebanese political talk show "Kalam El-Nas" ( ar, كلام الناس) and now he is hosting another Lebanese political talk show "Sar ...
– television anchor * Renee Ghosh – actress *
Dan Haddad Dan Haddad (; born 28 November 1994) is a Lebanese music video director, filmmaker, and media artist active in the Middle East. His work includes collaborations with Arab singers, including Wael Kfoury, Saif Nabeel, Balqees (singer), Balqees, Sham ...
– film director * Abdo Hakim – actor * Hasan Hamdan – actor * Jamal Hamdan – actor * Saad Hamdan – actor * Darine Hamze – actress, director, and producer *
Julia Kassar Julia Kassar is a Lebanese actress, who is known for her roles in Lebanese cinema and theater. She has worked with many famous directors such as Nidal Al Achkar, Jawad al-Assadi, Jalal Khoury, and Roger Assaf. She received a Master diploma in ...
– actress * Diana Ibrahim – actress *
Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Ibrahim ( bn, মোহাম্মদ ইব্রাহিম; – 6 September 1989) was a Bangladeshi physician. He established Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDE ...
– actor *
Charbel Iskandar Charbel Iskandar () is a Lebanese actor. He has had roles on Lebanese television series such as ''The Game of Death (لعبة الموت'') and ''Cheri bil Taqseet''. He is also a stage actor and has worked in a number of voice-over roles. Ref ...
– actor * Leïla Karam – actress *
Mona Karim Mona Ferial Karim () is a Lebanese actress. Filmography Television *Noktit Hob. 2010 *Maitri Nada. 2010 *Wajaa El Rouh. 2014 *Sarah Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While ...
– actress *
Mario Kassar Mario F. Kassar ( ar, ماريو قصار; born October 10, 1951) is a Lebanese film producer and industry executive who produced the first three films of the ''Rambo'' series, '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', '' Total Recall'', ''The Doors, Ange ...
– filmmaker, founder of
Carolco Pictures Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an American independent film studio that existed from 1976 to 1995, founded by Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna. Kassar and Vajna ran Carolco together until 1989, when Vajna left to form Cinergi Pictures. Carolco h ...
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Alek Keshishian Alek Keshishian ( hy, Ալեք Գևորգի Քեշիշեան, born 30 July 1964) is an Armenian-born American film and commercial director, writer, producer and music video director. His 1991 documentary, '' Madonna: Truth or Dare'' was the high ...
– filmmaker of Lebanese-Armenian origin *
Georges Khabbaz Georges Khabbaz ( ar, جورج خبّاز, born in Hasbaya, November 5, 1976) is a Lebanese actor, writer, director, comedian, musician, playwright, producer and theater professor. He is best known for playing the lead role in '' Under the Bom ...
– actor * Arsinée Khanjian – actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin *
Nadine Labaki Nadine Labaki ( ar, نادين لبكي ''Nādīn Labikī''; born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actress, director and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her film-making career began in 2007 after ...
– film director *
Samir Maalouf Samir Maalouf () is a Lebanese actor and voice actor. Filmography Film *Fire of Love. 1968 *Hello Love. 1968 Television *Stingies. 1983 *Honesty - Samir. 1982 *The White Mask. 1974 *Adventures of Nader - Zakarya. 1969 *International ...
– actor *
Toni Maalouf Toni Maalouf ( ar, طوني معلوف) is a Lebanese actor. Filmography FilmEddis Kfeefan- Father Hardini. 1998 *'' Charbel: The Movie'' - Father Hardini. 2009 *Rafka - Father Hardini *In the Shadow of the City - طيف المدينة' - Nadi ...
– actor *
Mahmoud Mabsout Mahmoud Mabsout ( ar, محمود مبسوط), also known by the character Fehmen ( ar, فهمان) (1941 – 25 July 2011) was a Lebanese actor. Biography Mahmoud was born in 1941 in Tripoli, North Lebanon. He was not good at school, as he said ...
– actor *
Peter Macdissi Peter Macdissi (Arabic: بيتر مقدسي ; born May 14, 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese actor and producer. His filmography consists mostly of television work, most notably playing recurring character Olivier Castro-Staal on Alan Ball' ...
– television and film actor *
Omar Mikati Omar Nizar Mikati () is a Lebanese actor and voice actor. Omar Nizar Mikati was born in Lebanon in 1944. Filmography Film * The Blind of the Cathedral - Grocer (Short Film). 2015 *'' Max w Antar''. 2016 *'' Princess of Rome'' (Voice only). 20 ...
– actor * Patrick Mubarak – actor * Ismail Nanoua – actor * Samara Nohra – actress *
George Noory George Ralph Noory (born June 4, 1950) is an American radio talk show host. Since January 2003, Noory has been the weekday host of the late-night radio talk show ''Coast to Coast AM''. The program is syndicated to hundreds of radio stations in ...
– television, author, radio * Nour – film actress *
Ouday Raad Ouday Raad (, 11 June 1966) is a Lebanese actor and voice actor. Filmography Film *''33 Days''. 2013 *''Tuff Incident'' (sound direction). 2007 Television *'' Ain El Jawza''. 2015 *'' Darb Al-Yasamin''. 2015 *'' Sanaoud Baad Kalil''. 2 ...
– actor *
Bashar Rahal Bashar Mounzer Rahal ( bg, Башар Мунзер Рахал, ar, بشار رحال; born 20 October 1974) is a Bulgarian actor. Life and career Early life Bashar Rahal was born in Dubai, UAE, the son of Lebanese father Mounzer Rahal and Bu ...
– Lebanese-Bulgarian actor * Keanu Reeves – Canadian actor * Fadi Rifai – actor *
Milad Rizk Milad Rizk () is a Lebanese actor. Filmography Television *Takht Sharqi. 2010 (photographer) *Al Arrab Nadi Al Sharq. 2015 (photographer) Plays *Khabar Agel. 2012 References *http://www.annahar.com/article/233682-ميلاد-رزق-للمسر� ...
– actor * Ali Saad – actor *
Hossam Al-Sabah Hossam Jawad Al-Sabah (; 1948 – 29 May 2021) was a Lebanese actor. He died in a Sidon hospital, suffering from a coma for ten days following a car accident. Filmography Film *'' Khallet Warde''. 2011 Television *''Ain El Jawza A ...
– actor * Khaled El Sayed – actor * Naji Shamil – actor * Omar Al-Shammaa – actor *
Haaz Sleiman Haaz Sleiman (; ar, هاز سليمان; born July 1, 1976) is a Lebanese actor. He most notably played the role of Tarek in the 2007 film '' The Visitor'' for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male an ...
– television and film actor * Rosie Al-Yaziji – actress *
Ali Al-Zein Ali Al-Zein (Arabic: علي الزين , born 1949) is a Lebanese actor and voice actor. He is a cousin of Ahmad Al-Zein. Filmography Film *Beirut Open City. 2008 Television *khamsa wnos. 2019 *thawani. 2019 *wein kenty 2. 2017 *wein ...
– actor


Models and Internet personalities

* Annabella Hillal – TV presenterw * Mia Khalifa – internet personality, former pornographic actress and webcam model * Myriam Klink – model and entertainer


Singers, composers, and musicians

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Nancy Ajram Nancy Nabil Ajram ( ar, نانسي نبيل عجرم, born May 16, 1983) is a Lebanese singer, television personality and businesswoman. Dubbed by Spotify as the " Queen of Arab Pop". With the support of her father, she began performing as ...
– singer * Ragheb Alama – singer *
Ramy Ayach Ramy Abu Ayach ( ar, رامي ابوعياش, born August 18, 1980) is a Lebanese singer, composer, and actor. Commonly referred to as the "Pop Star" in the Arab world for his impact and contribution to the contemporary Arab music scene and Pop ...
– singer and composer *
Julia Boutros Julia Boutros ( ar, جوليا بطرس; born April 1, 1968) is a Lebanese singer rose to prominence in the 1980s with a series of songs like "Ghabet Shams El Haq" and "Wein el Malayeen". She is also the sister of Ziad Boutros and the wife of t ...
– singer * Sami Clark – singer *
Djsky Ghareeb Kaawar, known professionally as Djsky, is a Lebanese electronic music DJ, music programmer, remixer and event organiser based in Ghana, United States and Lebanon. In an interview with Watsup TV, Djsky revealed he was the first to intr ...
– electronic musician *
Fairuz Nouhad Wadie' Haddad ( ar, نهاد وديع حداد, ; born November 21, 1934), known as Fairuz ( ar, فيروز, ; also spelled Fairouz, Feyrouz or Fayrouz), is a Lebanese singer. She is considered by many as one of the leading vocalists a ...
– singer *
Assi El Hallani Mohammed Muzen El Hallani ( ar, محمد مزين الحلاني), widely known as Assi El Hallani; born November 28, 1970), is a Lebanese singer and actor. El Helani's musical career started after winning Studio Al Fan, a TV program for young a ...
– singer *
Najwa Karam Najwa Karam ( ar, نجوى كرم, , born 26 February 1966) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, producer, fashion icon, one of the best selling recording artist in the middle east with more than 60 million records worldwide. Known as the "Sun of ...
– singer *
Wael Kfoury Michel Émile Kfoury ( ar, ميشال اميل كفوري; born September 14, 1974), known by his stage name Wael Kfoury (), is a Lebanese singer, Wael Kfoury is called the king of romance and the common nightingale and perfect . Wael has many son ...
– singer *
Marcel Khalife Marcel Khalifé ( ar, مرسيل خليفة; born 10 June 1950 in Amchit) is a Palestinian- Lebanese musical composer, singer, and oud player. Biography In 1983, Paredon Records (later acquired by Smithsonian Folkways) released ''Promises ...
– singer and composer *
Massari Sari Abboud ( ar, ساري عبّود; born December 10, 1980), better known by his stage name Massari ( ), is a Lebanese Canadian R&B pop recording artist. His music combines Middle Eastern culture with western culture. He started his musical ca ...
– singer *
Zaki Nassif Zaki Nassif ( ar, زكي ناصيف; 4 July 1918 – 10 March 2004) was a Lebanese music composer and singer. He was influential among the first generation of composers for the mass audience for music on radio in Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s, ...
– composer, singer *
Rahbani brothers The Rahbani brothers (Arabic: الأخوان رحباني), Assi Rahbani (4 May 1923 – 21 June 1986) and Mansour Rahbani (1925 – 13 January 2009) were Lebanese sibling musicians, composers, songwriters, authors, and playwrights/dramatists, be ...
– composers **
Assi Rahbani Assi Rahbani ( ar, عاصي الرحباني; May 4, 1923 – June 21, 1986) was a Lebanese composer, musician, and producer. He was part of the Rahbani Brothers ( ar, links=no, الأخوان رحباني), with his brother Mansour Rahbani. ...
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Mansour Rahbani Mansour Rahbani ( ar, منصور الرحباني, Manṣūr Al-Raḥbāni; 17 March 1925 – 13 January 2009) was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet, philosopher, thinker and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers, and the b ...
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Ziad Rahbani Ziad Rahbani ( ar, زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the fou ...
– musician, actor *
Majida El Roumi Majida El Roumi Baradhy ( ar, ماجدة الرومي برادعي; born 13 December 1956) is a Lebanese soprano singer and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Early life Majida El Roumi Al Baradhy was born on 13 December 1956 in Kfarshima ...
– singer *
Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...
– singer, actress *
Wadih El Safi Wadih El Safi ( ar, وديع الصافي, born Wadih Francis; November 1, 1921 – October 11, 2013) was a Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was a Lebanese icon and the forefather of the country's musical culture. He was the ...
– singer, composer, and musician *
Carole Samaha Carole Samaha ( ar, كارول سماحة; born July 25, 1972) is a Lebanese singer, actress, and performer. She has released six studio albums. Samaha has a Master's degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999 from the Saint Jose ...
– singer *
Nasri Shamseddine Nasri Shamseddine ( ar, نصري شمس الدين, also spelled Nasri Chamseddine; 27 June 1927 – 18 March 1983) was a Lebanese singer and actor. Biography Shamseddine was born Nasreddine Moustapha Shamesedine () in the village of Joun, in th ...
– singer *
Hamed Sinno Hamed Sinno ( ar, حامد سنّو; born 25 April 1988) is the Lebanese-American lead singer of the alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila. Early life Sinno was born to a Lebanese father who had lived in the United States and a Jordanian mother ...
– singer-songwriter *
Walid Toufic Walid Toutanji ( ar, وليد توفيق; also known as Walid Toufic; born April 8, 1954), is a Lebanese singer and actor. Biography Walid Toufic, born Walid Toutounji, grew up with his Sunni family in Tripoli, Lebanon. He later relocated to w ...
– singer *
Melhem Zein Melhem Zain ( ar, ملحم زين; born 21 October 1982) is a Lebanese singer Career When he was 16, Melhem Hussein Zein first participated in an Amateur Singing Program called ''Kaas Al Nojoum'' (The Cup of the Stars) on the Lebanese LBC ...
– singer *
Nawal Al Zoghbi Nawal El Zoghbi ( ar, نوال الزغبي, also spelled Nawal Al Zoghbi; born 29 June 1972) is a Lebanese pop singer. She achieved popularity first by dancing and singing traditional Arabic music with a pop sensibility, and later singing in ...
– singer


Theatre

* Dayna Ash – poet, cultural activist * Hassan Alaa Eddin – commonly known as Chouchou or Shoushou, actor, comedian *
Jalal Khoury Jalal Khoury (born in Beirut on 28 May 1933 – died on 3 December 2017) was a playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor. First Lebanese playwright to be translated and performed internationally, his works are translated into ...
– playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor


Visual artists

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Etel Adnan Etel Adnan ( ar, إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" ...
– painter, poet * Faouzi Al-Kach – artist *
Joseph Assaf Joseph Assaf (Arabic: جوزيف عساف; born 1944) is a Lebanese-born Australian businessman and founder of the Ethnic Business Awards. Biography Assaf was born in Hardine, a village in the Batroun District, 80 km from Beirut, Lebanon. Hi ...
– sculptor * Chaouki Chamoun – painter *
Douglas Abdell Douglas Abdell (born 1947) is an American sculptor, living and working in Málaga, Spain. Early life and education Abdell was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1947, to parents of Lebanese and Italian origin. In 1970 he graduated from Syrac ...
– sculptor *
Moustafa Farroukh Moustafa Farroukh ( ar, مصطفى فروخ; 1901 – 1957) was one of Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. During his famed career, Farroukh produced over 2000 paintings most of which were acquired by collectors both in Lebanon a ...
– painter *
Chawky Frenn Chawky Frenn is a Lebanese-born American artist, author, and art professor. He currently teaches art at George Mason University in northern Virginia. His highly realistic paintings have strong narrative social and political elements. Frenn is a ...
– painter and art professor *
César Gemayel César Gemayel (b. 1898 Ain al Touffaha near Bikfaya, Ottoman Empire; died in Beirut, Lebanon in 1958) was a notable Lebanese painter, who helped to lay the foundations of a modern Lebanese art movement. Life and career Gemayel received his ...
– painter *
Youssef Howayek Youssef Saadallah Howayek ( ar, يوسف حويك; also Yusuf Huwayyik, Hoyek, Hoayek, Hawayek) (1883–1962) was a painter, sculptor and writer from Helta, in modern-day Lebanon. Career Youssef Howayek's father, Saadallah Howayek, was a Counc ...
– sculptor and painter * Wajih Nahlé – painter and calligrapher *
Walid Raad Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (Arabic: وليد رعد) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. He lives and works in New York, where he is curr ...
– artist *
Pierre Sadek Pierre Sadek (1938 – 24 April 2013) was a Lebanese caricaturist, considered a pioneer of political cartooning and a great defender of freedom of expression. Biography Born in Zahlé, he graduated from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and wor ...
– caricaturist *
Akram Zaatari Akram Zaatari (born 1966 in Sidon, Lebanon) is a filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator. In 1997, he co-founded the Arab Image Foundation with photographers Fouad Elkoury, and Samer Mohdad. His work is largely based on collecting, stu ...
– filmmaker, photographer, artist and curator


Writers and poets

* Salima Abi Rashed (1887–1919) first Lebanese woman lawyer, journalist * Maroun Abboud (1886–1962) – poet and writer * Elia Abu Madi (1890–1957) – poet * Said Akl (1912–2014) – poet, writer, and thinker * Jeanne Arcache (1902–1961) – Francophone poet and novelist * Zeina Hashem Beck – poet *
Nader El-Bizri Nader El-Bizri ( ar, نادر البزري, ''nādir al-bizrĩ'') is the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah. He served before as a tenured longstanding full Professor of philosophy and civ ...
(living) – philosopher and architect *
Butrus al-Bustani Butrus al-Bustani ( ar, بطرس البستاني, ; 1819–1883) was a writer and scholar from present day Lebanon. He was a major figure in the Nahda, which began in Egypt in the late 19th century and spread to the Middle East. He is cons ...
(1819–1883) – writer and scholar *
Andrée Chedid Andrée Chedid ( ar, أندريه شديد) (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011), born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian- French poet and novelist of Syrian/Lebanese descent. She is the recipient of numerous literar ...
(1920–2011) – Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent *
Michel Chiha Michel Chiha (1891–1954) was a Lebanese banker, a politician, writer and journalist. Along with Charles Corm, Petro Trad and Omar Daouk, he is considered one of the fathers of the Lebanese Constitution. His ideas and actions have had an importan ...
(1891–1954) – writer, journalist, banker * Alexandra Chreiteh (born 1987) – writer * Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer and businessman *
Fawaz Gerges Fawaz (sometimes, Fawwaz or Fawez) is a masculine Arabic given name and a surname. Its literal meaning is "winner", as it is the masculine adjective from the verb ''fāz'', meaning "he won". Therefore, it can be thought of as the equivalent to the ...
(born 1958) – academic and author * Mai Ghoussoub (1952–2007) – writer, publisher, human rights activist * Zaynab Fawwaz (1860–1914) – poet, historian, women's right activist * Hedy Habra – Lebanese-American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor *
Joumana Haddad Joumana Haddad ( ar, جمانة حداد) ( Salloum; born December 6, 1970 in Beirut) is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and human rights activist. She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabi ...
(born 1970) – writer and feminist * Ounsi el-Hajj (1937–2014) – poet * Salma Hage (born 1942) – writer and cook *
Labiba Hashim Labiba Hashim (لبيبة هاشم) (1952-1882) was a Lebanese author who founded and published ''Fatat al-Sharq'' (''Girl of the East''- "فتاة الشرق") magazine in Cairo in 1906, one of the first female-oriented magazines of the Arab wo ...
(1882–1952) – pioneer woman writer and journalist *
Jad Hatem Jad Hatem (Arab جاد حاتم; born 3 December 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese poet and philosopher. He has been a distinguished philosophy, literature and religious sciences Professor at the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut since 197 ...
(born 1952) – philosopher and poet *
Gibran Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...
(1883–1931) – artist, author and poet *
Anbara Salam Khalidi Anbara Salam Khalidi () (4 August 1897–May 1986) was a Lebanese feminist, translator and author, who significantly contributed to the emancipation of Arab women. Early life and education Khalidi was born into an eminent Lebanese family in ...
(1897–1986) – writer, translater, woman emancipation activist *
Elias Khoury Elias Khoury ( ar, إلياس خوري; born 12 July 1948) is a Lebanon, Lebanese novelist, and prominent public intellectual. Accordingly, he has published myriad novels related to literary criticism, which have been translated into several fore ...
(born 1948) – novelist and playwright *
Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet and writer. Early life Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronite family, the daughter of a soldier that spoke French and a mother that was a peasant. She is the old ...
(born 1937) – writer * Emily Fares Ibrahim (born 1914) – writer, feminist * Amin Maalouf (born 1949) – novelist *
Mago (agricultural writer) Mago ( xpu, 𐤌𐤂‬𐤍‬, ) was a Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic which was a record of the farming knowledge of Carthage, The Punic text has been lost, but some fragments of Greek and Latin translations surv ...
Carthaginian The term Carthaginian ( la, Carthaginiensis ) usually refers to a citizen of Ancient Carthage. It can also refer to: * Carthaginian (ship), a three-masted schooner built in 1921 * Insurgent privateers; nineteenth-century South American privateers, ...
writer, author of an agricultural manual in
Punic The Punic people, or western Phoenicians, were a Semitic people in the Western Mediterranean who migrated from Tyre, Phoenicia to North Africa during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' – the Latin equivalent of t ...
*
Esther Moyal Esther Moyal (née Lazari or al-Azharī; 1874, Beirut – 1948, Jaffa) was a Lebanese Jewish journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She has been described as a key intellectual in the 20th century Nahda, or Arabic Renaissance. Biography ...
(1874–1947) – writer and women's rights activist *
May Murr May Murr, sometimes written as Mayy Murr ( ar, مي المر) (1929–2008) was a Lebanese professor, historian, writer, poet, and political activist. Before taking up writing, May Murr taught several subjects at several universities and institut ...
(1929–2008) – academic, writer and activist * Jacqueline Massabki (died 2015) – writer and lawyer * Khalil Mutran (1872–1949) – poet and journalist *
Mikha'il Na'ima Mikha'il Nu'ayma ( ar, ميخائيل نعيمة, ; US legal name: Michael Joseph Naimy), better known in English by his pen name Mikhail Naimy (October 17, 1889 – February 28, 1988), was a Lebanese poet, novelist, and philosopher, famous for ...
(1889–1988) – religious author and poet *
Emily Nasrallah Emily Daoud Nasrallah ( ar, إيميلي داود نصر الله) ('' née'' Abi Rached; 6 July 1931 – 13 March 2018) was a Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. She graduated from the Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese Ameri ...
(1931–2018) – novelist, activist * Amin al-Rihani (1876–1940) – writer and politician * Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) – writer and feminist *
Georges Schéhadé Georges Schehadé (2 November 1905 – 17 January 1989) was a Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French. Life and career Georges Schehadé was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in an aristocratic Greek orthodox family of Lebanese origin but spe ...
– (1905–1989) – Francophone playwright and poet * Laurice Schehadé (1908–2009) – Noverlist and poet *
Hanan al-Shaykh Hanan al-Shaykh ( ar, حنان الشيخ; born 12 November 1945, Beirut) is a Lebanese author of contemporary literature. Biography Hanan al-Shaykh was born Beirut, Lebanon, in 1945, into a strict Shi'a family. Her father and brother exerte ...
– writer *
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq ( ar, أحمد فارس الشدياق, ; born Faris ibn Yusuf al-Shidyaq; born 1805 or 1806; died 20 September 1887) was a scholar, writer and journalist who grew up in what is now present-day Lebanon. A Maronite Christia ...
(1806–1887) – scholar, writer and journalist *
Avraham Sinai Avraham Sinai ( he, אברהם סיני; born December 15th 1962) is a former Hezbollah member who spied for Israel. Originally named Ibrahim Yassin ( ar, إبراهيم ياسين), he fled from Lebanon to Israel in 1997 and later converted from ...
(born 1962) – religious writer *
Gabriel Sionita Gabriel Sionita (Syriac: Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī; 1577 at Ehden in Lebanon – 1648 in Paris) was a learned Maronite priest, famous for his role in the publication of the 1645 Paris Polyglot of the Bible. Life Gabriel Sionita was born Jibra ...
(1577–1648) –
Maronite The Maronites ( ar, الموارنة; syr, ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of the Middle East, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the larges ...
writer and publisher * Amine Takiedine (1884–1937) – poet and writer *
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, ...
(born 1960) – author *
Nadia Tueni Nadia Mohammad Ali Hamade (July 8, 1935 – June 20, 1983) was a Lebanese Francophone poet, who authored numerous volumes of poetry. Early life Nadia Mohammad Ali Hamadeh was born in Beirut in 1935, to a Lebanese Druze father, Mohammed Ali Ham ...
(1935–1983) – poet *
Ibrahim al-Yaziji Ibrahim al-Yaziji (Arabic ابراهيم اليازجي, ''Ibrahim al-Yāzijī''; 1847–1906) was an Arab Christian philosopher, philologist, poet and journalist. He belonged to the Greek Catholic population of the Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebano ...
(1847–1906) – philosopher,
philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
, poet and journalist *
Nasif al-Yaziji Nāṣīf bin ʻAbd Allāh bin Nāṣīf bin Janbulāṭ bin Saʻd al-Yāzijī (; March 25, 1800 – February 8, 1871) was a Lebanese author at the times of the Ottoman Empire and father of Ibrahim al-Yaziji. He was one of the leading figures in ...
(1800–1871) – author * Warda al-Yaziji (1838–1924) – poet * Iman Humaydan Younes (born 1956) writer, researcher and creative writing professor * Rania Zaghir (born 1977) – children's author * Nazira Zain al-Din (1908–1976) – literary critic and women emancipation activist *
May Ziadeh May Elias Ziadeh ( ; ar, مي إلياس زيادة, ; 11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941) was a Lebanese people, Lebanese-Palestinians, Palestinian poet, essayist, and translator, who wrote many different works both in Arabic language, Ar ...
(1886–1941) – poet, essayist, and women emancipation activist *
Jurji Zaydan Jurji Zaydan ( ar, جرجي زيدان, ; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine ''Al-Hilal (magazine), Al-Hilal'', which he used to seri ...
(1861–1914) – writer and novelist, journalist


Architecture

*
Nabil Gholam Nabīl or Nabeel ( ar, نبيل) is a male given name of Arabic origin, meaning " noble".Online translati ...
– architect * Salim Al-Kadi – architect and designer * Joseph Philippe Karam – architect *
Nadim Karam Nadim Karam ( ar, نديم كرم); (born 1957) is a multidisciplinary Lebanese artist and architect who fuses his artistic output with his background in architecture to create large-scale urban art projects in different cities of the world. He ...
– architect * Bernard Khoury – architect


Business

*
Samir Brikho Samir Yacoub Brikho FREng (born 3 May 1958) is Chairman of the Board of Directors at global fertilizer producer EuroChem Group AG and coal energy company SUEK JSC. Brikho has previously held senior positions in many leading companies such as Asea, ...
– businessman, Chief Executive of AMEC * Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer, industrialist *
Walid Daouk Walid Daouk (Arabic: وليد الداعوق; born 1958) is a Lebanese lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as information minister between June 2011 and February 2014. Early life and education Daouk was born into a Sunni family, the D ...
– businessman and politician *
Ralph Debbas Ralph R. Debbas (born 1987) is a Lebanese automotive entrepreneur, designer, and businessman. He is best known as the chief executive officer of W Motors, which he founded in 2012, and the designer of the Lykan HyperSport. Early life and educ ...
– automotive executive *
Carlos Ghosn Carlos Ghosn (; ; ar, كارلوس غصن; , born 9 March 1954) is a businessman who holds Brazilian and French nationality. Ghosn was the CEO of Michelin North America, chairman and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and CEO of Ni ...
– former CEO of Michelin North America, Chairman and CEO of
Renault Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured ...
, Chairman of
AvtoVAZ AvtoVAZ ( rus, АвтоВАЗ, p=ɐftoˈvas) is a Russian automobile manufacturing company owned by the state. It was formerly named as VAZ ( rus, ВАЗ), an acronym for Volga Automotive Plant in Russian (russian: Во́лжский автомо� ...
, Chairman and CEO of
Nissan , trade name, trading as Nissan Motor Corporation and often shortened to Nissan, is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The company sells ...
, and Chairman of
Mitsubishi Motors is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.Sam Hammam Sam, SAM or variants may refer to: Places * Sam, Benin * Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso * Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso * Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso * Sam, Iran * Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place People and fictio ...
– owner of
Cardiff City F.C. Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...
*
Hind Hariri Hind Rafic al-Hariri ( ar, هند الحريري; born in 1984) is the youngest child of Lebanese businessman and politician Rafic Hariri. She graduated from the Lebanese American University in Beirut and campaigned for her half-brother Saad in ...
(born 1984) – entrepreneur, billionnaire *
Nicolas Hayek Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928 – 28 June 2010), was a Swiss businessman of Lebanese descent, and the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Swatch Group. Early life and education Hayek was born the second of three children, ...
– owner of Swatch Group * Ziad Raphael Nassar – celebrity wedding designer and entrepreneur, owner of Ziad Rapahel Nassar holding. *
Carlos Slim Carlos Slim Helú (; born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the '' Forbes'' business magazine. He derived his fortune from h ...
– investor, formerly the richest person in the world * Philippe Ziade – entrepreneur, owner and CEO of Growth Holdings


Education

* Joseph E. Aoun – President of Northeastern University * Alberto Bustani – former president of Monterrey Campus of
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and Mixed-sex education, coeducational private ...
* Gabriel Hawawini – former Head and Dean of INSEAD


Journalism

* Jad Al-Akhaoui – television and newspaper journalist *
May Chidiac May Chidiac ( ar, مي شدياق) (born 20 June 1963) is a journalist and former Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Development. Chidiac is a former television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) and one of ...
– television journalist * Daizy Gedeon – former deputy foreign editor and first female sports journalist (The Australian) *
Marcel Ghanem Marcel Ghanem ( ar, مارسيل غانم) (born 1964) is a Lebanese journalist. He hosted the widely popular Lebanese political talk show "Kalam El-Nas" ( ar, كلام الناس) and now he is hosting another Lebanese political talk show "Sar ...
– television journalist * Adnan Al Kakoun – journalist/producer/director *
Octavia Nasr Octavia Nasr ( ar, اوكتافيا نصر) (born 13 March 1966) is a Lebanese-American Rhetoric scholar anauthorwhosresearchfocuses on Yoga's identity and ethical code and how they apply to journalism and other fields. She is a certified yoga i ...
– former television journalist for
CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
* Ramzi Najjar – journalist and author *
Gebran Tueni Gebran Ghassan Tueni ( ar, جبران تويني; 15 September 1957 – 12 December 2005) was a Lebanese politician and the former editor and publisher of daily paper ''An Nahar'', established by his grandfather, also named Gebran Tueni, ...
– founder of ''
An-Nahar ''An-Nahar'' ( ar, النهار, lit=The Day or The Morning) is a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Lebanon. In the 1980s, ''An-Nahar'' was described by the ''New York Times'' and ''Time Magazine'' as the newspaper of record ...
'' * Gebran Ghassan Tueni – Lebanese journalist and politician *
Ghassan Tueni Ghassan Tueni ( ar, غسان تويني‎; 5 January 1926 – 8 June 2012) was a veteran Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed ''An Nahar'', one of the Arab World's leading newspapers. He was often referred to as the "Dean ...
– Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat * Nayla Tueni (born 1982) – journalist and politician *
Paula Yacoubian Paulette Siragan Yaghobian (; ; born 4 April 1976) is a Lebanese journalist, television host and politician. She worked as a host in a number of Lebanese and pan-Arab international television stations. Known for the transformational impact she's ...
- television journalist and politician * George Yammine – literature and arts critic of
An-Nahar ''An-Nahar'' ( ar, النهار, lit=The Day or The Morning) is a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Lebanon. In the 1980s, ''An-Nahar'' was described by the ''New York Times'' and ''Time Magazine'' as the newspaper of record ...
* Philippe Ziade – Journalist


Military

* Emile Boustany – former army commander * Jean Kahwaji – former army commander * Samir El-Khadem – former commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian *
Émile Lahoud Émile Jamil Lahoud (born 12 January 1936) was a Lebanese politician who served as the 16th president of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007. His main foreign-policy achievement was to end the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon in May 2000, which was ...
– former army commander *
Jamil Al Sayyed Jamil Al Sayyed ( ar, جميل السيد; born 1950) is a Lebanese politician, a current Member of the Parliament of Lebanon, and the former head of Lebanon's Sureté Générale or Lebanese General Security Directorate. He was arbitrarily detai ...
– former Lebanese General Security Director *
Wafiq Jizzini Major General Wafiq Jizzini ( ar, وفيق جزيني; also spelled Wafic Jezzini or Wafik Jezzini; 4 December 1951 – 4 March 2011) was the general director of the General Directorate of General Security of Lebanon from 2005 to 2010. Career ...
– former Lebanese General Security Director * Abbas Ibrahim – Lebanese General Security Director * Jean Njeim – former army commander * Ibrahim Tannous – former army commander * Joseph Aoun – army commander


Religion

A series of Catholic
pope The pope ( la, papa, from el, πάππας, translit=pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff ( or ), Roman pontiff () or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Cathol ...
s from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin)''Popes of Lebanese Phoenician and Eastern Origin''
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include:
Pope Anicetus Pope Anicetus was the bishop of Rome from c. 157 to his death in April 168.Campbell, Thomas (1907). "Pope St. Anicetus" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. According to the ''Annuario Pontificio'', the sta ...
, Pope Constantine,
Pope Gregory III Pope Gregory III ( la, Gregorius III; died 28 November 741) was the bishop of Rome from 11 February 731 to his death. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by Byzantine iconoclasm and the advance of the Lombards, in which ...
,
Pope Sergius I Pope Sergius I (8 September 701) was the bishop of Rome from 15 December 687 to his death, and is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected at a time when two rivals, Paschal and Theodore, were locked in dispute about wh ...
and Pope Sisinnius.


Religious personalities

Maronite patriarchs *Estephan El Douaihy – former Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704) *Elias Peter Hoayek – former Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931) *Anthony Peter Khoraish – former Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986) *Bechara Boutros al-Rahi – Maronite Patriarch (2011–) *Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir – former Maronite Patriarch (1986–2011) Muslim scholars *Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i, Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-ʾAwzāʿī (Arabic language, Arabic: أبو عمرو عبدُ الرحمٰن بن عمرو الأوزاعي) (707–774) *Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader *Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili – Shi'a scholar (1334–1385) *:ar:علي الكركي, Nur-al-Din al-Karaki al-ʿĀmilī (1465-1534) – Shiite scholar who was a member of the Safavid Iran, Safavid court *Al-Hurr al-Aamili – muhaddith and a prominent Twelver Shi'a scholar (1624–1693) *Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Shi'a Islamic scholar (1547–1621) *Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – Shiite cleric (1935–2010) *Hassan Khaled – Sunni cleric, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic (1966–1989) Others *Aram I Keshishian – Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, See of the Great House of Cilicia (in Antelias, Lebanon) *Salim Ghazal – Melkite Greek Catholic bishop (1931–2011)


Saints

*Charbel Makhlouf *Nimatullah Kassab *Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès *Raphael Hawawini


Politicians


Presidents of Lebanon

*NONE - current president (2022-??) *Michel Aoun – former president (2016–2022) *Camille Chamoun – former president (1952–1958) *Fuad Chehab – former president (1958–1964) *Émile Eddé – former president (1936–1941) *Suleiman Frangieh – former president (1970–1976) *Amine Gemayel – former president (1982–1988) *Bachir Gemayel – former president-elect (1982-murdered) *Charles Helou – former president (1964–1970) *Elias Hrawi – former president (1989–1998) *Bechara El Khoury – former president (1943–1952) *Émile Jamil Lahoud – former president (1998–2007) *René Moawad – former president (1989-murdered) *Elias Sarkis – former president (1976–1982) *Michel Sleiman – former president (2008–2014) *Petro Trad – former president (1943)


Speakers of Parliament

*Nabih Berri – Camper on his seats since 1992 (30 years) *Kamel Asaad – former Speaker of Parliament *Sabri Hamadé – former Speaker of Parliament *Hussein el-Husseini – former Speaker of Parliament *Adel Osseiran – former Speaker of Parliament


Prime Ministers of Lebanon

*Ahmad Daouk – former Prime Minister *Amin al-Hafez (Lebanon), Amin al-Hafez – former Prime Minister *Rafic Hariri – former Prime Minister *Saad Hariri – former Prime Minister *Selim al-Hoss – former Prime Minister *Omar Karami – former Prime Minister *Rashid Karami – former Prime Minister *Najib Mikati – former Prime Minister *Saeb Salam – former Prime Minister *Tammam Salam – former Prime Minister *Fouad Siniora – former Prime Minister *Riad as-Solh – former Prime Minister *Sami as-Solh – former Prime Minister *Takieddin el-Solh – former Prime Minister *Shafik Wazzan – former Prime Minister *Abdallah El-Yafi – former Prime Minister *Chafic Al Wazzan – former Prime Minister *Hussain Alouieni – former Prime Minister *Omar Karami – former Prime Minister *Hassan Diab – former Prime Minister


Political personalities

*Marwan Hamadeh – former minister (6 times) and part of the Lebanese Parliament since 1992, politician and influential presence *Emir Majid Arslan – Lebanese independence leader *Prince Talal Arslan – Druze leader and president of the Lebanese Democratic Party *Gebran Bassil – minister, Free Patriotic Movement *Dany Chamoun – former National Liberal Party leader *Dory Chamoun – National Liberal Party leader *The Daouk Family, Khaled Daouk – former List of diplomatic missions of Ireland, Honorary Consul General of Ireland in Beirut *
Walid Daouk Walid Daouk (Arabic: وليد الداعوق; born 1958) is a Lebanese lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as information minister between June 2011 and February 2014. Early life and education Daouk was born into a Sunni family, the D ...
– former minister of Information and Justice *Carlos Edde – politician *Raymond Edde – politician, former leader of National Bloc *Issam Fares – businessman and politician, former Deputy Prime Minister *Suleiman Frangieh, Jr. – politician, leader of the Marada Movement *Tony Frangieh – politician *Maurice Gemayel – founder of Institute for Palestine Studies *Pierre Gemayel – politician and founder of the Kataeb Party *Pierre Amine Gemayel – legislator and minister *Samir Geagea – leader of the Lebanese Forces *Kamal Jumblatt – founder of Progressive Socialist Party (Lebanon), Progressive Socialist Party *Walid Jumblatt – politician, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party *Sobhi Mahmassani – legal scholar, former deputy and minister *Charles Malik – former president of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs *Nayla Moawad – politician *Elias Murr – former deputy prime minister *Gabriel Murr – politician; owner of Murr Television and Mount Lebanon Radio Station *Michel Murr – politician and former Deputy Prime Minister *Hassan Nasrallah – leader of Hezbollah *Salim Saadeh – economist and politician *Habib Sadek – former politician, writer *Violette Khairallah Safadi (born 1981) – politician, television personality and social activist *Gebran Tueni – journalist and deputy *Talal El Merhebi – politician and former deputy and minister, leader of Akkar area


Other political personalities

*Alain Aoun – nephew of President Michel Aoun *Joyce Gemayel – former first lady and political activist *
Ghassan Tueni Ghassan Tueni ( ar, غسان تويني‎; 5 January 1926 – 8 June 2012) was a veteran Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed ''An Nahar'', one of the Arab World's leading newspapers. He was often referred to as the "Dean ...
– diplomat, politician and journalist


Sciences


Medicine

*Afif Abdul Wahab – surgeon *Amin J. Barakat – Lebanese-American physician known for the diagnosis Barakat syndrome *Anthony Atala – Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine *Edma Abouchdid – physician; first Lebanese woman to obtain a doctorate of medicine *Sami Ibrahim Haddad – physician, surgeon and writer *Michael Debakey – renowned Lebanese-American Cardiovascular surgery, Cardiovascular Surgeon who pioneered many surgical techniques and procedures *Saniya Habboub – medical doctor known for being the first Lebanese woman to study medicine abroad *Ali A Haydar – physician who is an Emeritus Professor at the American University of Beirut *Israa Seblani – physician and endocrinologist *Afif Abdul Wahab – medical doctor, general surgeon and urologist *Michael DeBakey – American vascular surgeon and cardiac surgeon *Emile Riachi – renowned Orthopedic surgery, orthopaedic surgeon *Fuad Sami Haddad – neurosurgeon, humanitarian, and writer *Sami A. Sanjad – Lebanese people, Lebanese-Americans, American pediatrician *Tony Nader – neuroscientist, university president, author and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement. *Farid Fata – hematologist/oncologist and the mastermind of one of the largest health care frauds in U.S. history. *Nabil F. Saba – oncologist and professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine *Elias Traboulsi, Elias I. Traboulsi – physician in the fields of ophthalmic genetics and pediatric ophthalmology *Toni Choueiri – Lebanese American medical oncologist and researcher *Naji Abumrad – Lebanese-American surgeon


Psychiatry

*Aziz al-Abub – psychiatrist and medical torture expert affiliated with Hezbollah *Hagop S. Akiskal – psychiatrist and professor


Scientists


Archeology

*Maurice Chehab – archaeologist and museum curator, father of "modern Lebanese archaeology" *George El Andary – researcher in archaeology, museums and manuscripts *Leila Badre – director of the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut *Maya Haïdar Boustani – Archaeology, archaeologist and curator of the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory *Assaad Seif – archaeologist and Associate Professor in Archaeology at the Lebanese University


Astronomy

* Charles Elachi – astronomer and professor of electrical engineering, former director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of California Institute of Technology, Caltech * Doris Daou – Director for Education and Public Outreach of the NASA Lunar Science Institute


Biology

* Pierre Zalloua – biologist and researcher * M. Amin Arnaout – nephrologist best known for seminal discoveries in the biology and structure of integrin receptors. * Myrna T. Semaan – botanist, notable for identifying a number of new plant species in Lebanon with Ricardius M. Haber. * Asmar Asmar – specialization in cardiology * Huda Zoghbi – Lebanese-born American geneticist * Jack Makari – Lebanese-American cancer immunologist * Justine Sergent – researcher in the cognitive neuroscience field


Chemistry and materials science

* Niveen Khashab – chemist and professor known for her contributions in the field of drugs and Chemistry, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards laureate * Hassan Naim – Lebanese-Swiss biochemist * Mona Nemer – Lebanese-Canadian biochemist * Najat A. Saliba – Professor of Analytical Chemistry and an atmospheric chemist at the American University of Beirut * Ziad Rafiq Beydoun – petroleum geologist and Emeritus Professor at the American University of Beirut * George Doumani – Lebanese Palestinian geologist and explorer


Computing and engineering

*Mario El-Khoury – Lebanese-Swiss engineer and business executive *Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – Lebanese-American electrical and electronic engineer and technology innovator known for receiving 43 patents in television transmission *Nadim Kobeissi – French-Lebanese computer science researcher specialized in applied cryptography


Physics

*Ali Chamseddine – physicist known for his contributions in particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics *Edgar Choueiri – Physicist known for his work on Plasma propulsion engine and for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts *Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist *Ani Aprahamian – Lebanese-born Armenian-American nuclear physicist *Eid Hourany – nuclear physicist *Hassan Khachfe – innovator, researcher and professor *Salwa Nassar – nuclear physicist and college administrator known for being the first Lebanese woman to earn a PhD in physics *Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet *Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist *Ghassan Afiouni – inventor, developed a king of Pressed wood, compressed wood that cannot be burned


Sports personalities


Athletes

*Samir Bannout – Lebanese-American professional bodybuilder who won the prestigious Mr. Olympia competition in 1983. Nicknamed the "Lion of Lebanon" *Maxime Chaya – extreme sports athlete *Zakaria Chihab – sportsman and Olympian *Nabil Choueiri – track and field athlete and Olympian *Maya Nassar – fitness model


American/Canadian football

*David Azzi – football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL)


Automobile racing

*Khalil Beschir – professional race car driver *Tony Kanaan – professional race car driver *Noel Jammal – professional race car driver *Felipe Nasr – professional race car driver *Graham Rahal – professional race car driver *Toni Breidinger – professional race car driver


Baseball

*Joe Lahoud – Lebanese-American retired baseball player who played in the Major Leagues for over 11 years for five different teams (Boston Red Sox, California Angels, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers and the Kansas City Royals). His two sons, Joe Jr. and Nick Lahoud, played Minor League Baseball.


Basketball

*Rony Fahed – basketball player *Matt Freije – basketball player *Fadi El Khatib – basketball player *Ali Mahmoud – basketball player *Elie Mechantaf – basketball player *Rony Seikaly – Lebanese-American professional basketball player *Joe Vogel – professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team *Jackson Vroman – professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team *Wael Arakji – basketball player


Ice hockey

*Ed Hatoum – former professional hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks *Nazem Kadri – professional hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs


Playing card tournament titleholders

*Freddy Deeb, Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb *Sam Farha, Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha *Joe Hachem, Joseph 'Joe' Hachem


Football

*Faisal Antar – football (soccer) player *Roda Antar – soccer player *Mohammed Ghaddar – soccer player in Syria *Wartan Ghazarian – soccer player of Armenian origin *Moussa Hojeij – soccer player/manager *Youssef Mohamad (footballer, born 1980), Youssef Mohamad – soccer player in Germany *Soony Saad – soccer player *Jamal Taha – soccer player


Skiing

*Ibrahim Jaja


Rugby league

*Hazem El Masri – Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs player and highest NRL point scorer *Anthony Farah – Hooker (rugby league), hooker for the West Tigers in the New South Wales Cup *Wayne Chahoud – played for the Parramatta Eels in the New South Wales Cup *Liam Ayoub – plays for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL


Rugby Union

*Ahmad Harajly – World Rugby Sevens Series USA Rugby player and first Arab American rugby athlete to represent the USA. Professional athlete for Major League Rugby for the New England Free Jacks


See also

*Lebanese diaspora *List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)


References

{{Lebanese diaspora Lists of Lebanese people, *