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individuals born in

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of Lebanese ancestry or people of Lebanese and French dual nationality who live or lived in France.

Business

Businessmen and entrepreneurs

Mouna Ayoub Mouna Ayoub ( ar, منى أيوب) (born 27 February 1957 in Kuwait) is a French socialite and businesswoman of Lebanese origin. Frequently in the media, she is often a guest of the Cannes film festival and makes headlines in French gossip magazi ...

- businesswoman *

Frédéric Fekkai Frédéric Fekkai (born 1958) is a French celebrity hairstylist and entrepreneur in the beauty industry. Early life Fekkai was born and raised in Aix-en-Provence, France. In 1979 at the age of 21, Fekkai moved to New York to start his career. Ca ...

- French-American hairdresser and founder of Frédéric Fekkai salons and hair products *

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 ...

- 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 manufacture ...

and Nissan *

Marwan Lahoud Marwan Lahoud (Arab: مروان لحود), born March 6, 1966 in Lebanon, is a naturalized French-Lebanese weapons engineer, living in France. He was Deputy Chief Executive Officer for strategy and marketing for the Airbus group until February 2 ...

- CEO of the weapon branch of EADS *

Jacques Saadé Jacques R. Saadé ( ar, جاك سعادة; 7 February 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a French-Lebanese billionaire businessman. He was the founder and chairman of the CMA CGM, a French container transportation and shipping company, the fourth lar ...

- businessman *

Iskandar Safa Iskandar Safa (born April 1952) is a French businessman of Lebanese origin. Together with his brother Akram Safa, he is the owner of Privinvest Holding, a major international naval construction group. In addition to this, Iskandar Safa and his br ...

- businessman

Fashion

Reem Acra Reem Acra (Arabic: ريم عكرا) is a fashion designer born in Beirut, Lebanon, known for her eponymous bridal gown line and her ready-to-wear collection. Biography Early life and education Reem Acra studied at the American University of Beir ...

- fashion designer * Omar Harfouch - fashion entrepreneur *

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

Architecture

* Nabil Gholam - architect

Entertainment

Film, television and radio personalities

* Philippe Aractingi - film director * Péri Cochin - television host *

Thomas Langmann Thomas Langmann (born 24 May 1971) is a French film producer and actor, known for producing '' The Artist'' (2011), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture as producer in 2012. Career Langmann began his career as an actor in his ...

- film producer and actor * Jean-Pierre Rassam - film producer * Julien Rassam - actor * Léa Salamé - journalist

Musicians

* Rabih Abou-Khalil - jazz musician * Bob Azzam - singer * Guy Béart - singer and songwriter *

Louis Chedid Louis Chedid (born 1 January 1948, in Ismaïlia) is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese and Egyptian origin. Biography Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid (better known as -M-). As a child ...

- singer and songwriter *

Matthieu Chedid Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971), better known by his stage name -M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player. Since 2018, he has been the most awarded artist at the Victoires de la Musique Awards with 13 awards, tied with A ...

- singer and songwriter, aka -M- *

Warda Al-Jazairia Warda Al-Jazairia ( ar, وردة الجزائرية; born Warda Mohammed Ftouki (); 22 July 1939 – 17 May 2012) was an Algerian singer. She was well known for her Egyptian Arabic songs and music. Her name was sometimes shortened to just Warda ( ...

- singer *

Ibrahim Maalouf Ibrahim Maalouf ( ar, ابراهيم معلوف, ; born 5 November 1980 in Beirut) is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, producer, arranger, and composer. In 2022, he became the first Lebanese instrumentalist nominated at the Grammy Awards for his albu ...

- trumpeter, composer, arranger * Pierre-Antoine Melki - also known as Nius, record producer (part of soFLY & Nius) *

Abdel Rahman El Bacha Abdel Rahman El Bacha ( ar, عبد الرحمن الباشا, born October 23, 1958) is a Lebanese pianist and composer. His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schube ...

- pianist and composer *

Gabriel Yacoub Gabriel Yacoub is a French musician, songwriter and visual artist. Biography Yacoub was born in 1952, in Paris, of a Lebanese father and a French mother. He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group that toured France in 1971. Bef ...

- guitarist and singer *

Gabriel Yared Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films ''Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claud ...

- composer * Ycare - singer-songwriter

Politicians

* Élie Aboud - member of the National Assembly of France * Serge Ayoub - activist associated with the French extreme right * Éric Besson - politician, minister * Henri Jibrayel - politician *

Antoine Karam Antoine Karam (born 21 February 1950, in Cayenne) served as the President of the Regional Council ('' Conseil régional'') of French Guiana, a '' région d'outre-mer'' of France, from 1992 to 2010. Karam was born to a Lebanese father and ...

- former President of the Regional Council of

French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. ...

Sports

* Ali Hallab - boxer *

Alexis Khazzaka Alexis Tony Louis Elie Lestiennes Khazzaka ( ar, اليكسي طوني لويس ايلي خزاقة; born 15 April 1994) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in France, he represented Lebanon at international level. ...

- football player * Larry Mehanna - football player

Writers

* Gilbert Achcar - academic, writer, socialist and anti-war activist *

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 ...

- poet and novelist * Georges Corm - historian and economist * Randa Habib - journalist *

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 ...

- writer * Amin Maalouf - novelist * Leilah Mahi - novelist * Wajdi Mouawad - author and theater director * Antoine Sfeir - journalist

References

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