This is a list of notable individuals born in Africa (outside the Arab World / North Africa) of Lebanese ancestry or people of dual Lebanese and local nationality born and/or residing in Africa.

Ghana

* Juliet Ibrahim, actress * Majid Michel, actor

Ivory Coast

Mehdi Khalil Mehdi Salim Khalil ( ar, مهدي سليم خليل, ; born 19 September 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Ahed and the Lebanon national team. Khalil is known as "the Mountain" () because of his height. K ...

, footballer *

Nader Matar Nader Charbel Matar ( ar, نادر شربل مطر, ; born 12 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ansar and the Lebanon national team. Matar began his senior career in 2008 in Portugal, playing for Sport ...

, footballer * Mahmoud Kojok, footballer

Liberia

Monie Captan Monie Ralph Captan (born May 28, 1962) is the former foreign minister of Liberia from 1996 until 2003, former of Presidential Affairs 1996. During most of that time he served under President Charles Taylor. Captan's mother was a native of Liberia ...

, former foreign minister of Liberia *

Fouad Hijazi Fouad Moussa Hijazi ( ar, فؤاد موسى حجازي; born 27 June 1973) is a Lebanese football manager and former player who is the assistant coach of club Ansar. As a player, Hijazi was midfielder and played for Lebanon in the 2000 AFC As ...

, footballer * Wael Nazha, footballer

Nigeria

Gilbert R. Chagoury Gilbert Ramez Chagoury (born 1946) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, diplomat and philanthropist, who lives in Paris, France. Early life Gilbert Chagoury is a Lebanese Nigerian who was born to Lebanese immigrant parents in Lagos, Nigeria. ...

, businessman, diplomat and philanthropist *

Hassan El Mohamad Hassan Jamal El Mohamad ( ar, حسن جمال المحمد; born 24 August 1988) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a forward. Early life El Mohamad was born on 24 August 1988 in Lagos, Nigeria, to Lebanese parents. His father was ...

, footballer

Sierra Leone

Edward J. Akar Edward J. Akar (born in Rotifunk, Sierra Leone) was a Sierra Leoneanlawyer and former Sierra Leone's deputy finance minister. Akar had served as the president of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank and chairman of the Sierra Leone national football te ...

, former Minister of Finance *

John Akar John Joseph Akar (1927–1975) was a Sierra Leonean entertainer, writer, and diplomat. He served as Sierra Leonean ambassador to the United States. Today, he is probably best known for composing the music of Sierra Leone's National Anthem. Ear ...

, writer and diplomat; composer of Sierra Leone's national anthem *

Tarek El Ali Tarek Ahmad El Ali ( ar, طارق أحمد العلي; born 6 February 1986) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a forward. Club career Nejmeh El Ali signed for Lebanese Premier League side Nejmeh's youth team on 4 August 2003. ...

, footballer *

Faisal Antar Faisal Abdelhassan Antar ( ar, فيصل عبد الحسن عنتر ; born 20 December 1978) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a defender. He played his entire career in the Lebanese Premier League, for Tadamon Sour, Olympic Beirut ...

, footballer * Roda Antar, footballer * Kassim Basma, diamond exporter * Nabih Berri, Speaker of the

Lebanese Parliament The Lebanese Parliament ( ar, مجلس النواب, translit=Majlis an-Nuwwab; french: Chambre des députés) is the national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in multi-member constit ...

Joe Blell Joseph Blell is a politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party. He served as Sierra Leone's High Commissioner (Commonwealth), High commissioner to Nigeria from 1993 to 2002. He was also Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Défense from ...

, former Minister of Defense *

Samir Hassaniyeh Samir Hassanyeh (born in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean civil right activist. He is currently the chairman and president of the Sierra Leonean-Lebanese community in Sierra Leone. Samir Hassanyeh has spent most of his adult life fightin ...

, activist * Ali Hijazi, head coach of the Sierra Leone national basketball team *

Nahim Khadi Nahim Khadi (Born 1948, Freetown) is a former Sierra Leonean international Association football, football star and the current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. He was elected to the position in 2004, after defeating his closest ...

, current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association *

Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil (1936 - 2000) was a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese businessman, diamonds and commodities trader. He attained prominence in the diamond industry across Africa and Antwerp and became an influential figure in the politics of Sierr ...

, businessman and diamond tycoon *

Hisham Mackie Hisham Mackie (born 1969Hisham Mackie: Sierr ...

, diamond exporter *

Farid Raymond-Anthony Farid Raymond Anthony (born 1933 in Freetown, died 2015 in Gillingham) is a Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A ...

, writer and author *

John Saad John Nicol Sahid Saad (born in Bo, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change ...

, former Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development *

Walid Shour Walid Adel Shour ( ar, وليد عادل شور; born 10 June 1996) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ahed and the Lebanon national team. Starting his senior career at Ahed, he was loaned out to Racing Beirut for one season ...

Ali Hashem Ali Hashem is a columnist for Al-Monitor a reporter who covers the Middle East in general with special emphasis on Iranian affairs. He currently serves as a senior journalist at Al Jazeera English and prior to that he was BBC’s Iran affairs co ...

, journalist

South Africa

Fulton Allem Fulton Peter Allem (born 15 September 1957) is a South African professional golfer. Allem was born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State (province), Orange Free State, South Africa, the middle child of five children and the grandson of a Lebanese peo ...

, professional golfer# *

Ken Costa Kenneth Johann Costa, commonly known as Ken Costa, (born 31 October 1949) is a London-based South African banker and Christian philanthropist. He served as the Chairman of Lazard from 2007 to 2011. Early life Ken Costa was born in South Africa o ...

, London-based South African banker and Christian philanthropist *

Pierre Issa Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

, professional football (soccer) player * Joseph Rahme, professional tennis player *

Stephen Saad Stephen Bradley Saad (born June 1964) is a South African billionaire businessman, who is the founder and chief executive of Aspen Pharmacare (), the largest producer of generic medicines in Africa. Early life Stephen Bradley Saad was born in J ...

, CEO Aspen Pharmacare *

Michael Sutherland Michael William Sutherland (born 23 October 1954) is an Australian politician who was the Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. He was a Liberal Party of Australia (West ...

, South African-born Australian politician *

Allan Thomas Allan Thomas ( ar, ألان توماس; born 14 December 1990) is a Lebanese-South African football goalkeeper who is currently playing on Moroka Swallows in South Africa. The ''Ally Cat'' has been playing for the Swallows in the Premier S ...

, professional footballer *

Vic Toweel Victor "Vic" Anthony Toweel (12 January 1928 – 15 August 2008) was a South African boxer and former undisputed World bantamweight champion. He was the first South African to hold a world title. Personal Victor Anthony Toweel was born on 1 ...

, professional boxer *

Willie Toweel Willie Michael Toweel (6 April 1934 – 25 December 2017) was a Boxing, boxer from South Africa, who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, FInland. Personal life Willi ...

, professional boxer

References

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