List of Lebanese people
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This is a list of notable individuals born and residing mainly in Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

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Lebanese expatriates residing overseas and possessing Lebanese citizenship are also included.

For people of Lebanese descent, see List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)

Beauty pageant contestants

  • Dina Azar
    Dina Azar
    Dina Azar is 1995 Miss Lebanon, she was born in Al-Ashrafeyeh- Beirut in 1972. She holds a BA degree in English Literature. She is currently a presenter for Celebrities Duet on LBC. She hosted Mahatat on Al Arabiya...

     - Miss Lebanon 1995
  • Gabrielle Bou Rached
    Gabrielle Bou Rached
    Gabrielle Bou Rached, is a Lebanese model and actress. In 2005 she was crowned Miss Lebanon.-Biography:Gabrielle Bou Rached was born in Jezzine. Her mother was from Bteghrine. She modeled during her teenage years, participating in music videos for popular Arab singers, in television commercials,...

     - Miss Lebanon 2005
  • Rima Fakih
    Rima Fakih
    Rima Fakih is an American beauty pageant contestant, and winner of the 2010 Miss USA title, and is also training to be a professional wrestler in WWE as a WWE Diva. She represented the state of Michigan in the Miss USA 2010 pageant, having previously won the 2010 Miss Michigan USA competition...

     - Miss USA 2010
  • Sonia Fares
    Sonia Fares
    Sonia Fares is a fashion designer and former Miss Lebanon who participated in Miss Universe 1968.-References:...

     - Miss Lebanon 1969
  • Nadine Njeim
    Nadine Njeim
    Nadine Wilson Njeim is a beauty queen, former Miss Lebanon, who represented her country in Miss World 2007 in China and Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico.- Biography :Nadine Njeim was born in Lebanon to Colonel Wilson Njeim and Mrs...

     - Miss Lebanon 2007
  • Georgina Rizk
    Georgina Rizk
    Georgina Rizk was Lebanon's first and so far only Miss Universe.Rizk was born in Beirut to a Christian household. She was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the fourth woman from Asia to win the title...

     - Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971
  • Christina Sawaya
    Christina Sawaya
    Christina Sawaya , 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 University" Lebanon in 1998, and was chosen as "Top Lebanon Model 1999".In 2001, Sawaya competed...

     - Miss Lebanon 2001/Miss International 2002
  • Rosarita Tawil
    Rosarita Tawil
    Rosarita Tawil was elected Miss Lebanon 2008 on July 11, 2008. She represented Lebanon in the Miss World 2008 pageant. The celebration was organized and aired live on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. Her runner-ups were Stephanie Salem and Michella Haddad....

     - Miss Lebanon 2008
  • Haifa Wehbe
    Haifa Wehbe
    Haifa Wehbe born in Mahrouna, Lebanon on March 10, 1976 is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer born to a Lebanese father and Egyptian mother who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman in 2002...

     - former beauty pageant contestant, singer and actress

Fashion designers

  • Reem Acra
    Reem Acra
    Reem Acra is an internationally known Lebanese fashion designer. She studied in Paris, as well as New York. She is known for her bridal designs. Her designs are sold in famous clothing boutiques such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. She has been on several popular magazines including In...

     - fashion designer
  • Georges Chakra
    Georges Chakra
    Georges Chakra is a Beirut-based Lebanese haute couture fashion designer. Since 2001, he has presented collections at Paris Fashion Week.Chakra first established his brand in 1985...

     - fashion designer
  • Zuhair Murad
    Zuhair Murad
    Zuhair Murad is a Beirut-based Lebanese fashion designer.In 1995, Zuhair Murad opened his first atelier in Beirut and not long after he came to establish a very high reputation on the international fashion scene. What began as a mere hobby soon turned into an empire of unique sophistication and...

     - fashion designer
  • Elie Saab
    Elie Saab
    Elie Saab , sometimes known simply as 'ES', is a Lebanese fashion designer.In 1982, Saab launched his Beirut-based fashion label when he was 18 years old. His main workshop is in Lebanon. He also has workshops in Milan and Paris.Born to Maronite Catholic parents in Beirut, Saab is self-trained...

     - fashion designer

Film, television and radio personalities

  • Philippe Aractingi
    Philippe Aractingi
    -Career:Born and raised in Beirut, Aractingi has made more than 40 films throughout his career, ranging from reports and documentaries to more personal and fictional films, all taking place in various countries around the world....

     - Lebanese-French film director
  • Maroun Bagdadi - film director
  • May Chidiac
    May Chidiac
    May Chidiac is a Lebanese Christian Maronite journalist.Chidiac is a former television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and one of the station's main television anchors until an assassination attempt on her life...

     - notable television anchor on LBC
    Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
    The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...

  • Leïla Karam
    Leïla Karam
    Leila Karam was a Lebanese actress. Her major contributions were in the 1970s and 1980s in many Lebanese and Egyptian movies, plays and TV series of Tele Liban.-Career:Karam began her career in broadcast media in 1956, at Near East Radio...

     - actress
  • Mario Kassar
    Mario Kassar
    Mario F. Kassar is a film producer and industry executive whose projects are frequently in association with Andrew G. Vajna.Kassar was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Working for Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, he was executive producer of several movies starting with Victory in 1981...

     - filmmaker, founder of Carolco Pictures
    Carolco Pictures
    Carolco Pictures, Inc., Carolco International N.V., or Anabasis Investments was an American independent film production company that, within a decade, went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the first three movies of the Rambo series to being bankrupted by...

  • Alek Keshishian
    Alek Keshishian
    Alek Keshishian is a Lebanese-born Armenian film director. He is best known for his 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare, which for a time was the highest-grossing documentary of all time....

     - filmmaker of Lebanese-Armenian origin
  • Arsinée Khanjian
    Arsinée Khanjian
    Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films...

     - actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin (wife of director Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

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  • Nadine Labaki
    Nadine Labaki
    Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry...

     - actress and music video director
  • Mahmoud Mabsout
    Mahmoud Mabsout
    Mahmoud Mabsout , Also Known as Fehmen was a Lebanese actor.-Biography:Mahmoud was born in 1941 in Tripoli, North Lebanon. He was not studious at school, as he said in an interview, he has failed the first primary grade six time, and when Mahmoud was 12 years old, the principal told his father...

     - actor
  • Peter Macdissi
    Peter Macdissi
    Peter Macdissi is an actor who was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His filmography consists mostly of television work, most notably playing long-time recurring character Olivier Castro-Staal on Alan Ball's hit HBO series Six Feet Under. In 2007 and in 2008, he was seen in Towelhead, a feature film which...

    , film actor (television series Six Feet Under; film Towelhead
    Towelhead (film)
    Towelhead is a 2007 black comedy film written and directed by Alan Ball and based on Alicia Erian's novel of the same name. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2007 under the name Nothing is Private...

    )
  • Nour
    Nour (actress)
    Nour is a Lebanese actress, her real name is Marian Phillip Abi Habib. She was born on 23 December 1977. She began her career as an advertisement model after graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Beirut in 1995. Her first role in cinema was in the Egyptian movie of Short w Fanella w Cap...

     - film actress
  • Keanu Reeves
    Keanu Reeves
    Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...

     - film actor (born in Beirut)
  • Haaz Sleiman
    Haaz Sleiman
    -Career:One of Sleiman's first roles was in the 2004 African-American gay comedy film The Ski Trip. He co-starred as undocumented Syrian immigrant Tarek in the critically acclaimed 2008 independent film The Visitor, a drama nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar, directed by Thomas...

     - actor (television series Nurse Jackie
    Nurse Jackie
    Nurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime, Movie Central and The Movie Network.The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City...

    ; film The Visitor
    The Visitor (2008 film)
    The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat...

    )

Singers and composers

  • franc sinatra - singer
  • Cyrine Abdelnour
    Cyrine Abdelnour
    Cyrine Abdelnour is a Lebanese singer, actress, and model.Her first album, Leila Min Layali, was released in 2004. She released her second album, Aleik Ayouni in 2006, with debut single Law Bas Fe Aini becoming one of the most popular Lebanese songs of 2006. Abdelnour has also starred in Arabic...

     - singer
  • Nancy Ajram
    Nancy Ajram
    Nancy Nabil Ajram is a multi-platinum Lebanese singer and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. With the support of her father, Nancy began performing as a child and released her first studio album by the age of 15...

     - singer
  • Ramy Ayach
    Ramy Ayach
    Ramy Ayach is a Druze Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer, and instrumentalist.- Early life :...

     - singer
  • Abdel Rahman El Bacha
    Abdel Rahman El Bacha
    Abdel Rahman El Bacha is a Lebanese pianist and composer.His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Prokofiev .-Biography:...

     - pianist
  • Julia Boutros
    Julia Boutros
    Julia Boutros is a Lebanese singer that rose to stardom in the 1980s with a series of nationalistic songs like "Ghabet Shams El Haq" and "Wen el malaieen". She is also the sister of Lebanese songwriter Ziad Boutros.-Biography:...

     - singer
  • Elissa
    Elissa (singer)
    Elissar Zakaria Khoury simply known as Elissa is a Lebanese singer. She is known for her collaborations with well-known Arab and international artists, notably Ragheb Alama, Cheb Mami, Fadl Shaker, Chris DeBurgh and Gerard Ferrer.Born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother , her debut was in...

     - singer
  • Fairuz
    Fairuz
    Nouhad Wadi Haddad , famously known as Fairuz is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time...

     - singer
  • Myriam Fares
    Myriam Fares
    Myriam Fares is a Lebanese singer and entertainer.-Early life and beginnings:Myriam was born in Kafar Shlal, a small village in Southern Lebanon, near Kafarhata village, 5 miles east of Saida....

     - singer
  • Patrick Gemayel - lead composer for Chromeo
    Chromeo
    Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...

  • Walid Gholmieh
    Walid Gholmieh
    Dr. Walid Georges Gholmieh was the director of the Le Conservatoire libanais national supérieur de musique or The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music...

     - composer and musician
  • Azar Habib
    Azar Habib
    Azar Habib born in Marjayoun, Lebanon, was a Lebanese composer and singer. He lived in Marjayoun until he was four years old and then his family moved to Beirut. He was mostly known for his love ballads and for mixing traditional Arabic music with modern western pop.He was most popular in Lebanon...

     - composer and singer
  • Darine Hadchiti
    Darine Hadchiti
    Darine Hadchiti is a Lebanese singer. She started her career in 2005. Within one year, she was able to attain a released her first single, "Eddam El Kel", the title song to her debut album, Eddam El Kel...

     - singer
  • Diana Haddad
    Diana Haddad
    Diana Joseph Fouad Haddad is a Lebanese singer and television personality with Emirati citizenship. Mainly known as Diana Haddad, she is one of the most popular and successful singers in the Arab World and has been so since the late 1990s...

     - singer
  • Assi El Helani
    Assi El Helani
    Mohammed El Helani , widely known as Assi El Helani , is a Lebanese singer who has been a major figure in the music scene of the Middle East since the 1990s. Assi's musical career officially started after winning the Art Studio TV Program for young artists at the age of 17.He has released more than...

     - singer
  • Amal Hijazi
    Amal Hijazi
    Amal Hijazi is a Lebanese singer, model and pop icon. She is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has given a number of concerts throughout the world and has made countless TV appearances. After her lengthy career as a fashion model, Hijazi released her debut album, Akher Gharam...

     - singer, model
  • Wael Jassar
    Wael Jassar
    Wael Jassar is a Lebanese pan-Arab singer born 22 November 1972. Dubbed the 'Miracle Child' when he was a youngster, he appeared on television and sang "Yallee Ta’ebney Seneen Feh Hawak" when he was 8, fascinating the public...

     - singer
  • Salwa Al Katrib
    Salwa Al Katrib
    Salwa Al Katrib or Salwa Al Qatrib, Salwa Katrib , was a Lebanese singer best known for her roles in Emerald Princess and Mountain Girl . She was the wife of Nahi Lahoud and the mother of aspiring Lebanese actress and singer Aline Lahoud...

     - singer
  • Fares Karam
    Fares Karam
    Fares Karam is a popular Lebanese singer who specializes in the Dabke style and Lebanese music in general, but with a more modernized twist....

     - singer
  • Najwa Karam
    Najwa Karam
    Najwa Karam is a Multi-Platinum, Best-Selling Lebanese Arab recording artist and Philanthropist. Najwa, widely known for her Mawwal and other musical talents, has surpassed musical and political limits in building her Empire, as she has effectively helped change the Arabic music industry in its...

     - singer
  • Wael Kfoury
    Wael Kfoury
    Michel Emile Kfoury , known by his stage name Wael Kfoury , is a well-known Lebanese singer, musician and songwriter.-Beginnings:...

     - singer
  • Marcel Khalife
    Marcel Khalife
    Marcel Khalife is a Lebanese composer, singer and oud player. From 1970 to 1975, he taught at the conservatory in Beirut. In 1976, he created Al Mayadeen Ensemble and became famous all over the world for songs like Ummi , Rita w'al-Bunduqiya and Jawaz al-Safar , based on Mahmoud Darwish's...

     - singer and composer
  • K.Maro - Lebanese-Canadian rapper
  • Pascale Machaalani
    Pascale Machaalani
    Pascale Bechara Bachaalani, better known as Pascale Machaalani, born March 27, 1967 is a Murex d'or Award nominated Lebanese singer. Her debut album Sahar Sahar rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most successful female artistes in 1990s Lebanon...

     - singer
  • Majdala
    Majdala
    Majdala, born Naziha Moukarzel, is a Lebanese singer, mostly known for her work during the "Golden Age" of Lebanon, between 1970 and 1975.-Biography:...

     - singer
  • Fady Maalouf
    Fady Maalouf
    Fady Maalouf is a Lebanese-German pop singer. He is known as runner up of the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol.-Early life:...

     - singer
  • Ibrahim Maalouf
    Ibrahim Maalouf
    Ibrahim Maalouf is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and trumpet instructor. He was born in Beirut and now lives in France.-Biography:...

     - musician
  • Massari
    Massari
    Sari Abboud better known by his stage name Massari is a Lebanese Canadian R&B, pop, and hip hop singer who grew up in Canada. Massari means "money" in Arabic....

     - Lebanese-Canadian pop and hip-hop singer
  • Melissa
    Melissa (singer)
    Melissa , born 9 February, 1982 as Myriam Shehab, is a Lebanese singer discovered by music producer Jean Saliba, who is also known for his collaboration in Elissa's career.-Musical career:...

     - singer
  • Nabila Metwali- Lebanese- Singer, Dancer, Choreographer
  • Mika
    Mika (singer)
    Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit...

     - singer
  • Zaki Nassif
    Zaki Nassif
    Zaki Nassif is one of the first generation of Lebanese composers who accompanied the rise of Radio Liban in the 1940s, and continues today as a force in Lebanese folk music.-Biography:...

     - composer, singer
  • Abeer Nehme
    Abeer Nehme
    Abeer Nehme is an ethnic Syriac Lebanese singer and a musicologist. She performs traditional Tarab music, Lebanese traditional music, Rahbani music, and sacred music from the Syriac-Maronite, Syriac-Orthodox, and Byzantine traditions. In 2009 she joined Jean-Marie Riachi for the album Belaaks...

     - singer
  • Rahbani brothers
    Rahbani brothers
    The Rahbani Brothers , Assi Rahbani and Mansour Rahbani , were Lebanese composers, musicians, songwriters, authors, playwrights/dramatists, philosophers, and poets...

     - composers
    • Assi Rahbani
      Assi Rahbani
      Assi Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician and producer. He was part of the Rahbani Brothers , with his brother Mansour Rahbani . He married Lebanese singer Nouhad Haddad, more famous by her stage name, Fairuz...

    • Mansour Rahbani
      Mansour Rahbani
      Mansour Rahbani , was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers.- Musical Studies :...

  • Ghassan Rahbani
    Ghassan Rahbani
    Ghassan Elias Rahbani Lebanon aka gassanproducer, song writer, composer, arranger, orchestra conductor, pianist & performer.- Married to Dalida Chammai and they have 3 little girls: Christy Cindy and Mia . Gassan was raised in a family of musicians . Gassan started composing music at the early...

     - producer, composer, and musician
  • Ziad Rahbani
    Ziad Rahbani
    Ziad Rahbani is a Lebanese composer, pianist, performer, playwright, and political commentator. His compositions are well-known throughout the Arab world...

     - musician/actor
  • Charbel Rouhana
    Charbel Rouhana
    Charbel Rouhana is a Syriac oud player in Lebanon. Born in 1965 in Amsheet , Charbel pursued his music education at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik and obtained his diploma in oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A...

     - oud player
  • Halim El Roumi
    Halim El Roumi
    Halim El Roumi , born Hanna Baradhy , was a Lebanese musician. He was the father of the Lebanese singer, Majida El Roumi....

     - composer, musician
  • Majida El Roumi
    Majida El Roumi
    Magida El-Roumi was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon, on December 13, 1956. She is a Lebanese singer and a soprano, who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio El Fan on Télé Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer...

     - singer
  • Rola Saad
    Rola Saad
    Rola Youssef Saad is a Lebanese pop singer and model who emerged in the mid 2000s and is most commonly known for her collaboration with Lebanese singing Legend Sabah-Biography:...

     - singer
  • Nicole Saba
    Nicole Saba
    Nicole Saba is a singer and actress from Lebanon, she is of Armenian origin.From 1998-2001, Saba was a member of the Lebanese pop group The 4 Cats, then embarked on a solo singing as well as an acting career. Her debut album was released in 2004, and her first film came out in 2003...

     - singer
  • Sabah
    Sabah (singer)
    Sabah , Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon is a Lebanese singer and actress.She has released over 50 albums and has acted in 98 movies, as well as 20 stage plays...

     - singer and actress
  • Wadih El Safi
    Wadih El Safi
    Wadih El Safi is a Lebanese singer songwriter, and actor of Assyrian/Syriac background. He is a Lebanese cultural icon, and is often called the "Voice of Lebanon"...

     - singer, composer, and musician
  • Karol Sakr
    Karol Sakr
    Karol Etienne Sakr also known as Karol Sakr is a famous Lebanese female singer, who was most known for her English songs back in the 1990s. She is the daughter of the Lebanese exiled politician Etienne Sakr, a former member of the Lebanese Forces and leader of the far-right Guardians of the Cedars...

     - singer
  • Pascale Sakr
    Pascale Sakr
    Pascale Etienne Sakr is a female Lebanese singer. She was born in Zahlé, Lebanon to Maronite parents. She performs a leading character in many musicals....

     - singer
  • Carole Samaha
    Carole Samaha
    Carole Samaha is a Lebanese musician and actress. She has released five studio albums. Samaha has a masters degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999. In 2004 she won the Arab Music Award for best female newcomer...

    - singer
  • Nasri Shamseddine
    Nasri Shamseddine
    Nasri Shamseddine was a Lebanese singer and actor. His recordings remain very popular in the Arab world. He performed in several films and was associated for many years with the Lebanese singer Fairuz....

     - singer
  • Suzanne Tamim
    Suzanne Tamim
    Suzanne Tamim was a Lebanese singer who rose to fame in the Arab world after winning the top prize in the popular Studio El Fan television show in 1996.-Biography:...

     - singer; made headlines when she was found murdered in Dubai
    Dubai
    Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

  • Serj Tankian
    Serj Tankian
    Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...

     - singer/songwriter (band System of a Down
    System of a Down
    System of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is a rock band from Southern California. The band was formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan...

    )
  • Walid Toufic
    Walid Toufic
    Walid Toufic , is a Lebanese singer who constantly made his big break in Egypt, and he is also known for performing in concerts and appearing in music videos.-Biography:...

     - singer
  • Haifa Wehbe
    Haifa Wehbe
    Haifa Wehbe born in Mahrouna, Lebanon on March 10, 1976 is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer born to a Lebanese father and Egyptian mother who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman in 2002...

     - singer
  • Karl Wolf
    Karl Wolf
    Carl Abou Samah is a Lebanese-born Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is better known by his stage name Karl Wolf. He has been a singer, songwriter and producer since 2001, releasing his first solo album Face Behind the Face on MapleNationwide/Universal in January 2006,...

     - Lebanese-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer
  • Gabriel Yared
    Gabriel Yared
    Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...

     - award-winning composer and musician
  • Maya M. Yazbeck - singer/songwriter and composer
  • Nawal Al Zoghbi - singer

Visual artists

  • Chaouki Chamoun
    Chaouki Chamoun
    Chaouki Chamoun , is a prominent Lebanese contemporary artist.After attending art and design night schools, he joined the Fine Art Institute at the Lebanese University in Beirut in fall1968 where he received his Diploma of Higher Studies in Painting in 1972...

     - painter
  • Elias Nicolas El Hachem
    Elias Nicolas El Hachem
    Elias Nicolas El Hachem a painter and sculptor from Jal-el-Dib, Lebanon-Career:He created the first stone wedding card...

     - sculptor and painter
  • Moustafa Farroukh
    Moustafa Farroukh
    Moustafa Farroukh 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 and abroad...

     - painter
  • César Gemayel
    César Gemayel
    César Gemayel was a famous Lebanese painter.Gemayel was taught arts by Khalil Saleeby. He was considered as a leading and pioneering figure alongside painters like Youssef Howayek, Douad Corm, Omar Onsi, Saliba Douaihy, Moustafa Farroukh and a handful of others.Gemayel was a pre-eminently sensual...

     - painter
  • Paul Guiragossian
    Paul Guiragossian
    Paul Guiragossian was an Armenian painter.-Career:Paul Guiragossian, the famous Armenian painter was born in Jerusalem in 1926 and settled in Beirut with his family in 1939 becoming a Lebanese citizen. He started to paint in 1942 at the Yarkon Studio. In 1957, he received a scholarship to study at...

     - painter
  • Youssef Howayek
    Youssef Howayek
    Youssef Saadallah Howayek a painter and sculptor from Helta, in modern day Lebanon.-Career:Youssef Farroukh's father, Saadallah Howayek, was a Councillor elected into the Ottoman Mutasarref's Administrative Council. His grandfather was the village priest and his uncle was the Patriarch...

     - sculptor and painter
  • Rabih Ballout - Lebanese American painter

Business

  • Magid Abraham
    Magid Abraham
    Magid M. Abraham, is an entrepreneur and expert on market research, consumer modeling, and information solutions. He has held several executive leadership positions throughout his career, two of which were within companies he founded....

     - market research expert and businessman
  • Sam Hammam
    Sam Hammam
    Samir "Sam" Hammam is a Lebanese business man, most notable for his high profile involvement in British football clubs.-Career:...

     - owner of Cardiff City F.C.
    Cardiff City F.C.
    Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...

  • Nicolas Hayek
    Nicolas Hayek
    Nicolas George Hayek , was a Swiss-Lebanese entrepreneur, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Swatch Group, with principal headquarters in Biel/Bienne.-Life and background:...

     - owner of Swatch Group
  • Jean Succar Kuri
    Jean Succar Kuri
    Jean Thouma Hannah Succar Kuri is a Lebanese-born Mexican businessman convicted of pederasty in Cancún, Quintana Roo...

     - businessman

Journalism

  • May Chidiac
    May Chidiac
    May Chidiac is a Lebanese Christian Maronite journalist.Chidiac is a former television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and one of the station's main television anchors until an assassination attempt on her life...

     - television journalist
  • Marcel Ghanem
    Marcel Ghanem
    -Early years:Ghanem was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964. He graduated from Lebanese University with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1987. He also studied biology while giving tutoring lessons in the morning...

     - television journalist
  • Octavia Nasr
    Octavia Nasr
    Octavia Nasr is a journalist who covers Middle East affairs. She served as CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast affairs until her dismissal in July 2010 over her public statement of respect on Twitter for the Lebanese cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who she considered "one of Hezbollah's giants...

     - former television journalist for CNN
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...


Military

  • Jean Kahwaji
    Jean Kahwaji
    Jean Kahwaji is a Lebanese general and present commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces.-Background:Kahwaji is married to Marlene Sfeir and they have three children, Jad, Joanna and Joe. He is a Maronite Christian and had headed the army's 12th Infantry Brigade since 2002.Kahwaji joined the army in...

     - army commander
  • Samir El-Khadem
    Samir El-Khadem
    Samir El-Khadem is the former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, and an author, historian, and currently the Director of the Institute for East and West Studies in Beirut, Lebanon. El-Khadem retired from the Lebanese Army on September 25, 2000 reaching the rank of Rear Admiral after serving...

     - former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian

Religious figures

  • Estephan El Douaihy
    Estephan El Douaihy
    Patriarch Estephan II Boutros El Douaihy was born in Ehden, Lebanon on August 2, 1630. He was the Patriarch of the Maronite Church from 1670 to 1704...

     - Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704)
  • Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - Shiite cleric (1935–2010)
  • Elias Peter Hoayek
    Elias Peter Hoayek
    Elias Peter Hoayek , was Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites, the largest Christian community in the Middle East from 1898 to 1931 when he died....

     - Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931)
  • Hassan Khaled
    Hassan Khaled
    Grand Mufti Sheikh Hassan Khaled was the leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community.As a grand mufti, he presided over Islamic courts in Lebanon for 23 years, and served as Head of the Islamic Coalition, a body which included past and present prime ministers, Sunni parliamentary figures, and Sunni...

     - Grand Mufti of Lebanon
  • Anthony Peter Khoraish
    Anthony Peter Khoraish
    Cardinal Anthony III Peter Khoraish , , was the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant from 1975 until his resignation in 1986, and a cardinal of the Catholic Church...

     - Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986)
  • Musa al-Sadr
    Musa al-Sadr
    For the Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, see Mūsá al-KāżimMūsá aṣ-Ṣadr , also Musā-ye Sader and Moussa Sadr), was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and Shī‘ah religious leader who disappeared in August 1978...

     - Shiite religious leader
  • Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir - Maronite Patriarch (1986–2011)

Roman Catholic Popes

  • Pope Sergius I
    Pope Sergius I
    Pope Saint Sergius I was pope from 687 to 701. Selected to end a schism between Antipope Paschal and Antipope Theodore, Sergius I ended the last disputed sede vacante of the Byzantine Papacy....

  • Pope Anicetus
    Pope Anicetus
    Pope Saint Anicetus was Pope of the Catholic Church from about 150 to about 167 . His name is Greek for unconquered...

  • Pope Sisinnius
    Pope Sisinnius
    Pope Sisinnius was Pope for about three weeks in 708.A Syrian by birth, Sisinnius's father's name was John. The paucity of donations to the papacy during his reign indicate that he was probably not from the aristocracy.Sisinnius was selected as...

  • Pope Constantine
    Pope Constantine
    Pope Constantine was pope from 708 to 715. With the exception of Antipope Constantine, he was the only pope to take such a "quintessentially" Eastern name of an emperor...

  • Pope Gregory III
    Pope Gregory III
    Pope Saint Gregory III was pope from 731 to 741. A Syrian by birth, he succeeded Gregory II in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, in which he vainly invoked the intervention of Charles Martel.Elected by...


Saints

  • Saint Charbel
    Charbel
    Charbel, Sharbel, or Sharbel Makhluf, , born as Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in Bekaa Kafra in northern Lebanon, was a Syriac-Maronite monk and priest, canonized saint by the Roman Catholic Church and now venerated world-wide.-His Life:...

  • Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
    Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
    Saint Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini , a Lebanese Roman Catholic saint and a member of the Maronite Church.-Miracles of Saint Nimatullah Kassab Hardini:...

  • Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
    Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
    Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès , also known as Saint Rafka , is a Lebanese Maronite saint canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 10, 2001.-Birth and Youth:...


Presidents of Lebanon

  • Camille Chamoun
    Camille Chamoun
    Camille Nimr Chamoun was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War ....

     - former President (1952–1958)
  • Fuad Chehab
    Fuad Chehab
    Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab (name also spelt Fouad Shihab, or Chehab, depending on transliteration from the original Arabic, (March 19, 1902 - April 25, 1973) was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1958 to 1964...

     - former President (1958–1964)
  • Émile Eddé
    Emile Edde
    Émile Eddé was a Maronite Lebanese political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 11 October 1929 to 25 March 1930. He served as the President of Lebanon from 1936 to 1941. He also founded the Lebanese National Bloc party....

     - former President (1936–1941)
  • Suleiman Frangieh
    Suleiman Frangieh
    Suleiman Kabalan Frangieh, last name also spelled Frangié, Franjieh, or Franjiyeh , was President of Lebanon from 1970 to 1976...

     - former President (1970–1976)
  • Amine Gemayel
    Amine Gemayel
    Amine Pierre Gemayel was President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988 and is the leader of Kataeb Party.Born in the Lebanese village of Bikfaya, Amine Gemayel is the son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Party...

     - former President (1982–1988)
  • Bachir Gemayel
    Bachir Gemayel
    Bachir Gemayel was a Lebanese politician, militia commander, and president-elect...

     - former President-Elect
  • Charles Helou
    Charles Helou
    Charles Helou was President of Lebanon from 1964 to 1970.Born in Beirut, Helou was the scion of a powerful Maronite family from Baabda. He graduated with honours from St. Joseph's University in Beirut in 1929, and went on to complete a Law degree in 1934...

     - former President (1964–1970)
  • Elias Hrawi
    Elias Hrawi
    Elias Hrawi was a President of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998.He was a native of the Beqaa valley. He was elected on 24 November 1989, two days after the assassination of René Moawad, who had held office for just seventeen days...

     - former President (1989–1998)
  • Bechara El Khoury
    Bechara El Khoury
    Bechara El Khoury was the first post-independence President of Lebanon, holding office from 21 September 1943 to 18 September 1952, apart from an 11-day interruption in 1943...

     - former President (1943–1952)
  • Émile Lahoud
    Émile Lahoud
    General Émile Jamil Lahoud is a former President of Lebanon. Lahoud is a Maronite-Catholic, as is required for the Lebanese presidency. Under Lebanon's unwritten constitutional agreement, the National Pact, the presidency is earmarked for Maronite_Catholic, the parliament speaker's post for a Shia...

     - former President (1998–2007)
  • René Moawad
    René Moawad
    René Moawad was President of Lebanon for 17 days in 1989, from the 5th to the 22nd of November, when he was assassinated by unknowns. Syria accused Michel Aoun of the assassination....

     - former President (1989)
  • Elias Sarkis
    Elias Sarkis
    Elias Sarkis was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1976 to 1982.-Early career:Born in Shabbaniah, Sarkis graduated with a Law degree from Saint Joseph University in 1948. After joining the judicial corps in 1953, he became a judge with the Accounting Department...

     - former President (1976–1982)
  • Michel Suleiman
    Michel Suleiman
    Michel Suleiman or Sleiman is the President of Lebanon. Before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces. After LAF commander Émile Lahoud took office as president in November of 1998, Suleiman succeeded him, taking his place in December...

     - present President (2008–2011)
  • Petro Trad
    Petro Trad
    Petro Trad was a Lebanese a lawyer and a politician and former Lebanese President of the Republic for a brief period ....

     - former President (1943)

Prime Ministers of Lebanon

  • Michel Aoun
    Michel Aoun
    Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese Army Commander and he is one of the allies of Hezbollah. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he has served as Prime Minister of the legal one of two rival governments that contended for power. He declared "The Liberation War" against the Syrian...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Petro Trad
    Petro Trad
    Petro Trad was a Lebanese a lawyer and a politician and former Lebanese President of the Republic for a brief period ....

     - former President (1943)
  • Rafik Hariri
    Rafik Hariri
    Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri , was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.He headed five cabinets during his tenure...

     - former Prime Minister (1992-1998 & 2000-2004)
  • Saad Hariri
    Saad Hariri
    Saad-eddine Rafiq Al-Hariri is a Saudi-Lebanese billionaire who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 until 2011. He is the second son of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Amin al-Hafez
    Amin al-Hafez (Lebanon)
    Amin al-Hafez , was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 25 April 1973 to 21 June 1973. He was also a long-running Member of Parliament for Tripoli in the Lebanese Parliament until 1996....

     - former Prime Minister
  • Selim al-Hoss
    Selim al-Hoss
    Selim Ahmed El-Hoss is a veteran Lebanese politician. He was a Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut.-Education:...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Omar Karami
    Omar Karami
    Omar Abdul Hamid Karami was the Prime Minister of Lebanon on two separate occasions...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Rashid Karami
    Rashid Karami
    Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War , and he served as Prime Minister eight times.- Background :Rashid Karami was born in Tripoli, into one of...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Najib Mikati
    Najib Mikati
    Najib Azmi Mikati is a Lebanese politician, billionaire and is the current Prime Minister of Lebanon since 13 June 2011. From April 2005 to July 2005 he was Prime Minister of Lebanon in a caretaker government...

     - current Prime Minister
  • Saeb Salam
    Saeb Salam
    Saeb Salam was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister four times between 1952 and 1973.Salam was the son of Salim Salam, the scion of a prominent Sunni Muslim family who was a prominent politician both under Ottoman rule and then during the French Mandate...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Fouad Siniora
    Fouad Siniora
    Fuad Siniora is a Lebanese politician, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon, a position he held from 19 July 2005 to May 25, 2008 the date of the election of the new President of Lebanon; he was renominated to the post on 28 May 2008 and held the post as Acting President between those...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Riad as-Solh
    Riad as-Solh
    Riad as-Solh was the first Prime Minister of Lebanon , after the country's independence. Like all of his successors as prime minister of Lebanon, he was a Sunni Muslim. He later served as prime minister of Lebanon again from December 14, 1946 to February 14, 1951...

     - former Prime Minister
  • Sami as-Solh
    Sami as-Solh
    Sami Solh was a Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician. He served as Prime Minister of Lebanon 7 times ....

     - former Prime Minister
  • Takieddin el-Solh
    Takieddin el-Solh
    Takieddin el-Solh was a Lebanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1973-74, and again briefly in 1980....

     - former Prime Minister
  • Shafik Wazzan
    Shafik Wazzan
    Shafik Dib al-Wazzan was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1980 until 1984. In December 1991, Wazzan was wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta as he was passing through in an armored car....

     - former Prime Minister
  • Abdallah El-Yafi
    Abdallah El-Yafi
    Abdallah El-Yafi was the Prime Minister of Lebanon 12 times between 1938 and 1969.-Early life and education:Abdallah El-Yafi was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 7, 1901 into a Muslim Sunni family to parents Aref El-Yafi and Jamila Ostwani, a Damascene.Raised with two brothers, he first...

     - former Prime Minister

Speakers of Parliament

  • Kamel Asaad
    Kamel Asaad
    Kamel El Assaad or Kamel Al Assaad was a Lebanese politician.Coming from a large feudal family from southern Lebanon, he held the title of "Bakaweit"...

     - Speaker of Parliament
  • Nabih Berri
    Nabih Berri
    Nabih Berri is the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Movement.-Biography:He was born in Bo, Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut...

     - Present Speaker of Parliament
  • Sabri Hamadé - Speaker of Parliament
  • Hussein el-Husseini
    Hussein el-Husseini
    Sayyed Hussein el-Husseini is a Lebanese statesman and former speaker of the Lebanese parliament, who brought the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, followed by the disarmament of sectarian militias...

     - Speaker of Parliament
  • Adel Osseiran
    Adel Osseiran
    Adel Osseiran was a prominent Lebanese politician and statesman, a former Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, and one of the founding fathers of the Lebanese Republic....

     - Speaker of Parliament

Ministers, deputees and politicians

  • Michel Aoun
    Michel Aoun
    Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese Army Commander and he is one of the allies of Hezbollah. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he has served as Prime Minister of the legal one of two rival governments that contended for power. He declared "The Liberation War" against the Syrian...

     - former Prime Minister, former army commander, Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement
    Free Patriotic Movement
    The Free Patriotic Movement , also known as the "Aounist Movement" , is a Lebanese political party, led by Michel Aoun and allied with Hezbollah, The movement was officially declared a political party on September 18, 2005Though most of the party's support comes from Lebanon's...

  • Majid Arslan - a Druze political figure
  • Talal Arslan
    Talal Arslan
    -Political career:Arslan was elected to the Lebanese Parliament as a deputy of the Aley District in 1991, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2009. From 1990 to 1992 he was the Lebanese Minister of Tourism, from 1996 to 1998 he was Minister of Emigrants and served as Minister of State twice from 2000 to 2003 and...

     - leader of the Druze Lebanese Democratic Party
    Lebanese Democratic Party
    The Lebanese Democratic Party is a political party in Lebanon established by Prince Talal Arslan in 2001...

  • Gebran Bassil
    Gebran Bassil
    Gebran Bassil is a Lebanese politician,he is also a member of the March 8 Alliance-backed Free Patriotic Movement. Owing to his immense qualifications he served as the Minister of Telecommunications in the Lebanese cabinet from May 2008 to June 2009, and then served as Minister of Energy in the...

     - minister, Free Patriotic Movement
  • Dany Chamoun
    Dany Chamoun
    Dany Chamoun was a prominent Lebanese politician. A Maronite Christian and the younger son of former President Camille Chamoun, Dany Chamoun was also a politician in his own right, and was known for his opposition to the occupation of Lebanese territory by foreign forces, whether Syrian or...

     - former National Liberal Party
    National Liberal Party (Lebanon)
    The National Liberal Party is a center-right political party in Lebanon, established by President Camille Chamoun in 1958...

     leader
  • Dory Chamoun
    Dory Chamoun
    Dory Chamoun is a Lebanese politician who leads the National Liberal Party, and is also a prominent member of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a coalition of politicians, academics, and businessmen who oppose the pro-Syrian March 8 Alliance and Syrian influence in Lebanon.Dory Chamoun is the elder...

     - leader of National Liberal Party
  • Carlos Edde
    Carlos Eddé
    Carlos Eddé , is a Lebanese politician. He is since 2000 the president of Lebanese National Bloc succeeding at his uncle Raymond Eddé. In 2004 he participated actively in the 14 March Alliance and was among those who formulated the strategy to unify the opposition, leading to the departure of the...

     - politician
  • Raymond Edde
    Raymond Edde
    Raymond Eddé was a Lebanese statesman who served his country for many years as a legislator and cabinet minister. He led the Lebanese National Bloc, an influential political party. The son of former President Émile Eddé, Raymond Eddé was himself a candidate for the presidency in 1958, and was...

     - politician, former leader of National Bloc
  • Issam Fares
    Issam Fares
    Issam Michael Fares is a prominent Lebanese businessman, a former member of the Lebanese Parliament and served as Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2000 to 2005....

     - businessman and politician, former Deputy Prime MInister
  • Suleiman Frangieh, Jr.
    Suleiman Frangieh, Jr.
    Suleiman Tony Franjieh , born on November 18, 1965 in Zgharta, Lebanon is the current leader of the Marada Movement and a Member of Parliament for the Maronite Catholic seat of Zgharta-Zawyie, in North Lebanon...

     - politician, leader of the Marada Movement
  • Tony Frangieh
    Tony Frangieh
    Antoine Frangieh was a Lebanese politician and militia leader during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War.- Education and early political career :...

     - politician
  • Maurice Gemayel
    Maurice Gemayel
    Maurice Gemayel, was a Lebanese politician who was often a minister and Maronite MP for Metn, was a prominent figure for the Kataeb Party which was founded by his cousin, Pierre Gemayel. His positions were more moderate than many other members of his own party...

    - founder of Institute for Palestine Studies
    Institute for Palestine Studies
    The Institute for Palestine Studies is the oldest independent non-profit, public service, research institute in the Arab world, was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such institutes in the region...

  • Pierre Gemayel
    Pierre Gemayel
    Sheikh Pierre Gemayel , was a Lebanese political leader...

     - politician and founder of the Kataeb Party
    Kataeb Party
    The Lebanese Phalanges , better known in English as the Phalange , is a traditional right-wing Lebanese political party. Although it is officially secular, it is mainly supported by Maronite Christians. The party played a major role in the Lebanese War...

  • Pierre Amine Gemayel
    Pierre Amine Gemayel
    Pierre Amine Gemayel was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, better known in English as the Phalange Party. Lebanon's second-youngest MP, he was a rising star in his party...

     - legislator and minister
  • Samir Geagea
    Samir Geagea
    Samir Farid Geagea , born October 25, 1952, is a Lebanese politician. He is also a senior figure in the March 14 Alliance, alongside Saad Hariri and Amine Gemayel....

     - leader of the Lebanese Forces
    Lebanese Forces
    The Lebanese Forces is a Lebanese political party. Founded as a militia by Bachir Gemayel during the Lebanese Civil War, the movement fought as the main militia within the Christian-dominated Lebanese Front...

  • Kamal Jumblatt
    Kamal Jumblatt
    Kamal Jumblatt ; was an important Lebanese politician. He was the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War until his assassination in 1977. He is the father of the present Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.-Family background and education:Kamal Jumblatt was born in...

     - founder of Progressive Socialist Party
  • Walid Jumblatt
    Walid Jumblatt
    Walid Jumblatt is a Lebanese politician and the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party . He is the most prominent leader of Lebanon's Druze community.-Family:...

     - politician, leader of Progressive Socialist Party
  • Charles Malik - former President of the United Nations General Assembly
    United Nations General Assembly
    For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...

     and Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Nayla Moawad
    Nayla Moawad
    Nayla Moawad is a Lebanese politician. Outside of Lebanon, she is best known as the widow of former President René Moawad, who was assassinated on 22 November 1989. Within Lebanon, she is a high-profile politician in her own right, having served as a member of the National Assembly since 1991...

     - politician
  • Elias Murr
    Elias Murr
    Elias Murr is the former Lebanese Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. He held the positions of Deputy Prime minister and Interior Minister in previous Cabinets....

     - former Deputy Prime Minister
  • Michel Murr
    Michel Murr
    Michel Murr is a Lebanese politician and businessman. He first occupied the post of Minister of the Interior, as well as being Deputy Prime Minister in Rafik Hariri's first cabinet in 1992 and remained in the post in all subsequent cabinets formed by Hariri, except the last one, in which his son,...

     - politician and former Deputy Prime Minister
  • Hassan Nasrallah
    Hassan Nasrallah
    Hasan Nasrallah, became the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, in 1992. Hezbollah in its entirety is considered a terrorist organization by The United States, the Netherlands,...

     - leader of Hezbollah
  • Habib Sadek
    Habib Sadek
    Habid Sadek is a former member of the Lebanese parliament, as well as a poet and writer. He is presently the president of the Conseil Culturel Liban Sud.-References:...

     - former politician, writer
  • Gebran Tueni
    Gebran Tueni
    Gebran Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese politician and the former editor and publisher of the mass circulation An-Nahar daily newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon....

     - journalist and deputee
  • Salim Wardeh
    Salim Wardeh
    Salim Wardeh was the Minister of Culture in Lebanon until June 2011, when he was replaced by Gaby Layoun. Wardeh is a Catholic Christian and is a member of the Lebanese Forces which in turn is a member of the March 14 Alliance. Wardeh is a member of the board of directors of Tell Shiha Hospital...

     - Minister of Culture

Medicine

  • Sami Ibrahim Haddad
    Sami Ibrahim Haddad
    Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Arabic: سامي ابراهيم حداد was a doctor, surgeon and writer. He was born in Palestine and spent most of his life in Lebanon.-Life:...

     - physician, surgeon and writer
  • Afif Abdul Wahab
    Afif Abdul Wahab
    Afif Abdul Wahab was a Lebanese doctor, general surgeon and urologist, businessman and philanthropist, born and raised in El Mina. After receiving his Medical Doctorate from the American University of Beirut in 1941, he opened up a hospital in his hometown of El-Mina in 1946 in partnership with...

     - surgeon
  • Pierre Farah - Surgeon, Member of the French National Academy of Medicine

Scientists

  • Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
    Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
    Hasan Kamel Al-Sabbah, sometimes referred to as Camil A. Sabbah, was an electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in Nabatieh, Lebanon. He studied at the American University of Beirut. He taught mathematics at Imperial College of Damascus, Syria, and at...

     - Lebanese-American technology innovator
  • Edgar Choueiri
    Edgar Choueiri
    Edgar Y. Choueiri is a Lebanese American plasma physicist and currently President of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences. He is best known for clarifying the role of plasma instabilities in spacecraft electric thrusters , for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts and, more...

     - Pastronomer and professor
  • Charles Elachi
    Charles Elachi
    Charles Asshur Al-Wadad Elachi is the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , located in Pasadena, California. He has held this position since May 1, 2001 and also holds professorships in electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech....

     - astronomer
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb - philosopher, researcher, and veteran practitioner of financial mathematics

Athletes

  • Samir Bannout
    Samir Bannout
    Samir Hassan Bannout is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.-Biography:Known as "the Lion of Lebanon", Samir Bannout won the Mr. Olympia title in 1983. At that time, only 6 men had held this most prestigious title since the contest was first introduced in 1965...

     - IFBB
    IFBB
    IFBB can refer to:* Independent Family Brewers of Britain* International Federation of BodyBuilders...

     professional bodybuilder
  • Maxime Chaya
    Maxime Chaya
    Maxime Edgard Chaya is a sportsman, mountaineer and explorer from Lebanon. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge...

     - Extreme sports athlete
  • Zakaria Chibab
    Zakaria Chibab
    Zakaria Chihab is a retired Lebanese wrestler. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight category.-References:...

     - first Lebanese Olympic medal winner

Basketball

  • Rony Fahed
    Rony Fahed
    Rony Fahed is a professional Lebanese basketball player.He is also a member of the Lebanon national basketball team that participated in the 2006 FIBA World Championship which took place in Japan in August and September 2006...

     - basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
  • Matt Freije
    Matt Freije
    Matthew Wayne Freije is a Lebanese American professional basketball player who currently plays for Hebraica y Macabi in Uruguay. Freije attended Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park, Kansas before attending Vanderbilt University where he was an All-SEC performer...

     - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
  • Fadi El Khatib
    Fadi El Khatib
    Fadi El Khatib , born January 1, 1979, is a Lebanese basketball player currently playing for Champville SC in the Lebanese Basketball League...

     - basketball player and captain of Lebanon's national team
  • Ali Mahmoud
    Ali Mahmoud
    Ali Mahmoud is a Lebanese-Canadian basketball player. He currently plays for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut.-Career:Mahmoud was born on May 29, 1983 in Ottawa, Canada to Toufic and Gina Mahmoud, who had immigrated to Canada....

     - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
  • Elie Mechantaf
    Elie Mechantaf
    Elie Mechantaf is a retired Lebanese international basketball player. He started his basketball career in the Cypriot Basketball League, before becoming the captain of the Lebanese Hekmeh BC basketball club, a leading club of the Lebanese Basketball League for more than ten years, wining the...

     - former basketball player and former captain of Lebanon's national team
  • Rony Seikaly
    Rony Seikaly
    Ronald Fred "Rony" Seikaly is a retired Lebanese-born American professional basketball player.-Early life:Seikaly was born in Beirut, Lebanon. At the age of 9, Rony moved from Beirut where he'd been attending elementary school at the Athenee de Beirut to Greece, where he spent the rest of his youth...

     - former Lebanese-American professional basketball player
  • Joe Vogel
    Joe Vogel
    For American author, see Joseph VogelJoseph Vogel is an American-Lebanese basketball player. Vogel attended Colorado State. Upon graduation, he was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1996 NBA Draft...

     - professional basketall player and returning member of Lebanon's national team
  • Jackson Vroman
    Jackson Vroman
    Jackson Vroman is a US-born Lebanese professional basketball player. He was naturalized as a Lebanese citizen to play in the Lebanon national basketball team, substituting the other naturalized American Lebanese player, Joe Vogel...

     - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team

Ice Hockey

  • Ed Hatoum
    Ed Hatoum
    Edward Hatoum is a retired ice hockey forward.Hatoum was reunited with his family in Ottawa, Ontario in 1957 and began playing hockey after a few years living in the nation's capital....

     - former professional hockey player for the (Vancouver Canucks
    Vancouver Canucks
    The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...

    )
  • Nazem Kadri
    Nazem Kadri
    Nazem Kadri is a Canadian ice hockey player currently playing for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. He has also played with the Kitchener Rangers. He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs seventh overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He won the J...

     - professional hockey player for the (Toronto Maple Leafs
    Toronto Maple Leafs
    The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

    )

Playing card tournament titleholders

  • Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb
    Freddy Deeb
    Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19.-Before poker:...

     - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
  • Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha
    Sam Farha
    Ihsan Farha is a professional poker player. He is best known for finishing as runner up in the World Series of Poker main event in 2003 and has won three bracelets at the WSOP.-Early years:...

     - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
  • Joseph 'Joe' Hachem
    Joe Hachem
    Joseph Hachem is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.The next year, Hachem won his...

     - the winner of 2005 WSOP Main event

Soccer/Football

  • Faisal Antar
    Faisal Antar
    Faisal Antar – is a Lebanese retired football defender. He played for Tadamon Sour, Tripoli SC, Nejmeh and Al-Mabarrah in the Lebanese Premier League during 12 year career....

     - football (soccer) player
  • Roda Antar
    Roda Antar
    Roda Antar is a Lebanese football midfielder who currently plays for Shandong Luneng Taishan in the Chinese Super League, and is captain of the Lebanon national team....

     - professional soccer player
  • Youssef Mohamad
    Youssef Mohamad
    Youssef Wasef Mohamad is a Lebanese footballer currently playing for Al-Ahli in the UAE Football League and the Lebanon national team. He represented Lebanon at the 2000 Asian Cup and also captained of the team from November 2004 to August 2005.-Club career:...

     - first ever Middle-Eastern professional soccer captain in the German Bundesliga
    Fußball-Bundesliga
    The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

  • Mohammed Ghaddar
    Mohammed Ghaddar
    Mohammed Mahmoud Ghaddar is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays for Kelantan FA in the Malaysian Super League and the Lebanon national football team.Ghaddar is the first ever Lebanese footballer to play for Kelantan FA.-Nejmeh:...

     - professional soccer player in Syria
  • Wartan Ghazarian
    Wartan Ghazarian
    Vartan Ghazarian is a retired Lebanese-Armenian association football player. He represented the Lebanon national football team from 1997 until 2001. He is a striker....

     - soccer player
  • Pierre Issa - Lebanese-South African soccer player
  • Jamal Taha
    Jamal Taha
    Jamal Taha is a former Lebanese international footbal striker. He represented Lebanon at the 2000 AFC Asian Cup in Lebanon. He began his playing career with Al-Ansar , later after his retirement, he went and coached the same team Al-Ansar .-External links:...

     - former soccer player

Writers

  • Elia Abu Madi
    Elia Abu Madi
    Elia Abu Madi was a Lebanese-American poet.-Life and career:Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1889 or 1890...

     - poet
  • Maroun Abboud
    Maroun Abboud
    Maroun Abboud was a Lebanese poet and writer born on February 9, 1886.-Life:Maroun attended several schools around Lebanon, where he learned to read and write in the languages Arabic, Syriac, and French. In 1900, Maroun entered the School of St. John Maron in Batroun, Lebanon, to pursue a life as...

     - poet, writer
  • Said Akl
    Said Akl
    Said Akl is a Lebanese poet, writer, and playwright. He is considered one of the most important modern Lebanese poets. He is also a staunch advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and the Lebanese language, designing a Latin-based Lebanese alphabet made up of 37 letters.-Early life:Akl was...

     - poet, writer,
  • Butrus al-Bustani
    Butrus al-Bustani
    Buṭrus al-Bustānī was a notable writer and scholar from present day Lebanon.-Life:Al-Bustani was born to a Maronite Christian family in the village of Dibbiye in the Chouf region, in January 1819...

     - writer, scholar
  • Fawaz Gerges
    Fawaz Gerges
    Fawaz A. Gerges is a professor and author with expertise on the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, Al Qaeda, and relations between the world of Islam and the West....

     - university professor and author
  • Ounsi el-Hajj - poet
  • Elia Abu Madi
    Elia Abu Madi
    Elia Abu Madi was a Lebanese-American poet.-Life and career:Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1889 or 1890...

     - poet, publisher
  • Khalil Gibran
    Khalil Gibran
    Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...

     - artist, author, philosopher, theologian.
  • Elias Khoury - novelist, playwright
  • Amin Maalouf
    Amin Maalouf
    Amin Maalouf , born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios...

     - novelist
  • May Murr
    May Murr
    May Murr or Mayy Murr was a Lebanese historian, writer, poet, and political activist.She founded and presided, many cultural and social associations. She was a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and of the Société Teilhard de Chardin, headquartered in Belgium...

     - author
  • Khalil Mutran
    Khalil Mutran
    Khalil Mutran , also known by the sobriquet Sha’ir al Qutrayn was a noted Arabic poet and journalist.-Life:...

     - poet, journalist
  • Mikha'il Na'ima
    Mikha'il Na'ima
    Mikha'il Na'ima was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.-Biography:...

     - author and poet
  • Amin al-Rihani
    Amin al-Rihani
    Ameen Rihani, also spelled Amin al-Rihani , was a Lebanese Arab-American writer, intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism...

     - author
  • Alain Tasso
    Alain Tasso
    Alain Tasso is a Franco-Lebanese poet, painter and essayist, born in Beirut on July 22, 1962.Autodidact, his literary intensive profuse work is received by much critical attention.- Biography :...

     - poet, essayist
  • May Ziade
    May Ziade
    May Ziade , was a prolific Christian Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator....

     - poet, essayist

Miscellaneous

  • Roger Achkar
    Roger Achkar
    Roger Achkar is a celebrated Lebanese award-winning author, engineer, business thinker, painter and musician. He has appeared on many TV channels in the Middle East and is currently the CEO of ‘Sharp Minds’ management consulting firm as well as the president of ‘High Arts’ association.- Education...

     - engineer and author
  • Jean-Marc Aractingi
    Jean-Marc Aractingi
    Jean-Marc Aractingi is a French engineer, diplomat, and author of Lebanese origin and CEO of Groupe Arcore-Solarcore S.A., a leader of solar energy in the Middle East....

     - engineer, diplomat and author
  • Sharbel Karam - Lebanese blogger
  • Gino Raidy - Lebanese blogger

See also

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