List of Lebanese people

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This is a list of notable individuals born and residing mainly in Lebanon.

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

There are around 6 million Lebanese residing in Lebanon, and over 10-16 million residing in diaspora. For people of Lebanese descent, see Lists of Lebanese diaspora.

Activists[]

  • - Top 1 lebanese mathematician
  • Lydia Canaan – activist, advocate, public speaker, and United Nations delegate[1][2][3]
  • Jill Kelley – advocate, socialite, and former diplomat[4][5][6]
  • – feminist activist and international chess player

Arts and entertainment[]

Beauty pageant winners[]

  • Maya Reaidy – Miss Lebanon 2018
  • Perla Helou – Miss Lebanon 2017
  • Valerie Abou Chacra — Miss Lebanon 2015
  • – Miss Lebanon 2009
  • Dina Azar – Miss Lebanon 1995
  • Rina Chibany – Miss Lebanon 2012
  • Rima Fakih – Miss USA 2010
  • Sonia Fares – Miss Lebanon 1969
  • Nadine Wilson Njeim – Miss Lebanon 2007
  • Nadine Nassib Njeim – Miss Lebanon 2004
  • Gabrielle Bou Rached – Miss Lebanon 2005
  • Georgina Rizk – Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971
  • Christina Sawaya – Miss Lebanon 2001/Miss International 2002
  • Rosarita Tawil – Miss Lebanon 2008
  • Dominique Hourani - Miss Intercontinental
  • – Miss Uruguay 1930/3rd in Miss Universe 1930 / Special guest at 1st FIFA World Cup. Kicked the initial ball at the 1st World Cup.
  • - Famous youtuber loved and viewed by over 300 million people. Started posting on YouTube in April 2021 and gained over 800K subscribers in less than 6 months.

Dancers[]

Models

Fashion designers[]

Film, television, and radio personalities[]

Singers, composers, and musicians[]

  • Melhem Zein - singer
  • Ragheb Alama – singer
  • – singer
  • Julia Boutros – singer
  • Nancy Ajram – singer
  • Fairuz - singer
  • Ramy Ayach - singer and composer
  • Assi El Hallani - singer
  • Najwa Karam – singer
  • Wael Kfoury – singer
  • Marcel Khalife – singer and composer
  • Zaki Nassif – composer, singer
  • Rahbani brothers – composers
    • Assi Rahbani
    • Mansour Rahbani
  • Ziad Rahbani – musician, actor
  • Majida El Roumi – singer
  • Sabah – singer, actress
  • Wadih El Safi – singer, composer, and musician
  • Carole Samaha – singer
  • Nasri Shamseddine – singer
  • Walid Toufic – singer
  • Nawal Al Zoghbi – singer
  • Djsky - electronic music designer, music programmer, remixer, events organizer.
  • massari - singer

Theatre[]

  • Hassan Alaa Eddin – commonly known as Chouchou or Shoushou, actor, comedian
  • Jalal Khoury – playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor

Visual artists[]

  • Etel Adnan – painter, poet
  • Faouzi Al-Kach – artist
  • Joseph Assaf – sculptor
  • Chaouki Chamoun – painter
  • Douglas Abdell – sculptor
  • Moustafa Farroukh – painter
  • Chawky Frenn – painter and art professor
  • César Gemayel – painter
  • Youssef Howayek – sculptor and painter
  • Wajih Nahlé – painter and calligrapher
  • Walid Raad – artist
  • Pierre Sadek – caricaturist
  • Akram Zaatari – filmmaker, photographer, artist and curator

Architecture[]

Business[]

  • Samir Brikho – businessman, Chief Executive of AMEC plc
  • Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer, industrialist and philanthropist
  • Walid Daouk – businessman and politician
  • Ralph Debbas – automotive executive.
  • Sam Hammam – owner of Cardiff City F.C.[7]
  • Nicolas Hayek – owner of Swatch Group

Education[]

  • Joseph E. Aoun – President of Northeastern University
  • Alberto Bustani – former president of Monterrey Campus of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
  • Gabriel Hawawini - former Head and Dean of INSEAD

Journalism[]

  • Daizy Gedeon – former deputy foreign editor and first female sports journalist (The Australian)
  • Jad Al-Akhaoui – television and newspaper journalist
  • May Chidiac – television journalist
  • Marcel Ghanem – television journalist
  • Octavia Nasr – former television journalist for CNN
  • Ramzi Najjar - journalist and author
  • Gebran Tueni – founder of An-Nahar
  • Gebran Ghassan Tueni – Lebanese journalist and politician
  • Ghassan Tueni – Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat
  • Adnan Al Kakoun – journalist/producer/director
  • George Yammine – literature and arts critic of An-Nahar

Military[]

Religion[]

A series of Catholic popes from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin)[8] include: Pope Anicetus, Pope Constantine, Pope Gregory III, Pope Sergius I 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

  • Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader
  • Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili – Shi'a scholar (1334–1385)
  • Nur-al-Din al-Karaki al-ʿĀmilī (1465-1534) – Shiite scholar who was a member of the 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[]

Politicians[]

See also: Politics of Lebanon

Presidents of Lebanon[]

  • Michel Aoun – current president (2016–present)
  • 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 – current Speaker of Parliament
  • 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 – 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

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
  • Khaled Daouk – former Honorary Consul General of Ireland in Beirut
  • Walid Daouk – 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
  • 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
  • Gebran Tueni – journalist and deputy

Other political personalities[]

  • Joyce Gemayel – former first lady and political activist
  • Ghassan Tueni – diplomat, politician and journalist
  • Alain Aoun - nephew of President Michel Aoun

Sciences[]

Medicine[]

  • Afif Abdul Wahab – surgeon
  • M. Amin Arnaout – Lebanese-American Physician-scientist and nephrologist best known for seminal discoveries in the biology and structure of integrin receptors.
  • 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

Scientists[]

  • Ali Chamseddine – physicist known for his contributions in particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics
  • Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet
  • Charles Elachi – astronomer and professor of electrical engineering, former director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech
  • Edgar Choueiri – Physicist known for his work on Plasma propulsion engine and for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts
  • Ghassan Afiouni – inventor, developed a king of compressed wood that cannot be burned
  • Hassan Naim – Lebanese-Swiss biochemist
  • Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – Lebanese-American electrical and electronic engineer and technology innovator known for receiving 43 patents in television transmission
  • Maurice Chehab – archaeologist and museum curator, father of "modern Lebanese archaeology"
  • Justine Sergent – cognitive neuroscience researcher
  • 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
  • Pierre Zalloua – biologist and researcher
  • Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist

Sports personalities[]

Athletes[]

  • Samir Bannout – professional bodybuilder
  • 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[]

Basketball[]

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[]

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 – 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.

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

Writers[]

  • Maroun Abboud (1886–1962) – poet and writer
  • Elia Abu Madi (1890–1957) – poet
  • Said Akl (1912–2014) – poet, writer, and thinker
  • Nader El-Bizri (living) – philosopher and architect
  • Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883) – writer and scholar
  • Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer and businessman
  • Fawaz Gerges (born 1958) – academic and author
  • Joumana Haddad (born 1970) – writer and feminist
  • Ounsi el-Hajj (1937–2014) – poet
  • Salma Hage (born 1942) – writer and cook
  • Jad Hatem (born 1952) – philosopher and poet
  • Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) – artist, author and poet
  • Elias Khoury (born 1948) – novelist and playwright
  • Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937) – writer
  • Amin Maalouf (born 1949) – novelist
  • Elia Abu Madi (1890–1957) – poet and publisher
  • Mago (agricultural writer) – was a Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic
  • May Murr (1929–2008) – academic, writer and activist
  • Khalil Mutran (1872–1949) – poet and journalist
  • Mikha'il Na'ima (1889–1988) – religious author and poet
  • Amin al-Rihani (1876–1940) – writer and politician
  • Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) – writer and feminist
  • Sanchuniathon is the Phoenician author of three lost works originally written in the Phoenician language and surviving only in partial paraphrase and summary of a Greek
  • Avraham Sinai (born 1962) – religious writer
  • Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648) – Maronite writer and publisher
  • Amine Takiedine (1884–1937) – poet and writer
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) – essayist
  • Rania Zaghir (born 1977) – Children's author

See also[]

  • Lebanese diaspora
  • List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)

References[]

  1. ^ A Dove of Peace from the Mountains of Lebanon
  2. ^ Hostage to Injustice
  3. ^ Naim Attallah Online
  4. ^ Steinhauer, Jennifer (6 January 2014). "From Petraeus Scandal, an Apostle for Privacy". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "A booming trade". The Economist. 31 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Judge may allow privacy suit over Petraeus case leaks".
  7. ^ Caiger, Andrew; Simon Gardiner (7 March 2001). Professional sport in the European Union: Regulation and re-regulation. Cambridge University Press. p. 95. ISBN 90-6704-126-2.
  8. ^ Popes of Lebanese Phoenician and Eastern Origin from www.opuslibani.org.lb Archived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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