List of Arab Americans

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This is a list of famous Arab Americans.

Lists of
famous Americans
by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
African American
Albanian | Arab
Armenian | Australian
Austrian | Bahamian
Bangladeshi | Belgian
Brazilian | Bulgarian
Cajun
Cambodian | Chinese
Croatian | Cuban
Danish | Dutch
English | Estonian
Filipino | Finnish
French
German | Greek
Hapas | Hmong
Hungarian
Indian | Iranian
Irish | Italian
Jamaican | Japanese
Jewish | Korean
Laotian
Louisiana Creole
Mexican
Muslim
Native American
Native Hawaiian
Norwegian | Polish
Portuguese | Romanian
Russian | Salvadoran
Scots-Irish | Scottish
Swedish | Swiss
Taiwanese | Ukrainian
Vietnamese | Welsh

Contents

[edit] Academics

  • Dr. Farouk El-Baz Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.[1]
  • Dr. Taher Elgamal Egyptian-American cryptographer and doctor in computer science.
  • Dr. Elias Corey Organic chemistry professor at Harvard University and 1990 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. [2]
  • Dr. Charles Elachi Professor of electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech and director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Dr. Samih Farsoun Sociology professor at the American University [3]
  • Dr. Edward Said Well-known Palestinian-American literary theorist and former professor at Columbia University.
  • Dr. Wafa Sultan Psychiatrist and Muslim critic of fundamental Islam.
  • Dr. Elias Zerhouni Director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002.
  • Dr. Ahmed H. Zewail Physics professor at Caltech, and 1999 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • Michel T. Halbouty Famous American-Lebanese geologist and geophysicist, pioneer in oil field research. [4] [5] [6]
  • Dr. Michael E. DeBakey Pioneering American-Lebanese cardiovascular surgeon and researcher[7]

[edit] Business

[edit] Writers

[edit] Performers

[edit] Military

[edit] Politics

[edit] Sports

[edit] Others

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

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  7. ^ [7] "The Lebanese American University honored Dr. Michael E. DeBakey..." [8] "His parents were Lebanese immigrants Raheehja DeBakey and Shaker Morris"
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  11. ^ http://www.horatioalger.org/members/member_info.cfm?memberid=MAC03
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  15. ^ Dewan - [15] "I had a small role as Devi, the daughter of a Sikh-American – I’m half-Lebanese as it is."
  16. ^ [16] "The half-Syrian, half-Lebanese actress..."
  17. ^ [17] "The Lebanese son of a Toledo grocer received a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985."
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  21. ^ Malick - [21] "Victoria Reggie Kennedy welcomed Arab American actress and star of the hit series "Just Shoot Me" Wendie Malick" [22] "Wendie Malick whose father is from Egypt"
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  25. ^ Noory - [26] "One more point of commonality -- both Farah and Noory are Lebanese"
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  29. ^ Shalhoub - [30] "Tony Shalhoub, who is Lebanese..."
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  31. ^ Zappa - [32] "My ancestry is Sicilian, Greek, Arab and French. My mother's mother was French and Sicilian, and her Dad was Italian (from Naples). She was first generation. The Greek-Arab side is from my Dad..."
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  36. ^ Abboud - [37] "Lebanese Abboud was the first designer to win the CFDA award as Best Menswear Designer two years in a row..."
  37. ^ Lightner - [38] "The press would never print that I was an Arab-American. So, when I started doing live media, I'd bring it up."
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