List of Lebanese people

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

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

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

Arts and Entertainment

Beauty pageant contestants

Dina Azar - Miss Lebanon 1995
Gabrielle Bou Rached - Miss Lebanon 2005
Rima Fakih - Miss USA 2010
Sonia Fares - Miss Lebanon 1969
Nadine Njeim - Miss Lebanon 2007
Georgina Rizk - Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971
Christina Sawaya - Miss Lebanon 2001/Miss International 2002
Rosarita Tawil - Miss Lebanon 2008
Haifa Wehbe - former beauty pageant contestant, singer and actress

Fashion designers

Reem Acra - fashion designer^[1]
Georges Chakra - fashion designer
Zuhair Murad - fashion designer
Elie Saab - fashion designer^[2]

Film, television and radio personalities

Philippe Aractingi - Lebanese-French film director
Maroun Bagdadi - film director
May Chidiac - notable television anchor on LBC
Leïla Karam - actress
Mario Kassar - filmmaker, founder of Carolco Pictures
Alek Keshishian - filmmaker of Lebanese-Armenian origin
Arsinée Khanjian - actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin (wife of director Atom Egoyan)
Nadine Labaki - actress and music video director
Mahmoud Mabsout - actor
Peter Macdissi, film actor (television series Six Feet Under; film Towelhead)
Nour - film actress
Keanu Reeves - film actor (born in Beirut)
Haaz Sleiman - actor (television series Nurse Jackie; film The Visitor)

Singers and composers

Cyrine Abdelnour - singer
Nancy Ajram - singer
Ramy Ayach - singer
Abdel Rahman El Bacha - pianist
Julia Boutros - singer
Elissa - singer
Fairuz - singer
Myriam Fares - singer
Patrick Gemayel - lead composer for Chromeo
Walid Gholmieh - composer and musician
Azar Habib - composer and singer
Darine Hadchiti - singer
Diana Haddad - singer
Assi El Helani - singer
Amal Hijazi - singer, model
Wael Jassar - singer
Salwa Al Katrib - singer
Fares Karam - singer
Najwa Karam - singer
Wael Kfoury - singer
Marcel Khalife - singer and composer
K.Maro - Lebanese-Canadian rapper^[3]
Pascale Machaalani - singer
Majdala - singer
Fady Maalouf - singer
Ibrahim Maalouf - musician
Massari - Lebanese-Canadian pop and hip-hop singer
Mika - singer/songwriter
Zaki Nassif - composer, singer
Abeer Nehme - singer
Rahbani brothers - composers
- Assi Rahbani
- Mansour Rahbani
Ghassan Rahbani - producer, composer, and musician
Ziad Rahbani - musician/actor
Charbel Rouhana - oud player
Halim El Roumi - composer, musician
Majida El Roumi - singer
Rola Saad - singer
Nicole Saba - singer
Sabah - singer and actress
Wadih El Safi - singer, composer, and musician
Karol Sakr - singer
Pascale Sakr - singer
Carole Samaha- singer
Nasri Shamseddine - singer
Suzanne Tamim - singer; made headlines when she was found murdered in Dubai
Serj Tankian - heavy metal singer/songwriter (band System of a Down)
Maroun Abou-Halloun - heavy metal musician (Ranked 5th best drummer in the Persian Gulf by drum-mastery.eu)
John Dolmayan - heavy metal musician (band System of a Down)
Walid Toufic - singer
Haifa Wehbe - singer
Karl Wolf - Lebanese-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer^[4]
Gabriel Yared - award-winning composer and musician
Nawal Al Zoghbi - singer

Visual artists

Sam Maloof - Artist
Chaouki Chamoun - painter
Elias Nicolas El Hachem - sculptor and painter
Moustafa Farroukh - painter
César Gemayel - painter
Paul Guiragossian - painter
Youssef Howayek - sculptor and painter

Business

Magid Abraham - market research expert and businessman
Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C.^[5]
Nicolas Hayek - owner of Swatch Group
Jean Succar Kuri - businessman

Education

Joseph Aoun - President of Northeastern University

Journalism

May Chidiac - television journalist
Marcel Ghanem - television journalist
Octavia Nasr - former television journalist for CNN

Military

Jean Kahwaji - army commander
Samir El-Khadem - former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian

Religion

Religious figures

Estephan El Douaihy - Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704)
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - Shiite cleric (1935–2010)
Elias Peter Hoayek - Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931)
Hassan Khaled - Grand Mufti of Lebanon
Anthony Peter Khoraish - Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986)
Musa al-Sadr - Shiite religious leader
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir - Maronite Patriarch (1986–2011)

Roman Catholic Popes

Saints

Politicians

Presidents of Lebanon

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
Charles Helou - former President (1964–1970)
Elias Hrawi - former President (1989–1998)
Bechara El Khoury - former President (1943–1952)
Émile Lahoud - former President (1998–2007)
René Moawad - former President (1989)
Elias Sarkis - former President (1976–1982)
Michel Suleiman - present President (2008–2011)
Petro Trad - former President (1943)

Prime Ministers of Lebanon

Michel Aoun - former Prime Minister
Petro Trad - former President (1943)
Rafik Hariri - former Prime Minister (1992-1998 & 2000-2004)
Saad Hariri - former Prime Minister
Amin al-Hafez - former Prime Minister
Selim al-Hoss - former Prime Minister
Omar Karami - former Prime Minister
Rashid Karami - former Prime Minister
Najib Mikati - current Prime Minister
Saeb 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

Speakers of Parliament

Kamel Asaad - Speaker of Parliament
Nabih Berri - Present Speaker of Parliament
Sabri Hamadé - Speaker of Parliament
Hussein el-Husseini - Speaker of Parliament
Adel Osseiran - Speaker of Parliament

Ministers, deputees and politicians

Michel Aoun - former Prime Minister, former army commander, Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement
Emir Majid Arslan II - a Lebanese independence figure
Prince Talal Arslan - leader of the Druze Lebanese Democratic Party
Gebran Bassil - minister, Free Patriotic Movement
Dany Chamoun - former National Liberal Party leader
Dory Chamoun - leader of National Liberal Party
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 Progressive Socialist Party
Charles Malik - former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nayla Moawad - politician
Elias Murr - former Deputy Prime Minister
Michel Murr - politician and former Deputy Prime Minister
Hassan Nasrallah - leader of Hezbollah
Habib Sadek - former politician, writer
Gebran Tueni - journalist and deputee
Salim Wardeh - Minister of Culture

Other political personalities

Joyce Gemayel, former first lady and political activist

Sciences

Medicine

Sami Ibrahim Haddad - physician, surgeon and writer
Afif Abdul Wahab - surgeon

Scientists

Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah - Lebanese-American technology innovator^[7]^[8]
Edgar Choueiri - Pastronomer and professor
Charles Elachi - astronomer
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - philosopher, researcher, and veteran practitioner of financial mathematics^[9]

Sports personalities

Athletes

Samir Bannout - IFBB professional bodybuilder
Maxime Chaya - Extreme sports athlete
Zakaria Chibab - first Lebanese Olympic medal winner

Automobile racing

Khalil Beschir - professional race car driver

Basketball

Rony Fahed - basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
Matt Freije - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
Fadi El Khatib - basketball player and captain of Lebanon's national team
Ali Mahmoud - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
Elie Mechantaf - former basketball player and former captain of Lebanon's national team
Rony Seikaly - former Lebanese-American professional basketball player
Joe Vogel - professional basketall player and returning member of Lebanon's national team
Jackson Vroman - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team

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

Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
Joseph 'Joe' Hachem - the winner of 2005 WSOP Main event

Soccer/Football

Faisal Antar - football (soccer) player
Roda Antar - professional soccer player
Youssef Mohamad - first ever Middle-Eastern professional soccer captain in the German Bundesliga
Mohammed Ghaddar - professional soccer player in Syria
Wartan Ghazarian - soccer player
Pierre Issa - Lebanese-South African soccer player
Jamal Taha - former soccer player

Writers

Elia Abu Madi - poet
Maroun Abboud - poet, writer
Said Akl - poet, writer,
Butrus al-Bustani - writer, scholar
Fawaz Gerges - university professor and author
Ounsi el-Hajj - poet
Elia Abu Madi - poet, publisher
Khalil Gibran - artist, author, philosopher, theologian.^[10]
Elias Khoury - novelist, playwright
Amin Maalouf - novelist
May Murr - author
Khalil Mutran - poet, journalist
Mikha'il Na'ima - author and poet
Amin al-Rihani - author
Alain Tasso - poet, essayist
May Ziade - poet, essayist

Miscellaneous

Roger Achkar - engineer and author
Jean-Marc Aractingi - engineer, diplomat and author

References

^ "Lebanese abroad >> archive". Today's Outlook Magazine. http://www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/archive/index_us2.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-13.
^ Roop, Peter; Sam Schultz, Margaret J. Goldstein (2005). Lebanon in Pictures. Twenty-First Century Books. pp. 71. ISBN 0822511711.
^ "K-maro - The Million Dollar Boy". Today's Outlook Magazine. December 2005. http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:jPhHNnwtCRIJ:www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/thisissue/index.htm+K-maro+lebanese&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us.
^ "Karl Wolf - Face Behind the Face...man behind the album". Today's Outlook Magazine. December 2006. http://www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/thisissue/index.htm.
^ Caiger, Andrew; Simon Gardiner (2000). Professional sport in the European Union: Regulation and re-regulation. Cambridge University Press. pp. 95. ISBN 9067041262.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Popes of Lebanese Phoenician and Eastern Origin from www.opuslibani.org.lb
^ http://www.starsofscience.com/phase-2/temps/arab_inventors.asp
^ http://publicweb.unimap.edu.my/~ptrpi/v1/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=36&Itemid=248
^ Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page
^ "Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)", biography at Cornell University library on-line site, retrieved December 3, 2008

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