List of Druze

Lebanese-American media personality Casey Kasem at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards

Siblings Asmahan (top) and Farid al-Atrash were influential Syrian-Lebanese-Egyptian vocalists.

Majalli Wahabi was an Israeli MP, an IDF lieutenant-colonel, and the first non-Jewish Acting President of Israel

Sultan Pasha al-Atrash (1885–1982), commander of the Syrian Revolution of 1925-1927.

Amin Tarif was the religious leader of the Druze in Israel

Nazar Mahmud is an Israeli figure skater

Nabil Kanso is a Lebanese-American painter

The list of Druze includes prominent Druze figures who are notable in their areas of expertise.

Literature

• Naim Araidi - Israeli writer and poet in Hebrew and Arabic
• Reda Mansour - Israeli Hebrew poet and writer and former ambassador in Ecuador
• Salman Masalha - Israeli poet, essayist and researcher
• Samih al-Qasim - Palestinian-Israeli poet

Media

• Mona (Abu Alwan) Abu Hamza - Lebanese TV presenter
• Raghida Dergham - Lebanese American journalist^[1]
• Ziad Hamzeh - Syrian-American filmmaker
• Casey Kasem - American TV & radio presenter, of Lebanese descent
• Nahida Nakad - Lebanese French senior correspondent and TV executive
• Faisal al-Qassem - Syrian television talkshow host

Performing arts

• Asmahan (Amaal al-Atrash) - Syrian Lebanese Egyptian female singer, and actress
• Farid al-Atrash - Syrian Lebanese Egyptian male singer, composer, and actor
• Ramy Ayach - Lebanese singer
• Fahd Ballan - Syrian male singer

Politics

Israel

• Labib Hussein Abu Rokan - Israeli MP and religious judge
• Abdullah Abu Ma'aruf - Israeli MP and physician
• Hamad Amar - Israeli MP
• Assad Assad - Israeli MP, army colonel, and diplomat
• Zeidan Atashi - Israeli MP and diplomat
• Amal Nasser el-Din - Israeli MP and author
• Salah-Hassan Hanifes - Israeli MP
• Ayoob Kara - Israeli MP, deputy speaker, and deputy minister
• Jabr Moade - Israeli MP and deputy minister
• Mohamed Nafa - Israeli MP
• Said Nafa - Israeli MP and lawyer
• Shachiv Shnaan - Israeli member of parliament
• Salah Tarif - Israeli minister, MP, and army captain
• Majalli Wahabi - Israeli MP, IDF lieutenant-colonel, and acting president

Lebanon

• Ghazi Aridi - Lebanese minister and MP
• Majid Arslan - Lebanese Defense Minister for over 40 years
• Shakib Arslan - Lebanese politician, writer, poet and historian
• Talal Arslan - Lebanese minister and MP
• Fakhr-al-Din II - Ruler (emir) of Lebanon from 1590 to 1633; united Lebanon and parts of Syria and Palestine under his rule
• Kamal Jumblatt - Lebanese MP, minister, writer, author, and poet
• Walid Jumblatt - Lebanese minister and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party
• Marwan Hamadeh - Lebanese minister and MP
• Marwan Kheireddin - Lebanese minister

Syria

• Sultan Pasha al-Atrash - Syrian Leader & Commander of the Syrian Revolt
• Mansur al-Atrash - Syrian politician, Interim head of state
• Shibli al-Aysami - former Syrian Vice president and Gen Sec of the Ba'th Arab Socialist Party

Venezuela

• Tarek El Aissami - Venezuelan interior and justice minister

Religion

• Suliman Bashear - Palestinian-Israeli scholar of Islam
• Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah - central religious figure of the faith and sixth Imam-Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate
• Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad - founding religious leader
• Amin Tarif (d. 1993) - Israeli religious leader
• Mowafak Tarif - Israeli religious leader
• Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine (d. 27 April 2012) - Head of Authority of Senior Sheikhs

Security

• Imad Fares - Israeli Brigadier General
• Salim Hatoum - Syrian Major. Led overthrow of the government of Amin al-Hafez in 1966.
• Yousef Mishleb - Israeli general
• Nada Nadim Prouty - Syrian security agent
• Ghassan Alian - Commander of Golani brigade in IDF

Sports

• Zidan Amar - Israeli footballer
• Ahad Azam - Israeli footballer
• Wiyam Amashe - Israeli footballer
• Amir Nasar A Din - Israeli footballer
• Sari Falah - Israeli footballer
• Amir Halaby - Israeli footballer
• Maaran Lala - Israeli footballer
• Nazar Mahmud - Israeli figure skater
• Kenny Hasan Sayef - American-Israeli footballer

Visual arts

• Nabil Kanso - Lebanese-American painter
• Michael Netzer (Nassar) - American-Israeli graphical artist

Others

• Azzam Azzam - former Israeli prisoner in Egypt
• Angelina Fares - Israeli beauty pageant
• Samir Kuntar - former Lebanese prisoner in Israel
• Majdi Halabi - disappeared and discovered Israeli soldier

References