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 Lists of Lebanese diaspora.

Activists
Lydia Canaan – activist, advocate, public speaker, and United Nations delegate
Jill Kelley – advocate, socialite, and former diplomat
Maya Hajj Hasan – feminist activist and international chess player

Arts and entertainment

Beauty pageant winners

Maya Reaidy – Miss Lebanon 2018
Perla Helou – Miss Lebanon 2017
Martine Andraos – 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

Dancers
Amani – dancer

Models

 Myriam Klink
 Annabella Hillal
 Lamitta Frangieh

Fashion designers
Georges Chakra – fashion designer
Houssein Bazaza – fashion designer
Nicolas Jebran – fashion designer
Rabih Kayrouz – fashion designer
Zuhair Murad – fashion designer
Elie Saab – fashion designer
Tony Ward – fashion designer
  Reem Acra - fashion designer

Film, television, and radio personalities
Hicham Abou Sleiman – actor
Nadine Labaki – Film Director
Philippe Aractingi – Lebanese-French film director
Jihad Al-Atrash – actor
Maroun Bagdadi – film director
Rowan Blanchard – American actress
May Chidiac – television anchor 
Sami Daher – actor
George Diab – actor
Ziad Doueiri – film director
Imad Feghaly – actor
Renee Ghosh – actress
Abdo Hakim – actor
Hasan Hamdan – actor
Jamal Hamdan – actor
Saad Hamdan – actor
Diana Ibrahim – actress
Muhammad Ibrahim – actor
Charbel Iskandar – actor
Leïla Karam – actress
Mona Karim – actress
Mario Kassar – filmmaker, founder of Carolco Pictures
Alek Keshishian – filmmaker of Lebanese-Armenian origin
Georges Khabbaz – actor
Mia Khalifa – adult film actress
Arsinée Khanjian – actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin 
Samir Maalouf – actor
Toni Maalouf – actor
Mahmoud Mabsout – actor
Peter Macdissi – television and film actor
Rick Mercer – comedian, radio
Omar Mikati – actor
Patrick Mubarak – actor
Ismail Nanoua – actor
Samara Nohra – actress
George Noory, television, author, radio
Nour – film actress
Ouday Raad – actor
Bashar Rahal – Lebanese-Bulgarian actor
Keanu Reeves – Canadian actor 
Fadi Rifai – actor
Milad Rizk – actor
Ali Saad – actor
Hossam Al-Sabah – actor
Khaled El Sayed – actor
Naji Shamil – actor
Omar Al-Shammaa – actor
Haaz Sleiman – television and film actor
Rosie Al-Yaziji – actress
Ali Al-Zein – actor
Diane Kern – producer, director

Singers, composers, and musicians
Layal Abboud – singer
Cyrine Abdelnour – singer
Nancy Ajram – singer
Ragheb Alama – singer
Ramy Ayach – singer
Nadia Azzi – classical pianist
Abdel Rahman El Bacha – pianist
Toufic El Bacha – composer, songwriter
Jack Barakat – guitarist (band All Time Low)
Steve Barakatt - composer and pianist
Julia Boutros – singer
Lydia Canaan – singer-songwriter
John Dolmayan – musician (band System of a Down)
Elissa – singer
Fairuz – singer
Myriam Fares – singer
Patrick Gemayel – lead composer for Chromeo
Walid Gholmieh – composer and musician
Diana Haddad – singer
Roy Hage – operatic tenor 
Assi El Helani – singer
Amal Hijazi – singer, model
IJK – singer and songwriter
Wael Jassar – singer
Tyler Joseph – singer, songwriter, ukulele player, piano player (band Twenty One Pilots)
K.Maro – Lebanese-Canadian rapper
Ahmad Kaabour – singer
Fares Karam – singer
Najwa Karam – singer
Salwa Al Katrib – singer
Wael Kfoury – singer
Marcel Khalife – singer and composer
Joelle Khoury – composer and pianist
Fady Maalouf – singer
Ibrahim Maalouf – musician
Pascale Machaalani – singer
Majdala – singer
Massari – Lebanese-Canadian pop and hip-hop singer
Mika – singer-songwriter
Zaki Nassif – composer, singer
Yfrah Neaman – violinist
Abeer Nehme – singer
Rahbani brothers – composers
Assi Rahbani
Mansour Rahbani
Ghassan Rahbani – producer, composer, and musician
Ziad Rahbani – musician, actor
Issam Rajji – singer-songwriter
Charbel Rouhana – oud player
Majida El Roumi – singer
Baba Saad – Lebanese-German rapper
Rola Saad – singer
Nicole Saba – singer
Sabah – singer, actress
Wadih El Safi – singer, composer, and musician
Karol Sakr – singer
Pascale Sakr – singer
Carole Samaha – singer
Nasri Shamseddine – singer
Suzanne Tamim – singer
Serj Tankian – singer-songwriter (band System of a Down)
Walid Toufic – singer
Haifa Wehbe – singer
Karl Wolf – Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter, producer
Gabriel Yared – award-winning composer and musician
Nawal Al Zoghbi – singer
Ralana – singer/musician

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

Visual artists

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
Etel Adnan - painter, poet

Architecture
Nabil Gholam – architect
Salim Al-Kadi –  an architect and designer
Joseph Philippe Karam – architect
Nadim Karam – architect
Bernard Khoury – architect

Business
Samir Brikho – businessman, Chief Executive of AMEC plc
Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer, industrialist and philanthropist 
Pierre El Daher – Chairman and CEO of LBC
Walid Daouk – businessman and politician
Sam Hammam – owner of Cardiff City F.C.
Nicolas Hayek – owner of Swatch Group

Education
Joseph Aoun – President of Northeastern University

Journalism
Jad Al-Akhaoui – television and newspaper journalist
May Chidiac – television journalist
Marcel Ghanem – television journalist
Octavia Nasr – former television journalist for CNN
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
Jelnar Moussa, Lebanese Journalist - News Anchor, Presents Morning Live show - Aljazeera network

Military
Hamilcar Barca - was a Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal
Hannibal -  was a general and statesman from Ancient Carthage who is widely considered one of the greatest military commanders in history
Hasdrubal Barca - son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War
Mago Barca - was a Barcid Carthaginian who played an important role in the Second Punic War
Hasdrubal Gisco - was a Carthaginian general
Emile Boustany – former army commander
Jean Kahwaji – former army commander
Samir El-Khadem – former commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian
Ashraf Rifi – former police commander
Ibrahim Tannous – former army commander

Religion
A series of Roman Catholic popes from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin) 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)''

Others
Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili – Shi'a scholar (1334–1385) 
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)
Aram I Keshishian – Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, See of the Great House of Cilicia (in Antelias, Lebanon)
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – Shiite cleric (1935–2010)
Salim Ghazal – Melkite Greek Catholic bishop (1931–2011)
Hassan Khaled – Sunni cleric, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic (1966–1989)
Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader

Saints
Saint Charbel
Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès

Politicians

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 Lahoud – former President (1998–2007)
René Moawad – former President (1989-murdered)
Elias Sarkis – former President (1976–1982)
Michel Suleiman – most recent former President (2007–2014)
Petro Trad – former President (1943)

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

Speakers of Parliament
Kamel Asaad – former Speaker of Parliament
Nabih Berri – current Speaker of Parliament
Sabri Hamadé – former Speaker of Parliament
Hussein el-Husseini – former Speaker of Parliament
Adel Osseiran – former Speaker of Parliament

Political personalities
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
Walid Daouk – 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

Sciences

Medicine
Edma Abouchdid – physician; first Lebanese woman to obtain a doctorate of medicine
Anthony Atala – Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Jawad Fares – physician and medical researcher.
Sami Ibrahim Haddad – physician, surgeon and writer.
Afif Abdul Wahab – surgeon.

Scientists
Hanno the Navigator  was a Carthaginian explorer of the sixth or fifth century BC
Edgar Choueiri – scientist/professor.
Charles Elachi – astronomer.
Hassan Naim – Lebanese-Swiss biochemist.
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – Lebanese-American technology innovator.
Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist.
Pierre Zalloua –  biologist and researcher
Justine Sergent – cognitive neuroscience researcher
Niveen Khashab – chemist and professor
Ghassan Afiouni – inventor.
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547–1621) - Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet
Maurice Chehab – archaeologist and museum curator.
Ali Chamseddine – physicist in particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics

Sports personalities

Athletes
Maxime Chaya – extreme sports athlete
Samir Bannout – professional bodybuilder
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
Khalil Beschir – professional race car driver
Tony Kanaan – professional race car driver
Noel Jammal – professional race car driver
Felipe Nasr – professional race car driver
Graham Rahal – professional race car driver

Basketball

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

Cycling

Hassan Dia

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 
Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha 
Joseph 'Joe' Hachem

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
Mago (agricultural writer) was a Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic
Roy M. Ferneini, CPA (living) – Accountant, economist and writer.
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
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 (living) – 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
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
Avraham Sinai (born 1962) – religious writer
Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648) – Maronite writer and publisher
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) – essayist

See also
Lebanese diaspora
List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)
List of famous Arabs

References

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Category:Lists of Arabs