Beauty pageant contestants

• Dina Azar
  Dina Azar
  Dina Azar is 1995 Miss Lebanon, she was born in Al-Ashrafeyeh- Beirut in 1972. She holds a BA degree in English Literature. She is currently a presenter for Celebrities Duet on LBC. She hosted Mahatat on Al Arabiya...
  
   - Miss Lebanon 1995
• Gabrielle Bou Rached
  Gabrielle Bou Rached
  Gabrielle Bou Rached, is a Lebanese model and actress. In 2005 she was crowned Miss Lebanon.-Biography:Gabrielle Bou Rached was born in Jezzine. Her mother was from Bteghrine. She modeled during her teenage years, participating in music videos for popular Arab singers, in television commercials,...
  
   - Miss Lebanon 2005
• Rima Fakih
  Rima Fakih
  Rima Fakih is an American beauty pageant contestant, and winner of the 2010 Miss USA title, and is also training to be a professional wrestler in WWE as a WWE Diva. She represented the state of Michigan in the Miss USA 2010 pageant, having previously won the 2010 Miss Michigan USA competition...
  
   - Miss USA 2010
• Sonia Fares
  Sonia Fares
  Sonia Fares is a fashion designer and former Miss Lebanon who participated in Miss Universe 1968.-References:...
  
   - Miss Lebanon 1969
• Nadine Njeim
  Nadine Njeim
  Nadine Wilson Njeim is a beauty queen, former Miss Lebanon, who represented her country in Miss World 2007 in China and Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico.- Biography :Nadine Njeim was born in Lebanon to Colonel Wilson Njeim and Mrs...
  
   - Miss Lebanon 2007
• Georgina Rizk
  Georgina Rizk
  Georgina Rizk was Lebanon's first and so far only Miss Universe.Rizk was born in Beirut to a Christian household. She was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the fourth woman from Asia to win the title...
  
   - Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971
• Christina Sawaya
  Christina Sawaya
  Christina Sawaya , born 16 August 1980, is a Lebanese beauty queen.As part of her modelling career, Christina entered a series of pageants between 1998 and 2002 in which she became the winner of "Miss University" Lebanon in 1998, and was chosen as "Top Lebanon Model 1999".In 2001, Sawaya competed...
  
   - Miss Lebanon 2001/Miss International 2002
• Rosarita Tawil
  Rosarita Tawil
  Rosarita Tawil was elected Miss Lebanon 2008 on July 11, 2008. She represented Lebanon in the Miss World 2008 pageant. The celebration was organized and aired live on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. Her runner-ups were Stephanie Salem and Michella Haddad....
  
   - Miss Lebanon 2008
• Haifa Wehbe
  Haifa Wehbe
  Haifa Wehbe born in Mahrouna, Lebanon on March 10, 1976 is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer born to a Lebanese father and Egyptian mother who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman in 2002...
  
   - former beauty pageant contestant, singer and actress

Fashion designers

• Reem Acra
  Reem Acra
  Reem Acra is an internationally known Lebanese fashion designer. She studied in Paris, as well as New York. She is known for her bridal designs. Her designs are sold in famous clothing boutiques such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. She has been on several popular magazines including In...
  
   - fashion designer
• Georges Chakra
  Georges Chakra
  Georges Chakra is a Beirut-based Lebanese haute couture fashion designer. Since 2001, he has presented collections at Paris Fashion Week.Chakra first established his brand in 1985...
  
   - fashion designer
• Zuhair Murad
  Zuhair Murad
  Zuhair Murad is a Beirut-based Lebanese fashion designer.In 1995, Zuhair Murad opened his first atelier in Beirut and not long after he came to establish a very high reputation on the international fashion scene. What began as a mere hobby soon turned into an empire of unique sophistication and...
  
   - fashion designer
• Elie Saab
  Elie Saab
  Elie Saab , sometimes known simply as 'ES', is a Lebanese fashion designer.In 1982, Saab launched his Beirut-based fashion label when he was 18 years old. His main workshop is in Lebanon. He also has workshops in Milan and Paris.Born to Maronite Catholic parents in Beirut, Saab is self-trained...
  
   - fashion designer

Film, television and radio personalities

• Philippe Aractingi
  Philippe Aractingi
  -Career:Born and raised in Beirut, Aractingi has made more than 40 films throughout his career, ranging from reports and documentaries to more personal and fictional films, all taking place in various countries around the world....
  
   - Lebanese-French film director
• Maroun Bagdadi - film director
• May Chidiac
  May Chidiac
  May Chidiac is a Lebanese Christian Maronite journalist.Chidiac is a former television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and one of the station's main television anchors until an assassination attempt on her life...
  
   - notable television anchor on LBC
  Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
  The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...
  
  
• Leïla Karam
  Leïla Karam
  Leila Karam was a Lebanese actress. Her major contributions were in the 1970s and 1980s in many Lebanese and Egyptian movies, plays and TV series of Tele Liban.-Career:Karam began her career in broadcast media in 1956, at Near East Radio...
  
   - actress
• Mario Kassar
  Mario Kassar
  Mario F. Kassar is a film producer and industry executive whose projects are frequently in association with Andrew G. Vajna.Kassar was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Working for Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, he was executive producer of several movies starting with Victory in 1981...
  
   - filmmaker, founder of Carolco Pictures
  Carolco Pictures
  Carolco Pictures, Inc., Carolco International N.V., or Anabasis Investments was an American independent film production company that, within a decade, went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the first three movies of the Rambo series to being bankrupted by...
  
  
• Alek Keshishian
  Alek Keshishian
  Alek Keshishian is a Lebanese-born Armenian film director. He is best known for his 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare, which for a time was the highest-grossing documentary of all time....
  
   - filmmaker of Lebanese-Armenian origin
• Arsinée Khanjian
  Arsinée Khanjian
  Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films...
  
   - actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin (wife of director Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
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• Nadine Labaki
  Nadine Labaki
  Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry...
  
   - actress and music video director
• Mahmoud Mabsout
  Mahmoud Mabsout
  Mahmoud Mabsout , Also Known as Fehmen was a Lebanese actor.-Biography:Mahmoud was born in 1941 in Tripoli, North Lebanon. He was not studious at school, as he said in an interview, he has failed the first primary grade six time, and when Mahmoud was 12 years old, the principal told his father...
  
   - actor
• Peter Macdissi
  Peter Macdissi
  Peter Macdissi is an actor who was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His filmography consists mostly of television work, most notably playing long-time recurring character Olivier Castro-Staal on Alan Ball's hit HBO series Six Feet Under. In 2007 and in 2008, he was seen in Towelhead, a feature film which...
  
  , film actor (television series Six Feet Under; film Towelhead
  Towelhead (film)
  Towelhead is a 2007 black comedy film written and directed by Alan Ball and based on Alicia Erian's novel of the same name. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2007 under the name Nothing is Private...
  
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• Nour
  Nour (actress)
  Nour is a Lebanese actress, her real name is Marian Phillip Abi Habib. She was born on 23 December 1977. She began her career as an advertisement model after graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Beirut in 1995. Her first role in cinema was in the Egyptian movie of Short w Fanella w Cap...
  
   - film actress
• Keanu Reeves
  Keanu Reeves
  Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...
  
   - film actor (born in Beirut)
• Haaz Sleiman
  Haaz Sleiman
  -Career:One of Sleiman's first roles was in the 2004 African-American gay comedy film The Ski Trip. He co-starred as undocumented Syrian immigrant Tarek in the critically acclaimed 2008 independent film The Visitor, a drama nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar, directed by Thomas...
  
   - actor (television series Nurse Jackie
  Nurse Jackie
  Nurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime, Movie Central and The Movie Network.The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City...
  
  ; film The Visitor
  The Visitor (2008 film)
  The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat...
  
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Singers and composers

• franc sinatra - singer
• Cyrine Abdelnour
  Cyrine Abdelnour
  Cyrine Abdelnour is a Lebanese singer, actress, and model.Her first album, Leila Min Layali, was released in 2004. She released her second album, Aleik Ayouni in 2006, with debut single Law Bas Fe Aini becoming one of the most popular Lebanese songs of 2006. Abdelnour has also starred in Arabic...
  
   - singer
• Nancy Ajram
  Nancy Ajram
  Nancy Nabil Ajram is a multi-platinum Lebanese singer and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. With the support of her father, Nancy began performing as a child and released her first studio album by the age of 15...
  
   - singer
• Ramy Ayach
  Ramy Ayach
  Ramy Ayach is a Druze Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer, and instrumentalist.- Early life :...
  
   - singer
• Abdel Rahman El Bacha
  Abdel Rahman El Bacha
  Abdel Rahman El Bacha is a Lebanese pianist and composer.His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Prokofiev .-Biography:...
  
   - pianist
• Julia Boutros
  Julia Boutros
  Julia Boutros is a Lebanese singer that rose to stardom in the 1980s with a series of nationalistic songs like "Ghabet Shams El Haq" and "Wen el malaieen". She is also the sister of Lebanese songwriter Ziad Boutros.-Biography:...
  
   - singer
• Elissa
  Elissa (singer)
  Elissar Zakaria Khoury simply known as Elissa is a Lebanese singer. She is known for her collaborations with well-known Arab and international artists, notably Ragheb Alama, Cheb Mami, Fadl Shaker, Chris DeBurgh and Gerard Ferrer.Born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother , her debut was in...
  
   - singer
• Fairuz
  Fairuz
  Nouhad Wadi Haddad , famously known as Fairuz is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time...
  
   - singer
• Myriam Fares
  Myriam Fares
  Myriam Fares is a Lebanese singer and entertainer.-Early life and beginnings:Myriam was born in Kafar Shlal, a small village in Southern Lebanon, near Kafarhata village, 5 miles east of Saida....
  
   - singer
• Patrick Gemayel - lead composer for Chromeo
  Chromeo
  Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...
  
  
• Walid Gholmieh
  Walid Gholmieh
  Dr. Walid Georges Gholmieh was the director of the Le Conservatoire libanais national supérieur de musique or The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music...
  
   - composer and musician
• Azar Habib
  Azar Habib
  Azar Habib born in Marjayoun, Lebanon, was a Lebanese composer and singer. He lived in Marjayoun until he was four years old and then his family moved to Beirut. He was mostly known for his love ballads and for mixing traditional Arabic music with modern western pop.He was most popular in Lebanon...
  
   - composer and singer
• Darine Hadchiti
  Darine Hadchiti
  Darine Hadchiti is a Lebanese singer. She started her career in 2005. Within one year, she was able to attain a released her first single, "Eddam El Kel", the title song to her debut album, Eddam El Kel...
  
   - singer
• Diana Haddad
  Diana Haddad
  Diana Joseph Fouad Haddad is a Lebanese singer and television personality with Emirati citizenship. Mainly known as Diana Haddad, she is one of the most popular and successful singers in the Arab World and has been so since the late 1990s...
  
   - singer
• Assi El Helani
  Assi El Helani
  Mohammed El Helani , widely known as Assi El Helani , is a Lebanese singer who has been a major figure in the music scene of the Middle East since the 1990s. Assi's musical career officially started after winning the Art Studio TV Program for young artists at the age of 17.He has released more than...
  
   - singer
• Amal Hijazi
  Amal Hijazi
  Amal Hijazi is a Lebanese singer, model and pop icon. She is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has given a number of concerts throughout the world and has made countless TV appearances. After her lengthy career as a fashion model, Hijazi released her debut album, Akher Gharam...
  
   - singer, model
• Wael Jassar
  Wael Jassar
  Wael Jassar is a Lebanese pan-Arab singer born 22 November 1972. Dubbed the 'Miracle Child' when he was a youngster, he appeared on television and sang "Yallee Ta’ebney Seneen Feh Hawak" when he was 8, fascinating the public...
  
   - singer
• Salwa Al Katrib
  Salwa Al Katrib
  Salwa Al Katrib or Salwa Al Qatrib, Salwa Katrib , was a Lebanese singer best known for her roles in Emerald Princess and Mountain Girl . She was the wife of Nahi Lahoud and the mother of aspiring Lebanese actress and singer Aline Lahoud...
  
   - singer
• Fares Karam
  Fares Karam
  Fares Karam is a popular Lebanese singer who specializes in the Dabke style and Lebanese music in general, but with a more modernized twist....
  
   - singer
• Najwa Karam
  Najwa Karam
  Najwa Karam is a Multi-Platinum, Best-Selling Lebanese Arab recording artist and Philanthropist. Najwa, widely known for her Mawwal and other musical talents, has surpassed musical and political limits in building her Empire, as she has effectively helped change the Arabic music industry in its...
  
   - singer
• Wael Kfoury
  Wael Kfoury
  Michel Emile Kfoury , known by his stage name Wael Kfoury , is a well-known Lebanese singer, musician and songwriter.-Beginnings:...
  
   - singer
• Marcel Khalife
  Marcel Khalife
  Marcel Khalife is a Lebanese composer, singer and oud player. From 1970 to 1975, he taught at the conservatory in Beirut. In 1976, he created Al Mayadeen Ensemble and became famous all over the world for songs like Ummi , Rita w'al-Bunduqiya and Jawaz al-Safar , based on Mahmoud Darwish's...
  
   - singer and composer
• K.Maro - Lebanese-Canadian rapper
• Pascale Machaalani
  Pascale Machaalani
  Pascale Bechara Bachaalani, better known as Pascale Machaalani, born March 27, 1967 is a Murex d'or Award nominated Lebanese singer. Her debut album Sahar Sahar rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most successful female artistes in 1990s Lebanon...
  
   - singer
• Majdala
  Majdala
  Majdala, born Naziha Moukarzel, is a Lebanese singer, mostly known for her work during the "Golden Age" of Lebanon, between 1970 and 1975.-Biography:...
  
   - singer
• Fady Maalouf
  Fady Maalouf
  Fady Maalouf is a Lebanese-German pop singer. He is known as runner up of the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol.-Early life:...
  
   - singer
• Ibrahim Maalouf
  Ibrahim Maalouf
  Ibrahim Maalouf is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and trumpet instructor. He was born in Beirut and now lives in France.-Biography:...
  
   - musician
• Massari
  Massari
  Sari Abboud better known by his stage name Massari is a Lebanese Canadian R&B, pop, and hip hop singer who grew up in Canada. Massari means "money" in Arabic....
  
   - Lebanese-Canadian pop and hip-hop singer
• Melissa
  Melissa (singer)
  Melissa , born 9 February, 1982 as Myriam Shehab, is a Lebanese singer discovered by music producer Jean Saliba, who is also known for his collaboration in Elissa's career.-Musical career:...
  
   - singer
• Nabila Metwali- Lebanese- Singer, Dancer, Choreographer
• Mika
  Mika (singer)
  Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit...
  
   - singer
• Zaki Nassif
  Zaki Nassif
  Zaki Nassif is one of the first generation of Lebanese composers who accompanied the rise of Radio Liban in the 1940s, and continues today as a force in Lebanese folk music.-Biography:...
  
   - composer, singer
• Abeer Nehme
  Abeer Nehme
  Abeer Nehme is an ethnic Syriac Lebanese singer and a musicologist. She performs traditional Tarab music, Lebanese traditional music, Rahbani music, and sacred music from the Syriac-Maronite, Syriac-Orthodox, and Byzantine traditions. In 2009 she joined Jean-Marie Riachi for the album Belaaks...
  
   - singer
• Rahbani brothers
  Rahbani brothers
  The Rahbani Brothers , Assi Rahbani and Mansour Rahbani , were Lebanese composers, musicians, songwriters, authors, playwrights/dramatists, philosophers, and poets...
  
   - composers
  • Assi Rahbani
    Assi Rahbani
    Assi Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician and producer. He was part of the Rahbani Brothers , with his brother Mansour Rahbani . He married Lebanese singer Nouhad Haddad, more famous by her stage name, Fairuz...
    
    
  • Mansour Rahbani
    Mansour Rahbani
    Mansour Rahbani , was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers.- Musical Studies :...
    
    
• Ghassan Rahbani
  Ghassan Rahbani
  Ghassan Elias Rahbani Lebanon aka gassanproducer, song writer, composer, arranger, orchestra conductor, pianist & performer.- Married to Dalida Chammai and they have 3 little girls: Christy Cindy and Mia . Gassan was raised in a family of musicians . Gassan started composing music at the early...
  
   - producer, composer, and musician
• Ziad Rahbani
  Ziad Rahbani
  Ziad Rahbani is a Lebanese composer, pianist, performer, playwright, and political commentator. His compositions are well-known throughout the Arab world...
  
   - musician/actor
• Charbel Rouhana
  Charbel Rouhana
  Charbel Rouhana is a Syriac oud player in Lebanon. Born in 1965 in Amsheet , Charbel pursued his music education at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik and obtained his diploma in oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A...
  
   - oud player
• Halim El Roumi
  Halim El Roumi
  Halim El Roumi , born Hanna Baradhy , was a Lebanese musician. He was the father of the Lebanese singer, Majida El Roumi....
  
   - composer, musician
• Majida El Roumi
  Majida El Roumi
  Magida El-Roumi was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon, on December 13, 1956. She is a Lebanese singer and a soprano, who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio El Fan on Télé Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer...
  
   - singer
• Rola Saad
  Rola Saad
  Rola Youssef Saad is a Lebanese pop singer and model who emerged in the mid 2000s and is most commonly known for her collaboration with Lebanese singing Legend Sabah-Biography:...
  
   - singer
• Nicole Saba
  Nicole Saba
  Nicole Saba is a singer and actress from Lebanon, she is of Armenian origin.From 1998-2001, Saba was a member of the Lebanese pop group The 4 Cats, then embarked on a solo singing as well as an acting career. Her debut album was released in 2004, and her first film came out in 2003...
  
   - singer
• Sabah
  Sabah (singer)
  Sabah , Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon is a Lebanese singer and actress.She has released over 50 albums and has acted in 98 movies, as well as 20 stage plays...
  
   - singer and actress
• Wadih El Safi
  Wadih El Safi
  Wadih El Safi is a Lebanese singer songwriter, and actor of Assyrian/Syriac background. He is a Lebanese cultural icon, and is often called the "Voice of Lebanon"...
  
   - singer, composer, and musician
• Karol Sakr
  Karol Sakr
  Karol Etienne Sakr also known as Karol Sakr is a famous Lebanese female singer, who was most known for her English songs back in the 1990s. She is the daughter of the Lebanese exiled politician Etienne Sakr, a former member of the Lebanese Forces and leader of the far-right Guardians of the Cedars...
  
   - singer
• Pascale Sakr
  Pascale Sakr
  Pascale Etienne Sakr is a female Lebanese singer. She was born in Zahlé, Lebanon to Maronite parents. She performs a leading character in many musicals....
  
   - singer
• Carole Samaha
  Carole Samaha
  Carole Samaha is a Lebanese musician and actress. She has released five studio albums. Samaha has a masters degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999. In 2004 she won the Arab Music Award for best female newcomer...
  
  - singer
• Nasri Shamseddine
  Nasri Shamseddine
  Nasri Shamseddine was a Lebanese singer and actor. His recordings remain very popular in the Arab world. He performed in several films and was associated for many years with the Lebanese singer Fairuz....
  
   - singer
• Suzanne Tamim
  Suzanne Tamim
  Suzanne Tamim was a Lebanese singer who rose to fame in the Arab world after winning the top prize in the popular Studio El Fan television show in 1996.-Biography:...
  
   - singer; made headlines when she was found murdered in Dubai
  Dubai
  Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
  
  
• Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...
  
   - singer/songwriter (band System of a Down
  System of a Down
  System of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is a rock band from Southern California. The band was formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan...
  
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• Walid Toufic
  Walid Toufic
  Walid Toufic , is a Lebanese singer who constantly made his big break in Egypt, and he is also known for performing in concerts and appearing in music videos.-Biography:...
  
   - singer
• Haifa Wehbe
  Haifa Wehbe
  Haifa Wehbe born in Mahrouna, Lebanon on March 10, 1976 is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer born to a Lebanese father and Egyptian mother who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman in 2002...
  
   - singer
• Karl Wolf
  Karl Wolf
  Carl Abou Samah is a Lebanese-born Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is better known by his stage name Karl Wolf. He has been a singer, songwriter and producer since 2001, releasing his first solo album Face Behind the Face on MapleNationwide/Universal in January 2006,...
  
   - Lebanese-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer
• Gabriel Yared
  Gabriel Yared
  Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...
  
   - award-winning composer and musician
• Maya M. Yazbeck - singer/songwriter and composer
• Nawal Al Zoghbi - singer

Visual artists

• Chaouki Chamoun
  Chaouki Chamoun
  Chaouki Chamoun , is a prominent Lebanese contemporary artist.After attending art and design night schools, he joined the Fine Art Institute at the Lebanese University in Beirut in fall1968 where he received his Diploma of Higher Studies in Painting in 1972...
  
   - painter
• Elias Nicolas El Hachem
  Elias Nicolas El Hachem
  Elias Nicolas El Hachem a painter and sculptor from Jal-el-Dib, Lebanon-Career:He created the first stone wedding card...
  
   - sculptor and painter
• Moustafa Farroukh
  Moustafa Farroukh
  Moustafa Farroukh was one of Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. During his famed career, Farroukh produced over 2000 paintings most of which were acquired by collectors both in Lebanon and abroad...
  
   - painter
• César Gemayel
  César Gemayel
  César Gemayel was a famous Lebanese painter.Gemayel was taught arts by Khalil Saleeby. He was considered as a leading and pioneering figure alongside painters like Youssef Howayek, Douad Corm, Omar Onsi, Saliba Douaihy, Moustafa Farroukh and a handful of others.Gemayel was a pre-eminently sensual...
  
   - painter
• Paul Guiragossian
  Paul Guiragossian
  Paul Guiragossian was an Armenian painter.-Career:Paul Guiragossian, the famous Armenian painter was born in Jerusalem in 1926 and settled in Beirut with his family in 1939 becoming a Lebanese citizen. He started to paint in 1942 at the Yarkon Studio. In 1957, he received a scholarship to study at...
  
   - painter
• Youssef Howayek
  Youssef Howayek
  Youssef Saadallah Howayek a painter and sculptor from Helta, in modern day Lebanon.-Career:Youssef Farroukh's father, Saadallah Howayek, was a Councillor elected into the Ottoman Mutasarref's Administrative Council. His grandfather was the village priest and his uncle was the Patriarch...
  
   - sculptor and painter
• Rabih Ballout - Lebanese American painter

Business

• Magid Abraham
  Magid Abraham
  Magid M. Abraham, is an entrepreneur and expert on market research, consumer modeling, and information solutions. He has held several executive leadership positions throughout his career, two of which were within companies he founded....
  
   - market research expert and businessman
• Sam Hammam
  Sam Hammam
  Samir "Sam" Hammam is a Lebanese business man, most notable for his high profile involvement in British football clubs.-Career:...
  
   - owner of Cardiff City F.C.
  Cardiff City F.C.
  Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...
  
  
• Nicolas Hayek
  Nicolas Hayek
  Nicolas George Hayek , was a Swiss-Lebanese entrepreneur, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Swatch Group, with principal headquarters in Biel/Bienne.-Life and background:...
  
   - owner of Swatch Group
• Jean Succar Kuri
  Jean Succar Kuri
  Jean Thouma Hannah Succar Kuri is a Lebanese-born Mexican businessman convicted of pederasty in Cancún, Quintana Roo...
  
   - businessman

Journalism

• May Chidiac
  May Chidiac
  May Chidiac is a Lebanese Christian Maronite journalist.Chidiac is a former television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and one of the station's main television anchors until an assassination attempt on her life...
  
   - television journalist
• Marcel Ghanem
  Marcel Ghanem
  -Early years:Ghanem was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964. He graduated from Lebanese University with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1987. He also studied biology while giving tutoring lessons in the morning...
  
   - television journalist
• Octavia Nasr
  Octavia Nasr
  Octavia Nasr is a journalist who covers Middle East affairs. She served as CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast affairs until her dismissal in July 2010 over her public statement of respect on Twitter for the Lebanese cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who she considered "one of Hezbollah's giants...
  
   - former television journalist for CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
  

Military

• Jean Kahwaji
  Jean Kahwaji
  Jean Kahwaji is a Lebanese general and present commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces.-Background:Kahwaji is married to Marlene Sfeir and they have three children, Jad, Joanna and Joe. He is a Maronite Christian and had headed the army's 12th Infantry Brigade since 2002.Kahwaji joined the army in...
  
   - army commander
• Samir El-Khadem
  Samir El-Khadem
  Samir El-Khadem is the former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, and an author, historian, and currently the Director of the Institute for East and West Studies in Beirut, Lebanon. El-Khadem retired from the Lebanese Army on September 25, 2000 reaching the rank of Rear Admiral after serving...
  
   - former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian

Religious figures

• Estephan El Douaihy
  Estephan El Douaihy
  Patriarch Estephan II Boutros El Douaihy was born in Ehden, Lebanon on August 2, 1630. He was the Patriarch of the Maronite Church from 1670 to 1704...
  
   - Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704)
• Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - Shiite cleric (1935–2010)
• Elias Peter Hoayek
  Elias Peter Hoayek
  Elias Peter Hoayek , was Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites, the largest Christian community in the Middle East from 1898 to 1931 when he died....
  
   - Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931)
• Hassan Khaled
  Hassan Khaled
  Grand Mufti Sheikh Hassan Khaled was the leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community.As a grand mufti, he presided over Islamic courts in Lebanon for 23 years, and served as Head of the Islamic Coalition, a body which included past and present prime ministers, Sunni parliamentary figures, and Sunni...
  
   - Grand Mufti of Lebanon
• Anthony Peter Khoraish
  Anthony Peter Khoraish
  Cardinal Anthony III Peter Khoraish , , was the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant from 1975 until his resignation in 1986, and a cardinal of the Catholic Church...
  
   - Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986)
• Musa al-Sadr
  Musa al-Sadr
  For the Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, see Mūsá al-KāżimMūsá aṣ-Ṣadr , also Musā-ye Sader and Moussa Sadr), was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and Shī‘ah religious leader who disappeared in August 1978...
  
   - Shiite religious leader
• Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir - Maronite Patriarch (1986–2011)

Roman Catholic Popes

• Pope Sergius I
  Pope Sergius I
  Pope Saint Sergius I was pope from 687 to 701. Selected to end a schism between Antipope Paschal and Antipope Theodore, Sergius I ended the last disputed sede vacante of the Byzantine Papacy....
  
  
• Pope Anicetus
  Pope Anicetus
  Pope Saint Anicetus was Pope of the Catholic Church from about 150 to about 167 . His name is Greek for unconquered...
  
  
• Pope Sisinnius
  Pope Sisinnius
  Pope Sisinnius was Pope for about three weeks in 708.A Syrian by birth, Sisinnius's father's name was John. The paucity of donations to the papacy during his reign indicate that he was probably not from the aristocracy.Sisinnius was selected as...
  
  
• Pope Constantine
  Pope Constantine
  Pope Constantine was pope from 708 to 715. With the exception of Antipope Constantine, he was the only pope to take such a "quintessentially" Eastern name of an emperor...
  
  
• Pope Gregory III
  Pope Gregory III
  Pope Saint Gregory III was pope from 731 to 741. A Syrian by birth, he succeeded Gregory II in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, in which he vainly invoked the intervention of Charles Martel.Elected by...
  
  

Saints

• Saint Charbel
  Charbel
  Charbel, Sharbel, or Sharbel Makhluf, , born as Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in Bekaa Kafra in northern Lebanon, was a Syriac-Maronite monk and priest, canonized saint by the Roman Catholic Church and now venerated world-wide.-His Life:...
  
  
• Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
  Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
  Saint Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini , a Lebanese Roman Catholic saint and a member of the Maronite Church.-Miracles of Saint Nimatullah Kassab Hardini:...
  
  
• Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
  Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
  Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès , also known as Saint Rafka , is a Lebanese Maronite saint canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 10, 2001.-Birth and Youth:...
  
  

Presidents of Lebanon

• Camille Chamoun
  Camille Chamoun
  Camille Nimr Chamoun was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War ....
  
   - former President (1952–1958)
• Fuad Chehab
  Fuad Chehab
  Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab (name also spelt Fouad Shihab, or Chehab, depending on transliteration from the original Arabic, (March 19, 1902 - April 25, 1973) was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1958 to 1964...
  
   - former President (1958–1964)
• Émile Eddé
  Emile Edde
  Émile Eddé was a Maronite Lebanese political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 11 October 1929 to 25 March 1930. He served as the President of Lebanon from 1936 to 1941. He also founded the Lebanese National Bloc party....
  
   - former President (1936–1941)
• Suleiman Frangieh
  Suleiman Frangieh
  Suleiman Kabalan Frangieh, last name also spelled Frangié, Franjieh, or Franjiyeh , was President of Lebanon from 1970 to 1976...
  
   - former President (1970–1976)
• Amine Gemayel
  Amine Gemayel
  Amine Pierre Gemayel was President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988 and is the leader of Kataeb Party.Born in the Lebanese village of Bikfaya, Amine Gemayel is the son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Party...
  
   - former President (1982–1988)
• Bachir Gemayel
  Bachir Gemayel
  Bachir Gemayel was a Lebanese politician, militia commander, and president-elect...
  
   - former President-Elect
• Charles Helou
  Charles Helou
  Charles Helou was President of Lebanon from 1964 to 1970.Born in Beirut, Helou was the scion of a powerful Maronite family from Baabda. He graduated with honours from St. Joseph's University in Beirut in 1929, and went on to complete a Law degree in 1934...
  
   - former President (1964–1970)
• Elias Hrawi
  Elias Hrawi
  Elias Hrawi was a President of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998.He was a native of the Beqaa valley. He was elected on 24 November 1989, two days after the assassination of René Moawad, who had held office for just seventeen days...
  
   - former President (1989–1998)
• Bechara El Khoury
  Bechara El Khoury
  Bechara El Khoury was the first post-independence President of Lebanon, holding office from 21 September 1943 to 18 September 1952, apart from an 11-day interruption in 1943...
  
   - former President (1943–1952)
• Émile Lahoud
  Émile Lahoud
  General Émile Jamil Lahoud is a former President of Lebanon. Lahoud is a Maronite-Catholic, as is required for the Lebanese presidency. Under Lebanon's unwritten constitutional agreement, the National Pact, the presidency is earmarked for Maronite_Catholic, the parliament speaker's post for a Shia...
  
   - former President (1998–2007)
• René Moawad
  René Moawad
  René Moawad was President of Lebanon for 17 days in 1989, from the 5th to the 22nd of November, when he was assassinated by unknowns. Syria accused Michel Aoun of the assassination....
  
   - former President (1989)
• Elias Sarkis
  Elias Sarkis
  Elias Sarkis was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1976 to 1982.-Early career:Born in Shabbaniah, Sarkis graduated with a Law degree from Saint Joseph University in 1948. After joining the judicial corps in 1953, he became a judge with the Accounting Department...
  
   - former President (1976–1982)
• Michel Suleiman
  Michel Suleiman
  Michel Suleiman or Sleiman is the President of Lebanon. Before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces. After LAF commander Émile Lahoud took office as president in November of 1998, Suleiman succeeded him, taking his place in December...
  
   - present President (2008–2011)
• Petro Trad
  Petro Trad
  Petro Trad was a Lebanese a lawyer and a politician and former Lebanese President of the Republic for a brief period ....
  
   - former President (1943)

Prime Ministers of Lebanon

• Michel Aoun
  Michel Aoun
  Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese Army Commander and he is one of the allies of Hezbollah. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he has served as Prime Minister of the legal one of two rival governments that contended for power. He declared "The Liberation War" against the Syrian...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Petro Trad
  Petro Trad
  Petro Trad was a Lebanese a lawyer and a politician and former Lebanese President of the Republic for a brief period ....
  
   - former President (1943)
• Rafik Hariri
  Rafik Hariri
  Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri , was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.He headed five cabinets during his tenure...
  
   - former Prime Minister (1992-1998 & 2000-2004)
• Saad Hariri
  Saad Hariri
  Saad-eddine Rafiq Al-Hariri is a Saudi-Lebanese billionaire who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 until 2011. He is the second son of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Amin al-Hafez
  Amin al-Hafez (Lebanon)
  Amin al-Hafez , was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 25 April 1973 to 21 June 1973. He was also a long-running Member of Parliament for Tripoli in the Lebanese Parliament until 1996....
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Selim al-Hoss
  Selim al-Hoss
  Selim Ahmed El-Hoss is a veteran Lebanese politician. He was a Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut.-Education:...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Omar Karami
  Omar Karami
  Omar Abdul Hamid Karami was the Prime Minister of Lebanon on two separate occasions...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Rashid Karami
  Rashid Karami
  Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War , and he served as Prime Minister eight times.- Background :Rashid Karami was born in Tripoli, into one of...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Najib Mikati
  Najib Mikati
  Najib Azmi Mikati is a Lebanese politician, billionaire and is the current Prime Minister of Lebanon since 13 June 2011. From April 2005 to July 2005 he was Prime Minister of Lebanon in a caretaker government...
  
   - current Prime Minister
• Saeb Salam
  Saeb Salam
  Saeb Salam was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister four times between 1952 and 1973.Salam was the son of Salim Salam, the scion of a prominent Sunni Muslim family who was a prominent politician both under Ottoman rule and then during the French Mandate...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Fouad Siniora
  Fouad Siniora
  Fuad Siniora is a Lebanese politician, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon, a position he held from 19 July 2005 to May 25, 2008 the date of the election of the new President of Lebanon; he was renominated to the post on 28 May 2008 and held the post as Acting President between those...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Riad as-Solh
  Riad as-Solh
  Riad as-Solh was the first Prime Minister of Lebanon , after the country's independence. Like all of his successors as prime minister of Lebanon, he was a Sunni Muslim. He later served as prime minister of Lebanon again from December 14, 1946 to February 14, 1951...
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Sami as-Solh
  Sami as-Solh
  Sami Solh was a Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician. He served as Prime Minister of Lebanon 7 times ....
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Takieddin el-Solh
  Takieddin el-Solh
  Takieddin el-Solh was a Lebanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1973-74, and again briefly in 1980....
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Shafik Wazzan
  Shafik Wazzan
  Shafik Dib al-Wazzan was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1980 until 1984. In December 1991, Wazzan was wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta as he was passing through in an armored car....
  
   - former Prime Minister
• Abdallah El-Yafi
  Abdallah El-Yafi
  Abdallah El-Yafi was the Prime Minister of Lebanon 12 times between 1938 and 1969.-Early life and education:Abdallah El-Yafi was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 7, 1901 into a Muslim Sunni family to parents Aref El-Yafi and Jamila Ostwani, a Damascene.Raised with two brothers, he first...
  
   - former Prime Minister

Speakers of Parliament

• Kamel Asaad
  Kamel Asaad
  Kamel El Assaad or Kamel Al Assaad was a Lebanese politician.Coming from a large feudal family from southern Lebanon, he held the title of "Bakaweit"...
  
   - Speaker of Parliament
• Nabih Berri
  Nabih Berri
  Nabih Berri is the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Movement.-Biography:He was born in Bo, Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut...
  
   - Present Speaker of Parliament
• Sabri Hamadé - Speaker of Parliament
• Hussein el-Husseini
  Hussein el-Husseini
  Sayyed Hussein el-Husseini is a Lebanese statesman and former speaker of the Lebanese parliament, who brought the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, followed by the disarmament of sectarian militias...
  
   - Speaker of Parliament
• Adel Osseiran
  Adel Osseiran
  Adel Osseiran was a prominent Lebanese politician and statesman, a former Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, and one of the founding fathers of the Lebanese Republic....
  
   - Speaker of Parliament

Ministers, deputees and politicians

• Michel Aoun
  Michel Aoun
  Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese Army Commander and he is one of the allies of Hezbollah. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he has served as Prime Minister of the legal one of two rival governments that contended for power. He declared "The Liberation War" against the Syrian...
  
   - former Prime Minister, former army commander, Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement
  Free Patriotic Movement
  The Free Patriotic Movement , also known as the "Aounist Movement" , is a Lebanese political party, led by Michel Aoun and allied with Hezbollah, The movement was officially declared a political party on September 18, 2005Though most of the party's support comes from Lebanon's...
  
  
• Majid Arslan - a Druze political figure
• Talal Arslan
  Talal Arslan
  -Political career:Arslan was elected to the Lebanese Parliament as a deputy of the Aley District in 1991, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2009. From 1990 to 1992 he was the Lebanese Minister of Tourism, from 1996 to 1998 he was Minister of Emigrants and served as Minister of State twice from 2000 to 2003 and...
  
   - leader of the Druze Lebanese Democratic Party
  Lebanese Democratic Party
  The Lebanese Democratic Party is a political party in Lebanon established by Prince Talal Arslan in 2001...
  
  
• Gebran Bassil
  Gebran Bassil
  Gebran Bassil is a Lebanese politician,he is also a member of the March 8 Alliance-backed Free Patriotic Movement. Owing to his immense qualifications he served as the Minister of Telecommunications in the Lebanese cabinet from May 2008 to June 2009, and then served as Minister of Energy in the...
  
   - minister, Free Patriotic Movement
• Dany Chamoun
  Dany Chamoun
  Dany Chamoun was a prominent Lebanese politician. A Maronite Christian and the younger son of former President Camille Chamoun, Dany Chamoun was also a politician in his own right, and was known for his opposition to the occupation of Lebanese territory by foreign forces, whether Syrian or...
  
   - former National Liberal Party
  National Liberal Party (Lebanon)
  The National Liberal Party is a center-right political party in Lebanon, established by President Camille Chamoun in 1958...
  
   leader
• Dory Chamoun
  Dory Chamoun
  Dory Chamoun is a Lebanese politician who leads the National Liberal Party, and is also a prominent member of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a coalition of politicians, academics, and businessmen who oppose the pro-Syrian March 8 Alliance and Syrian influence in Lebanon.Dory Chamoun is the elder...
  
   - leader of National Liberal Party
• Carlos Edde
  Carlos Eddé
  Carlos Eddé , is a Lebanese politician. He is since 2000 the president of Lebanese National Bloc succeeding at his uncle Raymond Eddé. In 2004 he participated actively in the 14 March Alliance and was among those who formulated the strategy to unify the opposition, leading to the departure of the...
  
   - politician
• Raymond Edde
  Raymond Edde
  Raymond Eddé was a Lebanese statesman who served his country for many years as a legislator and cabinet minister. He led the Lebanese National Bloc, an influential political party. The son of former President Émile Eddé, Raymond Eddé was himself a candidate for the presidency in 1958, and was...
  
   - politician, former leader of National Bloc
• Issam Fares
  Issam Fares
  Issam Michael Fares is a prominent Lebanese businessman, a former member of the Lebanese Parliament and served as Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2000 to 2005....
  
   - businessman and politician, former Deputy Prime MInister
• Suleiman Frangieh, Jr.
  Suleiman Frangieh, Jr.
  Suleiman Tony Franjieh , born on November 18, 1965 in Zgharta, Lebanon is the current leader of the Marada Movement and a Member of Parliament for the Maronite Catholic seat of Zgharta-Zawyie, in North Lebanon...
  
   - politician, leader of the Marada Movement
• Tony Frangieh
  Tony Frangieh
  Antoine Frangieh was a Lebanese politician and militia leader during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War.- Education and early political career :...
  
   - politician
• Maurice Gemayel
  Maurice Gemayel
  Maurice Gemayel, was a Lebanese politician who was often a minister and Maronite MP for Metn, was a prominent figure for the Kataeb Party which was founded by his cousin, Pierre Gemayel. His positions were more moderate than many other members of his own party...
  
  - founder of Institute for Palestine Studies
  Institute for Palestine Studies
  The Institute for Palestine Studies is the oldest independent non-profit, public service, research institute in the Arab world, was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such institutes in the region...
  
  
• Pierre Gemayel
  Pierre Gemayel
  Sheikh Pierre Gemayel , was a Lebanese political leader...
  
   - politician and founder of the Kataeb Party
  Kataeb Party
  The Lebanese Phalanges , better known in English as the Phalange , is a traditional right-wing Lebanese political party. Although it is officially secular, it is mainly supported by Maronite Christians. The party played a major role in the Lebanese War...
  
  
• Pierre Amine Gemayel
  Pierre Amine Gemayel
  Pierre Amine Gemayel was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, better known in English as the Phalange Party. Lebanon's second-youngest MP, he was a rising star in his party...
  
   - legislator and minister
• Samir Geagea
  Samir Geagea
  Samir Farid Geagea , born October 25, 1952, is a Lebanese politician. He is also a senior figure in the March 14 Alliance, alongside Saad Hariri and Amine Gemayel....
  
   - leader of the Lebanese Forces
  Lebanese Forces
  The Lebanese Forces is a Lebanese political party. Founded as a militia by Bachir Gemayel during the Lebanese Civil War, the movement fought as the main militia within the Christian-dominated Lebanese Front...
  
  
• Kamal Jumblatt
  Kamal Jumblatt
  Kamal Jumblatt ; was an important Lebanese politician. He was the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War until his assassination in 1977. He is the father of the present Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.-Family background and education:Kamal Jumblatt was born in...
  
   - founder of Progressive Socialist Party
• Walid Jumblatt
  Walid Jumblatt
  Walid Jumblatt is a Lebanese politician and the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party . He is the most prominent leader of Lebanon's Druze community.-Family:...
  
   - politician, leader of Progressive Socialist Party
• Charles Malik - former President of the United Nations General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly
  For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...
  
   and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Nayla Moawad
  Nayla Moawad
  Nayla Moawad is a Lebanese politician. Outside of Lebanon, she is best known as the widow of former President René Moawad, who was assassinated on 22 November 1989. Within Lebanon, she is a high-profile politician in her own right, having served as a member of the National Assembly since 1991...
  
   - politician
• Elias Murr
  Elias Murr
  Elias Murr is the former Lebanese Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. He held the positions of Deputy Prime minister and Interior Minister in previous Cabinets....
  
   - former Deputy Prime Minister
• Michel Murr
  Michel Murr
  Michel Murr is a Lebanese politician and businessman. He first occupied the post of Minister of the Interior, as well as being Deputy Prime Minister in Rafik Hariri's first cabinet in 1992 and remained in the post in all subsequent cabinets formed by Hariri, except the last one, in which his son,...
  
   - politician and former Deputy Prime Minister
• Hassan Nasrallah
  Hassan Nasrallah
  Hasan Nasrallah, became the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, in 1992. Hezbollah in its entirety is considered a terrorist organization by The United States, the Netherlands,...
  
   - leader of Hezbollah
• Habib Sadek
  Habib Sadek
  Habid Sadek is a former member of the Lebanese parliament, as well as a poet and writer. He is presently the president of the Conseil Culturel Liban Sud.-References:...
  
   - former politician, writer
• Gebran Tueni
  Gebran Tueni
  Gebran Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese politician and the former editor and publisher of the mass circulation An-Nahar daily newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon....
  
   - journalist and deputee
• Salim Wardeh
  Salim Wardeh
  Salim Wardeh was the Minister of Culture in Lebanon until June 2011, when he was replaced by Gaby Layoun. Wardeh is a Catholic Christian and is a member of the Lebanese Forces which in turn is a member of the March 14 Alliance. Wardeh is a member of the board of directors of Tell Shiha Hospital...
  
   - Minister of Culture

Medicine

• Sami Ibrahim Haddad
  Sami Ibrahim Haddad
  Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Arabic: سامي ابراهيم حداد was a doctor, surgeon and writer. He was born in Palestine and spent most of his life in Lebanon.-Life:...
  
   - physician, surgeon and writer
• Afif Abdul Wahab
  Afif Abdul Wahab
  Afif Abdul Wahab was a Lebanese doctor, general surgeon and urologist, businessman and philanthropist, born and raised in El Mina. After receiving his Medical Doctorate from the American University of Beirut in 1941, he opened up a hospital in his hometown of El-Mina in 1946 in partnership with...
  
   - surgeon
• Pierre Farah - Surgeon, Member of the French National Academy of Medicine

Scientists

• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
  Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
  Hasan Kamel Al-Sabbah, sometimes referred to as Camil A. Sabbah, was an electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in Nabatieh, Lebanon. He studied at the American University of Beirut. He taught mathematics at Imperial College of Damascus, Syria, and at...
  
   - Lebanese-American technology innovator
• Edgar Choueiri
  Edgar Choueiri
  Edgar Y. Choueiri is a Lebanese American plasma physicist and currently President of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences. He is best known for clarifying the role of plasma instabilities in spacecraft electric thrusters , for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts and, more...
  
   - Pastronomer and professor
• Charles Elachi
  Charles Elachi
  Charles Asshur Al-Wadad Elachi is the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , located in Pasadena, California. He has held this position since May 1, 2001 and also holds professorships in electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech....
  
   - astronomer
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb - philosopher, researcher, and veteran practitioner of financial mathematics

Athletes

• Samir Bannout
  Samir Bannout
  Samir Hassan Bannout is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.-Biography:Known as "the Lion of Lebanon", Samir Bannout won the Mr. Olympia title in 1983. At that time, only 6 men had held this most prestigious title since the contest was first introduced in 1965...
  
   - IFBB
  IFBB
  IFBB can refer to:* Independent Family Brewers of Britain* International Federation of BodyBuilders...
  
   professional bodybuilder
• Maxime Chaya
  Maxime Chaya
  Maxime Edgard Chaya is a sportsman, mountaineer and explorer from Lebanon. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge...
  
   - Extreme sports athlete
• Zakaria Chibab
  Zakaria Chibab
  Zakaria Chihab is a retired Lebanese wrestler. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight category.-References:...
  
   - first Lebanese Olympic medal winner

Basketball

• Rony Fahed
  Rony Fahed
  Rony Fahed is a professional Lebanese basketball player.He is also a member of the Lebanon national basketball team that participated in the 2006 FIBA World Championship which took place in Japan in August and September 2006...
  
   - basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
• Matt Freije
  Matt Freije
  Matthew Wayne Freije is a Lebanese American professional basketball player who currently plays for Hebraica y Macabi in Uruguay. Freije attended Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park, Kansas before attending Vanderbilt University where he was an All-SEC performer...
  
   - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
• Fadi El Khatib
  Fadi El Khatib
  Fadi El Khatib , born January 1, 1979, is a Lebanese basketball player currently playing for Champville SC in the Lebanese Basketball League...
  
   - basketball player and captain of Lebanon's national team
• Ali Mahmoud
  Ali Mahmoud
  Ali Mahmoud is a Lebanese-Canadian basketball player. He currently plays for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut.-Career:Mahmoud was born on May 29, 1983 in Ottawa, Canada to Toufic and Gina Mahmoud, who had immigrated to Canada....
  
   - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
• Elie Mechantaf
  Elie Mechantaf
  Elie Mechantaf is a retired Lebanese international basketball player. He started his basketball career in the Cypriot Basketball League, before becoming the captain of the Lebanese Hekmeh BC basketball club, a leading club of the Lebanese Basketball League for more than ten years, wining the...
  
   - former basketball player and former captain of Lebanon's national team
• Rony Seikaly
  Rony Seikaly
  Ronald Fred "Rony" Seikaly is a retired Lebanese-born American professional basketball player.-Early life:Seikaly was born in Beirut, Lebanon. At the age of 9, Rony moved from Beirut where he'd been attending elementary school at the Athenee de Beirut to Greece, where he spent the rest of his youth...
  
   - former Lebanese-American professional basketball player
• Joe Vogel
  Joe Vogel
  For American author, see Joseph VogelJoseph Vogel is an American-Lebanese basketball player. Vogel attended Colorado State. Upon graduation, he was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1996 NBA Draft...
  
   - professional basketall player and returning member of Lebanon's national team
• Jackson Vroman
  Jackson Vroman
  Jackson Vroman is a US-born Lebanese professional basketball player. He was naturalized as a Lebanese citizen to play in the Lebanon national basketball team, substituting the other naturalized American Lebanese player, Joe Vogel...
  
   - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team

Ice Hockey

• Ed Hatoum
  Ed Hatoum
  Edward Hatoum is a retired ice hockey forward.Hatoum was reunited with his family in Ottawa, Ontario in 1957 and began playing hockey after a few years living in the nation's capital....
  
   - former professional hockey player for the (Vancouver Canucks
  Vancouver Canucks
  The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
  
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• Nazem Kadri
  Nazem Kadri
  Nazem Kadri is a Canadian ice hockey player currently playing for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. He has also played with the Kitchener Rangers. He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs seventh overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He won the J...
  
   - professional hockey player for the (Toronto Maple Leafs
  Toronto Maple Leafs
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  )

Playing card tournament titleholders

• Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb
  Freddy Deeb
  Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19.-Before poker:...
  
   - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
• Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha
  Sam Farha
  Ihsan Farha is a professional poker player. He is best known for finishing as runner up in the World Series of Poker main event in 2003 and has won three bracelets at the WSOP.-Early years:...
  
   - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
• Joseph 'Joe' Hachem
  Joe Hachem
  Joseph Hachem is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.The next year, Hachem won his...
  
   - the winner of 2005 WSOP Main event

Soccer/Football

• Faisal Antar
  Faisal Antar
  Faisal Antar – is a Lebanese retired football defender. He played for Tadamon Sour, Tripoli SC, Nejmeh and Al-Mabarrah in the Lebanese Premier League during 12 year career....
  
   - football (soccer) player
• Roda Antar
  Roda Antar
  Roda Antar is a Lebanese football midfielder who currently plays for Shandong Luneng Taishan in the Chinese Super League, and is captain of the Lebanon national team....
  
   - professional soccer player
• Youssef Mohamad
  Youssef Mohamad
  Youssef Wasef Mohamad is a Lebanese footballer currently playing for Al-Ahli in the UAE Football League and the Lebanon national team. He represented Lebanon at the 2000 Asian Cup and also captained of the team from November 2004 to August 2005.-Club career:...
  
   - first ever Middle-Eastern professional soccer captain in the German Bundesliga
  Fußball-Bundesliga
  The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
  
  
• Mohammed Ghaddar
  Mohammed Ghaddar
  Mohammed Mahmoud Ghaddar is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays for Kelantan FA in the Malaysian Super League and the Lebanon national football team.Ghaddar is the first ever Lebanese footballer to play for Kelantan FA.-Nejmeh:...
  
   - professional soccer player in Syria
• Wartan Ghazarian
  Wartan Ghazarian
  Vartan Ghazarian is a retired Lebanese-Armenian association football player. He represented the Lebanon national football team from 1997 until 2001. He is a striker....
  
   - soccer player
• Pierre Issa - Lebanese-South African soccer player
• Jamal Taha
  Jamal Taha
  Jamal Taha is a former Lebanese international footbal striker. He represented Lebanon at the 2000 AFC Asian Cup in Lebanon. He began his playing career with Al-Ansar , later after his retirement, he went and coached the same team Al-Ansar .-External links:...
  
   - former soccer player

Writers

• Elia Abu Madi
  Elia Abu Madi
  Elia Abu Madi was a Lebanese-American poet.-Life and career:Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1889 or 1890...
  
   - poet
• Maroun Abboud
  Maroun Abboud
  Maroun Abboud was a Lebanese poet and writer born on February 9, 1886.-Life:Maroun attended several schools around Lebanon, where he learned to read and write in the languages Arabic, Syriac, and French. In 1900, Maroun entered the School of St. John Maron in Batroun, Lebanon, to pursue a life as...
  
   - poet, writer
• Said Akl
  Said Akl
  Said Akl is a Lebanese poet, writer, and playwright. He is considered one of the most important modern Lebanese poets. He is also a staunch advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and the Lebanese language, designing a Latin-based Lebanese alphabet made up of 37 letters.-Early life:Akl was...
  
   - poet, writer,
• Butrus al-Bustani
  Butrus al-Bustani
  Buṭrus al-Bustānī was a notable writer and scholar from present day Lebanon.-Life:Al-Bustani was born to a Maronite Christian family in the village of Dibbiye in the Chouf region, in January 1819...
  
   - writer, scholar
• Fawaz Gerges
  Fawaz Gerges
  Fawaz A. Gerges is a professor and author with expertise on the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, Al Qaeda, and relations between the world of Islam and the West....
  
   - university professor and author
• Ounsi el-Hajj - poet
• Elia Abu Madi
  Elia Abu Madi
  Elia Abu Madi was a Lebanese-American poet.-Life and career:Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1889 or 1890...
  
   - poet, publisher
• Khalil Gibran
  Khalil Gibran
  Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...
  
   - artist, author, philosopher, theologian.
• Elias Khoury - novelist, playwright
• Amin Maalouf
  Amin Maalouf
  Amin Maalouf , born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios...
  
   - novelist
• May Murr
  May Murr
  May Murr or Mayy Murr was a Lebanese historian, writer, poet, and political activist.She founded and presided, many cultural and social associations. She was a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and of the Société Teilhard de Chardin, headquartered in Belgium...
  
   - author
• Khalil Mutran
  Khalil Mutran
  Khalil Mutran , also known by the sobriquet Sha’ir al Qutrayn was a noted Arabic poet and journalist.-Life:...
  
   - poet, journalist
• Mikha'il Na'ima
  Mikha'il Na'ima
  Mikha'il Na'ima was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.-Biography:...
  
   - author and poet
• Amin al-Rihani
  Amin al-Rihani
  Ameen Rihani, also spelled Amin al-Rihani , was a Lebanese Arab-American writer, intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism...
  
   - author
• Alain Tasso
  Alain Tasso
  Alain Tasso is a Franco-Lebanese poet, painter and essayist, born in Beirut on July 22, 1962.Autodidact, his literary intensive profuse work is received by much critical attention.- Biography :...
  
   - poet, essayist
• May Ziade
  May Ziade
  May Ziade , was a prolific Christian Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator....
  
   - poet, essayist

Miscellaneous

• Roger Achkar
  Roger Achkar
  Roger Achkar is a celebrated Lebanese award-winning author, engineer, business thinker, painter and musician. He has appeared on many TV channels in the Middle East and is currently the CEO of ‘Sharp Minds’ management consulting firm as well as the president of ‘High Arts’ association.- Education...
  
   - engineer and author
• Jean-Marc Aractingi
  Jean-Marc Aractingi
  Jean-Marc Aractingi is a French engineer, diplomat, and author of Lebanese origin and CEO of Groupe Arcore-Solarcore S.A., a leader of solar energy in the Middle East....
  
   - engineer, diplomat and author
• Sharbel Karam - Lebanese blogger
• Gino Raidy - Lebanese blogger

See also

• Lebanese diaspora
  Lebanese diaspora
  Lebanese diaspora refers to Lebanese migrants and their descendants who by choice or coercion emigrated from Lebanon and now reside in other countries....
  
  
• List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)
• List of Arab Americans
• List of famous Arabs