List of Lebanese people

Activist

Lydia Canaan - activist, advocate, public speaker, and United Nations delegate

Jill Kelley - advocate, socialite, and former diplomat

Beauty pageant contestants

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

Fashion designers

Georges Chakra - fashion designer

Nicolas Jebran - fashion designer

Rabih Kayrouz - fashion designer

Zuhair Murad - fashion designer

Elie Saab - fashion designer

Film, television, and radio personalities

Hicham Abou Sleiman - actor

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

Nadine Labaki - actress and music video director

Samir Maalouf - actor

Toni Maalouf - actor

Mahmoud Mabsout - actor

Peter Macdissi - television and film actor

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

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

Singers, composers, and musicians

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)

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

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

Theatre

Hassan Alaa Eddin - commonly known as Chouchou or Shoushou, actor, comedian

Jalal Khoury - playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor

Visual artists

Joseph Assaf - sculptor

Chaouki Chamoun - painter

Moustafa Farroukh - painter

César Gemayel - painter

Youssef Howayek - sculptor and painter

Pierre Sadek - caricaturist

Architecture

Nabil Gholam - architect

Joseph Philippe Karam (1923-1976) - architect

Nadim Karam - architect

Bernard Khoury - architect

Business

Magid Abraham - market researcher, businessman

Samir Brikho - businessman, Chief Executive of AMEC plc

Charles Corm (1894–1963) - writer, industrialist and philanthropist

Pierre El Daher - Chairman and CEO of LBC

Hazem Daouk - businessman and financial economist

Walid Daouk - businessman and politician

Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C.

Nicolas Hayek - owner of Swatch Group

Jean Succar Kuri - businessman

Jimmy Tanos - Businessman

Education

Joseph Aoun - President of Northeastern University

Journalism

May Chidiac - television journalist

Marcel Ghanem - television journalist

Octavia Nasr - former television journalist for CNN

Serena Shim - Lebanese-American journalist

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

Military

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

Religious personalities

Aram I Keshishian - Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, See of the Great House of Cilicia (in Antelias, Lebanon)

Estephan El Douaihy - former Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704)

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - Shiite cleric (1935–2010)

Salim Ghazal - Melkite Greek Catholic bishop (1931-2011)

Elias Peter Hoayek - former Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931)

Hassan Khaled - Sunni cleric, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic (1966-1989)

Anthony Peter Khoraish - former Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986)

Bechara Boutros al-Rahi - Maronite Patriarch (2011-incumbent)

Musa al-Sadr - Shiite religious leader

Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir - former Maronite Patriarch (1986-2011)

Roman Catholic Popes

(Known as Syrian popes -- refer to Category:Syrian popes

Pope Anicetus

Pope Constantine

Pope Gregory III

Pope Sergius I

Pope Sisinnius

Saints

Saint Charbel

Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini

Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès

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

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 - most recent former President (2007–2014)

Petro Trad - former President (1943)

Prime Ministers of Lebanon

Michel Aoun - former Prime Minister

Ahmad Daouk - former Prime Minister

Amin al-Hafez - former Prime Minister

Rafic Hariri - former Prime Minister

Saad Hariri - current 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

Habib Sadek - former politician, writer

Gebran Tueni - journalist and deputy

Salim Wardeh - Minister of Culture

Other political personalities

Joyce Gemayel - former first lady and political activist

Ghassan Tueni - diplomat, politician and journalist

Medicine

Sami Ibrahim Haddad - physician, surgeon and writer

Afif Abdul Wahab - surgeon

Scientists

Michael Atiyah - mathematician

Edgar Choueiri - scientist/professor

Charles Elachi - astronomer

Hassan Naim - Lebanese-Swiss biochemist

Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah - Lebanese-American technology innovator

Athletes

Samir Bannout - professional bodybuilder

Maxime Chaya - extreme sports athlete

Zakaria Chibab - 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

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

*[[Yehia "Joe" Awada

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

Pierre Issa - Lebanese-South African soccer player

Youssef Mohamad - soccer player in Germany

Philippe Paoli - soccer player

Soony Saad - soccer player

Jamal Taha - soccer player

Writers

Maroun Abboud - poet, writer

Elia Abu Madi - poet

Said Akl - poet, writer, thinker

Nader El-Bizri - philosopher, architect

Butrus al-Bustani - writer, scholar

Charles Corm - writer, businessman

Fawaz Gerges - university professor, author, media commentator

Ounsi el-Hajj - poet

Jad Hatem - philosopher, poet

Gibran Khalil Gibran - artist, author, philosopher, theologian

Elias Khoury - novelist, playwright

Vénus Khoury-Ghata - writer

Amin Maalouf - novelist

Elia Abu Madi - poet, publisher

May Murr - author

Khalil Mutran - poet, journalist

Mikha'il Na'ima - author and poet

Amin al-Rihani - author

Avraham Sinai - author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - essayist