List of Lebanese people

Activists

• Andrea Andraos - Top 1 lebanese mathematician
• 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
• Valerie Abou Chacra — Miss Lebanon 2015
• 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
• Dominique Hourani - Miss Intercontinental

  Dancers

• Amani – dancer

• 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 – social media personality and sports commentator
• 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

  Scientists

• Hassan Kamel Al Sabbah– Inventor
• Rammal Rammal – Inventor

  Singers, composers, and musicians

• Elissa - singer
• Ragheb Alama – singer
• Julia Boutros – singer
• Fairuz - Singer
• Ramy Ayach- singer and composer
• Assi El Hallani - singer
• Najwa Karam – singer
• Rabih Gemayel – singer
• Wael Kfoury – singer
• Marcel Khalife – singer and composer
• Zaki Nassif – composer, singer
• Rahbani brothers – composers
• *Assi Rahbani
• *Mansour Rahbani
• Ziad Rahbani – musician, actor
• Majida El Roumi – singer
• Sabah – singer, actress
• Wadih El Safi – singer, composer, and musician
• Nasri Shamseddine – singer
• Walid Toufic – singer
• 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

• 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 – writer, industrialist and philanthropist
• Pierre El Daher – Chairman and CEO of LBC
• Walid Daouk – businessman and politician
• Ralph Debbas – automotive executive.
• 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
• Ali Hamade علي حمادة journalist and Lebanese political critic in An-Nahar newspaper
• Elie Merheb – Journalist and Lebanese Author Awael News

  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

Religious personalities

• Estephan El Douaihy – former Maronite Patriarch
• Elias Peter Hoayek – former Maronite Patriarch
• Anthony Peter Khoraish – former Maronite Patriarch
• Bechara Boutros al-Rahi – Maronite Patriarch
• Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir – former Maronite Patriarch ''

• Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili – Shi'a scholar
• Al-Hurr al-Aamili – muhaddith and a prominent Twelver Shi'a scholar
• Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Shi'a Islamic scholar
• Aram I Keshishian – Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, See of the Great House of Cilicia
• Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – Shiite cleric
• Salim Ghazal – Melkite Greek Catholic bishop
• Hassan Khaled – Sunni cleric, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic
• Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader

  Saints

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

  Politicians

Presidents of Lebanon

• Camille Chamoun – former President
• Fuad Chehab – former President
• Émile Eddé – former President
• Suleiman Frangieh – former President
• Amine Gemayel – former President
• Bachir Gemayel – former President-Elect
• Charles Helou – former President
• Elias Hrawi – former President
• Bechara El Khoury – former President *René Moawad – former President
• Elias Sarkis – former President
• Petro Trad – former President

  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

• Marwan Hamadeh — former minister and part of the Lebanese Parliament since 1992, politician and influential presence
• 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
• Khaled Daouk – former Honorary Consul General of Ireland in Beirut
• Walid Daouk – former 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 – 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

  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 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 – was a Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic
• Roy M. Ferneini, CPA – 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 – poet and writer
• Elia Abu Madi – poet
• Said Akl – poet, writer, and thinker
• Nader El-Bizri – philosopher and architect
• Butrus al-Bustani – writer and scholar
• Charles Corm – writer and businessman
• Fawaz Gerges – academic and author
• Joumana Haddad – writer and feminist
• Ounsi el-Hajj – poet
• Salma Hage – writer and cook
• Jad Hatem – philosopher and poet
• Gibran Khalil Gibran – artist, author and poet
• Elias Khoury – novelist and playwright
• Vénus Khoury-Ghata – writer
• Amin Maalouf – novelist
• Elia Abu Madi – poet and publisher
• May Murr – academic, writer and activist
• Khalil Mutran – poet and journalist
• Mikha'il Na'ima – religious author and poet
• Amin al-Rihani – writer and politician
• Widad Sakakini – writer and feminist
• Avraham Sinai – religious writer
• Gabriel Sionita – Maronite writer and publisher
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb – essayist