List of Lebanese people
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This is a list of notable individuals born and residing mainly in Lebanon.
Lebanese expatriates residing overseas and possessing Lebanese citizenship are also included.
For people of Lebanese descent, see List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)
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[edit] Arts and Entertainment
[edit] Beauty pageant contestants
- Rima Fakih - Miss USA 2010
- Sonia Fares - Miss Lebanon 1969
- Nadine Njeim - Miss Lebanon 2007
- Gabrielle Bou Rached - Miss Lebanon 2005
- Christina Sawaya - Miss Lebanon 2001/Miss International 2002
- Dina Azar - Miss Lebanon 1995
- Georgina Rizk - Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971
- Rosarita Tawil - Miss Lebanon 2008
- Haifa Wehbe - former beauty pageant contestant, singer and actress
[edit] Fashion designers
- Reem Acra - fashion designer[1]
- Georges Chakra - fashion designer
- Zuhair Murad - fashion designer
- Elie Saab - fashion designer[2]
[edit] Film, television and radio personalities
- Philippe Aractingi - Lebanese-French film director
- Maroun Bagdadi - film director
- May Chidiac - notable television anchor on LBC
- Leïla Karam - actress
- Mario Kassar - filmmaker, founder of Carolco Pictures
- Alek Keshishian - filmmaker of Lebanese-Armenian origin
- Arsinée Khanjian - actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin (wife of director Atom Egoyan)
- Nadine Labaki - actress and music video director
- Salma Hayek- Lebanese American actress
- Mahmoud Mabsout - actor
- Peter Macdissi, film actor (television series Six Feet Under; film Towelhead)
- Nour - film actress
- Haaz Sleiman - actor (television series Nurse Jackie; film The Visitor)
[edit] Singers and composers
- Ragheb Alame - singer
- Cyrine Abdelnour - singer
- Nancy - singer
- Ramy Ayach - singer
- Abdel Rahman El Bacha - pianist
- Julia Boutros - singer
- John Dolmayan - heavy metal musician (band System of a Down)
- Elissa - singer
- Fairuz - singer
- Myriam Fares - singer
- Patrick Gemayel - lead composer for Chromeo
- Walid Gholmieh - composer and musician
- Azar Habib - composer and singer
- Darine Hadchiti - singer
- Diana Haddad - singer
- Assi El Helani - singer
- Amal Hijazi - singer, model
- Wael Jassar - singer
- Salwa Al Katrib - singer
- Fares Karam - singer
- Najwa Karam - singer
- Wael Kfoury - singer
- Marcel Khalife - singer and composer
- K.Maro - Lebanese-Canadian rapper[3]
- Pascale Machaalani - singer
- Majdala - singer
- Fady Maalouf - singer
- Ibrahim Maalouf - musician
- Massari - Lebanese-Canadian pop and hip-hop singer
- Mika - singer/songwriter
- Zaki Nassif - composer, singer
- Abeer Nehme - singer
- Rahbani brothers - composers
- Ghassan Rahbani - producer, composer, and musician
- Ziad Rahbani - musician/actor
- Charbel Rouhana - oud player
- Halim El Roumi - composer, musician
- Majida El Roumi - singer
- Rola Saad - singer
- Nicole Saba - singer
- Sabah - singer and actress
- Wadih El Safi - singer, composer, and musician
- Karol Sakr - singer
- Pascale Sakr - singer
- Carole Samaha- singer
- Nasri Shamseddine - singer
- Suzanne Tamim - singer; made headlines when she was found murdered in Dubai
- Serj Tankian - heavy metal singer/songwriter (band System of a Down)
- Walid Toufic - singer
- Haifa Wehbe - singer
- Shakira - lebanese coloumbian singer
Karl Wolf - Lebanese-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer[4]
- Gabriel Yared - award-winning composer and musician
- Nawal Al Zoghbi - singer
[edit] Visual artists
- Joseph Assaf - sculptor
- Chaouki Chamoun - painter
- Elias Nicolas El Hachem - sculptor and painter
- Moustafa Farroukh - painter
- César Gemayel - painter
- Paul Guiragossian - painter
- Youssef Howayek - sculptor and painter
- Sam Maloof - artist
[edit] Business
- Magid Abraham - market research expert and businessman
- Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C.[5]
- Nicolas Hayek - owner of Swatch Group
- Jean Succar Kuri - businessman
- Carlos Slim - business magnate and philanthropist
[edit] Education
- Joseph Aoun - President of Northeastern University
[edit] Journalism
- May Chidiac - television journalist
- Marcel Ghanem - television journalist
- Octavia Nasr - former television journalist for CNN
[edit] Military
- Jean Kahwaji - army commander
- Samir El-Khadem - former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian
- Ashraf Rifi- Police commander
- Nizar Khalil-The Presient of the Lebanese Military Court
[edit] Religion
[edit] Religious figures
- Estephan El Douaihy - Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704)
- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - Shiite cleric (1935–2010)
- Elias Peter Hoayek - Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931)
- Anthony Peter Khoraish - Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986)
- Musa al-Sadr - Shiite religious leader
- Mufti Hassan khalid-sunni cleric
[edit] Roman Catholic Popes
[edit] Saints
[edit] Politicians
See also: Politics of Lebanon
[edit] Presidents of Lebanon
- 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)
- Petro Trad - former President (1943)
[edit] Prime Ministers of Lebanon
- Michel Aoun - former Prime Minister
- Najib Mikati - current Prime Minister
- Petro Trad - former President (1943)
- Amin al-Hafez - former Prime Minister
- Selim al-Hoss - former Prime Minister
- Omar Karami - former Prime Minister
- Rashid Karami - former Prime Minister
- Saeb 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
- Rafiq Hariri-former prime minister assassinated feb 14 2005
- Saad Rafiq Hariri-former prime minister
[edit] Speakers of Parliament
- Nabih Berri - Present Speaker of Parliament
- Kamel Asaad - Speaker of Parliament
- Sabri Hamadé - Speaker of Parliament
- Hussein el-Husseini - Speaker of Parliament
- Adel Osseiran - Speaker of Parliament
[edit] Ministers, deputees and politicians
- Michel Aoun - former Prime Minister, former army commander, Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement
- Emir Majid Arslan II - a Lebanese independence figure
- Prince Talal Arslan - leader of the Druze Lebanese Democratic Party
- Gebran Bassil - minister, Free Patriotic Movement
- Dany Chamoun - former National Liberal Party leader
- Dory Chamoun - leader of National Liberal Party
- 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 Progressive Socialist Party
- Charles Malik - former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Nayla Moawad - politician
- Elias Murr - former Deputy Prime Minister
- Michel Murr - politician and former Deputy Prime Minister
- Hassan Nasrallah - leader of Hezbollah
- Habib Sadek - former politician, writer
- Gebran Tueni - journalist and deputee
- Salim Wardeh - Minister of Culture
- Saad Rafiq Hariri-leader of future movement
[edit] Other political personalities
[edit] Sciences
[edit] Medicine
- Sami Ibrahim Haddad - physician, surgeon and writer
- Afif Abdul Wahab - surgeon
[edit] Scientists
- Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah - Lebanese-American technology innovator[7][8]
- Edgar Choueiri - Pastronomer and professor
- Charles Elachi - astronomer
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - philosopher, researcher, and veteran practitioner of financial mathematics[9]
[edit] Sports personalities
[edit] Athletes
- Samir Bannout - IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Maxime Chaya - Extreme sports athlete
- Zakaria Chibab - first Lebanese Olympic medal winner
[edit] Automobile racing
- Khalil Beschir - professional race car driver
[edit] Basketball
- Rony Fahed - basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
- Matt Freije - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
- Fadi El Khatib - basketball player and captain of Lebanon's national team
- Ali Mahmoud - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
- Elie Mechantaf - former basketball player and former captain of Lebanon's national team
- Rony Seikaly - former Lebanese-American professional basketball player
- Joe Vogel - professional basketall player and returning member of Lebanon's national team
- Jackson Vroman - professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
- Omar turk- professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
- Ali Mahmoud- professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
[edit] Ice Hockey
- Ed Hatoum - former professional hockey player for the (Vancouver Canucks)
- Nazem Kadri - professional hockey player for the (Toronto Maple Leafs)
[edit] Playing card tournament titleholders
- Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
- Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha - two-time WSOP-bracelet winner
- Joseph 'Joe' Hachem - the winner of 2005 WSOP Main event
[edit] Soccer/Football
- Faisal Antar - football (soccer) player
- Roda Antar - professional soccer player
- Youssef Mohamad - first ever Middle-Eastern professional soccer captain in the German Bundesliga
- Mohammed Ghaddar - professional soccer player in Syria
- Wartan Ghazarian - soccer player
- Pierre Issa - Lebanese-South African soccer player
- Jamal Taha - former soccer player
[edit] Writers
- Elia Abu Madi - poet
- Maroun Abboud - poet, writer
- Said Akl - poet, writer,
- Butrus al-Bustani - writer, scholar
- Fawaz Gerges - university professor and author
- Ounsi el-Hajj - poet
- Elia Abu Madi - poet, publisher
- Khalil Gibran - artist, author, philosopher, theologian.[10]
- Elias Khoury - novelist, playwright
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata - writer
- Amin Maalouf - novelist
- May Murr - author
- Khalil Mutran - poet, journalist
- Mikha'il Na'ima - author and poet
- Amin al-Rihani - author
- Alain Tasso - poet, essayist
- May Ziade - poet, essayist
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Roger Achkar - engineer and author
- Jean-Marc Aractingi - engineer, diplomat and author
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Lebanese abroad >> archive". Today's Outlook Magazine. http://www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/archive/index_us2.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-13.
- ^ Roop, Peter; Sam Schultz, Margaret J. Goldstein (2005). Lebanon in Pictures. Twenty-First Century Books. pp. 71. ISBN 0822511711.
- ^ "K-maro - The Million Dollar Boy". Today's Outlook Magazine. December 2005. http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:jPhHNnwtCRIJ:www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/thisissue/index.htm+K-maro+lebanese&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us.
- ^ "Karl Wolf - Face Behind the Face...man behind the album". Today's Outlook Magazine. December 2006. http://www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/thisissue/index.htm.
- ^ Caiger, Andrew; Simon Gardiner (2000). Professional sport in the European Union: Regulation and re-regulation. Cambridge University Press. pp. 95. ISBN 9067041262.
- ^ a b c d e Popes of Lebanese Phoenician and Eastern Origin from www.opuslibani.org.lb
- ^ http://www.starsofscience.com/phase-2/temps/arab_inventors.asp
- ^ http://publicweb.unimap.edu.my/~ptrpi/v1/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=36&Itemid=248
- ^ Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page
- ^ "Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)", biography at Cornell University library on-line site, retrieved December 3, 2008
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