List of Lebanese people

This is a list of individuals born and residing mainly in Lebanon.

Lebanese expatriates residing overseas and possessing Lebanese citizenship are also included.

Activists

• Jill Kelley – advocate, socialite, and former diplomat
• Sandra Melhem – LGBT rights activist
• Aya Mouallem (born 1998) – electrical engineer, and gender equality activist
• Rose Shahfa (1890–6 August 1955) – women's rights activist

Architecture

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

Business

• Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Samir Brikho – businessman, Chief Executive of AMEC
• Ali Youssef Charara (living) – businessman and financier
• Walid Daouk – businessman and politician
• Ralph Debbas – automotive executive
• Salah Ezzedine – businessman arrested for running a pyramid scheme
• Carlos Ghosn – former CEO of Michelin North America, former chairman and CEO of Renault, former chairman of AvtoVAZ, former chairman and CEO of Nissan, and former chairman of Mitsubishi Motors
• Sam Hammam – former owner and president of Cardiff City F.C.
• Hind Hariri (born 1984) – entrepreneur, billionaire
• Nicolas Hayek – former owner of Swatch Group
• Ziad Raphael Nassar – celebrity wedding designer and entrepreneur, owner of Ziad Rapahel Nassar holding.
• Carlos Slim – investor, formerly the richest person in the world
• Philippe Ziade – entrepreneur, owner, and CEO of Growth Holdings

Beauty pageant winners

• Yasmina Zaytoun - Miss Lebanon 2024
• Dina Azar – Miss Lebanon 1995
• Joëlle Behlock – Miss Lebanon 1997
• Valerie Abou Chacra – Miss Lebanon 2015
• Jihane Almira Chedid – Puteri Indonesia Pariwisata 2020, Miss Supranational Asia 2021
• Rina Chibany – Miss Lebanon 2012
• Rima Fakih – Miss USA 2010
• Sonia Fares – Miss Lebanon 1969
• Lamitta Frangieh – Miss World Lebanon 2004
• Karen Ghrawi – Miss Lebanon 2013
• Saly Greige – Miss Lebanon 2014
• Perla Helou – Miss Lebanon 2017
• Annabella Hilal – Miss World Lebanon 2006
• Dominique Hourani – Miss Intercontinental 2003
• Bethany Kehdy – Miss World Lebanon 2001
• Nadine Wilson Njeim – Miss Lebanon 2007
• Nadine Nassib Njeim – Miss Lebanon 2004
• Gabrielle Bou Rached – Miss Lebanon 2005
• Daniella Rahme – Miss International Lebanon 2010
• Maya Reaidy – Miss Lebanon 2018
• Georgina Rizk – Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971
• Pamela Saadé – Miss Earth Lebanon 2008
• Christina Sawaya – Miss Lebanon 2001/Miss International 2002
• Marlène Talih – Miss Lebanon 1966
• Rosarita Tawil – Miss Lebanon 2008

Dancers

• Mousbah Baalbaki – belly dancer
• Dany Bustros (1959 – 1998) belly dancer, socialite, stage actress
• Alissar Caracalla (born 1974) – dance instructor, choreographer and art director
• Pierre Khadra – dancer, choreographer, and director
• The Mayyas – all-female alternative precision dance group
• Alexandre Paulikevitch – dancer, civil rights activist

Fashion designers

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

Writers and poets

• Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883) – writer and scholar
• Salima Abi Rashed (1887–1919) – first Lebanese woman lawyer, journalist
• Maroun Abboud (1886–1962) – poet and writer
• Elia Abu Madi (1890–1957) – poet
• Said Akl (1912–2014) – poet, writer, and thinker
• Jeanne Arcache (1902–1961) – Francophone poet and novelist
• Zeina Hashem Beck – poet
• Nader El-Bizri (living) – philosopher and architect
• Andrée Chedid (1920–2011) – Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent
• Nayla Chidiac (born 1966) – French-Lebanese clinical psychologist, poet and essayist
• Michel Chiha (1891–1954) – writer, journalist, banker
• Alexandra Chreiteh (born 1987) – writer
• Fawaz Gerges (born 1958) – academic and author
• Mai Ghoussoub (1952–2007) – writer, publisher, human rights activist
• Zaynab Fawwaz (1860–1914) – poet, historian, women's rights activist
• Hedy Habra – Lebanese-American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor
• Joumana Haddad (born 1970) – writer and feminist
• Ounsi el-Hajj (1937–2014) – poet
• Salma Hage (born 1942) – writer and cook
• Labiba Hashim (1882–1952) – pioneer woman writer and journalist
• Jad Hatem (born 1952) – philosopher and poet
• Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) – artist, author and poet
• Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897–1986) – writer, translator, women's emancipation activist
• Elias Khoury (born 1948) – novelist and playwright
• Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937–2026) – poet and writer
• Emily Fares Ibrahim (born 1914) – writer, feminist
• Amin Maalouf (born 1949) – novelist
• Mago (agricultural writer) – Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic
• Esther Moyal (1874–1947) – writer and women's rights activist
• May Murr (1929–2008) – academic, writer and activist
• Jacqueline Massabki (died 2015) – writer and lawyer
• Khalil Mutran (1872–1949) – poet and journalist
• Mikha'il Na'ima (1889–1988) – religious author and poet
• Emily Nasrallah (1931–2018) – novelist, activist
• Amin al-Rihani (1876–1940) – writer and politician
• Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) – writer and feminist
• Georges Schéhadé (1905–1989) – Francophone playwright and poet
• Laurice Schehadé (1908–2009) – novelist and poet
• Hanan al-Shaykh – writer
• Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1806–1887) – scholar, writer and journalist
• Avraham Sinai (born 1962) – religious writer
• Gabriel Sionita (1577–1648) – Maronite writer and publisher
• Amine Takiedine (1884–1937) – poet and writer
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) – author
• Nadia Tueni (1935–1983) – poet
• Ibrahim al-Yaziji (1847–1906) – philosopher, philologist, poet and journalist
• Nasif al-Yaziji (1800–1871) – author
• Warda al-Yaziji (1838–1924) – poet
• Iman Humaydan Younes (born 1956) – writer, researcher and creative writing professor
• Rania Zaghir (born 1977) – children's author
• Nazira Zain al-Din (1908–1976) – literary critic and women's emancipation activist
• May Ziadeh (1886–1941) – poet, essayist, and women's emancipation activist
• Jurji Zaydan (1861–1914) – writer and novelist, journalist

Film, television, and radio personalities

• Borhane Alaouié – film director
• Philippe Aractingi – Lebanese-French film director
• Maysa Assaf – television presenter
• Jihad Al-Atrash – actor
• Maroun Bagdadi – film director
• Hisham Bizri – film director
• Rowan Blanchard – American actress
• Maguy Bou Ghosn – actress
• Lucien Bourjeily – film and theater director, playwright, political activist
• Bassem Breish – film director
• Takla Chamoun – actress
• Ely Dagher – film director
• Sami Daher – actor
• Jean Daoud – film director
• George Diab – actor
• Ziad Doueiri – film director
• Imad Feghaly – actor
• Lamitta Frangieh – actress
• Daizy Gedeon – Australian-Lebanese filmmaker
• Marcel Ghanem – television anchor
• Renee Ghosh – actress
• Claude Habib – fine art artist/collection artist in Paul Valéry Museum
• Micheline Habib – author/educator
• Dan Haddad – film director
• Abdo Hakim – actor
• Hasan Hamdan – actor
• Jamal Hamdan – actor
• Saad Hamdan – actor
• Darine Hamze – actress, director, and producer
• Razane Jammal – British-Lebanese actress, model, and singer
• Julia Kassar – actress
• Sarah Khan – actress
• Noor Zafar Khan – actress
• 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
• Arsinée Khanjian – actress of Lebanese-Armenian origin
• Louay Khraish – writer and producer
• Nadine Labaki – film director
• Samir Maalouf – actor
• Toni Maalouf – actor
• Julian Maroun - actor and producer
• 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
• Jeanine Pirro – television personality and author
• 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
• Faissal Sam Shaib – writer and producer
• Mira Shaib – writer and director
• Naji Shamil – actor
• Omar Al-Shammaa – actor
• Omar Sharif – actor
• Haaz Sleiman – television and film actor
• Rosie Al-Yaziji – actress
• Ali Al-Zein – actor
• Jamie Farr – actor

Food and drink

• Tara Khattar – chef and writer

Models and Internet personalities

• Annabella Hillal – TV presenter
• Mia Khalifa – internet personality, former pornographic actress and webcam model
• Myriam Klink – model and entertainer

Singers, composers, and musicians

• Nancy Ajram – singer, actress
• Ragheb Alama – singer
• Ramy Ayach – singer and composer
• Julia Boutros – singer
• Sami Clark – singer
• Elissa – singer, actress
• Fairuz – singer
• Blu Fiefer – (born 1992) – singer-songwriter
• Assi El Hallani – singer, actor
• Maher Jah (born 1990) – singer-songwriter
• Najwa Karam – singer, actress
• Wael Kfoury – singer
• Marcel Khalife – singer and composer
• Massari – singer
• 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
• Carole Samaha – singer
• Nasri Shamseddine – singer
• Hamed Sinno – singer-songwriter
• Walid Toufic – singer
• Maya Yazbek – singer
• Melhem Zein – singer
• Nawal Al Zoghbi – singer, actress

Theatre

• Alaa Minawi (born 1982) – Palestinian-Lebanese-Dutch multidisciplinary artist, lecturer
• Dayna Ash – poet, cultural activist
• Hassan Alaa Eddin – commonly known as Chouchou or Shoushou, actor, comedian
• Jalal Khoury – playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor

Visual artists

• Reine Abbas – video game designer and artist
• Shafic Abboud (1926 – 2004) – painter
• Douglas Abdell – sculptor
• Samir Abi Rashed (born 1947) – painter
• Etel Adnan – painter, poet
• Jorge Adoum (1897–1958) – painter
• Krikor Agopian – painter
• Faouzi Al-Kach – artist
• Georges Akl – painter
• Joseph Assaf – sculptor
• Christina Assi - photojournalist
• Zena Assi – multidisciplinary artist
• Ayman Baalbaki (born 1975) – visual artist
• Ghazi Baker (born 1967) – painter
• Maha Bayrakdar (born 1947) – painter and poet
• Kiki Bokassa – visual artist
• Chaouki Chamoun – painter
• Rafic Charaf (1932–2003) – painter
• Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916–2017) – painter and sculptor
• Daoud Corm (1852–1930) – painter
• David Daoud (born 1970) – painter
• Derrie Fakhoury (1930–2015) – painter
• Moustafa Farroukh – painter
• Simone Fattal (born 1942) – artist
• Chucrallah Fattouh – painter
• Chawky Frenn – painter and art professor
• César Gemayel – painter
• Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) – writer, poet and visual artist
• Paul Guiragossian (1926–1993) – painter
• Youssef Howayek (1883–1962) – sculptor and painter
• Lamia Joreige – visual artist and filmmaker
• Nabil Kanso (1940–2019) – Lebanese-American painter
• Nadim Karam (born 1957) – artist
• Helen Khal (1923–2009) – Lebanese-American artist
• Zena El Khalil (born 1976) – Lebanese artist, writer, and activist
• Layal Khawly – visual artist and painter
• Yolande Labaki (born 1927) – landscape painter
• Hussein Madi (born 1938) – painter, sculptor and printmaker
• Jamil Molaeb (born 1948) – artist
• Farid Mansour (1929–2010) – painter and sculptor
• Nabil Nahas (born 1949) – painter
• Wajih Nahlé (1932–2017) – painter and calligrapher
• Omar Onsi (1901–1969) – painter
• Walid Raad – artist
• Mohammad Rawas (born 1951) – painter and printmaker
• Aref El-Rayess (1928–2005) – painter
• Pierre Sadek (1938–2013) – caricaturist
• Samir Sammoun (born 1952) – artist and engineer
• Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui (born 1945) – painter, writer
• Hanibal Srouji (born 1957) – painter
• Lidya Tchakerian (born 1959) – artist
• Akram Zaatari – filmmaker, photographer, artist and curator
• Salwa Zeidan – artist, sculptor and curator
• Bibi Zogbé (1890–1973) – Lebanese-born painter based in Buenos Aires

Education

• Nazek Abou Alwan Abed – Educator and writer
• Joseph E. Aoun – President of Northeastern University
• Nora Bayrakdarian – professor of international relations
• Alberto Bustani – former president of Monterrey Campus of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
• Claude Habib – fine art artist/collection artist in Paul Valéry Museum
• Micheline Habib – author/educator
• Gabriel Hawawini – former Head and Dean of INSEAD

Journalism

• Jad Al-Akhaoui – television and newspaper journalist
• Helen Thomas - journalist, White House Press Reporter and First Female member of the Gridiron Gang
• May Chidiac – television journalist
• Daizy Gedeon – former deputy foreign editor and first female sports journalist (The Australian)
• Marcel Ghanem – television journalist
• Adnan Al Kakoun – journalist/producer/director
• Octavia Nasr – former television journalist for CNN
• Ramzi Najjar – journalist and author
• Gebran Tueni – founder of An-Nahar
• Gebran Ghassan Tueni – journalist and politician
• Ghassan Tueni – journalist, politician and diplomat
• Nayla Tueni (born 1982) – journalist and politician
• Paula Yacoubian – television journalist and politician
• George Yammine – literature and arts critic of An-Nahar
• Philippe Ziade – journalist

Military

• Joseph Aoun – army commander and president of Lebanon since 9 January 2025
• Emile Boustany – former army commander
• Jean Kahwaji – former army commander
• Samir El-Khadem – former commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian
• Émile Lahoud – former army commander
• Jamil Al Sayyed – former Lebanese General Security Director
• Wafiq Jizzini – former Lebanese General Security Director
• Abbas Ibrahim – former Lebanese General Security Director
• Jean Njeim – former army commander
• Ibrahim Tannous – former army commander

Religion

A series of Catholic popes from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin) include: Pope Anicetus, Pope Constantine, Pope Gregory III, Pope Sergius I and Pope Sisinnius.

Religious personalities

Maronite patriarchs

• Estephan El Douaihy – former Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704)
• Elias Peter Hoayek – former Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931)
• Anthony Peter Khoraish – former Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986)
• Bechara Boutros al-Rahi – Maronite Patriarch (2011–)
• Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir – former Maronite Patriarch (1986–2011)

Muslim scholars

• AbÅ« Ê¿Amr Ê¿Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ê¿Amr al-ʾAwzāʿī () (707–774)
• Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader
• Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili – Shi'a scholar (1334–1385)
• (1465–1534) – Shiite scholar who was a member of the Safavid court
• Al-Hurr al-Aamili – muhaddith and a prominent Twelver Shi'a scholar (1624–1693)
• Bahāʾ al-dÄ«n al-ʿĀmilÄ« – Shi'a Islamic scholar (1547–1621)
• Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – Shiite cleric (1935–2010)
• Hassan Khaled – Sunni cleric, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic (1966–1989)

Others

• Aram I Keshishian – Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, See of the Great House of Cilicia (in Antelias, Lebanon)
• Salim Ghazal – Melkite Greek Catholic bishop (1931–2011)

Saints

• Charbel Makhlouf
• Nimatullah Kassab
• Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
• Raphael Hawawini

Politicians

Presidents of Lebanon

• Michel Aoun – former president (2016–2022)
• Camille Chamoun – former president (1952–1958)
• Fuad Chehab – former president (1958–1964)
• Émile Eddé – former president (1936–1941)
• Suleiman Frangieh – former president (1970–1976)
• Amine Gemayel – former president (1982–1988)
• Bachir Gemayel – former president-elect (1982-murdered)
• Charles Helou – former president (1964–1970)
• Elias Hrawi – former president (1989–1998)
• Bechara El Khoury – former president (1943–1952)
• Émile Jamil Lahoud – former president (1998–2007)
• René Moawad – former president (1989-murdered)
• Elias Sarkis – former president (1976–1982)
• Michel Sleiman – former president (2008–2014)
• Petro Trad – former president (1943)

Politicians in other countries

• Luis Abinader – President of the Dominican Republic (2020–Present)
• Mario Abdo Benítez – President of Paraguay (2018–2023)
• Geraldo Alckmin – Vice President of Brazil (2023–Present)
• Abdalá Bucaram – former president of Ecuador (1996–1997)
• Jamil Mahuad – former president of Ecuador (1998–2000)
• Julio Teodoro Salem – former president of Ecuador (1944)
• Michel Temer – former president of Brazil (2016–2018)
• Julio César Turbay Ayala – former president of Colombia (1978–1982)

Speakers of Parliament

• Nabih Berri – Camper on his seats since 1992 (30 years)
• Kamel Asaad – former Speaker of Parliament
• Sabri Hamadé – former Speaker of Parliament
• Hussein el-Husseini – former Speaker of Parliament
• Adel Osseiran – former Speaker of Parliament

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
• Chafic Al Wazzan – former prime minister
• Hussain Alouieni – former prime minister
• Omar Karami – former prime minister
• Hassan Diab – former prime minister

Political personalities

• Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (born 1951) - communist militant serving a life sentence for complicity in murder
• Emir Majid Arslan – independence leader
• Prince Talal Arslan – Druze leader and president of the Lebanese Democratic Party
• Raymond Baaklini – (1943–2013) Lebanese ambassador to Canada
• 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
• Jad Demian – head of the Lebanese Forces Youth Association
• Carlos Edde – politician
• Raymond Edde – politician, former leader of National Bloc
• Juliette Elmir – nurse and political activist
• 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
• Fadi Frem - former leader of the Lebanese Forces
• Fouad Abou Nader - former leader of the Lebanese Forces
• Elie Hobeika - former leader of the Lebanese Forces
• Marwan Hamadeh – former minister (6 times) and part of the Lebanese Parliament since 1992, politician and influential presence
• 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
• Talal El Merhebi – politician and former deputy and minister, leader of Akkar area
• 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
• Abbas al-Musawi (1952–1992) - secretary-general of Hezbollah
• Hassan Nasrallah (1960–2024) – leader of Hezbollah
• Ali Hussein Nassif (d. 2012) - politician and high-ranking founding member of Hezbollah
• Salim Saadeh – economist and politician
• Habib Sadek – former politician, writer
• Violette Khairallah Safadi (born 1981) – politician, television personality and social activist
• Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed (born 1960) - Head of the Political Council of Hezbollah
• Gebran Tueni – journalist and deputy

Other political personalities

• Alain Aoun – nephew of former president Michel Aoun
• Joyce Gemayel – former first lady and political activist
• Ghassan Tueni – diplomat, politician and journalist

Sciences

Medicine

• Afif Abdul Wahab – surgeon
• Amin J. Barakat – Lebanese-American physician known for the diagnosis Barakat syndrome
• Anthony Atala – American Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• Edma Abouchdid – physician; first Lebanese woman to obtain a doctorate of medicine
• Sami Ibrahim Haddad – physician, surgeon and writer
• Michael Debakey – Lebanese-American Cardiovascular Surgeon who pioneered many surgical techniques and procedures
• Saniya Habboub – medical doctor known for being the first Lebanese woman to study medicine abroad
• Ali A Haydar – physician who is an emeritus professor at the American University of Beirut
• Israa Seblani – Lebanese-American physician and endocrinologist
• Afif Abdul Wahab – medical doctor, general surgeon and urologist
• Michael DeBakey – American vascular surgeon and cardiac surgeon
• Emile Riachi – orthopaedic surgeon
• Fuad Sami Haddad – neurosurgeon, humanitarian, and writer
• Sami A. Sanjad – Lebanese-American pediatrician
• Tony Nader – neuroscientist, university president, author and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement.
• Farid Fata – hematologist/oncologist and the mastermind of one of the largest health care frauds in U.S. history.
• Nabil F. Saba – American oncologist and professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine
• Elias I. Traboulsi – physician in the fields of ophthalmic genetics and pediatric ophthalmology
• Toni Choueiri – Lebanese American medical oncologist and researcher
• Naji Abumrad – Lebanese-American surgeon

Psychiatry

• Aziz al-Abub – psychiatrist and medical torture expert affiliated with Hezbollah
• Hagop S. Akiskal – Lebanese-born American psychiatrist and professor

Scientists

Metry Bacila - Medical doctor and biochemistry cientist, Lebanese, Egyptian and Palestinian descendent, born in Brazil

Archeology

• Maurice Chehab – archaeologist and museum curator, father of "modern Lebanese archaeology"
• George El Andary – researcher in archaeology, museums and manuscripts
• Leila Badre – director of the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut
• Maya Haïdar Boustani – archaeologist and curator of the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory
• Assaad Seif – archaeologist and associate professor in archaeology at the Lebanese University

Astronomy

• Charles Elachi – astronomer and professor of electrical engineering, former director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech
• Doris Daou – Director for Education and Public Outreach of the NASA Lunar Science Institute

Biology

• Pierre Zalloua – biologist and researcher
• M. Amin Arnaout – nephrologist best known for seminal discoveries in the biology and structure of integrin receptors.
• Myrna T. Semaan – botanist, notable for identifying a number of new plant species in Lebanon with Ricardius M. Haber.
• Asmar Asmar – specialization in cardiology
• Huda Zoghbi – Lebanese-born American geneticist
• Jack Makari – Lebanese-American cancer immunologist
• Justine Sergent – researcher in the cognitive neuroscience field

Chemistry and materials science

• Niveen Khashab – chemist and professor known for her contributions in the field of drugs and Chemistry, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards laureate
• Hassan Naim – Lebanese-Swiss biochemist
• Mona Nemer – Lebanese-Canadian biochemist
• Najat A. Saliba – professor of analytical chemistry and an atmospheric chemist at the American University of Beirut
• Ziad Rafiq Beydoun – petroleum geologist and emeritus Professor at the American University of Beirut
• George Doumani – Lebanese Palestinian geologist and explorer

Computing and engineering

• Mario El-Khoury – Lebanese-Swiss engineer and business executive
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – Lebanese-American electrical and electronic engineer and technology innovator known for receiving 43 patents in television transmission
• Nadim Kobeissi – French-Lebanese computer science researcher specialized in applied cryptography

Physics

• Ali Chamseddine – physicist known for his contributions in particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics
• Edgar Choueiri – Lebanese-American physicist known for his work on Plasma propulsion engine and for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts
• Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist
• Ani Aprahamian – Lebanese-born Armenian-American nuclear physicist
• Eid Hourany – French-Lebanese nuclear physicist
• Hassan Khachfe – innovator, researcher and professor
• Salwa Nassar – nuclear physicist and college administrator known for being the first Lebanese woman to earn a PhD in physics
• Bahāʾ al-dÄ«n al-ʿĀmilÄ« – Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet
• Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist
• Ghassan Afiouni – inventor, developed a kind of compressed wood that cannot be burned

Sports personalities

Athletes

• Samir Bannout – Lebanese-American professional bodybuilder who won the prestigious Mr. Olympia competition in 1983. Nicknamed the "Lion of Lebanon"
• Maxime Chaya – extreme sports athlete
• Zakaria Chihab – sportsman and Olympian
• Nabil Choueiri – track and field athlete and Olympian
• Maya Nassar – Dutch-Lebanese fitness model
• Jalal Bazzaz – known for his involvement in the Lebanese national team during the Rugby world cup. He also drives a c35 laurel

American/Canadian football

• David Azzi – football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL)

Automobile racing

• Khalil Beschir – professional race car driver
• Tony Kanaan – Brazilian professional race car driver
• Noel Jammal – Lebanese-Spanish professional race car driver
• Felipe Nasr – Brazilian professional race car driver
• Graham Rahal – American professional race car driver
• Toni Breidinger – American professional race car driver

Baseball

• Joe Lahoud – Lebanese-American retired Major League baseball player for over 11 years

Basketball

• Ramy Akiki – basketball player
• Wael Arakji – basketball player
• Rony Fahed – basketball player
• Matt Freije – Lebanese-American basketball player
• Fadi El Khatib – basketball player
• Ali Mahmoud – Lebanese-Canadian basketball player
• Elie Mechantaf – basketball player
• Bashir Saad – professional basketball player
• Rony Seikaly – Lebanese-American professional basketball player
• Joe Vogel – American-Lebanese professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team
• Jackson Vroman – American-born Lebanese professional basketball player and member of Lebanon's national team

Ice hockey

• Ed Hatoum – Lebanese-born Canadian former professional hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks
• Nazem Kadri – Canadian professional hockey player for the Calgary Flames
• Alain Nasreddine – Canadian former professional hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins

Football

• Faisal Antar – football player
• Roda Antar – football player
• Mohammed Ghaddar – football player in Syria
• Wartan Ghazarian – football player of Armenian origin
• Moussa Hojeij – football player/manager
• Youssef Mohamad – football player in Germany
• Soony Saad – football player
• Jamal Taha – football player
• Claudio Husaín – football player of Argentina

Playing card tournament titleholders

• Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb
• Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha
• Joseph 'Joe' Hachem - Lebanese-Australian

Rugby league

• Hazem El Masri – Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs player and highest NRL point scorer
• Anthony Farah – hooker for the West Tigers in the New South Wales Cup
• Robbie Farah - former NRL player, most notably for the Wests Tigers
• Tim Mannah - former NRL player for the Parramatta Eels
• Mitchell Moses - current NRL player for the Parramatta Eels
• Jacob Kiraz - current NRL player for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
• Adam Doueihi - current NRL player for the Wests Tigers
• Josh Mansour - former NRL player, most notably for the Penrith Panthers
• David Bayssari - former NRL player for the Wests Tigers and coach of the Lebanese national team
• Benny Elias - former NRL player for the Balmain Tigers who is an inductee in the National Rugby League Hall of Fame

Rugby Union

• Ahmad Harajly – American World Rugby Sevens Series USA Rugby player and first Arab American rugby athlete to represent the US; professional athlete for Major League Rugby for the New England Free Jacks

Skiing

• Ibrahim Jaja

See also

• Lebanese diaspora
• List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)

References