List of Lebanese people in the United Kingdom

This is a list of notable British people with Lebanese ancestry or Lebanese people who have dual Lebanese and British nationality who live or lived in the United Kingdom.

Actors

• Omar Baroud - actor of Curaçao-Lebanese heritage
• Nadim Naaman - actor, singer, playwright, composer
• Taz Skylar - actor and writer
• Samia Smith - actress
• Sean Yazbeck - winner of the fifth season (2006) of Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice

Athletes

• Sandy Abi-Elias - footballer
• Jed Chouman - footballer
• Cyrus Christie - footballer
• Hady Ghandour - footballer
• Tarek Haffar - rugby union player
• Majed Osman - footballer

Businesspeople

• Assaad Razzouk - CEO of GurÄ«n, clean-energy entrepreneur, author, podcaster, commentator, married to British-Lebanese journalist Roula Khalaf
• Marlon Abela - columnist, businessman, restaurateur, and the founder and chairman of the Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation (MARC), a privately owned international hospitality company based in Mayfair, London.
• Samir Assaf - CEO of HSBC investment
• Johnny Boufarhat - businessman
• Samir Brikho - Businessman
• Ely Calil - Businessman
• Camille F Chamoun - Businessman, Life Coach and Founding member of the Lebanese community of Kingston-Upon-Hull.
• Lawrence Haddad, economist, Lebanese parents
• Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C.
• Leila Hoteit, businesswoman

Entertainment

• Alex Garland - writer, filmmaker, director and grandson of Peter Medawar
• Big Zuu - rapper, songwriter, presenter, and grime artist of half Lebanese and half Sierra Leonean descent
• Dom Joly - comedian, columnist and broadcaster
• Esther Manito, comedian

Musicians

• Al Bowlly - Dance Band singer
• Bushra El-Turk - composer
• Mika - musician and songwriter
• Sarbel - Lebanese-British-Cypriot singer

Scientists

• Michael Atiyah - British-Lebanese mathematician
• Peter Medawar - British scientist of Lebanese origin, 1960 Nobel Prize winner for work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance
• Caleb Saleeby - British-Lebanese physician, writer, and journalist known for his support of eugenics. During World War I, he was an adviser to the Minister of Food and advocated the establishment of a Ministry of Health.

Writers

• Roula Khalaf - editor of the Financial Times and married to Assaad Razzouk
• Nasri Atallah - author, publisher, media analyst
• Nader El-Bizri - philosopher, architectural theorist
• Sabine Getty - socialite and contributor to Tatler
• Saleem Haddad - author
• Albert Hourani - historian
• George Hourani - philosopher and historian
• Michael Karam - journalist, author, wine writer
• Naeem Murr - novelist and short story writer
• Anbara Salam - author

Other

• Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin) - lawyer
• Oliver Cooper - Conservative politician
• Gabriel Coury - recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
• Anissa Helou - chef, teacher, and author
• Marwan Kaabour - graphic designer, artist and editor
• Lina Khatib - academic
• Philip Khoury - Australian plant-based pastry chef at Harrods
• Nadine Merabi - fashion designer

See also

• Lebanese people in the United Kingdom
• List of Lebanese people
• Lists of Lebanese diaspora

References