List of Lebanese people

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

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

Activists

Arts and entertainment

Beauty pageant winners

Dancers

Fashion designers

Film, television, and radio personalities

Food & drink

Models and Internet personalities

Singers, composers, and musicians

Theatre

  • 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

Writers and poets

Architecture

Business

Education

Journalism

Military

Religion

A series of Catholic popes from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin)[8] include: Pope Anicetus, Pope Constantine, Pope Gregory III, Pope Sergius I and Pope Sisinnius.

Religious personalities

Maronite patriarchs

Muslim scholars

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

Politicians

Presidents of Lebanon

Politicians in other countries

Speakers of Parliament

Prime Ministers of Lebanon

Political personalities

Other political personalities

Sciences

Medicine

Psychiatry

Archeology

Astronomy

Biology

Chemistry and materials science

Computing and engineering

Physics

Sports personalities

Athletes

American/Canadian football

Automobile racing

Baseball

  • Joe Lahoud – Lebanese-American retired baseball player who played in the Major Leagues for over 11 years for five different teams (Boston Red Sox, California Angels, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers and the Kansas City Royals). His two sons, Joe Jr. and Nick Lahoud, played Minor League Baseball.

Basketball

Ice hockey

Playing card tournament titleholders

Football

Skiing

Rugby league

Rugby Union

See also

References

  1. A Dove of Peace from the Mountains of Lebanon
  2. Hostage to Injustice
  3. Naim Attallah Online
  4. Steinhauer, Jennifer (6 January 2014). "From Petraeus Scandal, an Apostle for Privacy". The New York Times.
  5. "A booming trade". The Economist. 31 August 2013.
  6. "Judge may allow privacy suit over Petraeus case leaks". Politico. 23 May 2014.
  7. Caiger, Andrew; Simon Gardiner (7 March 2001). Professional sport in the European Union: Regulation and re-regulation. Cambridge University Press. p. 95. ISBN 90-6704-126-2.
  8. Popes of Lebanese Phoenician and Eastern Origin from www.opuslibani.org.lb Archived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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