List of Lebanese people

This is a list of

Activists

• Lydia Canaan – activist, advocate, public speaker, and United Nations delegate^[1][2][3]
• Jill Kelley – advocate, socialite, and former diplomat^[4][5][6]
• 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

Arts and entertainment

Beauty pageant winners

• 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

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
• 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
• Nadine Labaki – film director
• Samir Maalouf – actor
• Toni Maalouf – actor
• 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
• 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

• Elissa – singer, actress
• Nancy Ajram – singer, actress
• Ragheb Alama – singer
• Ramy Ayach – singer and composer
• Julia Boutros – singer
• Sami Clark – singer
• Djsky – electronic musician
• Fairuz – singer
• 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
• Melhem Zein – singer
• Nawal Al Zoghbi
  – singer, actress

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

• 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
• 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

Writers and poets

• 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
• Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883) – writer and scholar
• Andrée Chedid (1920–2011) – Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent
• Michel Chiha (1891–1954) – writer, journalist, banker
• Alexandra Chreiteh (born 1987) – writer
• Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer and businessman
• 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 (born 1937) – 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
• Maronite
  writer and publisher
• Amine Takiedine (1884–1937) – poet and writer
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) – author
• Nadia Tueni (1935–1983) – poet
• 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
• Nayla Chidiac (born 1966) French-Lebanese clinical psychologist, poet and essayist

Architecture

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

Business

• Samir Brikho – businessman, Chief Executive of AMEC
• Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer, industrialist
• Walid Daouk – businessman and politician
• Ralph Debbas – automotive executive
• 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.^{[7] [8]}
• Hind Hariri (born 1984) – entrepreneur, billionaire
• Nicolas Hayek – former owner of Swatch Group ^[9]
• Ziad Raphael Nassar – celebrity wedding designer and entrepreneur, owner of Ziad Rapahel Nassar holding.
• richest person in the world
• Philippe Ziade – entrepreneur, owner and CEO of Growth Holdings

Education

• 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
• Gabriel Hawawini – former Head and Dean of INSEAD

Journalism

• Jad Al-Akhaoui – television and newspaper journalist
• 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

• 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 – Lebanese General Security Director
• Jean Njeim – former army commander
• Ibrahim Tannous – former army commander
• Joseph Aoun – army commander

Religion

A series of Catholic popes from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin)^[10] 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

• Arabic
  : أبو عمرو عبدُ الرحمٰن بن عمرو الأوزاعي) (707–774)
• Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader
• Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili
  – Shi'a scholar (1334–1385)
• Nur-al-Din al-Karaki al-ʿĀmilī (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-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
  – 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

• Marwan Hamadeh – former minister (6 times) and part of the Lebanese Parliament since 1992, politician and influential presence
• Emir Majid Arslan – 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
• 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
• Omar Meskawi – lawyer, politician, philanthropist, former deputy and minister of transportation
• 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
• Violette Khairallah Safadi (born 1981) – politician, television personality and social activist
• Gebran Tueni – journalist and deputy

Other political personalities

• Alain Aoun – nephew of 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 – 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
• Cardiovascular Surgeon
  who pioneered many surgical techniques and procedures
• Saniya Habboub – medical doctor known for being the first Lebanese woman to study medicine abroad
• emeritus professor at the American University of Beirut
• Israa Seblani – physician and endocrinologist
• Afif Abdul Wahab – medical doctor, general surgeon and urologist
• cardiac surgeon
• Emile Riachi – renowned orthopaedic surgeon
• neurosurgeon
  , humanitarian, and writer
• 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 – 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 – psychiatrist and professor

Scientists

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
• 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

• Mohammad Salim Soleiman – expert in java arrays and c++
• Mario El-Khoury – Lebanese-Swiss engineer and business executive
• electrical
  and electronic engineer and technology innovator known for receiving 43 patents in television transmission
• applied cryptography

Physics

• Ali Chamseddine – physicist known for his contributions in particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics
• Edgar Choueiri – physicist known for his work on Plasma propulsion engine and for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts
• Rammal Rammal – condensed matter physicist
• Armenian-American
  nuclear physicist
• Eid Hourany – 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
• philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer
  and poet
• 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 – 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 – professional race car driver
• Noel Jammal – professional race car driver
• Felipe Nasr – professional race car driver
• Graham Rahal – professional race car driver
• Toni Breidinger – professional race car driver

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

• Ramy Akiki – basketball player
• Wael Arakji – basketball player
• 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

Ice hockey

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

Playing card tournament titleholders

• Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb
• Ihsan 'Sammy' Farha
• Joseph 'Joe' Hachem

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

Skiing

• Ibrahim Jaja

Rugby league

• Hazem El Masri – Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs player and highest NRL point scorer
• New South Wales Cup
• New South Wales Cup
• Liam Ayoub – plays for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL

Rugby Union

• 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

• Lebanese diaspora
• List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)

References