# List of Lebanese people

Please verify names before adding. Many online lists contain errors. Please do not add a name without specifying source 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

* 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
* Roy M. Ferneini – Forensic Auditor, Accounting consultant
* 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 (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
* 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
* 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
* Djsky – electronic musician
* Elissa – singer, actress
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-ʾAwzāʿī (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

* 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
* 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
* 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 – renowned 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 – renowned 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
#### 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-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – 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

### 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